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[Abaddon]

I've dumped a whole bunch of charcoal (50 or so pieces) in my quantum stock pile, the problem is now my smelter doesn't seem to recognize it as fuel, I've already unforbid it, and it shows up as a building material for walls.  Is there something I'm doing wrong or should I just not dump any more charcoal?

[Reese]

Is it accessible to the smelter from where it is? any locked doors?
can you try setting up a stockpile for charcoal bars next to the smelter and see if your dorfs move the bars to it?

[Abaddon]

Is it accessible to the smelter from where it is? any locked doors?
can you try setting up a stockpile for charcoal bars next to the smelter and see if your dorfs move the bars to it?

There are locked doors between the quantum stockpile and the smelter but there's still a path between them.

There are 3 entrances to the smelter and it's definitely accessible.

I just designated a stockpile which only stores charcoal, after moving a few there the smelter is still showing no fuel access.

[kelewan]

Is your Smelter part of a burrow?
If yes, is the stockpile part of the same burrow?

[Abaddon]

Is your Smelter part of a burrow?
If yes, is the stockpile part of the same burrow?

The smelter was part of a burrow that wasn't active, I added the stockpile to the burrow and still no luck.

[HmH]

Deconstruct this smelter and build another one. Maybe you accidentally built a magma smelter.

[Abaddon]

Deconstruct this smelter and build another one. Maybe you accidentally built a magma smelter.

I tried that before I made the thread, I should have mentioned.

[rdwulfe]

I've dumped a whole bunch of charcoal (50 or so pieces) in my quantum stock pile, the problem is now my smelter doesn't seem to recognize it as fuel, I've already unforbid it, and it shows up as a building material for walls.  Is there something I'm doing wrong or should I just not dump any more charcoal?

I didn't see... but did you reclaim the items after dumping? When you dump an item, it gets a 'forbidden' flag set on it. You need to clear that for the items to be touchable by dwarves again.

I can't remember the key sequence right now, but it's in the same menu as mass dumping.

[Urist Imiknorris]

I've dumped a whole bunch of charcoal (50 or so pieces) in my quantum stock pile, the problem is now my smelter doesn't seem to recognize it as fuel, I've already unforbid it, and it shows up as a building material for walls.  Is there something I'm doing wrong or should I just not dump any more charcoal?

I didn't see... but did you reclaim the items after dumping? When you dump an item, it gets a 'forbidden' flag set on it. You need to clear that for the items to be touchable by dwarves again.

I can't remember the key sequence right now, but it's in the same menu as mass dumping.

I've already unforbid it

[Ratbert_CP]

Did you unforbid it in the Z menus as an economic stone, or as a individual bars, or via d-b-c on the quantum stockpile itself?  If you merely unforbid it as an economic stone, it'll show up as a building material.  But if the individual bars are still forbidden, you need to claim them.

[Quietust]

Did you unforbid it in the Z menus as an economic stone, or as a individual bars, or via d-b-c on the quantum stockpile itself?  If you merely unforbid it as an economic stone, it'll show up as a building material.  But if the individual bars are still forbidden, you need to claim them.

Charcoal isn't a stone, though bituminous coal and lignite certainly are (and cannot be used as fuel - they must first be smelted into coke).

[Abaddon]

I've tried building walls out of the charcoal and deconstructing, the workshop still shows no fuel source.

The thing that bothers me is that if I make a fresh piece of charcoal and don't have it moved to a stockpile, it registers to the smelter as a fuel source, I can then put some ore smelting processes on REPEAT and the worked will go grab coal from my stockpile, and my forge doesn't show any errors and also works properly, which leads me to believe it's a problem with smelters in general.

[Abaddon]

Did you unforbid it in the Z menus as an economic stone, or as a individual bars, or via d-b-c on the quantum stockpile itself?  If you merely unforbid it as an economic stone, it'll show up as a building material.  But if the individual bars are still forbidden, you need to claim them.

I've answered the points in your post previously which might have some affect on my problem, your other points just aren't helpful, please read the entire thread before "helping".

[Ratbert_CP]

Did you unforbid it in the Z menus as an economic stone, or as a individual bars, or via d-b-c on the quantum stockpile itself?  If you merely unforbid it as an economic stone, it'll show up as a building material.  But if the individual bars are still forbidden, you need to claim them.

I've answered the points in your post previously which might have some affect on my problem, your other points just aren't helpful, please read the entire thread before "helping".

Fair enough.  I was just trying to clarify how you had unforbid/reclaimed the material in question.  Never mind.  You know what you're doing.  Must be a bug.  You did everything perfectly right and by the book.  Carry on!

[Abaddon]

Did you unforbid it in the Z menus as an economic stone, or as a individual bars, or via d-b-c on the quantum stockpile itself?  If you merely unforbid it as an economic stone, it'll show up as a building material.  But if the individual bars are still forbidden, you need to claim them.

I've answered the points in your post previously which might have some affect on my problem, your other points just aren't helpful, please read the entire thread before "helping".

Fair enough.  I was just trying to clarify how you had unforbid/reclaimed the material in question.  Never mind.  You know what you're doing.  Must be a bug.  You did everything perfectly right and by the book.  Carry on!

I don't mean to be snappy, but I've answered these questions already and the problem is frustrating me quite a bit.