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daneel

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Can't smelt stuff I should be able to
« on: January 08, 2012, 11:41:18 am »
So I have these neat magma forges but noticed I couldn't smelt nickel silver for some reason I can't fathom anymore than why my mayor likes it. Just looks red like this:



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I had the required materials, none are forbidden and all are accessible to the smelter area.

Also can't make pig iron and other things I should be able to, but I can smelt sphalerite, brass, sterling silver and billon.

Both were however possible to make through the manager, but I don't normally use that. I was able to make pig iron just fine before on the smelters.

Is this some kind of known bug?
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NecroRebel

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Re: Can't smelt stuff I should be able to
« Reply #1 on: January 08, 2012, 12:57:59 pm »
It is a known bug. For unknown reasons, sometimes smelters (and other workshops with custom jobs) won't recognize materials that are in a stockpile or that aren't in a stockpile, sometimes both. Usually if you give the orders through the manager it starts recognizing it again, but if that fails, deconstructing and rebuilding the smelter seems to fix it every time. The actual distance between the material and the workshop seems to matter; closer means they're more likely to notice each other, but sometimes even being directly on top of each other doesn't help.
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Re: Can't smelt stuff I should be able to
« Reply #2 on: January 08, 2012, 11:42:12 pm »
I've also noticed my butchers have stopped automatically butchering animal corpses in my refuse stockpile. Same thing then probably... rebuilding the workshops didn't seem to help.
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Re: Can't smelt stuff I should be able to
« Reply #3 on: January 09, 2012, 01:02:07 am »
Quote from: daneel on January 08, 2012, 11:42:12 pm
I've also noticed my butchers have stopped automatically butchering animal corpses in my refuse stockpile. Same thing then probably... rebuilding the workshops didn't seem to help.
Actually this is a different problem. Currently there is a bug where if a tame animal dies by anything other than being butchered or being killed by your military (this includes old age and invaders), then their corpse is unable to be butchered. Hopefully this is fixed in the next release, but for the moment there is a strong chance that any fort you have will end up with at least one unbutcherable domestic animal corpse.
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Re: Can't smelt stuff I should be able to
« Reply #4 on: January 09, 2012, 02:24:16 am »
No, I know that one. I have corpses like that which can't be butchered, but I also have other corpses that can be butchered as long as I add the job manually, but it's not added automatically.
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Jaredus

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Re: Can't smelt stuff I should be able to
« Reply #5 on: January 09, 2012, 04:22:15 pm »
Have you messed with the workshop orders at all? When I turned off auto-butchering for a bit, then turned it back on later, it still wouldn't do anything
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