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[xellas84]

Recently had some stupid monkeys make off with a couple of masterwork bone bolts that my hunter had fired.  The 'artist' in question is now tantruming randomly through my fortress, and I'm about to have to make the grandmaster bonecrafter pull the Noble Lever to stop this.

Any way to prevent this in the future?

[rephikul]

1) dont keep your stuff where thieves can easily get to without detection
2) Employ more traps

[FleshForge]

Make sure your mayor has idle time and the unhappy dwarf will go bitch out the mayor for a while and get it out of their system (consoler or pacifier skill for the mayer also).  From what I understand the more masterwork items a given artisan will make, the less unhappy they'll be about having a masterwork lost.

[xellas84]

Problem was, it was a bone BOLT.  As in "Those things my hunterdorf drags out into the ass-end of the wilderness to launch at random squirrels".  Sorta hard to track them down and unforbid all of them to prevent the damned monkeys from wandering in and taking them.

[rephikul]

you can set them to autoreclaim.

[FleshForge]

Yeah I hear you about bolts, and I'm pretty sure you get the same unhappiness if the bolt is destroyed just from being shot out of the crossbow.  Make lots of bolts is my suggestion.

[o_O[WTFace]]

A mist generator and a legendary bedroom will make Urist happy, no exceptions.  Some people make a legendary bedroom and assign it to dwarves that need more happy. 

[Eskielidder]

Some people make a legendary bedroom and assign it to dwarves that need more happy.

I call it "The Pleasure Room", but just cause it sounds dirty!

[xellas84]

Tried that.  Handed the guy an Opulent Throne Room and Grand Dining Room to himself (I have TONS of electrum and a legendary crafter for it).  He still went berserk and had to be put down

[Fellhuhn]

Hm, you could restrict the material he uses as his ammo... but not the quality. But at least you can create an extra stockpile for masterwork bone bolts somewhere deep inside of your fortress. This might convince your hunter to take other stuff.

[Darkmere]

You could always just throw multiple bonecrafters at the problem. They'll skill up more slowly, and by the time they get high enough to crank out repeated masterworks, set them to decorating furniture with bone on repeat, or exportning massive amounts of bone greaves when the liaison offers 215% payment for legwear. Plus, every damn beer barrel in your fort will be lovingly adorned with an imagine of cowering elves, bifurcated goblins, terrifying buckets, or naked swamp giants, in elaborate goblin bone.