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[pabrams]

When I try to make a nest box, "Urist cancels Make rock Nest Box: Needs non-economic hard rock". When I specify marble, so that he uses one of the marble rocks lying all over the place, "Urist cancels Make marble Nest Box: Needs marble".
I don't remember having this problem before, but this is my first time playing this version. How do I get him to use the marble? I don't have any burrows set or any other funky thing. The marble rocks are lying  in the hallway, and there's even a couple in the same room as the craft shop.  I don't have any rock or marble stockpiles.

[Dame de la Licorne]

Hi!

You can make them at a craftsdwarf's workshop (out of wood or rock).  Once you've made one, you can build it (from the [ b ]uild menu, [ N ]) wherever you would like.  A dwarf with the furniture building labor enabled will then haul the nest box to that location (like with a bed, cabinet, or any other furniture).

-Dame de la Licorne

Edit:  Didn't read completely...do what they said vv

[Daris]

Flux stones, by default, are not flagged as being usable for random stuff.  It's only usable for steel and quicklime as default.  If you want to use your flux for other purposes, you need to go into into the Status menu (z) and then to the Stone tab, and enable marble for general reactions.

I want to reiterate, though, that marble is a flux stone and if you want steel you will need flux.  You can make a nest box out of almost anything, but only iron and flux can go into steel.  This is why the game restricts it until you specify that you want to use it for other things.

[PatrikLundell]

Marble can be used for flux, and is thus an economic stone, although I thought it wasn't excluded for other purposes by default. However, it sounds like that's where the problem is. If so, go into the 'z' menu, tab to Stone, go down the list to marble. If it's red it's restricted, and you'd want to toggle it to be available for any purpose using <RETURN> on the appropriate line.
Another possible cause is the craftdwarf's workshop being linked to take from a stone stockpile that's set not to carry marble (or at least doesn't have any it it currently). Note that linking workshops to stockpiles restricts the workshops to take ONLY from what's in any of the stockpiles linked to give to the workshop; what's not in a linked stockpile doesn't exist as far as a linked workshop is concerned.
Of course, you could also somehow have 'f'orbidden all the marble, for instance from the stocks menu.

Daris beat me to it, so there's a bit of a repeat. It's correct you need to be careful with your flux usage, but you often have a lot of marble (but if you've also got a lot of iron, you should think twice).