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[G-Flex]

A lead boot adorned with none of the things.

Can't happen. Artifacts always get at least one free decoration.

[Loud Whispers]

Spoiler: Dabbling Appraisal (click to show/hide)

shirt (pig tail fiber), vest (pig tail fiber), tunic (cave spider silk), glove (cave spider silk)

Not bad

quiver (giant gray langur leather)

Not bad, but more 'meh'

bracelet (alder wood), scepter (dolomite), amulet (cacao wood), bracelet (dolomite), mug (siltstone), earring (cow bone), trumpet (giant gray langur bone), earring (tetrahedrite), earring (tunnel tube wood)

Herpderpepderp

mechanism (dolomite)

Boss mechanism

armor stand (copper)

Good

door (green glass)

GODLY

statue (adamantine)

Legendary Dining room

armor stand (bauxite), bed (bauxite)

Baux

box (green glass)

Meh

spear (adamantine)

Yeessssssssss, the blood it will shed yesssssss.....

A lead boot adorned with none of the things.

Can't happen. Artifacts always get at least one free decoration.

You sure about that? I'd be surprised if there wasn't at least one non-decorated artifact out there

[G-Flex]

... Why? The game guarantees it. There would have to be some weird bug involved for an artifact to show up without decorations.

[krenshala]

It could be like my turtle shell bucklet adorned with spikes of turtleshell, or a perfect gem adorned with cabochons of that same gem, but all artifacts have a (usually minor) decoration from the base material.

[Man of Paper]

Most definitely was a bug that's happened to me multiple times then, though only in earlier versions so far. I could try to recreate it, but I have no idea what the situation was. I thought it was just a normal thing, so I didn't pay any mind to it.

[celem]

Bone i think.  Used to be some bone artifact bug where if bone was the base it ate all the deco.  Or something to that effect.  Fixed anyhow.

I've had buckets of these stupid rings and left gloves and crap.  Oh and a wooden bucket too.  Thankfully I have Display Cases so I can at least put them to work as goblinite lures.

Also the shield is meh but good for a marksdwarf mebbe, shield material does eventually play a role  For a buff melee dwarf you want a metal shield, it plays no effect in block properties but comes into play when using misc object user to shieldbash, a steel shield chips bones.

[krenshala]

I've had a maple shield crush a goblin skull, but in general I agree with you. (non-blue-)Metal shields are generally better from a bashing standpoint.

[Mageziya]

I don't get why peeps hate artifact floodgates and doors. They're indestructible, so they can be used for sensitive areas, as building destroyers cannot destroy them. Special exception being HFS, which, I THINK, is capable of deconstructing artifact stuff, but not destroying artifact stuff.

Correct me if I am wrong.

[G-Flex]

I don't get why peeps hate artifact floodgates and doors. They're indestructible, so they can be used for sensitive areas, as building destroyers cannot destroy them.

Er, how are they more indestructible than normal floodgates and doors? Sure, the item itself can't be destroyed, but can't building destroyers still wreck the building?

[Talvieno]

I don't get why peeps hate artifact floodgates and doors. They're indestructible, so they can be used for sensitive areas, as building destroyers cannot destroy them. Special exception being HFS, which, I THINK, is capable of deconstructing artifact stuff, but not destroying artifact stuff.

Correct me if I am wrong.

Building destroyers don't actually "destroy" doors and floodgates - they basically remove them from the hinges. Thus, they can deconstruct artifact furniture.


From my turn in Spearbreakers (succession fort):

7th Timber
Yep... Juunya is an idiot. She made somethin' totally worthless to us.

Why? Why would you make a bunch o' dwarves somethin' like this? Come on, after all, we don't make blow darts. It's hardly worth anything, too.

I honestly can't see how a blowgun could possibly be useful. Dwarves can't even make blowdarts for it.

ninja'd by G-Flex.

[Ubiq]

Artifact blowguns, while useless for combat,  can still be put into weapon traps and give a massive boost to room value and happy thoughts.

For truly useless artifacts, it's impossible to beat the crafted goods with a particular focus on instruments and toys.

[DerNachbar]

[...]
For truly useless artifacts, it's impossible to beat the crafted goods with a particular focus on instruments and toys.

I think children should have a need for toys and should also advance through their use. Surely an adamantine toy axe artifact would inspire the little beardling for his future career, giving him minor xp in axedorfing This way the long period of feeding useless mouths would be bearable without thoughts wandering into macabre territory Imagine your own kindergarten with a barracks, nobles quarter etc, schooling the buggers for their later life.

[oven_baked]

My recent fort has one which is just:
"This is an X. All craftdwarfship is of the highest quality."
I can't remember what it is because I want to ignore it.

[Ubiq]

I think children should have a need for toys and should also advance through their use. Surely an adamantine toy axe artifact would inspire the little beardling for his future career, giving him minor xp in axedorfing This way the long period of feeding useless mouths would be bearable without thoughts wandering into macabre territory Imagine your own kindergarten with a barracks, nobles quarter etc, schooling the buggers for their later life.

They will eventually, but as it currently stands, toys and instruments are the worst artifacts you can get.

The fact that they tend to be made out of the cheapest materials available just makes it worse.

[Hurize]

My Armorer claimed a metalworkshop
I just got a masterwork Bismuth Tiara
Fuck.