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[Thisfox]

Ever since I started chaining animals within an overlap of the pedestal/display case where the artifacts were housed, I had no more problems with thieves. A few overlapping dogs, or monkeys, or bears, or anything really. Preferably tamed animals as we had an incident with a regressing no-longer-tame crocodile on a chain which led to a few one-handed urists, but the artifact would theoretically remain safe in that situation... Just spattered with blood, but that's not really an issue.

[DollMaker]

Anyhow, after failing to find any existing and working solutions, whether they do exist or not, I ended up writing my own script for this. The idea was to conveniently find and drop artifacts to the ground. Works like a charm for me, so far. I will share it here, so maybe it can be useful to someone else too. For dropping the items, it uses moveToGround call which is relatively common in various DFHack scripts, so I suppose it should not be too dangerous save corruption-wise. That being said, can't have too many save backups .

https://pastebin.com/LzuQLe0V (dropartifact.lua)

Thank you so much for this script. It worked like a charm on a zombie visitor that tried to get away with one of my artifacts. He ended up in jail, but didn't want to give back my masterful wooden cup encrusted with giant squirrel leather and cherry opals. I really didn't want to kill him and tried to find a way to get the cup back, but no matter what I did, it didn't work. Until I tried your script. I wish they would include in in the dfhack release. Thank you