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[Bjiip]

I'm adding a custom material, and I'd like dye to be a reagent for making it in the smelter.  However, the following line does not cause the dwarf to use up any dye:

[REAGENT:2:POWDER_MISC:NO_SUBTYPE:MUSHROOM_CUP_DIMPLE]

Did I miss something?

(Couldn't find an answer from searches for "dimple dye", "dimple cup", or "powder reagents".)

[Rowanas]

extracts cannot be used in the smelter.

[Deon]

Anything liquid- or powder-like which is stored in a container can't be currently used in reactions.

[i2amroy]

Anything liquid- or powder-like which is stored in a container can't be currently used in reactions.

Well it can, but you have to have some currently spilled somewhere. At least in version 39 dwarves would use stuff that was inside containers fine as long as there was some that was spilled somewhere on the map.

[LordZorintrhox]

Every time I hear this I am like "I want to see the code that does this," because it is absolutely baffling.  It is especially strange considering cooks can use alcohol in the kitchen, which is basically the same thing: stuff in a container that exists separately from the contents.  Also, bags of seeds work perfectly fine for being targeted by jobs.

This leads me to believe that the use of alcohol in the kitchen and seed bags is a hacked behavior awaiting for a full system revamp of items/reactions etc.  So we'll probably have to wait when for all the workshops' reactions to be in the raws for a good fix, because then Toady will have to deal with it in order to have it work in a text file.