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Gahagan

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Render Fat Unavailable as Job
« on: March 08, 2011, 12:41:54 am »
Like the title says. Just butchered all my extra animals in the fort, and my butcher's shop is overflowing with fat, but the "Render Fat" job is unavailable at the kitchen (listed in red, gives an error message if I try to select it).

What's going on here?
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Pukako

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Re: Render Fat Unavailable as Job
« Reply #1 on: March 08, 2011, 12:48:00 am »
Do you have the cooking labour enabled on a dwarf?
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Gahagan

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Re: Render Fat Unavailable as Job
« Reply #2 on: March 08, 2011, 12:52:03 am »
Yeah, he's happily toiling away making biscuits out of all the meat.

Also, because the butcher's shop and kitchen are outside, I've enabled refuse hauling outdoors. Still nothing.
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Re: Render Fat Unavailable as Job
« Reply #3 on: March 08, 2011, 02:53:23 am »
do you have a food stockpile with fat enabled?
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Re: Render Fat Unavailable as Job
« Reply #4 on: March 08, 2011, 05:36:13 am »
You could try setting the job through the manager too, 'j' - 'm' - 'q', in case for some reason the kitchen has got confused as to whether it can issue that job (cf. some of the problems with soap maker's workshops a few versions back...)
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schussel

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Re: Render Fat Unavailable as Job
« Reply #5 on: March 08, 2011, 06:05:25 am »
just cancel cook's biscuit job .. render fat is an automatic duty ..  and if you slaughter some more bigger animals better put up 2 + shops extra so you dont waste the precious fat :)
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Re: Render Fat Unavailable as Job
« Reply #6 on: March 08, 2011, 01:40:59 pm »
Edit: Misunderstood, whoops
« Last Edit: March 08, 2011, 01:43:02 pm by Greep »
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Re: Render Fat Unavailable as Job
« Reply #7 on: March 08, 2011, 03:33:34 pm »
Quote from: schussel on March 08, 2011, 06:05:25 am
just cancel cook's biscuit job .. render fat is an automatic duty ..  and if you slaughter some more bigger animals better put up 2 + shops extra so you dont waste the precious fat :)

Fat doesn't rot, I make it a regular habit to dump fat after butchering so that I don't wind up cooking tallow.

Go through the managers screen as said, but do you have a fat stockpile enabled near your kitchen? I purposely place fat stockpiles outside away from my kitchen if I'm too lazy to dump them so that the order doesn't automatically turn on. This can and will confuse the kitchen though, in which case the above method will work.
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Re: Render Fat Unavailable as Job
« Reply #8 on: March 08, 2011, 04:02:09 pm »
I believe you can always have them done through the job manager
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Gahagan

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Re: Render Fat Unavailable as Job
« Reply #9 on: March 08, 2011, 09:13:31 pm »
Got it working through the manager screen. Thanks for all the help.
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