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[evictedSaint]

So I accidentally built a statue in an inaccessible location.

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I want to remove it.

I could dig through the walls to get obviously, but I don't want to do that.  Is there anyway to remove the statue without carving up my fortress walls? I prefer natural stone, and don't want to ruin it if I don't have to. 

[Drazinononda]

Your dwarves should be able to deconstruct it diagonally... They constructed it diagonally, after all. Have you, in fact, set it for demolition and waited to see what happened?

[evictedSaint]

I have, it's the oddest fucking thing.  They wont touch it, and I need the room.  They constructed it diagonally, and now they wont deconstruct diagonally.

And yes, I ordered it to be deconstructed.

[pbnjoe]

Are they suspending or cancelling the order? Is anyone idling?

[evictedSaint]

It's like they can't reach it.  Plenty of idles, no job cancellations.

I would try spawning magma on the statue to melt it, but it's made out of platinum, which is magma-safe.

[pbnjoe]

Hmm... The only non-wall-destroying-thing I can think of is to drop a chunk of the floor above onto it, then mine that. Dangerous and messy, but hey: pretty natural walls (just not floors). Pretty dorfy I think.

[evictedSaint]

I got it.  I used df hack to change the material to copper, then melted it with magma.

[pbnjoe]

Ah, useful dfhack