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[numerobis]

I have this iron chest that I'd like to melt down.  Is that merely impossible?  I saw a legendary furnace operator work on it for a week.

[Lemunde]

I don't see why it wouldn't.  You would have to remove it as a building, of course.  D>B>M over it, hit enter twice and it should be marked to be melted.  I've never tried it myself so don't take my word for it.  But if it can be done, that's how you would do it.

[numerobis]

You should try.  Armor stands, weapon racks, cabinets, goblinite, toy hammers, etc all melt quite quickly, but the chests don't seem to budge.

[Quietust]

There may be a bug - in one of my older forts, my dwarves were incapable of melting an Electrum chest.

[Shinziril]

I definitely had a few silver chests that seemed invulnerable to melting, just as described.

[Fossaman]

Kind of a stupid question, but does the chest have any items inside?

[numerobis]

Nope.  They've never been built either.

[Hyndis]

Haven't had any problems with it. I just add it to the melting queue. Unfortunately sometimes they just don't really get around to it for a while, as the annual deliveries of goblinite can be quite overwhelming sometimes. But they will get to it eventually.

[numerobis]

Hyndis, can you actually confirm melting a metal chest?

[IronyOwl]

After reasonably thorough testing, it does indeed seem impossible to melt down chests. The job completes, but the chest is not removed or even undesignated for melting. Several different materials and qualities produced this result. I also tested any "container-like" furniture, like cabinets and armor stands, and those melted just fine.

Can't say for certain that you can never melt a chest, but if you can it's probably based on truly bizarre conditions or very peculiar luck.

[Mraedis]

After reasonably thorough testing, it does indeed seem impossible to melt down chests. The job completes, but the chest is not removed or even undesignated for melting. Several different materials and qualities produced this result. I also tested any "container-like" furniture, like cabinets and armor stands, and those melted just fine.

Can't say for certain that you can never melt a chest, but if you can it's probably based on truly bizarre conditions or very peculiar luck.

Does the dwarf get EXP? and is any product made?

[blue emu]

Does the dwarf get EXP?

Finally, someone has asked the really IMPORTANT question.

[IronyOwl]

Does the dwarf get EXP? and is any product made?

I had forgotten to check the exp, but they do indeed get it. No product is made, but the fuel is consumed.

Assuming it doesn't work with magma smelters either, I guess we've found a new perpetual training machine.

[darkflagrance]

Does the dwarf get EXP? and is any product made?

I had forgotten to check the exp, but they do indeed get it. No product is made, but the fuel is consumed.

Assuming it doesn't work with magma smelters either, I guess we've found a new perpetual training machine.

From now on, all my military dwarves will be legendary furnace/pump operators as well as legendary in social skills before they even begin wrestling 

[MathijsBuster]

All potential training capabilities aside; shouldn't we file this as a bug report?
I don't think it's in the reported bugs list yet.