Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-31507215-20171018184514/@comment-31507215-20171019142416

707Mithrandir wrote: Heating an item on an anvil is pretty unrealistic, as is forging an item without heat. Rather, one could put the item in a forge, the result of which would be a "heated" item (maybe there would be a chance for the item to remain normal and have to be heated again). Heated items would look like their normal counterparts (Or, although unnecessary, a glowing retexture for heated item would be nice), but will display in the item description "Heated!". Heated items would then be useable in the anvil, with your exceptional blacksmith hammer mechanics. Once used in an anvil it would cool (return to normal). It could also be cooled by right clicking it on water.

I think forging should take time, not just materials. I agree with pretty much all of that, but I am also unsure of how complicated that might be, and I was trying to make a middle ground, that could be expanded upon later. As to taking time to forge stuf, I think it should, too, but, using the current anvil, I don't think it would be possible.