Flesh to Stone

How would it be able to tell what you want though?

Correction.
>flesh to stone
>stone shape
>stone to flesh.
Craft stonework is a part of the stone shape spell.
There is a trap that does exactly this called the faceless angel. Party member is turned to stone and gets their face smoothed over. They suffocate and die if you don't stone work their face back before you. stone to flesh then. If you dick up the stonework roll their new face becomes an inert mass of useless flesh resembling a face and they still die

hmm...

This is exactly why I prefer the pathfinder ruling. Just fucking imagine this:

Get a big rock.
Polymorph Any Object the rock into a statue of an Elder Wyrm.
Stone to Flesh.
Animate.

Alternatively, you could do the same to the rest of the party by starting with Flesh to Stone.

>implying
Say you took a fat lady and made her skinny by removing part of her stomach, yeah? On stone to flesh, she's missing her gut. When you rearrange the mud that was someones face, those features are actually moving. resculpt someones face to be pretty and you could end up smearing lip-meat all across their face, and replacing their eyes with skin balls

>Flesh to Stone on the party's manly fighter
>Stonework them into a statue of an absolutely stunning woman
>Stone to Flesh

salty milk and coins.

Why does everyone think stone to flesh correctly figures out which parts you're intending to be made out of slightly different kinds of flesh. It'd be either homogeneous meat or it would remember from your FtS casting and any changes you made would've merely made them a hideous abomination

Why not just animate the stone wyrm?

Petrification is the lazy man's transformation.