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[Nilbert]

Hello all!

So my fort is getting old and my old soldiers are going to meet Armok from old age.  Not really dwarfy, but they are too tough to get slaughtered by goblins perish in battle.  I also have been adding all my youngin' dwarves into preteens only different squads and have them continuously train.  What has happened is that everyone, 15 to 150 year olds, have named their weapons and shields (sad for the 15 year olds who haven't even seen a goblin, except for the mayor, but she is locked up and viewings are only through iron bars).  I now have countless masterpiece and high quality shields and weapons that are starting to accumulate in my artifacts stockpile.  So far I have not been assigning these weapons to new twelve year old recruits (they really don't deserve an artifact after they just finished playing with a mini-forge) and I have not placed weapon racks and armor stands in the tombs so that they reside with their original owners (not sure if that even works if the rack/stand is placed after burial).  But, so as to keep FPS down, I also work to eliminate needless junk always.  I am seeing the accumulation of artifact weapons as becoming a problem.

Any thoughts and suggestions?  What do you do in your fort or has this ever been a problem?

[Thisfox]

I've modded in a "display cabinet" and use it to have a museum, either in the rooms of a noble who wants a bit more wealth, or in the library, or wherever dorfs might walk past. It can contain any artifactesque item, or any item at all, but I have been known to have a room full of named shields, for example.

[Nilbert]

Display cabinets = awesome.

I think I read a while back that the Great Toady has worked on adding display cabinets for the next version.  Hope this is true as I'd love to have one with all the artifact toys in it and put it in the children's barracks.  You can look, but you can't constantly walk half away across the fortress to retrieve an artifact toy, walk to miscellaneous part of fort, play with it, return it, and repeat over and over again touch!

[Pirate Santa]

Yeah we're also getting pedestals next version, so you can go truly crazy with the museums.

Anyone have any tips on the most reliable way to decapitate goblins? I want a hall of skulls.

[Thisfox]

You could use a variant of this method for removing dwarf limbs.
...Also, fight the bastards with slicey weapons, because if you use a mace, it will damage whatever it hits.

[Nilbert]

My axelords have a tendency to always finish the job with a head cleave.  So... I'd say axes, lots of 'em.

[StagnantSoul]

Aye axelords are rather head crazy. If you want skulls get two of them, one to watch the other's back.

[muldrake]

My axelords have a tendency to always finish the job with a head cleave.  So... I'd say axes, lots of 'em.

Any time I read combat logs, master axe dwarves almost always chop off something every time they hit.  They're terrifying.  Even Forgotten Beasts made of anything other than steel are afraid of them.  And when they aren't, they're soon in tiny pieces.

[Ironfang]

A single woodcutter was able to do what 30 dwarves were unable to do against an aluminum forgotten beast.

Axes and Warhammers are your friends.

[steel jackal]

i just burry named equipment with their master, a warrior should be buried with his equipment.

however, if i ever decide to do a multi-generation fort like archcrystal i might make a museum where belongings of some of the most important dwarves in my fort get stored

[Derro]

however, if i ever decide to do a multi-generation fort like archcrystal i might make a museum where belongings of some of the most important dwarves in my fort get stored

This is one of the reasons why I'm so looking forward to display cases as a part of official DF.

[muldrake]

It would be nice to have rules of inheritance so your dwarves' descendants would inherit important items like named weapons from generation to generation.