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[daggaz]

You guys have it all wrong.  Your gemcutter is actually socially-akward penguin:

Boss tells you to start decorating objects with gems,
Afraid to leave the workshop, create gem-studded gem instead.

[Minnakht]

Notice the first one is a large gem. Most likely large enough to drill some small holes in it and put pieces of smaller gems in there.

Superglue? Why not.

Gems are just glorified rocks. If you have stuff made of rocks, you might just as well ask how can that be gem-decorated.

*«*talc earring*»*

[Elf Lover]

*«*large blue garnet*»*

I'm kind of surprised it only costs 3240 dwarfbucks, the thing sounds like a fist-sized dwarven disco ball.

Sigged.

[Quietust]

That's very normal.  Every artifact will have a decoration of its base material.  An artifact platinum warhammer will menace with spikes of platinum, as well as whatever other materials were used.  In fact, bone artifacts were bugged and only took one item, making them the lowest value artifacts, and would have exactly one decoration - whatever the base material was.

Actually, it was even worse than that - bone artifacts took lots of items, but they would all be ignored and would produce a bone artifact with no decorations at all, not even the freebie you'd normally get.

"This is a goblin bone earring. All craftsdwarfship is of the highest quality."

[Callista]

Can you use large gems for gem windows?

[Marshall Burns]

This happens to me all the time. What upsets me is that the gem setter keeps encrusting *the same thing* with gems, over and over. I want him to encrust *different* things, gorrammit.

[nutzy]

Is this normal?

Not only is it normal it is common. Any item that can't be stockpiled will sit around in the jeweler's workshop and get encrusted over and over again since it is the closest item. Right now large gems don't get stockpiled, so this happens often. Just use a separate jeweler's workshop with a stockpile of closer encrustables and you won't see this often.

I like to dump cheap, unadorned garbage on traders and let gems get uber-encrusted and placed in trophy rooms as testaments to the greatness of my fort.

[Girlinhat]

I sell all large gems immediately due to their tendency to hog the decorations.

[Loud Whispers]

At the very least move them to the depot, where they stay for eternity.

[kaenneth]

I have them (d)umped into the deepest corner of my fort, the room behind (and included in) the King's Tomb, in an area it's inconceivable attackers would ever get to, unless the entire fort has fallen.