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[kaypy]

Well, I cant quite make a museum in entirety, but I have managed to put together a custom workshop that can be built including any one object of your choice.



It requires clear glass, which I figure as the minimum base price for something that will take an otherwise useless artifact and
(a) protect it from thieves
(b) use it to boost room value

In building_custom:

Code: [Select]

Display case
Requires:
1 unit building material
1 clear glass box
1 object to display
[BUILDING_WORKSHOP:DISPLAY_CASE]
[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:3:1:147]
[COLOR:3:1:7:0:0]
[BUILD_ITEM:1:BLOCKS:NONE:NONE:NONE][CAN_USE_ARTIFACT]
[BUILD_ITEM:1:BOX:NONE:GLASS_CLEAR:NONE][CAN_USE_ARTIFACT]
[BUILD_ITEM:1:NONE:NONE:NONE:NONE][CAN_USE_ARTIFACT]

The last BUILD_ITEM line is what allows the 'use any object' feature

and add it to the entity

I used one of diacriticed letters to make a pedestal tile  (I stripped them out of the language files so I can do what I like with them). You may want to change those tiles.

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Now to see what happens when something built into a building rots...

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Much later edit: there are some refinements of this idea in a new thread: see http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=79807.0

[Lancensis]

Heh. Won't keep them safe from building destroyers, but pretty good nonetheless. Did you have to scroll through every item in your fortress to find those lungs?

[kaypy]

It was a pretty new fort, and the butcher wasn't far away, but yeah, nearly every object is on the list. Be prepared for some slowdown if when you have 2872346105781964016492 stones lying around 8-)

I wasn't able to stuff a corpse into it, so not quite *every* object.

Oh, and there's a bug in the material selection, so you can build it out of a box, a block, and the block you already chose earlier. (bug 1855)

[derigo]

That's awesome!

[Bishop36]

I would vote for this to be added to vanilla, if such a vote existed.

[kaypy]

Museums are one of the options on the Eternal Suggestions Voting (although there's no reason to expect the implementation would be remotely similar)...

[MMad]

Wow, awesome! I've wanted something exactly like this for a long while.

[Duane]

You should make it ignore stone/blocks/bars other than to construct the display case.

[kaypy]

Wish I could- the options are pretty much limited to
(a) allow anything
or
(b) allow only one item type

My first iteration actually required a different custom workshop for each object type, but having two pages of Display Case w/Ammo, Display Case w/Amulet etc etc got unwieldy fast.

[derigo]

Well? What happens when you build something that rots out of it?  I'm breathless with anticipation here, c'mon! ;p

[kaypy]

Ah. I put it over on the wiki for reference:

http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Talk:Building_token

Short version: your building eventually self destructs. Although you spend a fair while breathless with miasma first, of course.

[zwei]

Do the dwarves admire it? What about adding reactions?

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[REACTION:STUDY_ARTIFACT]
[NAME:study artifact]
[BUILDING:DISPLAY_CASE:NONE]
[SKILL:APPRAISER]
Possibly "OBSERVER", "STUDENT", "CONCENTRATION" skills too.

Also, could it be possible to make thus building require Architecture to design?

[Flaede]

Oh. Wow. This is one of those things I did not know I needed until I saw it.

[derigo]

Ah. I put it over on the wiki for reference:

http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Talk:Building_token

Short version: your building eventually self destructs. Although you spend a fair while breathless with miasma first, of course.

Oh man!  I've got to mod in ginger bread blocks, an edible structural material that doesn't rot!

[Deon]

What happens when an area under a building caves in? Does it deconstruct the building?

If so, you can make a platform with display casese supported by a column linked to a lever.
You know what I mean. Adventurer labyrinths with real treasures you can claim!