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[scaliper]

I'm running into a major problem with my fortress: I am unable to smith steel bars. I have made 10 pig iron bars, but when I try to make steel, it says "cancels make steel bars: needs 150 iron bars"
As well, after that happened, steel bars was removed from my list of things able to be smelted. In addition, any items that I attempt to make out of iron are also canceled. Anybody have any idea what's going on?

[scaliper]

Mistake post. Sorry!

[Lord Darkstar]

It sounds like you either haven't melted enough iron objects into iron bars, you haven't melted enough iron ore into iron bars (you need 1 iron bar, 1 pig iron bar, 1 flux stone, 1 coke bar, and 1 fuel --- magma forges don't need the 1 fuel, but still need everything else), or--- your iron is unavailable to the smelter due to no open paths (ie, locked doors, raised/retracted bridges) or due to burrow restrictions.

Editted to add in the flux stone requirement.

[scaliper]

Ah, that'd do it. I didn't know that you needed both pig iron and regular iron. Thanks!

[Lord Darkstar]

Yeah--- pig iron is the intermediate step between iron and steel. You have to go through it to be able to reach steel. I also realize I forgot to include the flux stone requirements in my original post. Without a "flux" stone, you can't turn pig iron into steel. And without flux stone, you cannot turn iron into pig iron.

The Dwarf Fortress Wiki is a fountain of ready knowledge. It has answered most of my questions about the game when I was getting the basics down, such as how to make pig iron and steel, how to farm underground, etc.

Don't get me wrong--- this forum is a great place with many helpful posters, but the wiki usually has more info about how something works then the quick answers people pop off here.

Here's the full requirements: http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/DF2010:Steel (link to Steel article on Dwarf Fortress Wiki)

[scaliper]

Coolio, I skimmed it, but sseemingly not thoroughly enough. Thanks again.