Bismuth ore is auto-smelting into bars without anyone assigned to smelt it.

There's definitely a bug. In Smelting station I have 0/7 smelters working, all ores have a "production rate"-value of "-", EXCEPT bismuth ore, that has a "0" instead. So even from a glance I can tell bismuth ore is doing something it's not supposed to.

and no, I'm not gonna register a photo hosting account somewhere just for the sake of posting a screenshot.

Almost same story, but with verisium... If people assigned to smelt non-existing ore - they start smelt verisium.

That workers will smelt/mine a different ore when their preferred ore is not available is not a bug - it's a feature to save players from having to micromanage the sim subgame so much.

The real problem is that those upgrades - as opposed to shipping - only accept ore and not bars. The workaround is to micromanage workers by taking everyone off of smelting. I believe that's not a bit of micromanagement that GGG intended, but have they said otherwise, somewhere?

Same problem. The worst thing is that I can't manage to make another further upgrades cause of that. Probably option of exchanging the bars, back to ore could fix the process.

If it is intended that the settlers perform other tasks than what they were assigned then the UI needs to fixed to show that you are assigning a "priority" to each settler for each sub task. why bother even having you assign them if they just move on anyway.

This is also a bug as I went a step further and reassigned all smelters to farming and the ore still magically smelted. I am stuck with plenty of gold but cannot upgrade my town because it specifically requires ore which makes no sense from a city builder perspective.

edit:

Seems to be unique to bismuth actually. literally everything else stopped, but the bismuth ore still auto-smelted. I did have 0 iron ore prior to test as I needed it for an upgrade so that 0 is correct

https://imgur.com/a/6LMbyqq

edit 2:

Since yesterday I have not had 1 bismuth ore spawn in over 20 maps at least. Was there a bugged update I missed? I was getting 1 every 5 or so maps before. Gonna verify files.

I CANT PROGRESSSSSS WTFFFFF

I have the same issue, been unable to upgrade buildings for 3 days.

this is very annoying please add an option to disable auto-smelting. Or change ores t o bars for the upgrades.

Same problem here.
I have taken all money out of the city and will put it back again after I update the node. Maybe this works.

GGG please change all my Bismuth bars back into Bismuth ore. It's your fault for labeling your UI as if all I need to do to prevent my ore from getting smelted is to not assign someone to smelt Bismuth. In reality, I can't assign any smelters at all.