Kaolinite

[Endemonadia]

I just want to check how processing this rock works...

The wiki says u make Porcelain out of this rock at a Kiln. However there isnt a Porcelain option at the Kiln. Am i understanding it correctly that when u make 'Large Jugs' it will automatically use Koalinite and hence make Porcelain?

How does this work...?

[malthenielsen]

https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Kaolinite

https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Porcelain

[Endemonadia]

Originally posted by malthenielsen:

https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Kaolinite

https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Porcelain

Ive read both of these and its still unclear... thats why i made the post

I say ive read the wiki in the post.

[malthenielsen]

Wiki says they just use the closest thing.

It's probably easiest to forbid the other things the kiln uses from the stocks screen (clay), then kaolinite is the only thing they can use and they'll make porcelain by default.

You can also build a kiln next to the kaolinite, that's maybe simpler.

[Commisar Jon Fuklaw]

Kiln → make clay X → kaolinite is used to make porcelain.

Not sure what there is to fail to understand.

[Philtre]

You can link a kiln to one or more stockpiles, and set the input stockpiles to not accept clay types other than kaolinite. But you need to make sure that everything the kiln needs is supplied via the input stockpile(s), since if you link a stockpile to a workstation, that workstation will not accept any input or output sources other than the linked ones.

Originally posted by Commisar Jon Fuklaw:

Kiln → make clay X → kaolinite is used to make porcelain.

Not sure what there is to fail to understand.

If they use any random clay type that isn't kaolinite, the output won't be porcelain. The OP is asking how to make sure they get porcelain.

[rook]

Most tasks will let you specify the material. I haven't been making porcelain, but create the task then click the magnifying glass and you should be able to get specific about it.

Only thing I can think of that this won't work on is encrusting stuff (someday I hope to be able to specify silver spatulas with menacing spikes of kangaroo tallow. In case you want to cheer up a dwarf who likes silver, spatulas and kangaroos for their tallow.)

[The hollow Nike]

If you assign source stockpiles you need to make sure that they also contain charcoal or coke otherwise the processing will not work.