DF2012:Smelter

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Smelter

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Job Requirement
Furnace operator
Construction
Materials	Jobs
Fire-safe building material (non-economic)	Architecture Masonry or Metalsmithing
Materials Used
Coke or Charcoal (Fuel) Ore Meltable metal item Bituminous coal Lignite Flux
Goods Created
Metal Bars Coke

v0.34.11 · v0.31.25 · v0.28.181.40d · v0.23.130.23a This article is about the current version of DF. More Info

The lifeblood of a fortress, a smelter is used to smelt ores with fuel or for melting existing metal objects into metal bars. The smelter is also where lignite and bituminous coal are made into coke. A dwarf must have the "Furnace Operator" labor enabled to use the smelter.

If all options in a smelter are red, there are three possible scenarios to explain why:

1. Fuel is needed - find/buy coke or turn wood into charcoal at a wood furnace.
2. The workshop is being specified as a "Give" destination from a stockpile that does not possess any/all of the necessary materials.
3. The smelter is located inside a burrow, while one of the necessary materials is outside the burrow (this bug occurs even if no dwarves have been assigned to the burrow).

Workshops & Furnaces
Workshops	Ashery - Bowyer - Butcher - Carpenter - Clothier - Craftsdwarf - Dyer - Farmer - Fishery - Jeweler - Kitchen - Leather - Loom - Magma forge - Mason - Mechanic - Metalsmith's forge - Millstone - Quern - Screw press - Siege - Still - Soap - Tanner
Furnaces	Glass furnace - Kiln - Magma glass furnace - Magma kiln - Magma smelter - Smelter - Wood furnace
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