Hydroneer: How to Get and Use Anvil

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Hydroneer players will quickly discover that the path through the game lies underneath the ground of the different mining areas. Digging and refining the ores in these areas helps players earn more money and purchase better equipment to improve their mining operations. Along the way, players will even open up the ability to craft weapons and jewelry.

This ability comes along with a player's purchase of an anvil in Hydroneer. This item is as crucial to a player's journey in Hydroneer as sleeping, but it can also be one of the hardest items to get to grips with. For those players looking to purchase an anvil and make the most out of it, this guide is here to help.

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Players will quickly become familiar with the different towns across the small, open world of Hydroneer. Within two of these locations, Bastion Keep and Bridgepour, players can find anvils at their respective equipment stores. One anvil costs 86 hydrocoins, the in-game currency that players can earn by selling ore, weapons, and jewelry.

To operate an anvil, however, players are going to need much more equipment than this. On top of that investment in an anvil, players need to purchase a blacksmithing hammer (105 hydrocoins), a small furnace (86 hydrocoins), a casting mold (42 hydrocoins), and a crucible (18 hydrocoins).

The small furnace heats up the crucible which melts the raw ore into a liquid. This can then be poured into the casting mold to form the bars of ore essential for crafting with an anvil.

Once players have bars of ore ready and available, they need to place their anvil by left-clicking a viable position after picking it up with the E key. Interacting with a placed anvil by left-clicking again will bring up one of six