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[Cespinarve]

So, gem cutter goes fey, grabs a bed beryl and starts his mysterious construction. I sigh, "ooh, another perfectly cut gem, how simply fraking marvelous. Worth 4200 dwarfbucks. Lovely. Thanks."


I come back later. He has built a red beryl coffin. Out of ONE GEM. He is now a legendary gem cutter, which would be cool... if that was in any way USEFUL. It is almost as useless as legendary woodcrafters, I have NO use for those guys.

Still one gem is now a whole coffin. It must be micrometres think, one gem cut it infetesimal strips and built together to make a coffin. Wow. Just wow. 48000 dwarfbucks. Not bad.

[TheSummoner]

Assign it to your favorite military Dwarf... The nobles might complain, but the military are the ones who deserve it (and are most likely to make use of it)

[Heavenfall]

Not useless! Some of your nobles require last resting places of some quality. Or you could just place it somewhere dwarves tend to rest and hope they get a happy thought from it.

To be honest, it's kind of awesome.

[FreakyCheeseMan]

Huh. I always like having nice jewelers... I use burrows to make sure they can only access the masterwork statues, cover them from head to foot in sparklies and put them in stairwells. Never had a tantrum spiral.

[Cespinarve]

No, the item isn't useless, but a legendary gem CUTTER is. A setter has use, a cutter at legendary doesn't add much.

[ungulateman]

He cuts faster, and has a higher chance of creating gem objects. Not enitrely useless, seeing as you'll only ever need one.

[Reese]

bearing in mind that one gem object has enough bits of gem in it to stud an entire bed or throne...

still impressive.

He cuts faster, and has a higher chance of creating gem objects. Not enitrely useless, seeing as you'll only ever need one.

cut faster == good

gem objects == waste of resources

[Kagus]

Cavebrands currently has an artifact yellow grossular barrel.  We're using it to store donkey intestines.

[Nilik]

It is almost as useless as legendary woodcrafters, I have NO use for those guys.

I usually title them "Boltmaker", as that's about the only use I get out of them. That's if you're on a map with a lot of trees; otherwise they are indeed useless.

[Jordrake]

I love having awesome coffins. I put my favourite dead dwarves in them pride of place in my entrance/corridors/stairways.

[Hokan]

How are woodcrafters useless? I always like to offer some wooden crafts as a gift to the elves before I soak the trade depot with magma.

[Urist McTaverish]

I once got a legendary woodcrafter from him going fey to create a masterwork oak barrel that menaced with spikes of cow bones.  It managed to end up in the personal stockpile of a baron, holding wine I think, and the woodcrafter churned out wooden bolts like a motherfucker, which helped train my marksdwarves.

[Darkmere]

I think you have developed the first royal rat coffin. It can't be large enough for much else. The next challenge is to melt a noble, recover the ashes somehow, and place the urn-coffin on the mantle of your mayoral quarters as a reminder of what mandates for slade cause.

[Blackburn]

Reminds me of the time a dwarf made a coffin out of the bones of a rabbit...

The first casualty of the fortress went right in it.

[Cespinarve]

Yeah it's either really tiny, or, like I said, built of layers of sliced gem nanometres thick. Which IS impressive.