Even though the Hammer and Anvil are important part of a MetalCrafter's shop, there are two other tools that are sometimes said to be a bit more important than those. These are the Forge and Tongs. Each, in their own way, make the crafter's job easier, and perhaps a bit less stressful. Without the forge, shaping metal would be much harder, though not impossible. And without the tongs, a crafter would have to have very good gloves to take metal or crucible in and out of the forge.

The first of these tools is the Forge. This is most likely the most important tool to a metalcraft, because without it, heating up the metal would be made much more difficult, especially to heat it to the temperature you need to melt, or turn metal redhot, much less shape it without heating the metal up at all. The forge usually holds a very hot fire, fueled by coal, with billows to help coax the fire to burn hotter, blowing air into it. The billows are either built into either side of the fire, or hung somewhere near it for easy use. These pump air into the coals to coax them to burn hotter, adding crucial air for the fire. With the help of the tongs, this fire is used to help heat up the metal to the point of turning red hot, or melting. To melt it, the metal is put into a crucible, which is a stone pot, usually. It has no cover, and is not pourous so that the metal will not melt and seep into the stone. After being put into this crucible, the metal is melted down, and then poured into casts, which can be anything from a sword blade or handle, to a button. With other metals that do not melt as easily, the metalcrafters put it into the coals, with the help of the tongs. It stays there until it turns red hot, then the crafter would take it out again with the tongs, and pound it out on the anvil. As this is the way to form the metals, this is obviously a very important part of the metalcrafters workshop.

The second and last of these tools that is often seen in a metalcrafters workshop is the above mentioned Tongs. To protect a metalcrafter from burning their hand in the fire of the forge, the tongs are used to take the metal out of the forge, as well as put it in. The tongs are used to set the metal it into the coals, moving it around to settle it deep into the them, until it becomes red hot. This tool is not used directly on the metals that would melt with such treatment, but it is used to move the crucible in and out of the fire. Different tongs may be used for this, as it would require the crafter to have a better grip on it. After the crucible is taken out of the coals, the melted metal would be poured into the casts for whatever it is that was being made out of the silver, or gold that was melted down. But with other metals such as iron, the crafter would use the tongs to put the metal directly into the coals, or take it out. Sometimes, however, this melting of the metals is not needed. With gold, one of the softest metals, a crafter may not need to heat it up, as it is easily pounded out anyways. Silver is a bit harder, and may be heated up, but not near as much as Iron, as it would melt under such heat. The tongs, used in conjunction with the forge, is yet another tool that one would not see missing in a metalcrafter's workshop.