They wouldn't recognize good news if it dropped like gold bricks into their laps.

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Forged items require you to have mithril bricks, which replace the gold bricks of previous games, as well as a blueprint for the required item.

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The entity hosting the exchange has the full mass of gold bricks totalling the holdings of all of the account holders sitting securely in his vault.

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Flying characters tend to shoot past or careen off of buildings when they gets too close, and I could only snatch above-ground gold bricks after multiple passes.

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