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[Aner-Dyfan]

I'm not sure this classifies as although useless to me, I've already got a couple of legendary or near stonecrafters, the image is awesome.

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I wonder though if I check the engravings if I'll find Rusna Parchedpeeked has lost fifth toe, right foot as well.

Edit:
Alas I just check Legends, their mouth and arm was smashed as well before bing struck down.

[Dante]

I want to see some pants made out of dwarfskin and bones...

This thread needs more Fell and Macabre moods!

I just got one, actually.
"This is a dwarf bone maul. All craftsdwarfship is of the finest quality."

...He called it "GlowWorm".

[Eagle_eye]

epic...

[Urist McTaverish]

I already have tons of masterwork bone and silver bolts. They've fallen into magma a few times, but the makers have been prolific enough that it hardly phases them. Even though bone crafts are worth even less, they're a much more renewable resource, with few other uses. Woodcrafts couldn't never be worth as much as the fuel, beds and storage containers are, so my legendary woodcrafters all get to be haulers for life.

Sounds like a set-up for a Dwarf Fortress "Where Are They Now?"

These males and females were at the peak of their careers when they created artifacts, only to fall as quickly as they rose and become furniture haulers because the overseer deemed their life's work "useless."

[MonkeyHead]

I want to see some pants made out of dwarfskin and bones...

This thread needs more Fell and Macabre moods!

I just got one, actually.
"This is a dwarf bone maul. All craftsdwarfship is of the finest quality."

...He called it "GlowWorm".

everything you need to know about DF in one item.

[Uzu Bash]

A goblin bone ring. That's cool enough, isn't it? I guess it has to be since all the other expensive components vanished up this bonehead's ass, apparently leaving a value of 1200, which is more than I'd pay for goblin bone. Looks like another legendary joins the honorable peasantry; hauler duty for you, my friend.

[Tommy]

Don't blame the craftsdwarf, blame the game.  Bone-based artifacts are bugged, and wipe out their decorations.

[TolyK]

hey I got a rock nut sword and a coal mini-forge or something... yeah... some time ago.

[Samuel]

I'm not saying that there's anything wrong with a simple bone gauntlet. I'm not saying that an artifact being worth little over 1000 is inherently bad. I'm not saying that refusing to start your project until I've dug down into the second level of caverns- resulting in a pretty irritating Elk Bird problem- to get you silk cloth that you don't even end up using is wrong. But I am implying it. With no subtlety whatsoever.

[peregarrett]

Bonudatur, ""The Sooty Spire", a pig tail fiber sock
This is a pig tail fiber sock. All craftsdwarfship is of the highest quality. It is decorated with pig tail fiber. It is made from pig tail fiber cloth. On the iten is  an image of cave fish in pig tail fiber.
$6640

I'm ecstatic.

[!!tordek!!]

The first artifact I got was pretty much the best thing ever, the second one was complete junk
Mebzuthinir the wheeled chaos (or something like that)
this is a steel mace, all craftsdwarfship is of the highest quality it is studded with platinum and menaces with spikes of bloodstone. engraved on it is an image of an elf, the elf is cringing. engraved on it is an image of a dwarf, the dwarf is laughing.

and the second one was a mudstone ring, menacing with spikes of mountain goat bone and was worth like, 1600

[malimbar04]

My favorite item ever is also completely useless.

Izeg Rethal, "The Ape of Societies", a bloodstone flask

This is a blodostone flask. All craftdwarfship is of the highest quality. It is encircled with bands of bloodstone, racoon bone, donkey leather and tiger leather. This object is adorned with hanging rings of bloodstone and menaces with spikes of bloodstone.
On the item is an image of Zefon Foldedclasp the dwarf and dwarves in cedar. Zefon Foldedclasp is surrounded by the dwarves. The artwork relates to the ascension of the dwarf Zefon Foldedclasp to the position of queen of the Stern Gear in 73.

Man, I wouldn't mind owning that flask. Especially after I've seen pictures of what bloodstone actually looks like. Another time I wish I could assign items to dwarves.

[Lord Shonus]

Flasks, like backpacks, will be used by soldiers. That actually isn't useless.

[Uzu Bash]

These males and females were at the peak of their careers when they created artifacts, only to fall as quickly as they rose and become furniture haulers because the overseer deemed their life's work "useless."

It can be so unfair sometimes, can't it? Most of them were already deemed useless, and a good mood was their ticket to ever having a career other than serf. Some of them were more valuable doing something else anyway -- like an Axedwarf a hair away from legendary fighter and Axelord, great brewer and cook, naturally could hold his own gathering herbs in dangerous territories, got a moody hair up his ass to create an acacia sceptre. "Er, that's great, just throw it in the relic pile gathering dust and get back to training."

[Samuel]

Okay, so this one kind of doesn't count because it's the most valuable object in my fortress (I have multiple quantum artifacts, but this isn't one). But seriously, why did he have to use raw adamantine for a bracelet? Why not something at least the slightest bit useful? a helmet? a gauntlet, even? To make matters worse, the bracelet itself wasn't adamantine, it was magnetite. The adamantine was used for an image of a toad.