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[GuudeSpelur]

So, recently a legendary blacksmith (and a legendary gem setter) made a gold statue that was worth (far more than) OVER 9000! dwarf bucks.  I've had legendary lavish meals come pretty close to it, too.  What's the most valuable "mundane" item you've ever created in fortress mode?

[SkyRender]

 My best was a masterwork large, steel serrated disk.  Entirely undecorated, those are worth 45,360 dofrbux.  Actually, I've made a lot of those...

[Gnauga]

I have a stack of 129 dwarven syrup roasts that's worth 33,282 dorfbucks. I think I had some finished goods covered with gems cut by a legendary gem cutter and encrusted by a legendary gem setter that were more valuable, but I sold those off and can't find them anymore.

And precisely how much over nine thousand was that statue?

[GuudeSpelur]

If I could find which tomb I put it in I'd tell you.  I have a TON of gold statues.

Edit: Found it.  Masterwork Gold Statue (9000) + 2 Masterwork red zircon decorations (1200 each) +  one Exceptional red zircon decoration (500) = 11900.  That's almost three times more valuable as my least valuable artifact (an obsidian piccolo).  I used the over 9000 joke because the statue was worth 9000.  I suppose I could go back and add more decorations...

[ProZocK]

The most valuable one was a masterwork adamantine large serrated disk. Those are amazing.
The fun one was a masterwork large rock Crystal with a specimen of every single gem in the game. I even ordered and bought an entire caravan of gems for that.
It was worth a ridiculous amount of money, more than 70.000 dwarfbucks.

[Alastar]

Dwarves really value their trap components... So much I'd consider making them an exploit if they weren't so dwarfy. "I have a two-tile room with a bed and a burglar alarm that wakes me by covering me in soggy bits. That's fit for a king!"

[Lemunde]

The value of large discs is really insane.  I have a single masterwork bronze disc sitting in a bin that's worth over 7000.  For comparison I made some crappy quality bronze crafts that are worth around 50 each.  I don't currently have a very good metal crafter so that's the best comparison I can get.

[Aramco]

Dwarves really value their trap components... So much I'd consider making them an exploit if they weren't so dwarfy. "I have a two-tile room with a bed and a burglar alarm that wakes me by covering me in soggy bits. That's fit for a king!"

Yes, it is.

[TherosPherae]

Best I've ever seen was the 44k dwarfbux olivine ring. I swear, my gem setter was OBSESSED with it.

That and the gem setter had only a little over 9000 green glass gems to work with. (Hooray for training glassmakers!)

[shadowform]

If I could find which tomb I put it in I'd tell you.  I have a TON of gold statues.

Edit: Found it.  Masterwork Gold Statue (9000) + 2 Masterwork red zircon decorations (1200 each) +  one Exceptional red zircon decoration (500) = 11900.  That's almost three times more valuable as my least valuable artifact (an obsidian piccolo).  I used the over 9000 joke because the statue was worth 9000.  I suppose I could go back and add more decorations...

no u.

You can only encrust one instance of each gem type onto a single item.

I remember at one point in DF pre-2010, I had a platinum statue encrusted with (imported) clear/red/blue/green/faint yellow diamonds, star ruby/sapphire, rubies, emeralds, etc etc...  that ended up with the value upwards of 100k dwarfbucks.  It made for a snazzy dining room.

[TherosPherae]

You can only encrust one instance of each gem type onto a single item.

Then my version of DF must be broken, because I know I've seen stuff with green glass spikes, rings, and a picture of a dude eating cheese in green glass.

[GuudeSpelur]

If I could find which tomb I put it in I'd tell you.  I have a TON of gold statues.

Edit: Found it.  Masterwork Gold Statue (9000) + 2 Masterwork red zircon decorations (1200 each) +  one Exceptional red zircon decoration (500) = 11900.  That's almost three times more valuable as my least valuable artifact (an obsidian piccolo).  I used the over 9000 joke because the statue was worth 9000.  I suppose I could go back and add more decorations...

no u.

You can only encrust one instance of each gem type onto a single item.

I remember at one point in DF pre-2010, I had a platinum statue encrusted with (imported) clear/red/blue/green/faint yellow diamonds, star ruby/sapphire, rubies, emeralds, etc etc...  that ended up with the value upwards of 100k dwarfbucks.  It made for a snazzy dining room.

Huh.  I went back and looked at the statue again, somehow I managed to read red spinel and red grossular as red zircon.  Note to self: find some gems that aren't red.

[Rayc]

This does it, I'm going to encrust some random object with every type of gem i can find.  Accually, I'm going to have a large gem as the base, so that It will be a gem decorated with gems.

[Aramco]

This does it, I'm going to encrust some random object with every type of gem i can find.  Accually, I'm going to have a large gem as the base, so that It will be a gem decorated with gems.

...

Can you do that? It will be worth countless Urists if it works.

[Gnauga]

Yes, it's extremely possible. Especially if you don't have a stockpile for finished trade goods, and your encrusting and cutting jobs are done in close proximity.

Makes for some decent value, I can tell you. Although you do have to be careful with your encrusting jobs- I recall a sock worth upwards ten-thousand from being utterly plastered with gemstones. The hitch? It was owned by some tanner.