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[kilozombie]

So I made a new semi-common mineral, and I have a problem with the bar.

Basically:

I smelt the ore into a bar. The bar doesn't get placed into a bar/block stockpile.

I think it's because it says in its status that it can be used to create bars of the mineral, but it's already a bar.

[IT 000]

From the information you have given I cannot tell what is wrong. Please supply us with the errorlog, and all the relevant raws to go along. The metal, the mineral, and the smelter reaction would be a good place to start.

[D_E]

Sounds like the mineral is marked as an ore of ITSELF.  So when it's smelted, it produces a rock bar of the original material.

If you look in the raws, you will see that the default metals come in pairs, a metal and an ore (or ores).  For example, Hematite is an ore of iron:

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[INORGANIC:HEMATITE]
[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:STONE_TEMPLATE]
[STATE_NAME_ADJ:ALL_SOLID:hematite][DISPLAY_COLOR:4:7:0][TILE:156]
[ENVIRONMENT:SEDIMENTARY:VEIN:100]
[ENVIRONMENT:IGNEOUS_EXTRUSIVE:VEIN:100]
[ITEM_SYMBOL:'*']
[METAL_ORE:IRON:100]
[SOLID_DENSITY:5100]
[MATERIAL_VALUE:8]
[IS_STONE]
[MELTING_POINT:12736]

When it is smelted, it produces an iron bar, not a hematite bar.

[Trapezohedron]

Well, about how hematite turns to iron and stuff, is because the smelter reaction uses hematite to switch into iron bars.

You need to make a separate metal that uses the METAL_TEMPLATE and edit the metal's stats from there.

If you want to understand a bit, look for iron in the metal raws, look for hematite in the mineral raws, and open the smelter reaction file and look for the iron melting raws there. 

[kilozombie]

Well basically I have finite ore that gets smelted into finite bars. So in that slot, I put [METAL_ORE:FINITE_BARS:100]. The bars are called finite bars.