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The "In the Works" column of the Trello lists a "Bake to Paint" tool for converting multiple sculpts into a single paint. The rationale for the resulting object being a paint is well known - there's no general solution for the problem of making a construction history for a single sculpt identical to the union of several sculpts.

But there are some cases with known solutions:

All of the edits in all of the sculpts are non-mirror-clipped adds - concatenate the construction histories of the sculpts in any order, converting any mirrored and / or kaleidoscoped adds in sculpts after the first sculpt to groups of single shape adds.
All of the edits in all but one of the sculpts are non-mirror-clipped adds - concatenate the construction histories of the sculpts, placing the history of the only sculpt with non-adds or mirror-clipped adds first, and converting any mirrored and / or kaleidoscoped adds in sculpts after the first sculpt to groups of single shape adds.

For sets of sculpts satisfying one of those conditions, there should be an option for the resulting object to be a sculpt - creating the construction history for the new sculpt has a known solution, so no need to warn the creator that the results might not be what they expect.

Perhaps the option should be there even for sets of sculpts that don't satisfy any of the conditions - but for those cases, the tool should display a warning of possible unexpected results.