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Dwarf Fortress => DF Dwarf Mode Discussion => Topic started by: Kat on July 09, 2021, 12:38:03 pm

Title: Rendering fat problems.
Post by: Kat on July 09, 2021, 12:38:03 pm
Having some difficulty with rendering fat for some reason.
I have fats available, but... it says they can't be rendered.
Examining the fat, it says it's rendered into "melted tallow", which... isn't right.

But it's not warm enough to melt fat or tallow, so why is this happening ?  ???
Title: Re: Rendering fat problems.
Post by: Kat on July 09, 2021, 01:36:57 pm
fresh install, install dwarfhack, go to object testing arena, and it still says fat is rendered into "melted tallow". Hmm.

well at least I now know my mod isn't the thing that's causing the problem.
Title: Re: Rendering fat problems.
Post by: Kat on July 10, 2021, 04:49:04 am
my saved game, I have bars of soap, made from creatures that I had slaughtered. So I must have had tallow in the past.

weird.
Title: Re: Rendering fat problems.
Post by: Kat on July 10, 2021, 05:02:37 am
Aha ! Found what the problem was. The kitchens had been linked to stockpiles that didn't include fat, so couldn't recognise there was fat available to render.

Working fine now.
Title: Re: Rendering fat problems.
Post by: FantasticDorf on July 10, 2021, 05:55:19 am
Quote from: Kat on July 10, 2021, 05:02:37 am
Aha ! Found what the problem was. The kitchens had been linked to stockpiles that didn't include fat, so couldn't recognise there was fat available to render.

Working fine now.

Alternatively you could fuddle auto-kitchen 'O'rders to off in order to halt the process of auto-tallow mixing since the kitchen along with the loom is a workshop that is compatible with [AUTOMATIC] reaction tokens.

Im glad you sorted your problem out though.
Title: Re: Rendering fat problems.
Post by: Thisfox on July 10, 2021, 07:32:08 pm
My method is to have a kitchen in near the butcher with it's manager jobs turned off, and an unlinked fat/tallow/lye stockpile near to both. I check it every now and again, and it has tallow orders working fine. The kitchens in the main eating hall, far from the butchers and the fat stockpile, don't seem to get the tallow orders and thus can continue to provide endless floury apricot roasts.