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[Huesoo]

Well I made a wood furnace set it to make a charcoal that was three seasons ago I have wood I have a resident furnace operator yet theres nothing i can do. Can any one tell me what to do.

[tompliss]

You need a wood Burner for wood burning, not a furnace operator ...

[The Architect]

You need a wood Burner for wood burning, not a furnace operator ...

Kinda silly, isn't it

Then again, in a world where you can smelt things with temperatures that won't melt the resulting product... anything goes.

[Quietust]

in a world where you can smelt things with temperatures that won't melt the resulting product

...or where you can smelt using nothing but heat from magma - in real life, the coke/charcoal is used as both a heat source and a chemical reducing agent.

[Fishbulb]

in real life, the coke/charcoal is used as both a heat source and a chemical reducing agent.

That's what puts the "dwarven" in "dwarven science."

[Huesoo]

Is there anything I can do by changing the v-p-labor menu?

[rhuntar]

yep.  just set wood burning to active on your furnace operator or whomever you wish

[Kyronea]

in a world where you can smelt things with temperatures that won't melt the resulting product

...or where you can smelt using nothing but heat from magma - in real life, the coke/charcoal is used as both a heat source and a chemical reducing agent.

I always figured they got the carbon they needed from the magma.

[Huesoo]

Oh god. Oh god. I forgot to give humans the wood burner job.

[Quietust]

in a world where you can smelt things with temperatures that won't melt the resulting product

...or where you can smelt using nothing but heat from magma - in real life, the coke/charcoal is used as both a heat source and a chemical reducing agent.

I always figured they got the carbon they needed from the magma.

How exactly do you get carbon out of magma, considering it's generally composed mostly of silica?

[TrueAnkh]

It took me forever to realize why the one dwarf I set to burn wood, operate the furnace, and metal/black/armor/weaponsmith wouldn't do ANYTHING related to any of it. It took me another 10 minutes to find out how to check who could use a workshop.

[Kyronea]

How exactly do you get carbon out of magma, considering it's generally composed mostly of silica?

How do you successfully use magma to heat a furnace to begin with without destroying the whole forge?

In all seriousness, I don't know. I can't see how to do it myself.

[Astramancer]

You very carefully reach down and pull up a scoop of magma with your hands and pour it over the metal bars.  They heat up and become malleable, so you can shape it into a sword or armor or whatever with your hands.

Dwarves are pretty hardcore.

[Quietust]

Back in the 2D version, magma forges and furnaces could only be built from steel bars, since steel is magmaproof (presumably, iron was not magmaproof back then). In addition, making pig iron and steel bars at a normal smelter required two units of coal - one to power the smelter, and another to use as a reagent.

When the game went 3D, those restrictions seemingly went away.

[Zeg]

Well, not really.

Magma forges still need a steel anvil, though thats just a matter of importing since you can't make an anvil without an anvil. And to make steel and pig iron uses 2 charcoal in a normal furnace and 1 in a magma furnace, removing the fuel but keeping the carbon input.