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[Shurhaian]

Before I try to refine this into a bug report, I thought I'd see if I'm just being stupid.

I have eight magma glass furnaces, in the interests of speeding up sand collection by doing it in parallel. I queued up enough sand-collection jobs to fill a 7x17 stockpile, and then started queueing lots of 90 glass jobs, 90 sand collections. I have a few hundred such jobs total on the first page of my manager, mostly for raw green glass so I can also train jewelers.

But for some reason, it's skipped right to the second page, where I have ordered blocks. The order is all out of whack, it's complaining about insufficient sand, and I have no idea why it's working on the blocks already in the first place.

It's not an insufficiency of bags. Sand collection goes fine when it comes up in the queue and is not showing cancel spam.

  Any thoughts?

[Shades]

8 furnaces is a potential 80 jobs. now assuming a worst case where only one furnace was operated due to some fluke of chance you could easily have 70 of the sand collect jobs untouched.

Might not be the problem if your sure it just jumped to the last page but I'd check what your furnaces are queued with.

[Shurhaian]

My furnaces are a total jumble of jobs. A string of blocks, and then some interspersed raw glass and sand jobs... it's a mess.

I can understand some disarray between the sand and raw glass, but there are hundreds of jobs still in the manager queue before the blocks should've come up at all.

[Shades]

Sounds like a bug, mind take a screen shot of your manager queue see if we can see anything?

[Samyotix]

I find the manager good for those industries one hardly ever uses ...

But Glassmaking? Heck no. The Manager will insist on assigning the "Collect sand" orders to Magma workshops, and will ask dwarves to use up all your coal by making green glass gems in that one wood-fuelled Glassmakers' you had left in case you get a moody glassmaker.

In your case, I'm guessing the game assigned Sand to get collected, and green gems to be made from glass, at the same time. If a Dwarf cant find a sand bag to make Glass with (because it is still being hauled or the task is not yet active), he or she will cancel the "make glass gem" order and complain in red text about not being able to find a sand container.

[Shurhaian]

Not the issue. As I said, I can understand some confusion between raw glass and sand jobs; that's exactly why I initially intended to build up a buffer of sand before getting into the actual glass jobs.

The problem is that the orders for glass blocks jumped the queue by SEVERAL HUNDRED to start appearing on the workshop queues.

I'd scrubbed the blocks from the manager in a bid to clear things up, unfortunately, but if it comes up again I'll screenshot/save it and slap it into bug reports.