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[wuphonsreach]

well, with strange moods this is usually because they want some specific metal. You might have iron, but they want zinc. If you have enough zinc cages you could melt to turn into a bar, for example, they want it. In normal jobs, items may be reserved, stockpiles or workshops may be set to only give or take to specific things, someone is already planning to use it for something... well, quite a few issues

Most notably now in 34.07 and later, when you can have stockpiles give to workshops, the claimed workshop needs to be taking (=have give links) from ALL the stockpiles that the mooding dwarf wants stuff from.

On the other hand, I was under the impression that the usual problem case for you not having the right type of material was cloth, where plant, animal, and silk cloth count as separate types of material. Well, there are some other specific ones too, like glasses. But eg. all metals are just metals. See http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Strange_mood

AFAIK that has been fixed in 34.11.  Strange mood dwarves will take the items that they want from anywhere on the map, as long as the item is not forbidden.