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[trekkie5249]

 We've seen topics like best/worst or lamest artifacts ever, so now it's time for a thread about MOST useful artifacts ever. Post your most useful artifacts and why they are useful!
Remember, !!CAKE!!

[McMagma]

My first artifact in my current fort:

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My militia commander love his new beret 

[oven_baked]

Common Furniture; chairs, tables, statues even chairs or mechanisms (use in wells), simply cause they can be built in a room and make dwarfs happy.
Next is weapons and armor made of sensible materials.

[trekkie5249]

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My first artifact in my current fort:

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My militia commander love his new beret 

Yes, but how USEFUL is it?

[Veylon]

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.

[CaptainLambcake]

furniture for my nobles, armor for the military

[Valikdu]

The first artifact in the test fort I'm running now was a door.

It's made of rough wood (and menaces with spikes of rough wood), so it's less valueable than metal masterworks (or even fair-wood masterworks), but it's indestructible! YEAH!

[Xantalos]

Not sure if adventurer mode items count, but anyhow:
My copper pick now has a metric shit-ton of decorations on it and has felled Bronze Collosii. It can pretty much one-shot anything, so it's very useful.

[Wrex]

An Artifact lead mace, decorated with graven images of the last elf burning to death in a pool of his own boiling blood. Covered in rings of slade, and spikes of adamantine.

[Gavakis]

An Artifact lead mace, decorated with graven images of the last elf burning to death in a pool of his own boiling blood. Covered in rings of slade, and spikes of adamantine.

piks or it did not happen

[MasterShizzle]

Was lucky enough once to snag an artifact steel breastplate. Gave it to my legendary wrestler, gobbos invade, hilarity ensues.

[Skorpion]

I've had a useless useful artifact. That SORT OF counts, right?

See, it was a leather quiver. However, it was sort of cursed. The first wielder ended up dodging into the lava moat while battling goblins. The thing caught fire and smoked for a year or two, until I was able to fish it out.
Then, a few years later, I uncorked the clown car. Clowns of Fire, this being 40d. I beat them off (quit sniggering), at the cost of most of the champions. I had to basically seal it all off again to avoid a tantrum spiral after they were dead, as well.
Now, when I re-opened the mines after stabilising, I nearly had another tantrum spiral from the smoke. Guess what? Someone had caught fire while holding the quiver, and I had to have it put out with a pond zone. Along with a couple of other flammable artifacts that'd gone up elsewhere.

The most flat-out useful artifact was a donkey-bone bin on a map with no wood. That was hauled to the depot and back SO MANY TIMES.

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

Current fort: First Artifact

A copper crossbow that menaces with spikes of copper.  Got it in a possession, though.

[MasterShizzle]

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.

[Tirion]

Adamantine axe. Nuff said.