im running the most current ver atm (v51.08) with DFH. i apologize in advance if this exact issue already has a thread for 51.08, but i didnt see one.

the fort im running right now is pretty huge 3M+ value and ~300 dorfs, and it has never tanned a single hide, they just rot. ive had to buy hides the entire time.

i have multiple tanner's shops on multiple levels, both indoors and outside (open air and a roof with no walls) and the shops just will NOT see my hides as valid to be tanned. from cats to cows they are all invalid. i have work orders for tanning hides in the manager, as well as assigning them directly to a single shop. i have tried everybody does this job and only selected do the job, the selected to do the job do other jobs and only that job.... all of this with my hides in stockpiles with no bins assigned and no hides in any bins anywhere in the fort and none of the hides in the stockpile for good hides have gone to rot, the rotten ones go to my decomp area... nothing works at all. ive never had this problem before in the steam versions.

i have tried to tear all my shops down and rebuild them, ive tried moving the hides from the stockpiles into the shops directly, ive tried linking the stockpiles to the shops, ive tried assigning a specific dorf with tanning skills to a shop... the game simply will not tan a hide for me. i use to have this issue all the time before the steam version, but this is the first time in steam ver i have had this happen to this extent.

did something break in the most recent version or is there some brain numbingly simple thing im forgetting to do for some reason.