User:Capt.pantsless

Adequate dwarf-fortress player, but I'm a big fan of helping others.

I'm kinda boring.

Fuel Management

It is import note that you need fuel to turn mined coal into more fuel, and that your dwarves will happily use the last unit of fuel to smelt some ore, effectively shutting down metal production until you can kick-start it again by making charcoal. It's highly advisable to carefully plan-out coke-making at your smelters by estimating both the need for coke both at your smelters and at your metal forges or other fuel-using workshops.

For example, if you are making steel at a regular (AKA non-magma) smelter and you have lignite available, order the production queue as follows:

Make coke from Lignite
Make coke from Lignite
Smelt Magnitite (or whatever iron ore you have handy)
Smelt Pig Iron
Make coke from Lignite
Make coke from Lignite
Smelt Magnitite
Smelt Steel

Keeping in mind that they might work at different rates, given the skill-levels of the operators, thus it is usually advisable for each smelter to provide coke for

It is also advisable to stockpile a large amount of coke during the early phases so you don't run dry if there are any production interruptions, since coke can be placed in bins, you'll save stockpile space as well.