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[phoenixuk]

So i now have a new artifact after a mood, and it is "Hailpuzzling the Socketed Magician", a donkey bone axe.
This is a donkey bone battle axe. All craftdwarfship is of the highest quality.
That's it. No ornamentation, or excessive spikes.

Does bone work as a cutting weapon? I realise bone bolts work quite well because of the whole cutting/surface area thing, but a bone axe?

Basically i want to know if i want my awesomemurderdorf wielding a steel axe, or this presumably terrifying monstrosity carved from animal bones.

[tehc]

It would be like trying to cut a steak with a piece of string. Bone is pretty much useless for everything other than decorating objects.

[Girlinhat]

If it were elf bone or FB bone, perhaps, but donkey?  Meh, trade that shit in for copper.

[Excedion]

Maybe its changed but in 31.18 in one of my forts i gave my militia commander a donkey bone artifact axe and even with expert combat skills he couldnt do anything but dent the scales of a megabeast with "cerulean scales". So i think the axe lies somewhere between copper and iron/bronze

[Sorcerer]

actually, bone, not being a metal (and not having edge properties) has absolutely no effect on cutting weapons, its about as effective as a blunt stick

[Lemunde]

Use it for goblin interrogation. "I AXED YOU A QUESTION!!" *SMACK*

[Misterstone]

Yeah, in the pre-2010 versions it would still be an awesome axe, but now no matter how good the quality is, it still won't do much damage due to the poor material.

[Krelos]

You simply need to mod the Goblins to be called Philistines.

[Girlinhat]

You can always build a weapon trap, place the weapon in it, and get a legendary dining hall or noble's room.

[Karnewarrior]

It's just a cerimonial weapon. Won't do shit in real combat, alot like a golden sword, although probably even more useless.

[Megaman3321]

Hmmmmm... maybe someone should do some !!SCIENCE!! into modding in edge values?

[j0nas]

Be sure to socket it with a flawless elf skull.

Edit: I guess you could actually encrust it with gems..awesome!

[Girlinhat]

Neither.  Skulls cannot be used to decorate an item, weapons and armor cannot be encrusted with gems, and artifacts are immune from all forms of decoration after they're made.

[Nameless Archon]

You can always build a weapon trap, place the weapon in it, and get a legendary dining hall or noble's room.

This. Add it to a weapon trap where lots of dwarves have to pass it, such as on the center tile of a 3-wide hallway, and dwarves passing it will neatly offset the "caught in the rain" moodlet.

[phoenixuk]

Done, this fine piece of useless tat is now the centerpiece of my main hallway between the food stores/front entrance/dining room in a weapons trap. Everyone seems oddly happy about this.