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[malimbar04]

Is it me, or do all the good artifacts happen on a possession? It's as if the game wants to taunt you with a great piece of kit, but deny you the means to make more.

Just you. I get most of my most useful artifacts via fey moods. My best is probably steel weapons (I've had a mace once, a sword another time, and a speer once too). Mechanisms are high on my list though.

[flabort]

Lucky you. My most useful artifact to date is a simple weapon RACK. Which, I have to say, is not useful at all.

[krenshala]

I had an artifact iron bucket, followed by an artifact copper chain.  I was just lacking a masterwork stone block to make the perfect well for a fortress common area.  As it was, anyone that got water from that well was ecstatic.

[The Scout]

I got an artifact glass portal. Only artifact that wasn't a figurine or other stupid things.

[GuesssWho]

Most useful so far:

[AfellowDwarf]

My most usefull artifact was a horse-bone crossbow. Sadly, I was just playing to mess with an aquifier at the time and didn't get any use out of it.

[Cobbler89]

I had a weaponsmith make me a steel spear, which I displayed in my dining hall via weapon trap to make dinners that much more enjoyable. Okay, that doesn't sound very useful.

But! A dragon came unto my, stumbled into my *Serrated Green Glass Disc* hallway, lost all it's teeth, got its scales dented, received a concussion, and started writhing in agony on the floor. In the only entrance/exit to my fort. Then came goblins, which the dragon promptly vaporized. Then a were-man (I forget which variety) tried to attack, but suffered the same result.

I realized that my fortress was in need of a champion if it was to survive with such a fearsome (albeit severely damaged) enemy at the gates. So I ordered the great spear taken down and given to the most talented spearwielder among my dwarves and sent him alone to face the waiting beast. He snuck up on the lizard in its sleep and, after a few false starts, managed to skewer his foe through the brain.

And thus the tale of the famous spear and it's anonymous bearer is told.

The thing saves you from everything else that tries to get you, and you kill it?

If you couldn't tame it, you should at least have weaponised it -- devise a means for it to guard your entrance at all times except when you specifically want dwarves to get out, or create an alternate entrance that's twice as long but put a restricted traffic zone on the short entrance so gobbos and the like try to get past the dragon but dwarves don't, or something. There's gotta be something. I mean seriously, a dragon inadvertantly guarding your fort?

Ah, well, I'm probably just jealous it didn't happen to me.

[Dorten]

Mine was an iron splint.

Not much more to say on the matter, though.

[strongrudder]

Not too long ago, I had a weaponsmith go fey and make me a lovely gold hammer, with an image of an elf getting killed by a cyclops on it. It's my fort's most prized possession, carried by the leader of my hammer squad.

The only other really useful artifact I've had was in 31.06 or so - a dog bone door. Trolls and ogres could only stand and stare in awe at its impenetrable might.