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[Chaia]

My last artifact was an puppy dog bone pick..
How well does it work in battle? And since when you are able to make weapons out of bones?
(Vanilla Dorf-Fortress)

[Hurize]

Most bone stoof sucks ingame

[Loud Whispers]

How well does it work in battle? And since when you are able to make weapons out of bones?

1. Science
2. A long while

[Quietust]

How well does it work in battle? And since when you are able to make weapons out of bones?

1. Not very well.
2. Since the introduction of strange moods (i.e. always). Note that bone is the only non-metal material that moody dwarves can make into melee weapons.

[Callista]

It *is* a pick, though. Those are always useful; it's not a complete loss.

Bone weapons are light and don't hold much of an edge. They're good for a challenge, like when you're running a fort without metal. The one exception is a bone crossbow. A masterwork bone crossbow will pincushion a goblin just as well as a masterwork steel one will. They don't work very well when your dwarves run out of ammo and start bashing the enemy with them, but that can be a bonus if you give them to your fortress guard.

[hjd_uk]

Will Leaving a masterful object in the Dining-Room and fobidding it give happy thoughts to passing Dwarves ( in lieu of having Pedastals / 'Display-Cases' ).

[Loud Whispers]

Will Leaving a masterful object in the Dining-Room and fobidding it give happy thoughts to passing Dwarves ( in lieu of having Pedastals / 'Display-Cases' ).

Putting it in a weapon trap would work

[Valtam]

Will Leaving a masterful object in the Dining-Room and fobidding it give happy thoughts to passing Dwarves ( in lieu of having Pedastals / 'Display-Cases' ).

I'm afraid this can only be done purposefully with artifact buildings, via the usual (b) command.
Also I might be wrong, but forbiding an item anywhere in the map just would do that, disallowing touching, watching or interacting with something in any way, so no thoughts could be get from it.

EDIT: Ninja'd and rightfully refuted by the above response.

[Mura]

You could have someone mine with it; bone is quite light, so it would allow for swift movement.

I guess the real question is, how high is its value?