Ok, I got the weapon parts together, stoked the forge until I was down to 12 mins. decided to hit the button that says wait for 12 mins. and got this from Mathis:

"Uh huh, yep, I see what I need to do. It's going to take me at least an hour to bring the forges up to temperature, but it's straight forward after that."

Does that mean that it just reset my stoking and it's going to take an hour or is it just a generic message?

Anyone else having the problem that he's no longer taking your items?

He shouldn't be... the last one I had him make was yesterday night, and only had 5 minutes left on it when I signed off. There's just no "Talk to Mathis" option on the page anymore (nor was there when I started having this problem when the fight was still going..)

Yeah I went there. I tried going back to Conner and that worked though. Thanks :)