Hardcast Works

The architectural-scale constructs of hardcast, which only the dwarves have the metallurgical skill to build.

Large-scale works

Hardcast is made primarily for the purpose wrought iron served: large-scale, durable engineering projects. The dwarves are the only culture with the metallurgical skill to build architectural-scale constructs from it, and such projects are almost entirely the preserve of dwarven artificers.

Discovery

The discovery of the method for making hardcast transformed dwarven technology, because the dwarves could then construct heavy-duty mechanisms such as hammer mills, presses, cranes, and bridges. Hardcast is not intrinsically ideal for these applications, but it is far better than any other material available to them. This civil engineering capability has the potential to transform dwarven settlements and prosperous Markish ones.

The architectural use was an evolution from anvil-making, which gave the dwarves their reason to develop competency in working hardcast.

Limits and mills

The most advanced fabrication the dwarves can manage is primitive riveting. They make primitive mechanical hammer-mills of hardcast for much of their platinum working.