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[Dareon Clearwater]

Okay, so I'm building a glass fort.  I have about 30 Magma Glass Furnaces, all with "Make blocks" and "Gather sand" set to repeat. I have about 90 of my 100-some dwarves with Glassmaking enabled.  I have sand zones designated and 40 spare bags of sand.  And yes, the dwarves can path to every single furnace, and each has at least 6/7 magma beneath it.  There's absolutely nothing preventing them from churning out blocks by the dozens.  I even mined out a new five-tile-wide hallway so pathfinding was less of an issue.

Guess how many dwarves are working on glass?

8.  50 others are eating, drinking, sleeping, or on break, the other 50 are all just standing around with No Job.  The only active furnaces are the last 7 that I built, and the one set so only my Legendary Glassmaker would use it.

EDIT: Nevermind, I'm an idiot.  I had forgotten that I forbid all the stone but obsidian when one of my glassworkers got into a stone-wanting mood.  That stone included the stuff making up the furnaces.  All working away happily now.  Boy is my face red.

[Kanddak]

Don't worry about it, it happens to everyone. It's like a rite of passage: You're not a real DF player until you've mass-forbid stones from the stocks screen and bug-reported the resulting effects on your workshops at least once.