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[DarthCloakedDwarf]

So, after my gem cutters produced the Xtieth Perfect Tiger Iron, and I summarily hit my head on the desk, I had a revelation! Have you ever, playing a dungeon crawling game, came upon a legendary artifact upraised upon a pedestal?

Pedestals would be built as furniture at a carpenter's workshop, a mason's workshop, or a metalsmith's forge, and can be decorated just like any other piece of furniture. They can then be built, again, like any other piece of furniture. Then, once built, you assign a single Finished Good to be displayed atop it to add its worth to the room-- finally, a use for those artifact gems and figurines!

Also, the pedestal, once built, should be able to be assigned as a Room, a museum, functioning much like a statue garden.

Finally, I thought that a pedestal could be hooked up via mechanisms to traps and such-- if any thief tries to grab the artifact, they'd trigger traps just like in Indiana Jones (though, regrettably, you probably wouldn't be able to have the victim have to run down a corridor or be smashed by an enormous perfectly round boulder. You could link it to a ring of spike traps around the object though!

[Neonivek]

While I appreciate you taking time to make this suggestion

It is unfortunately to inform you that Pedestals an Museums have both been suggested many times before.

In fact boobytrapping a Pedestal by allowing it to be linked like a switch has also been suggested.

[DarthCloakedDwarf]

While I appreciate you taking time to make this suggestion

It is unfortunately to inform you that Pedestals an Museums have both been suggested many times before.

In fact boobytrapping a Pedestal by allowing it to be linked like a switch has also been suggested.

What? Curses. Even going back several pages I couldn't find any.

May I ask what was wrong with the other propositions? Why they were shot down?

[Neonivek]

They weren't shot down.

I am just informing you that your idea has been used many times before.

[Draco18s]

What? Curses. Even going back several pages I couldn't find any.

It requires using the Search feature (hey, look at that, top of every page).  And knowing how to spell "pedestal" or at least looking for "museum".

[DarthCloakedDwarf]

If you can wrestle the Search thing into working, more power to you. It never seems to work for me.

Anyways, I'm rather sad that this won't be implemented.

[Capntastic]

Anyways, I'm rather sad that this won't be implemented.

Again if you'd read what people say, it isn't shot down; Toady merely has other things planned first.   Have some patience.

[DarthCloakedDwarf]

Again if you'd read what people say, it isn't shot down; Toady merely has other things planned first.   Have some patience.

Oh. Nevermind then.

[Draco18s]

If you can wrestle the Search thing into working, more power to you. It never seems to work for me.

You go to the suggestions forum and type a word and hit "search."  Best things to type would be the major noun of your suggestion (properly spelled, of course).

[kaypy]

Why wait? In the new DF we have custom buildings!



(Well, custom workshops really, but close enough)

You will need a lot of variations on:

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[BUILDING_WORKSHOP:DISPLAY_GOBLET]
[NAME:Display Case]
[NAME_COLOR:7:0:1]
[DIM:1:1]
[WORK_LOCATION:1:1]
[BUILD_LABOR:MASON]
[BLOCK:1:0]
[TILE:0:1:'#']
[COLOR:0:1:0:7:0]
[TILE:1:1:'#']
[COLOR:1:1:0:7:0]
[TILE:2:1:'#']
[COLOR:2:1:0:7:0]
[TILE:3:1:20]
[COLOR:3:1:1:7:0]
[BUILD_ITEM:1:BLOCKS:NONE:GLASS_CLEAR:NONE][CAN_USE_ARTIFACT]
[BUILD_ITEM:1:GOBLET:NONE:NONE:NONE][CAN_USE_ARTIFACT]

And ok, your dwarves wont actually use it for anything, but it should still raise room value, and maybe be eligible for admiration...

[DarthCloakedDwarf]

That's awesome, kaypy!

[kaypy]

I've got an improved version of this now, but I've moved over to the Modding forum
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=57243.0