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[katana]

Ok, since artifacts can be made of ANYTHING apparently, is a plump helmet sword possible?

[Imminent]

I don't believe so. I'm pretty sure that artifacts can only be constructed from viable material types for the item that specific artifact is.

In other words an artifact sword can be made out of anything a normal sword could be made out of. Same goes for artifact statues/floor grates/etc.

[Sphalerite]

Artifacts can be made from materials which the item the artifact is cannot normally be made from.  For example, a strange mood can produce a stone bed or a glass barrel, which normally cannot be made.

However, the material a mood uses is determined by the skill picked for the mood.  A glass barrel will be made by a glassmaker, a stone bed by a mason.  There is no skill for crafting things out of plump helmets, unless you count brewing or cooking, but brewing and cooking are not moodable skills.

[tolkafox]

They can also make things that you normally can't, for instance an artifact cowleather turban studded with limestone and spiked with sapphire.

[CapnUrist]

Artifacts can be made out of any building material. That means any stone (boulders or blocks), metal, wood, cloth, glass, leather, bone and other butchering by-products (skulls, hooves, horns, teeth, etc.). It also ignores any economic stone designation, so a moody dwarf will gladly grab a chunk of bituminous coal to carve into a useless amulet, with hanging rings of your last bit of flux stone, for you to admire. Food, drink, sand bags, existing furniture or finished goods, and other objects not involved in the building process, however, are never subject to being claimed for a mood.

[shmelse]

you can see the list of possible dwarf requests during a mood here: http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/DF2010:Strange_mood#Demands

there's no food on the list.  you can definitely get things made out of a material that's not normally possible (my current fortress has 2 artifact native aluminum beds) but you can't get anything that's not listed; a moody dwarf would never ask for it. 

[TolyK]

Ok, since artifacts can be made of ANYTHING apparently, is a plump helmet sword possible?

I had one of those.
But when I had modded in food blocks 

[fatherjimbo]

plump helmet sword

/giggle

[Darvi]

I'm trying to imagine a plump helmet....helmet.

How very meta.

[TolyK]

no really I made that as a plant>metal block conversion to make special fort... I lol'd at that.