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[okiN]

Okay, so I had one imported aluminum bar and one locally made bar. I ordered my blacksmith to make various aluminum items, but despite two untasked bars being located in the forge, he refused to make any two-bar furniture. I finally ordered him to make a bucket and he hopped right to it, so now I have two aluminum buckets. The only explanation I can think of is that dwarves refuse to mix home-made and imported materials in crafting, which seems like a bug to me.

[Areyar]

some items require 3 bars, this could prove a bottleneck with only 2 bars available.
yeah..i think armour and furnature are I don't recall exactly. (wiki it)
yes furniture requires 3 bars, heavy body armour 3 or 2...

[Reasonableman]

some items require 3 bars, this could prove a bottleneck with only 2 bars available.
yeah..i think armour and furnature are I don't recall exactly. (wiki it)
yes furniture requires 3 bars, heavy body armour 3 or 2...

Well, I know that weapon racks only require two, since I was forced to make some real quickly-like on account of a mandate earlier today.

[okiN]

some items require 3 bars, this could prove a bottleneck with only 2 bars available.
yeah..i think armour and furnature are I don't recall exactly. (wiki it)
yes furniture requires 3 bars, heavy body armour 3 or 2...

There are plenty of furniture pieces that only require two bars - thrones, for example. The smith refused to make any of these.

[Skanky]

The wiki (linked to above) disagrees with you

All metal furniture requires 3 bars to forge except for chains, animal traps, buckets and blocks.

[Reasonableman]

It's wrong. Unless the game has a typo in it where the message "Urist McDwarf cancels forge silver Weapon Rack: needs two silver bars." EDIT: appears occasionally.

[Untelligent]

That means he needs two MORE bars. I'm very sure of this because I keep getting error messages from my cooks stating "Moldath McChef cancels prepare roast: needs 3 cookable items," or something along those lines, when I only have one cookable item. Or something similar to that.

I don't see why the smith's error messages should be structured differently.

[Reasonableman]

That means he needs two MORE bars. I'm very sure of this because I keep getting error messages from my cooks stating "Moldath McChef cancels prepare roast: needs 3 cookable items," or something along those lines, when I only have one cookable item. Or something similar to that.

I don't see why the smith's error messages should be structured differently.

Ah. That would be the reason then.
Carry on.

[okiN]

I checked the wiki before posting this, and I quote: "Forging a bucket uses one metal bar. Most furniture needs two; anvils, cages, bins, barrels, and pipe sections need three." - From the Blacksmith article.

So which is right and which is wrong?