Anvils

[halfmaster1 77]

Hello all, this is my first post, so there is a chance that this should go in the support forum, but I read around a bit, and this seems like the right place.

I have been in my tfc world for quite a while now, and I have found clay, and lot's of those rocks that make zinc, I think I have enough for about 7-8 tools now, but I have nowhere to make them. I looked on the wiki and it says that I need Igneous extrusive (I think), but that seems very rare.

I am posting this topic for 2 reasons: first of all, I want to make sure that I actually need igneous extrusive, and I am ot just using my hammer wrong. Second of all, I was wondering if certain biomes, or trees meant there was igneous extrusive rocks underground. Also, whether the rocks above ground corresponded with the rocks underground (eg. does the chalk rock above ground me that is what is below ground?)

I have found tonnes of rocks so far, siltstone, diorite, chalkrock, granite, conglamorate, and a couple more I can't remember, but I still can't get my hammer to work.

Anyways, if you guys can help, great, or if I am just unlucky, then I'll go back to wandering around.

Thanks.

[EstebanLB 183]

First of all, how many small ore pieces do you have? For 7-8 tools you will need like 120 of them if you use the firepit, or 90 if you use the bloomery.

And to get the stone anvil you need any Igneous rock, diorite is one of them. The loose rocks don't always match the first stone layer, it's a known bug. So dig the dirt to find out.

The biomes ore trees doesn't have any relation with the rock layers, so you just have to dig to see what rocks are below

[halfmaster1 77]

Okay, thanks, I'll try it out.

That is probably why the place where I found diorite didn't work. I thought that meant it was only igneous extrusive. And I do have that many pieces of zinc ore, or whatever it is called, the biome I'm in has about 1/4 of all the rocks in it that ore. For the 7-8 ingots, I thought it would be about 16 pieces of ore.

Thanks.

[puxapuak 232]

For the 7-8 ingots, I thought it would be about 16 pieces of ore.

You might want to focus on just a few tools that will be best suited to get you mining and finding the ore deposits beneath first. Smelting that many ores in firepits will take a very long time and a whole lot of wood. Can save yourself a nightmare of tedium if you get that bloomery cooking soon as you can.

[renadi 258]

For small ores it's 16:1 ingot, for normal it's 8:1.

[warfighter67 124]

For small ores it's 16:1 ingot, for normal it's 8:1.

In B60, I was able to smelt 3 cass into 1 ingot.

[puxapuak 232]

In B60, I was able to smelt 3 cass into 1 ingot.

o.O Woah. You mean like cassiterite nuggets or actual mined cassiterite ore? There is definitely some variation of quality (sometimes 14 nuggets, sometimes 18 type thing) but that's crazy.

[renadi 258]

yeah, that is different, was it consistently that low or just once?

[EstebanLB 183]

Okay, thanks, I'll try it out.

That is probably why the place where I found diorite didn't work. I thought that meant it was only igneous extrusive. And I do have that many pieces of zinc ore, or whatever it is called, the biome I'm in has about 1/4 of all the rocks in it that ore. For the 7-8 ingots, I thought it would be about 16 pieces of ore.

Thanks.

If you already have that many small ore pieces, then just craft a chisel so you can make a bloomery to smelt the rest of the ore more efficiently and to get raw stone near your base, just slab the surrounding stones to get one

[warfighter67 124]

o.O Woah. You mean like cassiterite nuggets or actual mined cassiterite ore? There is definitely some variation of quality (sometimes 14 nuggets, sometimes 18 type thing) but that's crazy.

The actual mined ore.

[Just_Another_Guy_:) 1,066]

o.O Woah. You mean like cassiterite nuggets or actual mined cassiterite ore? There is definitely some variation of quality (sometimes 14 nuggets, sometimes 18 type thing) but that's crazy.

There is not a fixed amount of ore a ore pice of any size will give, but a range of possible outputs. In other words, the same amount of nuggets/pieces can give of different outputs. Which from the gameplay point of view, means it depends on your luck wether you will need 8 or 3 pieces of ore to fill a mold.

[puxapuak 232]

The actual mined ore.

Whew, I was thinkin I might just give up mining in favour of scavenging

[halfmaster1 77]

Wow, lot's of replies.

Anyways, I gtg, so I can't make this post too long, but I found some stone to make an anvil. It is sort of sticking up out of the ground and doesn't fit with the surrounding stone, like a stalagmite, for some reason, but it looks really cool, at least until I put some walls around it. It's only a day's walk away, in a Sequotia forest, which is quite nice. I might post some pictures, as I am quite confused about how it is sticking out of the ground like that.

Anyway's, thanks for your help.

[Sting_Auer 59]

You could just dig the blocksout around it and make it pop into an item, then place it in your town.

[Buczkowski 36]

Well, he likely doesn't have a pickaxe yet, having just found his first stone anvil.

But soon...

[halfmaster1 77]

I got some screenshots now.

Yes, that is one of those giant trees in a tunnel-like thing.

I don't get where this rock came from, as none of the other rock matches up, and I am pretty sure that the overhang doesn't either.

I think I might just leave this here, as it looks really cool as it is, and there are only about 12 stones, I don't want to run out.

I just realized that I posted the same picture twice. Fixed.