Verisium Ore Auto smelting with no workers

I have zero people assigned to smelt verisium ore but the bars are still being smellted. I'll never be able to upgrade my home town( recruitment) to level 8 at this rate because I rarly find it and my build is slow.

This is intended. It is explained in the Help panel that this is how it works for Smelting and Mining.

You will need to unassign your smelters to keep that ore.

That's dumb. why should I need to remove them all for god know how many number of maps that I will need to run in order to get the 415 verisium ore to level my base. Just smelt what I specify is that so hard?

Yeah this is pretty dumb.

Hardstuck at a rank 7 settlement for two days now because my verisium just gets auto smelted 'cause I tend to find them near the end of my gaming session (if I find one at all) and when I log back on the next day, its all gone.

Either remove raw ore as a requirement for upgrades or make bars count as 5 ore like it does for shipments.

This is really frustrating

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Whaler4444 wrote:

That's dumb. why should I need to remove them all for god know how many number of maps that I will need to run in order to get the 415 verisium ore to level my base. Just smelt what I specify is that so hard?

No, it's not dumb at all and it's actually quite helpful. If you read the help file it explains that miners and smelters, who are assigned to work but don't have work to do, will help each other. This gets your ore mined (or smelted) faster than it otherwise would have been.

If you can't run a few maps to get the ore you need, just turn off all your smelters until you have a stockpile of ore to do your upgrades. I don't know how much any of you are playing, but until I saw people complaining about it I didn't even know it was a problem... My smelters have been going non-stop since league start and still haven't used up all of my ore.