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[sharpie]

I remember a long time ago that someone had once said that if you attach a support to a mountain and cause it collapse by detaching the support that it would "deconstruct" the mountain so that you could get the raw pieces that made it up.

They did this specifically to count how much of everything the got in an embark.  I tried to do this with a support and it didn't work.  Does anyone know how to collapse a section and have it deconstruct instead of just plummet mix up?

[Urist Imiknorris]

Only constructions deconstruct when collapsed. Natural materials simply drop.

[beekay]

Yeah, not gonna work.

I'm pretty sure there's a tool which lets you count how many tiles of everything you have on the map, though. DF Prospector?

[Urist Imiknorris]

Yep. Part of the DF Hack library.

[Sutremaine]

It doesn't count layer stones though.

[Fayrik]

If you really want to get rid of a mountain, I've determined this to be the fastest way... To an FPS related death.

To paraphrase the outcome of the thread: The quickest way to get rid of a mountain is to dig designate the whole thing, with one staircase going through the centre.
Remove the staircase at the bottom level, leaving just one support.
...Remove the support, the floors will destroy themselves, leaving only the mined out stone.

However, I've no idea what happens to that staircase, but you'll need some access from top to bottom while digging.
I also have to point out that this theory is untested, due to previously mentioned FPS restrictions.

[NSQuote]

And for the stone, you can atom smash it or turn a large chunk of it into mugs and dump it onto traders in exchange for a few metric tons of steel and meat.

[peterix]

It doesn't count layer stones though.

It does if you give it the '-b' switch when you run it. On windows, you'd create a shortcut for it that runs it like this: "dfprospector.exe -b" .. or a batch script or whatever.