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[moghopper]

Managed to get an artifact throne made entirely of bone. Any recommendations on how to use it?

I was thinking of putting it on a massive tower surrounded by magma a corpses.

[Staldur]

That would be awesome at the top of an dark tower, however we have to think of this in more practical terms. This should be built overlooking your Trade Depot, which is amidst cages filled with ferocious animals and the bones of elv...er... your enemies strewn about the place.

I think you'd get a much better deal your trading that -Felsite toy hammer- in exchange for all the jewels the humans brought.

[Lexender]

It may be considered a bug abuse, but I recently have started to build all my valuable artifact furniture in the middle of one room, that will act as overlapping communal bedroom/dining hall/noble study, etc. That way, every room is royal, everybody's happy, and you cut down on micro a whole lot.

If you have an artistic urge to fulfill, magma+dead bodies+chained prisoners is generally a good idea.

[anomaly]

it's not bug abuse because the room value is divided amongst everyone who shares ownership.  if that value is still high enough to give everyone royal rooms, then so be it.

[Mook]

The only logical choice is to mod skulls/bones into a building material, and rename magma to blood (normal magma works just as well).  It would also be a good idea to build this in the middle of a battlefield, and to not clean up after several years worth of goblin ambushes.

"Within the haunted battlefield, atop the tower of skulls, upon a throne of bone, sits Urist the Lye Maker."

Alternately, make a human fortress using a civ with a master of bladed weapons as the ruler.  Since humans operate under a military dictatorship, you can rename the ruler Conan when he arrives.  Only he is fit to sit upon the bone throne.

[Wolfius]

Remember, you can specify storage plots to only contain one specific type of item, and to use zero containers.

I like to use this to line my interior roads(etc.) with skull totems.

[Spike GT]

It may be considered a bug abuse, but I recently have started to build all my valuable artifact furniture in the middle of one room, that will act as overlapping communal bedroom/dining hall/noble study, etc. That way, every room is royal, everybody's happy, and you cut down on micro a whole lot.

Yeah, but it'd be kind of scary if you did get into a tantrum spiral, what with lots of tantrums resulting in destroyed artifacts in the common room.

[moghopper]

I think I should have mentioned this:

The throne is made of TOAD bones

Only Toady may sit upon it

[Footkerchief]

I think I should have mentioned this:

The throne is made of TOAD bones

Only Toady may sit upon it

Aha, you just outed yourself as an strange-mood-item-forbidding type.

[DennyTom]

I think I should have mentioned this:

The throne is made of TOAD bones

Only Toady may sit upon it

What? Thats like "Welcome my king! Here, sit on this legendary throne I made you from bones of your daughter and your uncle Bob!"

[moghopper]

I think I should have mentioned this:

The throne is made of TOAD bones

Only Toady may sit upon it

What? Thats like "Welcome my king! Here, sit on this legendary throne I made you from bones of your daughter and your uncle Bob!"

I see no problem with that. Its totally dwarfy

[sev]

it's not bug abuse because the room value is divided amongst everyone who shares ownership.  if that value is still high enough to give everyone royal rooms, then so be it.

What I've seen is that if a single bedroom is worth $roomvalue, if I put a second bed into it and make that an overlapping bedroom, each bedroom becomes worth $roomvalue/4.  If I put a third bed into it and make that yet another overlapping bedroom, I now have three bedrooms each worth $roomvalue/4.

From this I theorise that we have "private room" which has four times the value of "shared room", no matter how many dwarves share the latter.

Since it seems a little exploit-y to me to have ten dwarves crammed into a room just as happy as two, I put my non-legendary dwarves two to a room (once the economy starts) and the dwarves who still can't afford ☼11 for a shared 3x3 room with rough walls and nothing in it? They can go sleep in the barracks.

This does have the amusing side-effect of putting all my wrestlers into rooms and peasants into the barracks.

And with regards to the OP, I'd use the artifact chair to make a spectacular office for one of those useful appointees that doesn't require anything more than a meager office.  Because, really, they're the useful ones.  And the nobles who envy my Captain of the Guard's fancy chair or table? They can go cry in their perfectly adequate quarters.  But I'm like that.