When I try to make charcoal or ash from sawdust, the dust instantly disappears and the job gets cancelled. Is there a reason behind this?

How is that now a thing already, after going on near 20 years of DF you'd think that was implemented within the first week of modding new races lol

agreed, I was thinking it would be nice if entities could have access to something like reaction classes, so reactions/buildings could be for example tagged as [CIVILIZED] and then all entities with the [CIVILIZED] tag would automatically get access.

That's awesome, thanks for the reply.

Shame we can't use a line like [SELECT_ENTITY:*] to give all races access but i guess we don't want random cows making lumber mills lol

this only works with dwarves but you can add it to others.

check entity_patch_woodprocessor.txt for the necessary code. essentially you want to copy and paste that to a new file (different filename, but keep the starting "entity_patch_" part), change the "entity_patch_woodprocessor" line at the top to your new filename, and change the MOUNTAIN in [SELECT_ENTITY:MOUNTAIN] to whatever the playable race is named in its entity definition.

This can either be packaged into its own mod or left in the same folder as the rest of this mod's files. (note that you will probably need to delete the woodshop_balanced_eb folder in data/installed_mods in order to see the change if you don't make a new mod)

does this only work with Dwarves or will all playable races be able to use it?

Lovely!