Soap making system and ashery

[Hina]

I try to make an ashery it says I need a bucket, I make a bucket. Then I need blocks, I make the wooden. Then It just tells me those blocks aren't good enough. It doesn't tell me what blocks I need, just that these blocks aren't good enough. What am I doing wrong? Also, ♥♥♥♥ making soap in this game.

[McClain]

I used stone blocks for mine, and it worked. Idk

[Dio]

soap is really hard, but try making rock blocks.

Tips:

Create the wood burner. Below it, create a stockpile for ONLY ash bars.

Create the ashery close. Create a stockpile beside it for Lye. Make sure you have barrels.

Create the soap maker. Stockpile to include all sorts of Tallow next to it, nothing else (its in the food category). Make sure to not have tallow allowed in any other stockpile.

Set standing orders to create Lye and Soap. Ash can be made in bulk but shouldnt be automated since it will eat all your trees.

Put all of these things right next to your kitchen. This will be enough to make some soap, however if you want to make sure you maximize your soap output, you will also need to go into the Labor > Kitchen tab after slaughtering animals and make sure to mark Tallow as forbidden for cooking. Tallow wont show up unless you have it available, so you will have to set it just after the butcher renders the fat of the animal, for each sort of animal.

It is not the easiest thing to do, but with this setup you will be able to make soap.

You can also use a quern/millstone to mill seeds (Quarry bush is the only underground one you can use), then have a screwpress make it into Oil and use that instead of Tallow. Quern should have a stockpile of rock nuts (comes from quarry bush) close and the screw press wants a stockpile of seed paste nearby. It will also need some jugs to hold the liquid. Its too much hassle for me so I just get by with the occasional soap whenever i butcher animals.

[Hina]

So it's literally that I made wood blocks instead of rock blocks and it didn't tell me?

[Dio]

Most probably, yes.

[Percy Jackson]

With dwarf fortress, not only is losing fun, but learning is also fun..

I think the appeal of the game stems not insignificantly from the bragging value :"i play dwarf fortress"

[Hina]

I don't particularly find that fun. In fact I'd say that that is probably one of the most asinine things I've ever see in a game. I love this game, but god does it make it hard sometimes.

[Deviant]

I was just able to make an ashery with wooden blocks. Maybe it's some other issue?