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[happydog23]

Kithnecak, "The Scarce Neutralization", a Native Copper Mechanism.  Covered in native copper and platinum, with an engraving of a lizard.  The artifact itself, while neat, isn't really "best artifact ever" material, but its name is really cool.  I HAVE to use it in some sort of elaborate killing machine.

I think the best option would be a lever in a nobles room that activates the drowning trap...

Bonus points for boosting room value and killing noble at the same time.

[BodyGripper]

Yes!  Though I may try and find a way to work lizards into it.  (Dragons and crocodiles are basically big lizards, right?)

[Jacob/Lee]

Kithnecak, "The Scarce Neutralization", a Native Copper Mechanism.  Covered in native copper and platinum, with an engraving of a lizard.  The artifact itself, while neat, isn't really "best artifact ever" material, but its name is really cool.  I HAVE to use it in some sort of elaborate killing machine.

Isn't the mechanism un-recoverable then?

I think the best option would be a lever in a nobles room that activates the drowning trap...

Bonus points for boosting room value and killing noble at the same time.

[assimilateur]

Isn't the mechanism un-recoverable then?

You should be making your drowning traps drainable regardless of using valuable mechanisms.

[TKGP]

I've certainly had more valuable and more complex artifacts, but I just got this one:

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Three red flash opals, and that's it. I didn't even know it was possible to have gem-only doors. It looks like a solid red block with a white asterisk in DF. Value 96000.

[gaunt]

http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=49177.0

Your dorf wants 1 each of rocks and bars and shells.  She brings back a rock, then goes to get a bar.  Forbid the rock, then she brings back a bar and goes to get a new rock.  Unforbid the rock, then when she comes back she sees the brackets of forbidding gone, uses both.  Repeat as desired, although I think Planepacking an artifact requires a different method because this onesupposedly has a limit of (n^2)-(n) total things on it. 

I'm not positive, but my testing has shown that you can also get very good results by continually forbidding just one (preferably common type of material) and letting extra material pile up.  For example, I had a bone buckler once, but since my builder was right next to the bone pile, I just kept forbidding him to use the bones he brought back.  It seemed - like clockwork - that every time he brought back two or three pieces of bone he would run down a few z-levels to my main warehouses and brink back a piece of leather or some rock blocks or something.  I never forbid those, but I have a feeling I got him to carry more than he normally would have.  Perhaps when they are gathering material they have a 'decorate every few gatherings' marker that doesn't care about how many decoration materials are already there?

Anyway, I have two artifacts I really love - just because they are self referential.

Joysoared - a cave spider silk vest (with an image of joysoared on it)
Noblewomen - a platinum bracelet (with images of both noblewomen and joysoared on it).

[Asmodeous]

I just got an aluminum serrated disc that was worth 145k db. Then the following month I got an aluminum short sword worth 201k db. Suffice it to say I got something like 90 dwarves in a year flocking to Artifact Ville.

Hilariousness is the very next month I got ANOTHER fey mood... and it was a single leather glove worth 2k. :| So I got my best and lamest artifacts over the course of 3 months.

[AnotherDwarvernDeath]

I have a gypsum bracelet named Gikencageth, "Lightningcry", which is encrusted with shell opal, decorated with turtle shell and willow and encircled with bands of platinum and rope reed. It menaces with spikes of gypsum and oak. On it is an image of a donkey in willow.

Most overkill bracelet ever? Whatever, I'd totally buy it.

[DarkDragon]

Holy carp! And I didn't do any forbidding of items or any of that trickery:






That's an image of my newly arrived Queen on there, who has been bitching that someone's office was better than hers (not sure how, her throne room is massive and covered in engravings/statues), so I'm sticking this smack in the middle to shut her up.

And yea, 1.5 million dwarf bucks. Most valuable artifact I've ever produced.

[geoduck]

That's an image of my newly arrived Queen on there, who has been bitching that someone's office was better than hers (not sure how, her throne room is massive and covered in engravings/statues), so I'm sticking this smack in the middle to shut her up.

It doesn't matter how good her place is, if someone else's place gets above a certain level of worth, she's going to go on griping.

Nice table, though.

[DarkDragon]

Yea she was apparently "traumatized" by someone's burial arrangements.

Tough. She gets buried in my artifact storage labryinthe, easily the most valuable room in the fort.

I'll just keep throwing artifacts and adamantine stuff in her room. She seems a stable enough individual, lowest I've seen her go is Unhappy and she bounced right back up to fine again soon after.

On the other hand, I think I just had my 4th duchess + consort go insane. Every last one I get demands stupid shit like rose gold or green glass (on my sandless map), and that combined with them bitching about someone having nice rooms (which, is bullshit, unless it counts communal rooms like the dining hall or mausoleum) makes for quite unhappy nobles.

Oh well, my noble killing device is almost done. If they would stop dying on their own for long enough for me to test it.

[Pkassad]

Its not my most valuable artifact but I think its the most badass.  Imagine that your training in your barracks, and the single weapon rack for all to share, is anti goblin propaganda

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[Euld]

Third artifact in my current fort: Anam Minbaz, The Age of Enchantment, an Adamantine war hammer worth 1,443,600.  It is studded with Adamantine, decorated with turtle shell, and encircled with bands of Andesite and Adamantine.  It's adorned with rings of Adamantine and menaces with spikes of turtle shell.

Got it when my embarking weaponsmith/armorsmith got a mood, I also used the free adamantine wafers cheat at the smelter because I felt bad that all he had to work with was three measily copper bars.  Of course, a fortress that suddenly gains that much wealth in one season tends to attract a lot of goblins...

[SirStrange]

In my first fortress one of my dorfs made a donkey bone artifact warhammer.
Probably not the most useful weapon, but I thought it sounded like an awesome idea. I just pictured a big donkey femur or something with a donkey skull on top.

[Don Blake]

I got a limestone puzzlebox, which is more or less useless, but it being an artifact puzzlebox produced by a possession, I choose to believe A) That the dwarf trapped the creature possessing him inside it and B) That since it's name includes "The Reticence of Shocks" it will electrocute anyone who fails to solve the puzzle when trying to open it.