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[jaxy15]

I have a smelter that suddenly stopped working.
Everything's red in it now, so I can't use it.
What the circus is going on?

[Lielac]

Do you have fuel? I've noticed that when I don't have fuel my non-magma smelter decides it's offline.

Oh, and magma smelters need at least 4/7 magma under one  or more of their outside 8 tiles.

[Lagslayer]

Was it a magma smelter? If so, the magma level on the level below it dropped below 4/7. Alternately, have you run out of smeltable items?

[jaxy15]

I have lots of charcoal.
And it's not a magma smelter.
Also, I haven't run out of smeltable stuff.
There's tons of limonite near the smelter itself.

[Stormfeather]

Only other thing I can think of..did you mass-forbid the charcoal accidentally somehow? Or have enough jobs in other workshops queued up that it's all more or less spoken for?

[blue emu]

Did you forbid the stone that the Smelter is made of, or set that type of stone (eg: Marble) to "Economic use only" in the z-Stones menu? A Smelter made of Limestone, Marble, Dolomite, etc cannot be used if the Flux stones have been set for "Economic use only"... similarly, a Smelter made of Gypsum cannot be used if you've set Gypsum to be used only for making Gypsum Powder.

[jaxy15]

The charcoal is not forbidden, and the limestone it's made of is not for economic use only.

[Quietust]

It's probably gotten confused as to what objects are available to it. If you tear it down and rebuild it (or use the job manager to add a task to it), it'll likely start working again.

[Mister Always]

Start using the job manager if you aren't already. Mass production, foo'.

[jaxy15]

I've destroyed it and built a new one and used the manager.
Neither worked.

[Stormfeather]

The limonite didn't get forbidden somehow?

[ahonek]

Just fishing at this point, but maybe one of the impassable tiles blocked the entrance to a coal stockpile?

[Urist Imiknorris]

Can't happen. A furnace's impassable tile can't block anything as the tiles on either side of it are both passable.