Furnaces constructed

Construction beginning/end

A small pudding furnace is constructed close to the mines. Some time after this a blast furnace is added. This allowed the iron ore to be processed shortly after extraction. This was much cheaper than transporting it to Lake Chamberlain and processing it there. The downside of this was of course that the furnace requires a lot of fuel to run. This fuel was supplied with charcoal as wood was readily available close by. With the kilns large portions of forest close to roads and rivers were cut down to supply the wood. This angered the dryads as several hundred of them were killed in the process.