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[Vukytzar]

Hey all of you awsome !!FUN!! junkies, I am a new to df (spent last 2 months learning game) but I do know basics and I had so far few good fortresses. Still I have question about artifacts; in some of my games dorfs made a weird artifacts like artifact wooden bed or stone mug and those seem pretty usless to me. Whats your advice? How do you make use of them since you cant sell them?

[NJW2000]

IIRC, if flammable; set on fire, as they will not be destroyed but will burn infinitely. This can be used in random altars, traps, fiendish devices, etc.

[FantasticDorf]

Revel in the benefits that their value can bring.

Naturally for most pieces of furniture like that bed you mentioned, can raise the quality of a room (a bedroom fit for fussy monarch or nobleman)

Tables for instance create legendary dining rooms (big plus to happiness) and artifact weapons are immensely powerful. I know nothing of the effect of artifact toys on children and if there is a quality thing on that. Some dwarves just enjoy having them around to look at if they can be installed.

Also its just really good migrant and mega-beast bait when they eventually arrive to keep yourself active (don't work around it unless you want a small and boring fort forever) in addition to goblins (if the value doesn't draw them in, the migration population will)

[Codyo]

legendary furniture like doors, floodgates, and hatches can't be destroyed. So, use this to your advantage against building destroyers

[NJW2000]

Trade in a bin?

[PatrikLundell]

Nope. Artifacts are automatically removed from bins when you haul the bin to the trade depot.

[Vukytzar]

Thanks for answers! How do I place artifact bed in my majors quarters because I only can see willov and oak beds, I dont know how to select specificly artifact bed.

[miauw62]

In the menu where you select the type of bed to build, hit x to eXpand it. This allows you to place artifacts and a SPECIFIC bed (useful if you want to decorate a room with only masterwork or decorated items, for example, or to place a specific statue in a room so your god of life or w/e doesnt have a statue of a night troll dismembering somebody in their temple).
This works for most furniture.

Artifact beds are pretty useful, they're fairly valuable and make dwarves happy. Artifact clothing doesn't wear, and Artifact floodgates/hatches/etc are indestructible to building destroyers. Artifact flammable items will never burn out and can be used in clever traps.
You will, however, accumulate a large pile of useless artifact junk such as rings and totems and what have you. Many players mod in a special "display case" furniture that allows dwarves to get happy thoughts from passing artifact items.

[Bouchart]

In theory artifact rings, earrings etc. should be wearable now.  I've seen a dwarf drinking with an artifact wooden cup too.  Children should be able to play with artifact toys and dwarves should be able to play artifact instruments.

[Vukytzar]

So I can assign specific jewlery to my nobles? For example my artifact silver ring can be assigned to my major?

[Bouchart]

Jewelry is claimed by dwarves in the same manner as normal clothing items.  I don't know if any will claim artifact jewelry though.  I see no reason why not.

[Niddhoger]

Be careful with that artifact bed, as higher classes of nobles get pissy when a lower cost upstages him. Your Baron will throw a fit if the mayor has a better bedroom, for example. That artifact bed will be worth a small fortune, so just keep assigning it up as you get classier parasites. Otherwise you are going to have one hell of a time constantly having to upstate from an artifact bed.

BTW,we sent kidding on that never-burning thing. Sphelerite played with a burning artifact bucket, once. It evaporated all water in it. I think the dorfs trying to use the well were getting steam damage too.  You can force enemies to path over a burning bed for !FUN! You could drop them on top of it too. Booze is explodivelyflammable, don't let flaming dorfs into your stockpile >.>

[greycat]

Booze is explodivelyflammable, don't let flaming dorfs into your stockpile >.>

False.  Setting booze on fire will not cause it to explode, but exposing it to high temperatures will cause it to boil away.

[Vukytzar]

Thanks for help. I had to move artifact bed from my baron to majors room, it seems dorfs are quite sensitive about artifact stuff... I'm soooooo far away from understanding this game completely 

[Deboche]

One thing you can do to avoid useless artifacts is assign weaponsmith to all your dwarves and have them make weapon trap components on repeat which you afterwards melt so you can repeat the process. That way, most moods will be artifact weapons so leave good bars near the workshops - platinum if you want hammers or maces stronger than silver and steel for everything else, unless you have candy. If a dwarf grabs platinum and it doesn't end up being a hammer or mace, you can savescum until you get the desired weapon.