By accident I found a bug that allows any item to deconstruct inside the protective barrier, if placed on the ground and hit with the demolition hammer.  (Other hammers might do it too.) Roasted food items will "deconstruct" to the raw version.  Roasted meat becomes raw meat, roasted fruit becomes berries (elderberries when I tried it), and so on. A pole will "deconstruct" and become a stick.  Rope will become grass.  Leather will become boar hide.  Cloth will become 3 yarn.  Yarn will become flax. Tools will deconstruct to the exact materials used to create them. Screenshots:   If you try this with a stack, it will return the raw form of only 1 of the items and destroy the rest.   I don't think the deconstruct ability is meant to be used for this.