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[YomToxic]

Stop me if you've seen this, but do you often end up with stuff like this?



Yes, there's a complete reproduction of the object it's supposed to be on it.

[Witty]

This is actually very common.

[NAV]

Happens all the time.

Its much more awesome when you get two artifacts with pictures of each other.

[mnjiman]

I like it when a Dwarf is making the object, and describes him making the object itself... while the object itself is describing about how its about the dwarf making itself. Stuff like that is more rare.

[Xazo-Tak]

Still far from as impressive as planepacked, which has 73 self references.

Happens all the time.

Its much more awesome when you get two artifacts with pictures of each other.

How in Armok's multiverse can that happen?

[YomToxic]

Still far from as impressive as planepacked, which has 73 self references.

Happens all the time.

Its much more awesome when you get two artifacts with pictures of each other.

How in Armok's multiverse can that happen?

Looks like I have a ways to go, eh?

Okay, challenge accepted.

[Quietust]

Its much more awesome when you get two artifacts with pictures of each other.

How in Armok's multiverse can that happen?

Art image decorations are not generated in full detail until you actually view them (as I recall, this was done to reduce lag during worldgen when it was creating large numbers of item decorations), and they draw from all valid targets without regard to the time they were created, so it's possible for an art image to depict a future event if you don't look at it right away (e.g. if the art image is created in year 100 and you don't view it until year 102, it might end up depicting an event from year 101).

Engraved walls and floors are not subject to this behavior, though, since it needs to know what the image depicts in order to decide what tile to display.

[Kamamura]

Its much more awesome when you get two artifacts with pictures of each other.

How in Armok's multiverse can that happen?

The answer is simple - ambidextrous smiths. They create both artifacts simultaneously.