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Daveorock

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Smelters acting up
« on: March 25, 2012, 11:58:25 am »
So this has been going on for a while, where my smelters say that they can't make such and such metal, even though I have tons of fuel and tons of the correct ore(s). It has done this to me with steel (eventually it noticed I have all the correct materials), and now it's doing it with make electrum (use ore), even though I can make electrum with bars. I have plenty of gold nuggets, silver (I have tetrahedrite, galena, and native silver), and tons of fuel (>400 coke). Anyway to fix this?
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Re: Smelters acting up
« Reply #1 on: March 25, 2012, 12:07:50 pm »
Is the smelter in a burrow, whereas the fuel and ore is outside the burrow? I had that one happen to me a few days ago.
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Re: Smelters acting up
« Reply #2 on: March 25, 2012, 12:25:02 pm »
Magma smelters?  Place a stockpile closer to them.  It is possible to have materials too far away and not correctly be gathered, but the only time people really encounter this is with magma smelters.
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Re: Smelters acting up
« Reply #3 on: March 25, 2012, 06:39:26 pm »
I'm not using magma smelters, I have only just started constructing a magma piston on this fort (gonna take a while, 150z levels to carve out for it). I still can't figure out why my smelters won't make electrum with ore, and also, oh boy! My baroness just demanded an electrum chest in dining room! (At least I can make it with bars)
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Twenty seconds after the collapse, 14 dwarves hit the ground simultaneously.
EDIT: make that 15. Not sure what took that last one so long.
Urist McLemming cancels Fall: Dangerous Terrain

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Re: Smelters acting up
« Reply #4 on: March 25, 2012, 07:05:43 pm »
I'm not sure you can make electrum from ore anyways.  Some are bar-specific.
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Re: Smelters acting up
« Reply #5 on: March 25, 2012, 07:23:06 pm »
Electrum can be made from ore.
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Re: Smelters acting up
« Reply #6 on: March 25, 2012, 07:38:45 pm »
Make electrum (use ore) requires ore, not bars. Either you typoed or are trying to make orange juice with mangos.
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Re: Smelters acting up
« Reply #7 on: March 25, 2012, 07:46:58 pm »
It can be made with ore or bars, but the ore job was the one that my smelters had a problem with, not the bars one.
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Twenty seconds after the collapse, 14 dwarves hit the ground simultaneously.
EDIT: make that 15. Not sure what took that last one so long.
Urist McLemming cancels Fall: Dangerous Terrain

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Re: Smelters acting up
« Reply #8 on: March 25, 2012, 07:51:50 pm »
Quote from: Daveorock on March 25, 2012, 07:46:58 pm
It can be made with ore or bars, but the ore job was the one that my smelters had a problem with, not the bars one.

Yes well, in OP, u said make electrum (ore) job was not working despite having the *bars* available. Check to see if you have the *ore* available or make it from (bars)
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Daveorock

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Re: Smelters acting up
« Reply #9 on: March 25, 2012, 08:01:45 pm »
I am sure that I have plenty of ores available, and I hadn't wanted to make it from bars cause that's not profitable.
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Quote from: Untelligent on October 24, 2009, 08:28:15 pm
Twenty seconds after the collapse, 14 dwarves hit the ground simultaneously.
EDIT: make that 15. Not sure what took that last one so long.
Urist McLemming cancels Fall: Dangerous Terrain

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Re: Smelters acting up
« Reply #10 on: March 25, 2012, 08:05:25 pm »
Possible bug. Try using the manager.
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