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[MetalGear]

My fort has some iron, plenty of flux stone and my magma smelter is cluttered with coke. The first few times I tried, it didn't even give me the option to make pig iron. Eventually, it showed up and I made a couple of bars. Now, it doesn't give me the option to make steel. I got pig iron, regular iron, coke, flux and magma smelter is fully functional. What the heck is going on?

P.S. When making custom stockpile settings, what category is Coke located in?

[Lord Darkstar]

Use the Manager to order the steel bars.

When pig iron isn't available on the smelter, order the pig iron to be made from the Manager.

Coke (and Charcoal) are under the Block/Bar stockpile. They have their own little submenu.

Make pig iron (supposed to) shows up on the smelter workshop menu when you have iron bars and coke or charcoal in your fortress. But sometimes, it doesn't, and you have to use the "Manager" creation at that point.

Make steel bars (supposed to) shows up on the smelter workshop menu when you have iron bar, pig iron bar, and coke/charcoal in your fortress. But sometimes, it doesn't show when it should and you have to use the "Manager" to order its creation.

[MetalGear]

Thanks

[gtmattz]

Now, this may be a silly suggestion and something the OP already tried, but the question has come up a few times before and this was the answer:

Did you try going down the whole list?  Sometimes, especially if you have a lot of various ores, the steel reactions end up on page 2 

If this is something that has already been attempted, please accept my apologies 

[greycat]

The option to make pig iron or steel will also be missing if the iron bars are TSKed for hauling to a bar stockpile.

[Corew]

I got now exactly same problem--- seems like a bug to me. I have marble, coke and iron bars, checked all of them and they are not waiting to be hauled, nor forbidden, nor marked for dump and so ... Also option is not in the 2nd page of the list. Marble was unmarked to avoid being transformed to marble blocks (i.e red). Tried changing to green for a while but did not work, make pig iron does not appear.

Actually, i have also a pig iron bars i got from my first merchant, and the make steel option is not available, same as pig iron.

Im going to test w manager asap.

[Hydra]

Don't you need coal as well? As far as I know you need coal even when you're using magma smelters.

[Corew]

yea i have coal (charcoal = coke), just charcoal comes from wood and coke form mineral (lignite or bituminous), but both are coal

my manager just did order the pig iron / steel and they appeared in the smelter.

However... still no option on it to directly assign these alloys. Others appears however, as bismuth bronze, various pewter...
 

[danaris]

I would guess that you have one or more burrows which include the smelter, but do not include one or more of the materials needed to make pig iron & steel.  This is a problem I've run into several times (resulting in me getting fed up and creating some custom stockpiles right next to my smelters, then creating a burrow over the smelters and the stockpiles and forcing my dorfs to work on nothing but making steel!)

[greycat]

I've seen this issue several times myself, and I don't use burrows other than one giant one for all the internal bits of the fortress so that I can tell civilians to hide inside when there's a siege or ambush.  It's intermittent and I don't know how to reproduce it.  Sometimes the pig iron and steel options appear on the workshop menu, and sometimes they don't.  The manager can always do it, so that's my workaround.

[Corew]

YES master!

The burrows, not including a single marble stone is the problem!