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[HM4A1]

I cant seem to produce any charcoal at my furnace?! Sorry for the blunt and boring thread but I dont know whats going on and I want to move on in the game 'sigh'. Im running the latest version and am currently setting up my first fortress of the version in the freezing south.. The game doesnt report any problems, I have plenty of wood, three furnaces now and I cant get the dwarves to start the process. Even if they are doing nothing, I now have 3 dwarves doing nothing with the furnace operator labour active... WTF?!

Sorry?
-HM

[gordy]

you dont need furnace operators and smelters - you need a wood furnace and wood burners to create charcoal.

[HM4A1]

Sorry, thats what I meant, I couldn't produce charcoal at my wood furnace. Even though I've got it both tasked and appointed my manager as a work order :S!?

[gordy]

but you have dorfs with wood burning labor turned on? is your wood forbidden?

[HM4A1]

Yes the labour is set as the only labour on three dwarfs and no the wood isnt forbidden, its being used to build barrels for example..

[Qiu]

and there are currently wood burning jobs active in the wood furnace?
might be a pathing issue, or a burrow issue?

[The Architect]

"Dwarves ignore wood" etc? Lots of things to check here.

[HM4A1]

Nope, order isnt set, there are jobs set but none are active no matter what I try!? Shouldnt be a pathing issue, no reason it would be and I've got no burrows...

[Kazindir]

Try disassembling the wood furnace, rebuild it and queue a job to make charcoal again and see if any of your wood burner dwarves will start the job then.

I've not had any problems with it myself but rebuilding the workshop might help jog any stuck pathfinding you might have.

[cyks]

When setting up a workshop or furnace, pay attention to the darker green 'X's for those tiles will become inpassable walls upon construction.

If the dwarfs are currenly working on another job, they could eat, drink, take a break, then sleep before moving on to the next.  One workaround is to make a temporary dwarf with nothing but wood burning active. 

[HM4A1]

Ill try the rebuilding suggestion but like I said I have 3 wood burners now, with one inside in the off chance that maybe the snow is preventing the furnace from working (XD), I have also tried cyks suggestion and i have had 3 dwarfs with only wood burning active in an attempt to get it working....

[Satarus]

Are the building materials used in the furnace forbiden?  If you built it from say dolomite stone, but you forbid all dolomite stone, it will not work.  The same if you do an area forbid over top the furnace.

[neosorcerer]

I've had problems with furnaces or smelters built inside (no tasks listed, the ones outside worked fine.) Anyone else have this problem?

[The Architect]

Ill try the rebuilding suggestion but like I said I have 3 wood burners now, with one inside in the off chance that maybe the snow is preventing the furnace from working (XD), I have also tried cyks suggestion and i have had 3 dwarfs with only wood burning active in an attempt to get it working....

Sounds like a burrows issue, and you still haven't given word on the burrows questions.

[Farmerbob]

Do you maybe have the wood in your stockpile designated for wall or other construction building?

Also, the skill you need to enable is wood burning, in the farming subset, not furnace operating.  It sounds like you might have this properly set, but I'm not sure, based on your first post.