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[Pinstar]

The display pedestal would be a furniture item and could be made out of wood, stone, metal or glass. It would be treated like a statue in terms of both movement blocking, and room valuation considerations.

Once constructed, you could assign a single specific item to it in a manner similar to assigning an animal to a cage.
A hauler would then bring that item and place it on the pedestal. The pedestal's room value would then become its base value + the value of the item stored on top.

Further... you could order the display pedestal to be engraved. This would not only further enhance the value of the item...the engraving would specifically be about the item.

Thieves would be especially attracted to pedestals and if they are able to approach them, they would be able to remove the item. Tantruming dwarves would be prone to knocking items off of pedestals too. A building destroyer could destroy a pedestal and cause the stored item to fall to the ground. If 4/7 water or magma touched the pedestal, the item would be swept into the water or magma with the flow. You could also instruct your dwarves to remove items from the pedestal. Only one item could be stored at a time.


The pedestal could also be used as a sort of pressure plate. When fed a mechanism and linked to other items, it would act as a lever...sending a signal when an item was placed onto it, and sending another one when an item is removed from it...allowing for some indiana jones style traps.

Lastly, it would finally let you make use of those previously useless artifact crafts by letting them lend their value to a room by way of the pedestal. That said, anything that is not an animal or a container could be put on display. Items with titles would display their titles on the stand. Weapons with kills would display the kill list. The Pedestal would also display who made the item (if manufactured in the fort) or who was slain to win the item (If obtained from a foe).

The pedestal would count the item it contains for the purposes of checking for material preferences and generating happy thoughts.

[assasin]

Another idea could be to have certain pieces of furniture be tagged with a [DISPLAY] tag. That way any piece of furniture which can have an object in open view to the room could be used in such a fashion.

[Solarius Scorch]

I absolutely love the idea! I also giggled a little at that:

The pedestal could also be used as a sort of pressure plate. When fed a mechanism and linked to other items, it would act as a lever...sending a signal when an item was placed onto it, and sending another one when an item is removed from it...allowing for some indiana jones style traps.

Seeing as you may inadvertently tell your dwarves to remove item from a trapped pedestal... Also, tantrum dwarves knocking rigged pedestals over.

Still, the best thing about this request is providing a function to artefacts like crowns or belts. Plus it seems really dwarfy.

[Footkerchief]

As shown by a search for the thread title, this is suggested very frequently, including the Indiana Jones aspect.