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[Edmus]

Just now I acquired "The Dirge of Beasts," a dwarf-bone mace. On the item is an image of dwarves and dwarves. The dwarves are striking down the dwarves. Crafted by a fell child in the final days of Knightspear, amid the chaos of the last 30 miserable bastards left alive, to tantrum and kill each other in the last sad, sickening parody of the fellowship they once lived in.

That sounds so awesome. Too bad bone sucks in melee.

[Urist McDwarfFortress]

Too bad bone sucks in melee.

Yeah, a bone blunt weapon is going to be absolutely useless. Bone has a density of 500, the same as wood. Compare that to Aluminum, the least dense metal (besides candy), which has a density of 2700! An aluminum mace will be about 5 times more effective than one made out of bone, assuming they're the same quality. Since yours is artifact quality, it will be slightly less ineffective than that.
 
So you know those hilariously ineffective wooden swords we all laugh at the elves using? Your bone mace is basically one of those.

[Eric Blank]

However, your bone mace can be assigned to your guard captain and used to beat criminals.

[Sulacsol]

My favorite artifact is the last one I've gotten, the only practical one I've ever had.

Duthnurinstol, "Guardbursts", a honey badger bone shield.

"This is a honey badger bone shield. All craftsdwarfship is of the highest quality. It is decorated with rattlesnake bone and encircled with bands of maple and cave spider silk. This object is adorned with hanging rings of chalk and menaces with spikes of honey badger bone and cave spider silk."

Value: 12,840 Urists.

I like to think the cave spider silk spikes are really just the silk wrapping the bone spikes, and that the maple bands are reinforcement, with the silk bands like stripes of color on it. It looks cool in my head, I promise. It's currently being wielded by my militia commander.

Does anyone know the properties of a bone shield? Is it a pathetic shield, or is it something worth handing down through the generations of soldiers?

[coldmonkey]

My favorite artifact is the last one I've gotten, the only practical one I've ever had.

Duthnurinstol, "Guardbursts", a honey badger bone shield.

"This is a honey badger bone shield. All craftsdwarfship is of the highest quality. It is decorated with rattlesnake bone and encircled with bands of maple and cave spider silk. This object is adorned with hanging rings of chalk and menaces with spikes of honey badger bone and cave spider silk."

Value: 12,840 Urists.

I like to think the cave spider silk spikes are really just the silk wrapping the bone spikes, and that the maple bands are reinforcement, with the silk bands like stripes of color on it. It looks cool in my head, I promise. It's currently being wielded by my militia commander.

Does anyone know the properties of a bone shield? Is it a pathetic shield, or is it something worth handing down through the generations of soldiers?

It'll suck for crushing attacks, but the material of a shield doesn't affect its blocking capacity. So it's the best defense you could have. Treasure it.
I recently got a Gneiss Bed which I plan to use for a child super soldier cage. You know, the thing with a cramped room, a child and crazy tame animals. I hope it'll prevent violent tantrums and if not, at least I won't have to put another bed in there. Oh, and an Iron Lever menacing with spikes of lignite. It'll be the fort's Doom Lever, to be pulled only when appropriate desperation is warranted. I'm actually considering a simple spear trap surrounding it, so the dwarf who pulls get harmed to simulate the spikes.

[Gamerlord]

Two consecutive iridium greataxe artifacts (Orc Fortress with Masterwork mod).

Currently being dualwielded by my strongest warrior. 

[Putnam]

It's not a fort mode artifact, but Legends mode coughed up this gem...  With emphasis on what makes it so great, I present... "Annihilation Without Limits"!

If Harry James Potter-Evans-Verres became an immortal necromancer.

[HavingPhun]

I recently got a giant serrated bone blade artifact. I'll try to get the picture.

[necroneous]

Roughscreams The Ferocious Gates
Don't have the exact description but it was a Platinum Battleaxe with menacing spikes of Cave spider silk

[Ianflow]

I think Echofuture speaks for itself

[StubbornAlcoholic]

I just got this artifact. Similar to the very first one in the OP, but wow! It's valued at 1652400 Dwarf Bucks, a 1/5th of the value of my entire Fortress.



I think it has its own story to tell as well, which I really like: The Dwarven Civilisation I'm part of (The Brass Shields, part of the Glorious Oars) was conquered by Goblins in the year 140 or so. The current King is a Goblin and is chained up in the Throne room.

The Dwarf who made this artifact is a master soldier. It's almost like he's engraved this axe with the original Dwarven king from the old times as a massive rebellious middle finger to the Goblin rulers and such an act of defiance will spark a great Dwarf uprising to reclaim their rightful leadership!

(Long story short, I'm going to dump that Goblin King in the magma sea, declare war on everyone and live as a Goblin-free independant state. With this axe as a catalyst )

[Hungry Elephant]

i wonder if you can have slade warhammers. That things potentially should create rifts on the floor.

[Spectrelight]

(Long story short, I'm going to dump that Goblin King in the magma sea, declare war on everyone and live as a Goblin-free independant state. With this axe as a catalyst )

I do like it when artifacts can be incorporated into an ongoing story. One of my orcs recently made a bone weapon rack, depicting a bustling dwarven city in bone. The gods have made their intent clear, and the longships are being readied for war...

[Cathartes]

Hi, this is my first post here ever.  I had to make an account for the sole purpose of sharing this amzing artifact:



Yes.  Legendary steel-studded underwear.

[thrush_titan]

I don't seem to have saved a screenshot but I once had an adamantine crown with an image of my civilization's king surrounded by crowns

also once had an adamantine sock :|