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[Tai_MT]

Hello everyone,

I was wondering what exactly happens to a weapon if a Dwarf names it?  I had a spear dwarf name his Silver Spear (which killed a Hill Titan) recently.

Does it confer any bonuses, or is it just named?

[Rowanas]

The jury's out, but I do believe they gain modifiers, like mini-artefacts.

[Tai_MT]

Thanks.  Much appreciated!

[Davichococat]

I think if the speardwarf that owns use it lose the spear he will get bad thoughts and the spear can only be used by the urist that uses it. Not sure though, I'm noob in military, try checking the wiki.

[Untelligent]

It has no bonuses like an artifact. Just the name.

[Jacob/Lee]

The jury's out, but I do believe they gain modifiers, like mini-artefacts.

Dwarves can become attached to a weapon, even a low quality weapon, which can make it difficult or impossible to get them to upgrade later.

In addition, the game tracks kills not only by entity but also by weapon. A weapon that has racked up enough kills might be named by its wielder. When this happens the game will pause and bring up a dialog box, similar to discovering a new cavern. Once named, the weapon will appear in the artifact list, albeit in blue.

[Tai_MT]

That weapon has ONE kill associated with it.  And the kill was made several dwarf years ago.

So I would imagine that there are OTHER factors to the naming of weapons than simply kills.

[BackgroundGuy]

It's tentative and I'm only guessing, but I'd imagine that weapon/gear naming is based on killcount, what those kills were, and the number of combat rounds the object has featured in.  I'm basing this on my experiences with danger rooms, which gave me a noticeable amount of "Urist has grown attached to an XXX" (which i think is required for artifact naming) at around 30 pages.

[jaxad0127]

It's tentative and I'm only guessing, but I'd imagine that weapon/gear naming is based on killcount, what those kills were, and the number of combat rounds the object has featured in.  I'm basing this on my experiences with danger rooms, which gave me a noticeable amount of "Urist has grown attached to an XXX" (which i think is required for artifact naming) at around 30 pages.

More than that. I had a miner grow attached to a pick once. He was never involved in battle as far as I can remember.

[Tai_MT]

The spear that got named was never given a "dwarf got attached to" tag.  And it was only ever in the one battle, and one kill.

So, perhaps there are more forces at work here than "dwarf is attached to" and "it's based on kills"?

I especially am a bit wary to say it revolves around kills, when the one kill it made was made several dwarf years ago.

[Untelligent]

It has no bonuses like an artifact. Just the name.

Dwarves can become attached to a weapon, even a low quality weapon, which can make it difficult or impossible to get them to upgrade later.

In addition, the game tracks kills not only by entity but also by weapon. A weapon that has racked up enough kills might be named by its wielder. When this happens the game will pause and bring up a dialog box, similar to discovering a new cavern. Once named, the weapon will appear in the artifact list, albeit in blue.

What does that quote have to do with mine?

The spear that got named was never given a "dwarf got attached to" tag.  And it was only ever in the one battle, and one kill.

So, perhaps there are more forces at work here than "dwarf is attached to" and "it's based on kills"?

I especially am a bit wary to say it revolves around kills, when the one kill it made was made several dwarf years ago.

Randomness might be one of those forces. Perhaps it has a small chance of becoming named even after the first kill, like a completely unskilled dwarf has a chance of making a masterwork. Or maybe sparring beforehand contributed to it. I dunno.

[Jacob/Lee]

It has no bonuses like an artifact. Just the name.

Dwarves can become attached to a weapon, even a low quality weapon, which can make it difficult or impossible to get them to upgrade later.

In addition, the game tracks kills not only by entity but also by weapon. A weapon that has racked up enough kills might be named by its wielder. When this happens the game will pause and bring up a dialog box, similar to discovering a new cavern. Once named, the weapon will appear in the artifact list, albeit in blue.

What does that quote have to do with mine?

Accidently quoted you instead of Rowanas.

[jaxad0127]

More kills->more likely to be named?

Used more->more likely to be come attached?

[Truean]

From what I understand it is a function of three things:

1.) Kills
2.) Time equiped
3.) Preference a.) material the weapon is made out of, any materials decorating the weapon, weapon type, etc).

[Tai_MT]

1.  1 Kill.
2.  Probably about 2 years, the guy is a member of my speardwarf squad and I told them to use "any metal" for spears, so he's got this silver spear.
3.  I don't know the preferences of him, but perhaps he likes silver.

In any case, I'm surprised my female Silver Longsword user didn't name her weapon instead.  She's killed far more enemies and is attached to her weapon.

Oh well though.

Although, I do have another question.  If I decide to melt down said named silver spear...  Would the dwarf that named it get an unhappy thought?