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[wierd]

I have a very nice start on a fortress, but for some reason the screwpresses wont let me press sheets from milled plant slurry.

I have plenty of plant slurry, but the option stays red in the screwpress.

[Bradders]

Check that it's powered properly, and if so, check that it's materials aren't TSK'd or being hauled.

[YetAnotherLurker]

Screw presses don't require power. My guess is that either your slurry is somehow tasked and therefore unavailable, or you've accidentally set up a stockpile to give to the screw presses.

What version are you playing, incidentally? If I recall correctly, stockpiles only started taking slurry in 43.04, and there were some issues with worlds generated pre-43.04 when imported into newer versions.

[Loci]

Check if you've accidentally enabled "Workshop restrictions" on a burrow.

[wierd]

I think it was the "hauled items block labors" thing, as after just waiting for there to be over 300 globs of plant slurry, it finally turned white, and I could make paper sheets.

[Bradders]

Screw presses don't require power.

They don't?!?!  What the hell have I been building my mill-and-pressing power trunk for?

[YetAnotherLurker]

Screw presses don't require power.

They don't?!?!  What the hell have I been building my mill-and-pressing power trunk for?

I assume for the mills, unless you're one of those people that like making your dwarves grind their flour in the artifact querns your masons keep turning out.

[Insert_Gnome_Here]

Millstones requite power, screw presses don't. You get the plant, mill it to slurry then press it to sheets. Querns are slower than millstones, but don't need power.