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[Bullion]

Zefon Kolamkin, Gem Setter cancels Store Item in Barrel: Taken by mood.
Zefon Kolamkin, Gem Setter is taken by a fey mood!
Zefon Kolamkin has claimed a Jeweler's Workshop.
Zefon Kolamkin has begun a mysterious construction!
Zefon Kolamkin, Gem Setter has created Bimushil Omer —st, a perfect Yellow jasper!
Zefon Kolamkin, Gem Setter is more experienced.

"this object menaces with spikes of Yellow Jasper"

Bimushil Omer Ust "Slingice the Greenesses of Breaching

it menaces with spikes of something! All went well!

[Wolfius]

So they claimed a shop, the material they needed just happened to be there already, and they started crafting their artifact right away?

I've had that happen once or twice, usually as a result of no stockpiles for the material, plus cancled jobs, so it's brought to the workshop and just left there until needed.

[Mzbundifund]

I've had easier artifacts.  Masonry things that required one normal rock.

Not nearly as valuable, though.

[Scotty]

looks like he just created DF's Hope Diamond or something like that

[Adder]

I had a carpenter making barrels claim the workshop he was in, pick up the log he was making barrels with, and make a chair all without taking a step.

[Mzbundifund]

Well that's easier than mine.  I don't think I've ever had a dwarf claim the workshop he's been in and never run for additional materials.

[Ancient Whale]

I had a metalcrafter cancel his current job of making silver crafts and make an artifact silver crown out of the bar he was working with.

[Paul]

It's funny when dwarves make something out of the material they are already working with. I had a mason building doors once and while he was making the door he suddenly went into a fey mood, claimed the workshop he was in and the granite he had been making the door out of, and he produced: an artifact granite door.

Not very creative, considering his orders was to make doors, and he had already created 10 or so other granite doors. I guess his fey mood was just to make it prettier than the other granite doors. Then he decided to carry it with him forever...

[Blaidd_Drwg]

Ah, this just happened to me. Craftsdwarf claimed his own workshop and grabbed the piece of diorite he was working with. Let's see what he makes.

Meng Gosturist, Stonecrafter has created Meng Gosturist, a Diorite ring!

He named his artefact after himself? What a pretentious git!

[JoRo]

I had that happen once, where a dwarf named his artifact after himself.  
In my latest fortress the first two moods produced single ingredient artifacts.  Oh joy, a shale door.  So glad you took the time out from making shale doors to make that shale door that doesn't even menace with spikes.

[Scotty]

i just had a dwarf get posessed, claim a carpenter shop, grab a maple log then proceed to craft a maple bin artifact that was just highest quality and decorated with maple, worth 2400, no images, no bands, no spikes, i'd say that could be one of the easiest

[Akael]

My metalcrafter, working on making platinum toys(because the liason said they were needed) grabbed the platinum bar he was working with and made...

A platinum toy hammer.

He continued making the thing he was making just a few seconds ago. Easiest artifact ever. That fortress has long died of starvation, sadly, so I can't tell you how much it was worth.

[Nil Eyeglazed]

"The Empty Wild Suffering," a chestnut cup.  Bands of chestnut.

No, there's nothing in it.

Yes, the creator is a pessimist.  But she seems okay with it.

I'm actually pretty happy with how plain it is.  Much better than if it was decorated with images of travelling dwarves in emerald and menaced with spikes of harlequin opal.

[gloogorshkin]

That is the cup of a carpenter all right.  You should build an elaborate trap room to protect and house it once it gets dropped by it's creator, preferably something with pressure plates and collapsing floors and all that.  The only real problem would be making it stay there when you bring in your adventurer (who would have to be wearing a modded-in fedora and wielding a whip, of course)...

[Alfador]

quote:Originally posted by gloogorshkin:
<STRONG>That is the cup of a carpenter all right.  You should build an elaborate trap room to protect and house it once it gets dropped by it's creator, preferably something with pressure plates and collapsing floors and all that.  The only real problem would be making it stay there when you bring in your adventurer (who would have to be wearing a modded-in fedora and wielding a whip, of course)...</STRONG>

So how would you get the optical illusion engravings that're only visible from certain camera angles that the adventurer doesn't even have?