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[Necromunger]

I cant smelt anything.

Iv played this game for a long time(2 years now) but i cant figure this out.

I have charcoal.

I have hematite, limonite, magentite.

The selection to smelt anything is RED.

I don't understand what's going on.

Im playing Vanilla 31.25.

I have someone to do the job.

The materials to do the job are not dumped or forbidden.

EDIT:

Dwarfs not restricted to burrows, problem continues.

[tommy521]

Screen shots?
From what you are describing I cannot tell if anything is wrong or how to help.

[Captain Xenon]

step one: go to your stocks, and look to see if anything has been marked for dump, or forbidden. count the amount of fuel, and make sure its in stockpile(not being hauled).

right now, if the ore is unavailable, then its red on the list. if you have reclaimed, or mass-dumped to a quantum stockpile, then it may be forbidden. beyond that, check the path between the smelter and the two stockpiles.

also, have you tried building another smelter?

[Duntada Man]

raze the smelter and build a new one. Worked for me.

Short of that, make sure there's isn't a disconnected stairwell or something.

[Necromunger]

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I have already checked my stocked screen and everything is good.

[Necromunger]

There is a clear path to the target smelters.

Charcoal has been counted in bins.

[Captain Xenon]

check the profile of the workshop. this can cause a problem if its set wrong.

other than that, go to the manager and have him set an order to smelt hematite. that should help, even if its only an error report of why it wont work.

[Necromunger]

This just became interesting, Setting up a work order to smelt hematite worked.

But i am still unable to set up a job directly from the smelter to do anything.

Somehow my game is bugged?

[Masta Crouton]

happens to me all the time, usual the job order is the only way around it.

[proxn_punkd]

Is there a burrow? Smelters in burrows sometimes bug out even when the burrow is inactive. Giving job orders through the manager works, though.

[Darkening Kaos]

Check the smelter to see if the jobs are queued.
If they're not, use 't' to look inside the smelter, you might have forbidden the material the smelter is made of.

Darkening Kaos, CIS, LUH.

[dreadmullet]

This has happened to me before. The only solution was to use the manager screen to queue up smelting jobs.

There's this bug listed on the wiki http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Bugs#Buildings_and_Zones that says something about burrows and smelters not working right. Try deleting every burrow and see if you can queue up jobs.

[krenshala]

Every burrow, or just every burrow that overlaps the smelters?

I was going to ask if you can double check you have furnace operator enabled.  You mentioned you had the job set, but hadn't specified which one.  The fact the manager was able to get a job queued up answers that you did have furnace operator, so I can only go with the burrow-bug ...

[proxn_punkd]

Every burrow that contains the smelters. Bootrazors has an unburrowed smelter, and it works just fine (unless we're under attack and burrowed, in which case I get a bunch of pathing error spam until I cancel all orders there), while the other six smelters can only be operated by manager orders.

[Frying Doby]

raze the smelter and build a new one. Worked for me.

Short of that, make sure there's isn't a disconnected stairwell or something.

That is the solution that worked for me too.
Even built it on the exact same place. No problems ever since.