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

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For a fuel-less alternative, see magma smelter.

The lifeblood of a fortress, a smelter is used to smelt ores and melt existing metal objects into metal bars. The smelter is also where lignite and bituminous coal are processed into coke. A dwarf must have the "Furnace Operator" labor enabled to use the smelter, and all smelter tasks require a bar of fuel.

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

1. No fuel - 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 all of the necessary materials (including fuel).
3. The smelter is located inside a burrow, one of the necessary materials (including fuel) is not available in the burrow, and that burrow has the "Limit workshops to burrow" option enabled.

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