Unable to make pig iron despite having all ingredients.

[Crow Daddy 69]

I seem to have all ingredients (iron, charcoal, dolomite for flux) but the game keeps telling me I miss flux stone when I try to smelt pig iron. No burrows prevent the dwarves from picking up ingredients (in fact they are quite close to the smelter).

Anyone else ran into this bug or found a work around?

[POWER WITHIN USER]

Check stockpile links, if you're using those, any of them need to have iron bars, fuel and flux stones. You can't just say, link a fuel stockpile and hope the workshop finds the rest elsewhere.

[Crow Daddy 69]

I'm not using stockpile links. Do I need to create a stockpile with all three items?

[Erei]

No, but maybe dwarves are moving the block ? When someone move a block, or want to, it's "locked" until it's done. You can lock and unlock it (pause so nobody else reserve it) to use it.

[Crow Daddy 69]

If I search the stockpile there seems to be 73 dolomite stones available either on the map on the specific dolomite stockpile i created. I seem to be also unable to sue the 17 lignite as well for coke creation. This looks like a bug right?

[BlackSmokeDMax]

Originally posted by Chicken Slayer:

If I search the stockpile there seems to be 73 dolomite stones available either on the map on the specific dolomite stockpile i created. I seem to be also unable to sue the 17 lignite as well for coke creation. This looks like a bug right?

You need a starter piece of fuel to kickstart the process. Make a wood furnace and burn a couple pieces of wood into charcoal. They can then use the charcoal to process the lignite into coke. In the future they will use the coke to keep that process going.

Edit: oops, sorry. You do say you have charcoal in stock in op.

[Crow Daddy 69]

just to clarify I have about 20 charcoal in stockpile and can smelt other ores (iron, silver and gold).

I have a standing order for charcoal to be produced once it falls below a certain level.

[BlackSmokeDMax]

And you definitely didn't make your dolomite into blocks? You have the raw stone?

[Crow Daddy 69]

I have both. 80 blocks in stockpile as well as 73 raw rocks. I think the game might be bugged. I'll try assigning a specific stockpile with flux, iron and charcoal and see if that fixes it.

Thanks for your help!

[Darzan]

Check your "Stone Use" menu under labor and see if Dolomite is allowed to be used. Do not link any stockpiles - it should find all dolomite unless it is forbidden.

[Crow Daddy 69]

Gone to Stone Use > Economic Stone and confirmed that Dolomite is ticked and green. Is this how it's supposed to be set up?

[malthenielsen]

You can try to create just 1 dump zone in he fort right next to the smelter and then select dump for dolomote stones in the stocks screen. It should make the dwarves move the stones to the dump zone (when they get around to it); if they don't it's for sure the path is blocked.

[Crow Daddy 69]

When I ran into the issue originally I created a new storage room one floor below the smelter with a connecting staircase and filled it with Dolomite.

I love the game but it's really frustrating when the bugs creep in. I had another fort die because my building got bugged and dwarves refused to do it no mater what I did with the labour screen.

[malthenielsen]

Originally posted by Chicken Slayer:

When I ran into the issue originally I created a new storage room one floor below the smelter with a connecting staircase and filled it with Dolomite.

I love the game but it's really frustrating when the bugs creep in. I had another fort die because my building got bugged and dwarves refused to do it no mater what I did with the labour screen.

It has a lot of kinks yeah. It will take decades before they're all gone.

From the different forums, the Steam one if where most people have problems.

The Bay12Games-forum and at reddit, there's a lot less of running into problems.

I think when you get used to the game, you just develop some habits about what you do what doesn't make the bugs happened.

Like I got used to making space around the workshops and wall the butcher shop in because workhops (rarely) get "blocked" if they're surrounded by suff and the buther shop regularly creates miasma due to meat not getting picked up from it.

Mostly I won't really try to work out what the problem of issue it - I'll just deconstruct stuff and try again and see if it works.

In your care, I'd be like - when I notice there is a problem, I'd probably immediately deconstruct all of the relevant workshops and rebuild them in another place, probably where the dolomite is.

Like I just smash my setup and make a new one instead of bothering to find out what the exact problem is. It's faster than working out what the problem is.

As far as I can tell, the Steam version has way fewer kinks than the former versions. But you just need to play a bit differently than in "normal" games where everything works lol.

[malthenielsen]

Originally posted by Chicken Slayer:

If I search the stockpile there seems to be 73 dolomite stones available either on the map on the specific dolomite stockpile i created. I seem to be also unable to sue the 17 lignite as well for coke creation. This looks like a bug right?

The stockpile screen also shows stuff that is ON the map but inaccessible.

On my map for instance, I've got 79 spider webs "in the stock", but it isn't really in my stock as no dwarves can get to where they are.

It's because I opened up the caves, but the parts I can see is for some reason bigger than what the dwarves can get to atm.

[Crow Daddy 69]

Originally posted by malthenielsen:

Originally posted by Chicken Slayer:

When I ran into the issue originally I created a new storage room one floor below the smelter with a connecting staircase and filled it with Dolomite.


As far as I can tell, the Steam version has way fewer kinks than the former versions. But you just need to play a bit differently than in "normal" games where everything works lol.

I manager to find a work around! Creating a stockpile with all three ingredients allowed me to start smelting pig iron. A new quirk to play around I guess