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[laularukyrumo]

Long story short: Dwarves with all metalworking labors turned on, idling, instead of forging iron minecart. Fuel and iron bars available, no burrow restrictions, pathing confirmed, I've even gone through the manager and tried affecting priority, as well as disabling all non-metal labors. I can get them to burn wood, smelt iron, but they won't do anything with the forge. What gives?

I really hope this isn't part of the "dwarves won't touch a traditional furnace after you've built a magma furnace once" problem, because that's the whole reason I NEED to smelt said minecart, to get the required magma up to the forges.

Stupid dwarves.

[Namfuak]

If you have one forge, make sure no parts of it are forbidden with t.

[laularukyrumo]

Yeah. Good to know for the future, but did a [t] query and no forbidden parts. So back to square one.

My best theory here is that it's a "magma forges or bust" problem, which is just really really lame.

Edit: I'm gonna test this, because I've got the magma resevoir that I've been trying to extract minecarts of magma from in the first place. I'll just build a forge over the channels and see if the dwarves will use that forge. If so, poop, found the problem. Otherwise, back to square minus one.

Survey says....

[mastahcheese]

My best theory here is that it's a "magma forges or bust" problem, which is just really really lame.

I'm pretty sure that problem only exists with dwarves that are experiencing a mood, but I could be wrong.

[laularukyrumo]

Well, it's been all of ten seconds after the forge FINALLY went up. I can confirm there's no burrow restriction, pathing checks out, building components aren't forbidden (I JUST built the damn thing after all), labor's enabled, materials are available. It's not that they're even giving me the "Urist McFuckwit cancels job: needs material" message, they're just not taking up the task for whatever reason. Which is single handedly preventing me from doing literally anything in the name of progress.

What pisses me off the most is that I've gotten them to forge before. I went in to make an iron chain in preparation for my minecart magma retrieval rigging scheme, but accidentally selected cage and didn't notice until I went to build the rollers and, oops, no chains. So I was able to build another, though both times I had trouble getting the dwarves to actually pick up the task. But now they're just flat-out ignoring me. Dafuq, man.

[rudhcairiel]

Is it worthwhile deconstructing and reconstructing, just for the hell of it? Maybe putting it in another location to see whether that makes any difference? Probably won't but it might be worth a shot.

[laularukyrumo]

Already tried. Keep in mind that I made, in addition to the first forge, a MAGMA forge elsewhere. I went in and took one dwarf, added him to a custom burrow that included a stockpile with iron and the magma forge, assigned him and only him to the forge via workshop [P]rofile, and disabled all non-metal labors. He sits there idle. Mother. Fucker.

Here's the save. HALP.

http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=7631

[itg]

I've had an occasional problem with forges that sounds like what you're dealing with. For me, the solution was to assign only one dwarf to the forge.

[Larix]

I took a gander and the solution is painfully simple: enable metalcrafting. Got the job done in a heartbeat.

[laularukyrumo]

Really? That's a thing? I swore I enabled all the labors, too.

Dammit. Now I have to leave metalcrafting on, too. Seriously, why does that job use crafting and not blacksmithing? AAAAARGH

fuckin dwarves, man, how do they work

[Remuthra]

I suggest you get a nice cat or two to make you less sad. You should probably also get a nice battleaxe as well.

[slothen]

Really? That's a thing? I swore I enabled all the labors, too.

Dammit. Now I have to leave metalcrafting on, too. Seriously, why does that job use crafting and not blacksmithing? AAAAARGH

fuckin dwarves, man, how do they work

Chains/ropes are finished goods, instead of furniture.  For some reason.

[laularukyrumo]

Well. I already had four cats, but now I have a new pet.

It's a gigantic winged blob made of water that spews deadly dust.

at least it's stuck on a ledge in the 2nd cavern and can't go anywhere because of poor pathfinding. I'll be ready for it by the time shit goes down.