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[Morwaul]

So, after removing all my starting items and carefully selecting the perfect list of items I Embarked pause and save.  Over the next 3 days I completely layout my entire fort complete with drowning chamber / entry, controllable water system with places for wells, the cutouts so that I can grow it piece by piece.  It is masterful.  I smile to myself and think of what a wonder I have created.  I then save and tell my dwarves to get started.  I build my wood burner and tell my dwarf with the training axe to start wacking trees.  I build my smelter, I turn my hematite into Iron, my Iron into steel and start to build my metalshop when I am rudely told that I need an anvil to build a metalshop.  Well, duh, I think to myself, of course I have an anvil, what kinda dwarf embarks with no picks and no anvil....  As my world comes crashing down and a tear slowly rolls down my face I realize that the kinda dwarf that has no anvil and no picks is also the kind that spends 3 days designing a fort without double checking his wagon before embarking....

So, with my tail of woe realized I must ask you with what honor I have remaining....Is there a tool I can use to add an anvil to my game without losing everything I have already done? Or to hack a metalshop so that it doesn't need an anvil? Or, or, or...  *tear*

Oh, not sure if it will help but I am using DF 31.12 Genesis Graphical (as DT is still not working)

[Aramco]

The caravan may bring some. (probably several)

[Passive Fist]

Aye the first caravan in my game usually brings like 5 of the buggers. I feel obligated to buy them all because you can't have too many anvils!

[Morwaul]

True, I could wait outside until Autumn but it seems like that would put me to far behind the curve as I would have no defenses until then and my food will start running out without farms....guess I can just build everything out of wood and make an outdoor farm....   Oh wait, can I even build a trade depot without stone? 

[Hamster Man]

Yes. Wood works just fine for that. As far as defenses go, I would suggest a wall, at least until you can get some traps or something. You can also make bone armor and wooden shields, so your dwarves won't be completely helpless. Close to helpless, but not completely helpless.

[Patchy]

You can change an unused reaction in your reaction_smelter.txt file to output an anvil, or wait till the caravan.

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Essentially find the below chunk of text,

[REACTION:BITUMINOUS_COAL_TO_COKE]
[NAME:make coke from bituminous coal]
[BUILDING:SMELTER:NONE]
[REAGENT:A:1:BOULDER:NO_SUBTYPE:INORGANIC:COAL_BITUMINOUS]
[PRODUCT:100:3:BAR:NO_SUBTYPE:COAL:COKE][PRODUCT_DIMENSION:150]
[FUEL]
[SKILL:SMELT]

and change it to the chunk below this.

[REACTION:BITUMINOUS_COAL_TO_COKE]
[NAME:make coke from bituminous coal]
[BUILDING:SMELTER:NONE]
[REAGENT:A:150:BAR:NO_SUBTYPE:METAL:IRON]
[PRODUCT:100:1:ANVIL:NONE:GET_MATERIAL_FROM_REAGENT:A:NONE]
[FUEL]
[SKILL:SMELT]

After you get your anvil, change it back. Remember you will have to save and quit when you change it to and back. Also make sure you do it in your region save folder. That should get you an iron anvil, or if all your iron is already forged into steel, just change the reagent line to steel.

[Bronimin]

in genesis, i believe you can make one at the smelter?

not sure if this is the case, but double check anyways.