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[Wannazzaki]

I think they once tried to fire shortswords out of a crossbow, failed and scrapped the concept of strapping one to the other before even it's infancy

[Loud Whispers]

How sad, imagine what they would've come up with... Booze proppelled rocket bayonets

[Loud Whispers]

KILL IT WITH THE CROSSBOW

[Muttonhawk]

How sad, imagine what they would've come up with... Booze proppelled rocket bayonets

^ sig'd

[Loud Whispers]

Holy crap I just awesome faced irl :O

[Loud Whispers]

!!IDEA!!


I could build an armory made of only the toughest stone, suspended above the air, with multiple airlocks, traps, guards and monsters, and in the centre will be a grand vault... Gems everwhere... And in the middle, inside a steel vault... THE CROSSBOW.

Also, does anyone know how I would be able to wield said destroyer of worlds in adventure mode? Or in reclaim? I've never really had a useful(ish) artifact so I've never really had to know if they disappeared when your fortress died :/

[Time Blossom]

I don't know whether Artifacts are findable in Adventure Mode, specifically; the only time I ever revisited an old fortress of mine, there weren't any overly useful artifacts to look for, even if I'd thought to do so.

But! I can attest to the fact that Artifacts are still there when you Reclaim, although since they don't show up on your Artifacts screen they can be difficult to track. Moreover, you can actually sell them; I sold my legendary cat leather quiver to the caravan when I realized that it had snuck into one of the finished goods bins that I'd brought to the depot, and bought pretty much everything they had.

With that said, it seems pretty likely that Zodost would be sitting there for your Adventurer to reclaim. Although it might get scattered somewhere instead of being in the vault, which would be a bit disappointing.

[Loud Whispers]

I don't know whether Artifacts are findable in Adventure Mode, specifically; the only time I ever revisited an old fortress of mine, there weren't any overly useful artifacts to look for, even if I'd thought to do so.

But! I can attest to the fact that Artifacts are still there when you Reclaim, although since they don't show up on your Artifacts screen they can be difficult to track. Moreover, you can actually sell them; I sold my legendary cat leather quiver to the caravan when I realized that it had snuck into one of the finished goods bins that I'd brought to the depot, and bought pretty much everything they had.

With that said, it seems pretty likely that Zodost would be sitting there for your Adventurer to reclaim. Although it might get scattered somewhere instead of being in the vault, which would be a bit disappointing.

Hopefully not if it's in weapon trap form
(Hopefully it also doesn't kill me)

[Time Blossom]

Ah; you can snag weapons from weapon traps in Adventurer Mode? Good to know!

Also, leaving the trap with no bolts when you abandon the fort would presumably prevent any untimely demise.

Although having a quiver full of ridiculously encrusted bolts somewhere would be fine, too. I mean, if you're going to be toting a legendary weapon around, might as well have some stylish ammo while you're at it.

[Loud Whispers]

Ah; you can snag weapons from weapon traps in Adventurer Mode? Good to know!

Also, leaving the trap with no bolts when you abandon the fort would presumably prevent any untimely demise. (Although having a quiver full of ridiculously encrusted bolts somewhere would be fine, too).

I have no idea, I just want to be ready when the inevitable antman/hfs/troll face siege arrives and wipes out my defences :d

[Sutremaine]

problem- a dorf picks up an artifact, they NEVER put it down.

Not so these days, it's more the opposite. Dwarves won't use artifacts unless they're specifically told to use that specific weapon. I spent ages matching a couple of artifact crossbows to their creators and the little arseholes dropped them the moment I messed around with the uniforms. FINE, they can sit and rot in the weapon bins, I don't care any more. I have enough trouble keeping the melee dwarves equipped. All but three of them have weapons that have only killed in their hands, and I'd like to keep it that way.

[Loud Whispers]

problem- a dorf picks up an artifact, they NEVER put it down.

Not so these days, it's more the opposite. Dwarves won't use artifacts unless they're specifically told to use that specific weapon. I spent ages matching a couple of artifact crossbows to their creators and the little arseholes dropped them the moment I messed around with the uniforms. FINE, they can sit and rot in the weapon bins, I don't care any more. I have enough trouble keeping the melee dwarves equipped. All but three of them have weapons that have only killed in their hands, and I'd like to keep it that way.

I'm not sure if I want to take that chance :/
Plus I like the idea of an impenetrable vault, gonna have fun trying to rob it from myself xD

[ajr]

hahaha

[Vodrilus]

Ah; you can snag weapons from weapon traps in Adventurer Mode? Good to know!

Also, leaving the trap with no bolts when you abandon the fort would presumably prevent any untimely demise. (Although having a quiver full of ridiculously encrusted bolts somewhere would be fine, too).

No, actually you can't. Weapon traps tend to disappear mysteriously (if adventurer traps off) and can't be disarmed in any case. The best course of action is to construct heavy bins (lead, gold, platinum...) that will stand the test of time and place your wonderful artifacts there -- won't scatter. Upright spears/spikes may be deconstructed to get the spear, but I recall that that was a bit buggy.

[Jessoftherocks]

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Its a little better than this at least. He He He