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[crazysheep]

Am trying to figure out stockpiles for making steel. I seem to have all the bars (coke, iron, pig iron, chalk), but none of the magma smelters allow the dwarves to make steel. What could I possibly be doing wrong, and how do I fix this?

[Ubiq]

Things to check:

1. The stock screen. Check the ingredients for steel to mak sure that they are available for use in smelting and have not been dumped, forbidden, used in buildings, or sundry other things that could render them unavailable.

2. Your magma source. Make sure that you have magma with an average depth of 4/7 beneath the smelter. If one of the tiles has less than that, the magma is shifting around and the smelter is occasionally unpowered so it'll list jobs at some times and not at others.

3. Your stockpile. Look to see if a bin(s) were recently placed in a bar stockpile. If so, one or more of the necessary materials might be designated for a Place in Bin job and won't be available until that task is finished.

4. Jobs listing. Check any construction projects to make sure that you didn't use of these materials by accident.

[petebull]

Use the manager to forge steel bars

[crazysheep]

Use the manager to forge steel bars

That might work. Brb, will update if that works.

Things to check:

1. The stock screen. Check the ingredients for steel to mak sure that they are available for use in smelting and have not been dumped, forbidden, used in buildings, or sundry other things that could render them unavailable.

2. Your magma source. Make sure that you have magma with an average depth of 4/7 beneath the smelter. If one of the tiles has less than that, the magma is shifting around and the smelter is occasionally unpowered so it'll list jobs at some times and not at others.

3. Your stockpile. Look to see if a bin(s) were recently placed in a bar stockpile. If so, one or more of the necessary materials might be designated for a Place in Bin job and won't be available until that task is finished.

4. Jobs listing. Check any construction projects to make sure that you didn't use of these materials by accident.

1. Hmmm I need to check that.
2. I built right over the magma sea, so there's no chance of the magma disappearing below 4/7. Also, unpowered magma smelters give a message saying that it's unpowered, which is not the case here.
3. All available bins are full so far, and I've double checked the jobs screen - nothing is being hauled around.
4. I'm not using metal bars for anything else right now, so that shouldn't be a problem.

Update: using the manager worked. None of the bars required for smelting steel bars were forbidden btw.