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[Spinal_Taper]

[slothen]

because tin was closest to him and you didn't use a burrow to force him to make something awesome

[wierd]

Perhaps he didn't like the "PING!" Sound that steel and iron hammers make, and instead wanted a "plunk!" Hammer?

Perhaps he likes to induce chemical poisoning in his victims as well as blunt force trauma?

Is it really possible to understand why dwarves do the things they do?

[Llamainaspitfire]

Because tin is awesome.

[kaijyuu]

At least it's not adamantine.

[caddybear]

It's even better when you forbid the other workshops and send him to the artifact creation area(tm) and he makes a candy warhammer. Some people deserve getting beaten to death with their own artifacts.

[Sphalerite]

Thikut has been happy lately.  He successfully trolled his overseer.

[simonthedwarf]

You can forbid items inside the workshop (show items in workshops: t) that they gather for the mood if you dislike the material. That way you can have like 2-3 tiles of awesome material bar stockpiles next to your smith. The moody dwarf will go gather new ones.
 
Though sometimes you can have bad luck and they only use like 1 or 2 bars or the material (you cant stop him when he has started building) you want them to use is far away from the workshop, but this is bad planning in its own.

One strange thing that happened during my armorsmith mood was that he only used 1 adamintine wafer to make a breastplate.. normally its six. I was worried he was making a single boot or a gauntlet, and then he churns out a 900 000 ¤ breastplate. It's description is lame though, only says its studded with adamantine.

[Ubiq]

Was it your first artifact for that fort? Those have a tendency to be on the lean side.

[GhostDwemer]

Give it to your hammerer.

[Girlinhat]

He does it to help his overseer understand how to crop and resize pictures.

[Sus]

He does it to help his overseer understand how to crop and resize pictures.

Textbook example of sarcasm. +1 «*giant cave spider silk sock*» to you, ma'am.

Also, I'll see the OP's tin hammer and raise a candy fluff earring.
The hammer, at least, can be mounted in a weapon trap in a busy location to give happy thoughts to all the Urists toiling away on their daily quota of  -granite piccolo-s and whatnot. Candy artifact crafts, on the other hand, are the epitome of useless.

[Loud Whispers]

He does it to help his overseer understand how to crop and resize pictures.

Textbook example of sarcasm. +1 «*giant cave spider silk sock*» to you, ma'am.

...That's not sarcasm :d

On the bright side, I imagine the sound produced by the tin hammer striking say... A bronze statue would be very loud. Might even be, a magical statute.

[simonthedwarf]

Mmm my dwarf recruits found 4 fleshballs they can whip for all eternity.

[Absentia]

Any artifact you can build into something for happy thoughts and room value is a good one. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to store my fourth artifact toy.