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[greywolf]

I just managed to find some iron ore and coal, and was rather excited about the fact that I would soon be making steel for my magma forge and smelters, when I discovered that whenever I would queue either iron or coal to be made, the job would immediately be cancelled. Not by my dwarves - there is no cancellation message. When I queue coal up and set it to repeat, and press the spacebar to continue on with my work, and come back 1 second later to queue something else up again, the job order has disappeared. It stays in the queue if I suspend it, but if I queue up even just one or set it to repeat, the job dissapears. I managed to make 1 iron bar and 2 coke bars before this started happening (as I have plenty of charcoal), and haven't tried making pig iron yet, as I don't have any limestone. When I queue up bronze or silver bars, my furnace operator goes right to work. Any ideas?

[Toady One]

How are your cancellation messages set in

• ?  If they are set to display all of them, is it still blank?

[greywolf]

Bleh, sorry about that. Looks like my job cancellation messages were turned off for some reason - maybe I hit the wrong key by accident once or something. It seems as if dwarves don't realize charcoal exists unless it's in a stockpile, since I have a bunch in my wood furnace. Thanks.

[Toady One]

The stuff in the wood furnace might have haul jobs on it -- this stops it from being used.  Dwarves are currently stupid that way.

[Pacho]

What I usually do is remove the bar/block stockpile if I want to handle metals/charcoal/etc as soon as it is made.