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[Crossroads Inc.]

Actually I have often thought of a "Vault" stockpile, a catch all for any item over a certain value.. Say any Masterwork piece, weather furniture, wepon, etc, would go in a "vault" stockpile. And obviouslly yould adjust the settings like other stockpiles, so limiting it to just certain items or values, say '1000"dwarf bucks or 10,000 dwarfbucks.

[Lord Shonus]

You can do that with custom stockpiles, except for limiting by dwarfbuck value.

[HatfieldCW]

I can't find it now, but wasn't there a clever trick for preserving artifact gear through abandonment?  Something like a one-tile room that you trick your ultra-geared champion into, kill him, and then seal the room up in such a way that an adventurer can get to it to loot his corpse?  Never tried it myself, since I feel uncomfortable using artifact gear as an adventurer, so I just fill a stockpile with eight copies of masterwork stuff and then I've got a good chance of finding at least a few of them in the ruins.

[Greiger]

My vaults are typically rooms with a stockpile set to accept everything artifact(all other stockpiles don't accept artifacts) locked with an iron, steel, or adamantine door, behind a raising drawbridge with all the surrounding rock, including a z-level above and below, removed and replaced by solid iron or steel walls.  War dogs are chained up outside.

The levers to open the vault are in the treasurer's office.

I would like to see a kobold get into THAT! (yes I had a kobold steal an artifact unnoticed from a typical locked-door vault in the past, artifact iron sword to boot.)

As for keeping an artifact weapon or armor available after abandon, the only way I noticed so far is to give the artifact to a champion, then abandon and fight the champion for the weapon when you find the group in adventure mode.  If you can it would be best to somehow cripple him to ease the process of relieving him of your artifact before abandoning, but that is a risky prospect.

Also it used to be that weaponmasters wouldn't get much wrestling skill and you could just suddenly grab onto the item and wrestle it out of their possession, without much difficulty.  But my weaponmasters seem to gain wrestling skill at about the same rate as their weapon skill now, so I don't think it would work as well anymore. 

But it might still help against an artifact weapon wielding weaponmaster. Grab his weapon with an off hand so he can't Ginsu you with it and hope for the best.

[HAMMERMILL]

You can store stuff for adventurers just by putting everything into a room and locking the door.

Not exactly sure the limits of it, I don't think locking the front door of the fortress will cause everything to be left untouched, but stuff in smaller, dead-end rooms behind locked doors doesn't get moved around.

So, thats kind of like cracking the vault full of treasures since you have to kick down the doors or pick the locks to access them. Enable the fortress traps and trap the entrance to the locked room if you feel like sending waves of human lashers down there.

[LegoLord]

Note that if you die while using an artifact in adventure mode, you can simply go back to the fort with the next adventurer to get it back - for some reason they always return to the fort.

[darkflagrance]

You can store stuff for adventurers just by putting everything into a room and locking the door.

Not exactly sure the limits of it, I don't think locking the front door of the fortress will cause everything to be left untouched, but stuff in smaller, dead-end rooms behind locked doors doesn't get moved around.

So, thats kind of like cracking the vault full of treasures since you have to kick down the doors or pick the locks to access them. Enable the fortress traps and trap the entrance to the locked room if you feel like sending waves of human lashers down there.

Despite what the init file would have you believe, traps and pressure plates do not work in adventure mode.

But it's good to know you don't always have to weigh your adamantine down with lead bars...

[Firnagzen]

I thought traps do but plates don't? I remember that getting stuck in a cage trap put you in an unwinnable position?

[zwei]

I just make stockpile with everything enabled that only allows artifact quality.

Maze/Traps/Docrated room/chained drago guard depending on mood and fortress style

[Skorpion]

Not exactly sure the limits of it, I don't think locking the front door of the fortress will cause everything to be left untouched, but stuff in smaller, dead-end rooms behind locked doors doesn't get moved around.

Excellent. I'll have to put valuable walls and traps up around the stockpile, then.

[Lord Shonus]

Note that you can sell your old artifacts if you find one on a reclaim.