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I've figured it out. In order for your dwarves to build a particular workshop, someone needs to have the labor the workshop uses assigned. So for instance if you want to build a Clothier, someone needs to have Clothesmaking assigned before the workshop gets built. It sorta makes sense, why build a clothier workshop if noone's gonna use it...

Thanks for your hard work. I enjoy the program a lot and don't run a single fort without it.

With the steam release I've noticed something strange: sometimes constructions for workshops or track stops (those are the two I've experienced, but I suspect other (construction) tasks can also be affected) are not assigned to any dwarf although they have the construction labor enabled in DT. I've discussed this in discord and they suggested that sometimes the game gets stuck on task assignment because of a hard five-bid limit which leads to bid failure? The way to solve this is apparently reset your labor assignments by making any change in the in-game work details, which causes you to lose your custom labor assignments from DT off course. But after that you could manually restore your labor assignments in DT and hopefully the problem won't repeat itself too often. Now I have two questions:

1. Is anyone else experiencing this problem and is there a known workaround that doesn't mess up your DT labor assignments?
2. If not, would it be possible to program a backup/restore function in DT which allows you to backup your labor assignments per individual dwarf or for the whole fort at once and then restore it afterwards? Otherwise it's a hassle to redo your labor assignments every time you encounter this bug, especially if you have a large fortress.

Thanks a lot,
Ponti