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[olopi]

Worst: Phillitye, with gems decorated quern

[Naryar]

Worst: Phillitye, with gems decorated quern

this is actually very useful for happy thoughts.

[Valdrax]

Worst:  In one fortress, I had not made any effort to set up defenses centered around marksdwarves.  Why should I?  I was on an island and had no external threats, and HFS doesn't care much about bolts AFAIK. 

So, naturally, I got something like 5 crossbow makers as migrants, 3 of which grabbed strange moods, two of which created artifact bows.  No ammo for them.  No way of getting ammo for them.  Just 2 crappy bludgeoning sticks.

I hate those bows even more than every basalt earring I've ever made.

Best:  Tie between a nickel silver mace and a golden table.  I put my baron's office in a closet with that table, and he was happy as could be.

[wanzerm23]

best: a wooden crossbow.

worst: a single copper shoe.  You'd think they would at least make a pair.

[kaijyuu]

Doesn't look like it's been mentioned yet, but...

Worst: Leather Shield (Gave it to crossbow dwarf it lasted all of 3 seconds)

Any artifact shield > any masterwork shield. Material is utterly irrelevant for its defensive properties, so if you care about your dwarves living, give them the shield.

Material only matters for the bash effect and speed. Higher weight = better bash attacks, lower weight = faster speed. Up to you which matters more, but defense trumps both for me. IMO you got the best possible artifact type for leather.

[Michaelsoftman]

Best would have to be one fort I ran about 2 years ago.  I had 3 armorers all go into moods, and they all made candy armor.  A helm, breastplate, and one boot.  And then my military leader equipped them all and he was pretty much invincible.

Worst I'd have to say is any type of earring / craft that is basically useless.

[Yaotzin]

Crafts are obviously worst, since they're quite simply useless. Unless you want your fort value as high as possible, but there are easy ways to do that anyway.

I think I most like any artifact that I can build somewhere often used. Doors, floor hatches, millstones, that sort of thing.

Artifact weapons and armor are nice, but they're ALWAYS a silver sword or a candy warhammer or one single steel boot or something. Too annoying :p

[Rominus]

My favorite recently is a zinc sarcophagus, covered in three types of gems.  Best part though is it got me a legendary blacksmith who I now have churning out brass statues worth 2200 dwarf bucks a piece (and covered in fort history: 'The image refers to the return from the dead of Urist McKilledByWeregoat to haunt Solozlogem in late autrumn 252!)  Put those in all the high traffic areas of my fort, and happiness is set!

Not to mention I now have an awesome tomb set up for whoever I decide deserves it.

[agatharchides]

In my current fort it would be the galena bed decorated with emeralds and diamonds worth about 135000. Though the rock crystal statue of the founding of the fort isn't so bad either. Probably the worst artifacts are the usual wooden craft crap, but the most frustrating is when my only weaponsmith got a possession. So close and yet so far.

[Maxmurder]

Urist McGreatBowyer has been possesed!
Urist McGreatBowyer has clamed a Bowyers workshop!
Urist McGreatBowyer has begun a misterious construction!
Urist McGreatBowyer has created "Derp Imuseless" a wooden blowgun!

...and thats when he met the magma...

[Loud Whispers]

Best : Jade Portal / Adamantine Crossbow
Worst : Pig tail fiber earring

[bombzero]

Urist McGreatBowyer has been possesed!
Urist McGreatBowyer has clamed a Bowyers workshop!
Urist McGreatBowyer has begun a misterious construction!
Urist McGreatBowyer has created "Derp Imuseless" a wooden blowgun!

...and thats when he met the magma...

its ok, just mod your dwarves to use blowguns!

[eataTREE]

its ok, just mod your dwarves to use blowguns!

Modding is only required to add blowguns to the list of things that can be made in the bowyer's workshop. If you already have a blowgun in your fort, you can assign it to a military dwarf and they will pick it up and try to use it same as any other weapon. Of course if you don't also have some blowgun darts they will only be able to use it as a bludgeon. Have you performed genocidal extermination upon your local tribe of subterranean animal people yet? They often have some.

[bombzero]

no, but i did allow dwarves to make blowdarts once, added a very basic poisen ammo. never really got far with it though.

[T-Mick]

Best  was a clay-stone statue with some gems and wood spikes.  Kept the whole fortress happy, even after many deaths and tragedies.  Worst was a lead boot.  Just one. Not usable, not build-able. Only benefit was the legendary armor smith that came out.