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LuuBluum

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Confiscate Stolen Goods
« on: November 07, 2021, 08:34:25 pm »
This one remains a bit of a mystery to me at the moment. Let's say that some visitor conspires to have one of my dwarves steal some artifact, and succeeds. Well, mostly succeeds; I still arrest them over the theft before they leave with the artifact. However, now they're sitting in a jail cell holding the artifact.

How do I actually get it back from them?
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LuuBluum

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Re: Confiscate Stolen Goods
« Reply #1 on: November 07, 2021, 08:47:02 pm »
Notably, sending my guards in to mercilessly slaughter the offenders worked wonders. Is there a way to do this without... y'know, that?
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Re: Confiscate Stolen Goods
« Reply #2 on: November 07, 2021, 10:40:26 pm »
I would also like to know if there's a way to recover the artifact without covering it in blood, so to speak.

Perhaps something silly with water could be done - but it'd be far better if we could designate it to be dumped or something, just to remove it from the offender.
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Re: Confiscate Stolen Goods
« Reply #3 on: November 08, 2021, 05:31:52 am »
No, this is broken (like most of the Villains stuff).

If you're using DFHack you should be able to mark it for dumping, but vanilla DF doesn't permit you to dump mark artifacts, so vanilla players are screwed.

It's also possible to teleport the item away using DFHack, but that should be done with some care, as you should also remove the references the thief has to the item, the reference the item has, if there is one, and adjust flags on the item so it's not marked as being in an inventory/container, and possibly other flags.
It ought to be possible to make a script that recovers artifacts (in which case it probably shouldn't end up at the feet of the thief, as I'd expect the thief's next action to be to steal it again, whenever possible).
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LuuBluum

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Re: Confiscate Stolen Goods
« Reply #4 on: November 08, 2021, 07:16:03 am »
Ah, a shame. Well, the guards could use the live-target practice.
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Re: Confiscate Stolen Goods
« Reply #5 on: November 08, 2021, 09:15:24 am »
In another thread I suggested trying to assign the artifact to a Display Case or Pedestal and it was successful - if your thief is in a Cage, you might want to try that.
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Re: Confiscate Stolen Goods
« Reply #6 on: November 08, 2021, 11:23:37 am »
I think that only works if they're in a cage; I lost the option to display the artifact (wasn't showing up on the list) when they were merely held by a restraint.
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