Hey guys...
New poster and relatively new to Dwarf Fortress other than a brief driveby back awhile. Running 0.34.11 at the moment and enjoying it thoroughly... usually. The plague of minor annoyances can still drive me crazy.
Anyway, one of those that I can't seem to resolve is a bit of an issue with a non-magma smelter. I've got huge seams of bituminous coal so I figured I'd try surface work. I've got an overabundance of coal. To the point where it's jamming up my smelters and I couldn't get the iron bars out for a while.
That's fixed, ish. However, I've got a huge TON of coke and some iron bars now stockpiled nearby the forge.
In the below picture the red areas are charcoal (coke) stockpiles only. The light blue is where my iron bars are going (yep, I've got Iron. Pig iron and gold too), and the forge is the room to the bottom left. Top is a second smelter, bottom is a Forge.
Now, I got carried away creating coke. That entire upper right room is a bituminous coal drop, so I'm swamped in the stuff. Which is why I can't figure out why I'm getting this message:
Now, Urist McBlindboy here has been whining for a while. At first, it was the lack of iron bars. Now, I think that was because I had like 50 of them in the smelter but none in the stockpile. That's finally sorting out. However, I've still got a metric ton of coke in the smelter. Is it getting confused because of that, or did I miss something?
Thanks in advance.