Hi everybody, I'm new down here
Since I play DF since just a few days (a couple of weeks, but I didn't play it continously) I'm having my first troubles, so I'm here to ask for some help in getting rid of them.
First of all: I can't find my bars.
I've made 3 smelters, and my dwarves are working there to smelt ores into bars. Here's the working area:
Now, the stockpile in front of the smelters should be entirely dedicated to metal bars. As you see, it's emtpy, but according to the stock status menu there are 71 bars stocked *somewhere*. If I observe and follow the dwarves working, they just make them and then go drinking or eating, without apparently moving them. I suppose they are stocking all those bars right in the smelters, and I'm not sure if that's normal.
I checked all of the stockpile, they do not accept bars, so they aren't there.
What's more: charcoal is the same. It should be stocked in that big stockpile you see in the upper right of the floor, but as you see it's empty. When dwarves need charcoal to smelt ores, they go directly in the wood furnace, take the charcoal, and use it. Why isn't it getting stocked?
And in the end: I made a stockpile just for ores (the down-left stockpile). I have forbidden ores in the other stone stockpiles, but not a dwarf is going to move those hematite ores in their new place. Yet if I designate it to be reclaimed (d-b-c) it gets highlighted (I admit I have the same problems with garbaged items and corpses, so I think I still have to completely figure out how to stock items :\