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[Arkenstone]

Well, I think you can make charcoal from animal remains so it's no relay cheating.

Correct.  From wikipedia:

Charcoal is usually produced by slow pyrolysis, the heating of wood, sugar, bone char, or other substances in the absence of oxygen (see pyrolysis, char and biochar). The resulting soft, brittle, lightweight, black, porous material resembles coal and is 50% to 95% carbon with the remainder consisting of volatile chemicals and ash.

Basically, you need some carbon-containing material, and you heat it to remove water and break down impurities.

"bone char"?  Does this mean that there should be some sort of intermediate reaction in-between bones and charcoal (at the very least, you should go corpse>bones>charcoal)  Anyways, charcoal shouldn't burn nearly as hot as coke, and so you should require a lot of bones to be used.

[Beeskee]

You missed a spot. You need the reaction detail in a REACTION file, and you need to add the PERMITTED_REACTION tag to the right entity.

I have this in reaction_smelter.txt:

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[REACTION:CREMATE_REMAINS]
[NAME:cremate remains]
[BUILDING:SMELTER:NONE]
[REAGENT:A:1:REMAINS:NONE:NONE:NONE]
[PRODUCT:100:2:BAR:NO_SUBTYPE:COAL:COKE][PRODUCT_DIMENSION:150]
[AUTOMATIC]
[SKILL:SMELT]

and this in entity_default.txt under the Dwarf section:

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[PERMITTED_REACTION:CREMATE_REMAINS]

What did I miss other than that?

Edit: I tried first without the Automatic tag, no go, added that later in my attempts to get it working.  I also generated a new world after each edit since I found out that old worlds don't get the new reactions. Whatever I do it just doesn't even show up as an option.

[godisdead132]

charcoal and coke are basicly the same thing (carbon with some impuritys) the only difference is the carbon content varying from 50-99% coke generaly has higher carbon content but good charcoal burns just as hot (due to the fact that most of the non carbon contaminents are themselves combustible) so they function the same the only difference is charcoal comes directly from biomass and coke is processed coal