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blu

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Rendering Fat
« on: August 30, 2011, 08:55:01 pm »
Since im being constantly invaded by badgers, I have plenty of badger fat. I want to make it into soap. I went through all of the steps given in the wiki, however, when i attempt to make tallow . . .I get this

Is this some kind of bug, if so, sorry for posting on the wrong board.
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blu

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Re: Rendering Fat
« Reply #1 on: August 30, 2011, 08:56:23 pm »
Looks like my image didnt work.
Unrotten FAT RENDER_MAT-producing glob RENDER_MAT Glob



Takes place at Kitchen


Thats the message i get
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Sphalerite

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Re: Rendering Fat
« Reply #2 on: August 30, 2011, 09:12:16 pm »
The job to produce tallow usually occurs automatically when you have any uncooked fat in a stockpile.

Do you have the fat in a stockpile?  Do you have any dwarves with the Cooking skill and free time to do the job?
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AaronLS

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Re: Rendering Fat
« Reply #3 on: August 30, 2011, 10:29:47 pm »
Also, a you can enable or disable tallow for cooking in the (Z) Status->Kitchen menu.  I disabled cooking for Tallow because I didn't want it to get used up for meals.
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amade

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Re: Rendering Fat
« Reply #4 on: August 30, 2011, 10:31:10 pm »
It's most likely you have more than one kitchen and the task got assigned automatically to all kitchens as soon as a glob becomes available from butchering. As soon as the fat is taken up by one dorf for one kitchen the other kitchen(s) suddenly don't have said glob to process anymore hence the job cancellations. Don't worry, you're still getting your tallow.

I get the message all the time and I have tons of badger tallow than I can ever process into soap for lack of wood to make ash.
« Last Edit: August 30, 2011, 10:33:50 pm by amade »
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blu

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Re: Rendering Fat
« Reply #5 on: August 30, 2011, 11:37:09 pm »
I tried rendering badger fat I saw in my food stockpile. The fat may have been cooked. I had my cook assigned to make meals. Ill try to render fat next time I have the chance. Thanks for the input
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Leonidas

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Re: Rendering Fat
« Reply #6 on: August 31, 2011, 12:23:47 am »
I've seen that message sometimes in the soap workshop and the screw press. It's fairly easy to work around. Go to j->m, and queue up the job there. You'll have to wait until the manager approves it, but then it'll be fine.
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