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Author Topic: [38c] Artifacts bound to their creation place?  (Read 443 times)

Alaern

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[38c] Artifacts bound to their creation place?
« on: March 31, 2008, 06:35:00 am »

An artifact raw adamantine mug was left lying in the workshop where it was created (no crafts stockpiles were ever created in this fort). I've abandoned the fort, came back as an adventurer, found that mug exactly where it was left, and took it. However, after <T>raveling away, the artifact disappeared from the backpack and returned to its workshop. Second attempt wasn't any different.
Throwing this item produced following results: it hit targeted spot and instantly teleported back home, only this time it was impossible to find it with "look" in both fortress (after reclaim) and adventure modes. Fortress mode, though, showed it as "item in building", but after deconstruction of the workshop cursed mug has disappeared entirely.

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Re: [38c] Artifacts bound to their creation place?
« Reply #1 on: March 31, 2008, 02:16:00 pm »

Hey, this happened to me too. I was sure I had picked up the artifact from the workshop, but later when I went to sell it, it wasn't with me. I just thought I had thrown a wolf with it or something, but this is what must have happened.

And other almost related thing. In the same fort there was an artifact weapon rack and armor stand, but because they were in use in my barracks, I couldn't pick them up.  :( So no entry in Legends screen (either from finding them or from the art).

Is it a bug that looking at items with pictures on them dont go to legends art unless they're picked up? (at least with artifacts it's like this.) And I would be happy if I didn't have to steal the artifact to know where it has gone.

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Re: [38c] Artifacts bound to their creation place?
« Reply #2 on: March 31, 2008, 08:58:00 pm »

I wonder if this is related to the artifact duplication bug.  When you took the mug, did you look in the workshop again?  Another copy might have been there, and it would have removed the reference from your inventory when it offloaded the site, most likely.  I've got a save with the duplication bug, so I might get it all sorted out if that's the case.
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Alaern

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Re: [38c] Artifacts bound to their creation place?
« Reply #3 on: April 01, 2008, 08:39:00 am »

Well, I'm not sure if it had been that way before its first teleportation, but now  in adventurer's mode (backuped save from before reclaiming) <look> shows that "mug's name" is lying in each of 9 tiles of workshop, and it can be picked up in any one. Picking it up does not cause it to disappear from list of <look> items on the spot, neither it prevents adventurer from picking mug over and over, although only one is shown to be present in the backpack.
Side note: none of the tiles actually has or had any graphic indication of having an adamantine mug on it.
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