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Not sure if it'll cause this, but does the marksdwarf in question have a quiver, and if not, has he already grabbed some metal bolts?

Just in case there is a problem with finding the location (Blackcat seems to imply such a possibility), you can easily get it when you choose to reclaim the fortress - embark will automatically zoom in on the fortress location.

You learn something new about DF everyday! Nice tidbit, Deathworks.

I've noticed some strange behaviour in the Choose Fortress Location screen, and I'm wondering if this is linked.

I found a forest biome in some random map wanderings that had two soil layers and then the normal three rock layers. However, if I moved the embark rectangle to include the river that passed through the forest, the whole biome showed an additional soil layer (so now three) which displayed as an aquifer. Moving the embark rectangle to exclude the river reverted back to the two soil layer no-aquifer display. This behaviour was pretty consistent.

Edit: strangely enough, the next world I generate hit this exact 'bug'. I asked for 'No Aquifer', and the grasslands next to the mountain displayed as having an aquifer. Moved the embark rectangle off of the brook, and the grasslands then showed as not having an aquifer.

plus one fuel for the non-magma smelter. thats two coke or charcoal than.

The coke or charcoal used as a reagent will also be used as the fuel when using a normal smelter as stated on the Steel page on the wiki:

The following steps are performed to produce two steel bars from the above materials:

   1. Make pig iron bars (creates one pig iron bar)
          * One iron bar
          * One unit of flux
          * One unit of refined coal
   2. Make steel bars (creates two steel bars)
          * One iron bar
          * One pig iron bar
          * One unit of flux
          * One unit of refined coal

The tasks Make Pig Iron Bars and Make Steel Bars use the same materials at either smelter. At a normal smelter, the refined coal is needed as a reagent but will also act as the fuel needed for the smelting operation. At a magma smelter, the refined coal is needed only as a reagent.

did you assign him a chair ant table?

I got caught by this. A chair is assigned to a specific dwarf, and as far as I know cannot be assigned to the bookkeeper position itself.

I envisioned prospecting as part of the mining skill. It would reveal tiles beyond what is normally visible. These tiles would only display in Designation mode (keeping the fort display clean, but providing the information when assigning digging orders). And prospecting would be done as a separate action by someone with mining skill from designated tiles. More mining skill would allow a greater range on revealed tiles.

So, to prospect, you would dig out a tunnel. You would then designate a mined-out area with the Prospect designation. A miner would visit each designated tile and prospect, and then based on the mining skill, a certain amount of hidden tiles would be revealed.

For example, at skill levels 5, 10, and 15, the miner gains prospect range for the same z-level (so showing 5x5, 7x7 and 9x9 respectively, centered on the miner). At skill levels 8 and 13, the miner gains prospect range for the adjacent z-levels (above and below, first 1x1 then 3x3, again centered on the miner).

Ensure you have the quality settings enabled appropriately. If you create a stockpile for (say) doors, but don't have any of the quality categories enabled, then no doors will be moved there, as all doors have a quality rating. The same applies to barrels.

Bins cannot contain logs (or raw stone/ore, and a number of other things).