can't build crematorium

[rdfg]

in my colony the bodies are pieling up and i Wold pefere not having to dig graves for all of them. however fore whatever reason i cant build the electic crematorium. it sais that i lack the required materials (rock bloks) even when i have the required bloks. so im trying to build my crematorium with slate bloks (i have also tryed with marble) and i do have the materials but the game tels me i don't. am i just stupid or can thi be fixed in some way?

[Juan el Demgrafo]

There are a couple reasons I can think of as to why this would be: your blocks are not in a stockpile and thus aren't counted as potential building materials, or you just don't have enough of whatever type. I'll be honest with you though, I don't bother with crematoriums anymore. I just make a stockpile in some out-of-the way place and let the bodies (eventually) disappear.

[Dargaron]

Standard questions:

-Are the blocks forbidden?
-Is the colonist with which you're trying to construct assigned to a zone? Does that zone include the blocks?
-Is there a forbidden door in the way?
-(stupid question) Are you sure it's the blocks that are the problem? Do you have enough steel? According to the wiki, it requires 20 steel.

If none of those help, could you post a screenshot showing both the block storage and the place you're trying to build the crematorium?

[SpaceDorf]

If everything does not work, use the blocks to build an enclosed room and throw a molotov inside.

[PolarBear]

SpaceDorf: Or let the game selftame boomalope, shoot it in safe distance from your base to make it unconscious, realize that your pawns make great effort to rescue this freaking timed bomb, make them all drafted and then watch helplessly how your milion-tries-tamed pregnant female megasloth carry this napalm device to the middle of your wooden barn full of farm animals with 0.12hours left until it explode*. Don't forget to bring something what you need get burned, it is very efficient crematorium 

*this happened to me last weekend, I was bashing the wall with my head after to never do such stupidity again. My 8 pawns had no chance to beat this mayhem. Fortunately like 50% of my muffalos and alpacas runs out with fur in fire, so I cancel animal spots inside, make them outside and start saving animals outside instead of baking my pawns inside barn. Unfortunately, chicken casualties was about 95% and all animals burn to ashes. No meat on the menu for next year

[Dashthechinchilla]

Don't the blocks for the crematorium specifically have to be granite? I seem to recall having that issue once.

I always figured that the "out of the way" piles of bodies contributed to pluage. Especially now that bodies leave behind their own type of filth.

[Dargaron]

I've made crematoriums out of other blocks before (at least, in A16, I don't remember if I've used them in A17). You have the option to build them out of different blocks by right-clicking.