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[James]

Hi guys- despite having tons and tons of charcoal nearby and not-forbidden, every single task in my smelters are listed in red and non-selectable. I have tried deconstructing and reconstructing the smelters.

Is this simply a bug, or is there something I am missing? I have many gold and platinum nuggets nearby in a stockpile as well, in case that is relevant.

Thanks a lot in advance.

[Marthnn]

Try giving a red task, it should tell you what's missing...

[FuzzyZergling]

Try ordering it through the manager instead of the workshop.

[Il Palazzo]

You shure you've built a smelter and not a magma smelter?

[NecroRebel]

Sometimes smelters fail to recognize items in stockpiles. Other times they fail to recognize items not in stockpiles. Sometimes they fail to recognize items altogether. These things are, obviously, bugs, but aside from changing the in stockpile/not in stockpile status of various items and hoping it works, the only workaround is to use the job manager, which assigns jobs regardless of available materials and thus bypasses the relevant bug.

[James]

I deleted my fuel stockpile, and immediately the options for gold and platinum became available. Seems like that was the issue. I will likely use the manager workaround later but I don't even have a manager yet, so for now I will just delete a fuel stockpile whenever I need to assign some smelting.

Thanks for your help everybody!

[JmzLost]

You can assign any dwarf to be the manager, at any time.  If you have fewer than 20 dwarves the jobs are automatically approved.  Your manager will need an office, even though he will never spend any time there.  If you have 20 or more dwarves, the manager will have to spend time sitting in his office with the task "manage work orders" before the jobs will be approved.  Dwarves who "like new ideas" make good managers, dwarves who "hate intellectual discussions" make very poor managers.  The organizer skill affects how fast jobs get approved once the manager starts managing.

For an early fort, just make a chair in your dining room into a 1x1 office, assign any dwarf who is at least neutral on intellectual issues, and start issuing jobs.

JMZ