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[Urist Imiknorris]

I only counted 13.

Oh, and I only let him use half my adamantine.

[Haspen]

I only counted 13.

Oh, and I only let him use half my adamantine.

13 times here as well

[cog disso]

Obsidian crown with every jewel I had discovered (about 20 different flavors), engraved with images of dwarves traveling, dwarves laughing, dwarves cowering, a goblin raid and a ratman.

[Ragingpantsless]

A perfect Sapphire, studded with spikes of Star sapphire. Worth 168000 dwarf bucks.

[m1k3y4e7]

I got an artifact chain and bucket, now I just need an artifact block and I can have the best well ever.

[Urist Imiknorris]

You can't get artifact blocks. Also, what about a mechanism?

[jei]

Ah, my best artifact ever would have to be "Dustpurges" the adamentine short sword, created in the Skyseal bloodline game.  The thing was worth 1.4 million, used three separate adamentine wafers (including one for its base metal), along with some rough gems and green glass, and could send goblins flying farther than Babe Ruth's home runs.  I would kill (many of my dwarves) for another artifact like that one.

It is easy to increase chances to get one, by putting all the dorfs with no craft skills to work on weaponsmithing in their spare time so that it becomes their highest craft skill. Especially those who like adamantine. Increases your chances of getting legendary weaponsmith feys and adamantine artefacts.

[Urist Imiknorris]

I generally train about half of my moodable-skill-less dwarves in armorsmithing, a third in weaponsmithing and the rest in either blacksmithing or metalcrafting.

[jockmo42]

I had an imp bone chest once. It was called something awesome, but I can't remember.

But come on. A chest made of imp bones is so brutal. I'd rather it be made from dwarf bones, or even elves, but imp bones is just dandy.

[Urist Imiknorris]

Not as awesome as a demon bone crown would be.

[jei]

I would say that my most useful artefact was an adamantine door, worth somewhere in the 700-800k, that I used by putting it in a corner of 4 rooms.
Said 4 rooms were each again quadruply or triply used as dining room, office room, bedroom and as statue garden for various nobles.

One artefact making all 4 rooms worth enough and adequate for multiple uses and the occupants very happy. Saved a lot of work that one artefact.

[Mimidormi]

My first artifact ever was a very simple, no-nonsense, 2400 db siltstone bed menacing with spikes of siltstone, ironically named The Diminshed Calm. Even though i always imagined the spikes on artifact beds to be on the sides of the headboard and not on the frame,.. yet, who knows, they could be anywhere.

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Then there's Ustosdolush, Angryborn, a iron battle axe worth 104.400. I kinda imagined the smith forging it with some hidden revenge thoughts on mind. He was one of the original seven, and his mood happened something like 20 years after the foundation of my longest lived fortress. Plenty of repressed rage there.

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Carnalcolumn, a limestone mechanism, 10.800 db. I'll spare you the jokes.

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Probably the best should be Kurol Ashok, the Embrace of Time (1.610.400 db), an adamantine battle axe. Sounds nice in both languages, even though it seems a huge euphemism for 'axe, meet face', i really like to read in legends the occasional 'so and so was struck down with the Embrace of Time'.

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There's another artifact adamantine axe that i consider its twin (similar value, way less interesting name), with an image of the dwarven god of death in goblin bone, contemplating. I'm waiting for an ardent worshipper of him to become a champion to use it, should make him/her happy, in my mind.

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If we're talking about sheer value, my best artifact must be Headdissolved the Split Chapel, a raw adamantine mechanism always from the same fort, 1.885.200 db. The name seems a hint to its use.

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But what i personally consider the best, it's this simple, 1200 db warthog bone cage, named Thinnedprisons the Dominion of Dimensions. The name is just ridiculously perfect.

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[Psyco Jelly]

Silver chain with sapphire spikes, named the Frenzy of Choking.

[Loof]

My most epic artifact, was sadly lost to a power surge. It was a leather shield with the image of the shield on it. I saved just as the construction begun, and when the artifact was done, and I had spent a good five minutes staring at the the description, the power went out. When I loaded the old save and the artifact was done, it had no recursive image on it.

And my worst artifact, and also my first ever, was a pine splint. No bells and whistles, except a carving of some random sasquatch beating some random goblin.

[DuckThatQuacks]

I recently got Frightcrater, an alunite ring adorned with rings of alunite.