I shall choose District F, if you please.
I think I can wait out for an the anvil from the caravans.
A pick is definitely more important initially since the logs are free.
How much for would anvils cost? and picks?
It behooves the new mayors of the districts to coordinate to at least aim to obtain 1 pick and 1 anvil each.
If District P wants 3 out of 5 picks created in a rented anvil, that yields 2 usable.
We're looking to make at least 15 picks to avail 6 picks and provide at least 1 pick to each of the current roster of 5 new mayors:
1. Gwolfski
2. Chaotic Skies (military)
3. Sanctume (self-sufficient bunker)
4. Shofet (mining, stone quarry)
5. Urdothor (farming)
This assumes the miners find copper.
Obtaining anvil would be more difficult. But I only want an anvil to make more pick.
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So are there the current issues?
1. There exist 1 anvil for rent at the price of 3 out 5 items "fee".
2. The price of the anvil is unknown. Although iron anvil normally goes for 100 urist, and steel costs 300 urist for most dwarven civs.
3. There are 2 picks available:
3a. A noble with a pick is a miner, so that's a shared free resource.
3b. A founder has a pick in a stockpile, open for bidding offers.
With my gathered information,
Shofet is the likely candidate to utilize the open bidding pick since Mr Shofet plans to pursue stone quarries.
I would hope that Mr Shofet can discover sooner what mineral riches can be found in the region.
One knowledge that I would like to know is if we have iron deposits in order to make more anvils.
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I like the coin idea. Just stick with 500 coin stacks because it's a hassle to split the coins--I mean it needs to wait for caravan to trade split and buy back.
I suggest using non-weapon grade alloys for coins, so there are a bit more use for lead, pewter. Maybe make those common coins of equal value = 1.
Then double price for silver of gold blend alloys: gold rose, electrum, etc = 2.
Aluminum is the most valuable "lightest" metal, and Platinum is the valuable "densest" metal (value 40 in the raws).
Silver, iron = 10
Steel = 20
Gold = 30 (edit, oops, it's 30 not 40.
The rest ranges from from 2 to 7.