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[Sizik]

A menu screen (possibly an extension of the Artifacts screen, or as a status sub-menu) that lists all engravings in the fortress. You can sort by creation date, title, and engraver, and also zoom to the location and the engraver (if alive). Possibly can include decorated items as well.

[nogoodnames]

That is pretty much the art section in legends mode.

[Sizik]

Oh yeah. That being available in fortress mode.

[Loud Whispers]

You do realise just how many engravings the average fort has? I'd pity any who would make a fort underground :p

[knutor]

I'd want them only in the Artifact menu, if they were Artifact statues.  Otherwise, make a new category for just Art somewhere in the d sub menus.  Its not all that important to me, what the engravings say, as it is to their quality.  So also make it filterable, so all the junky engravings can be highlighted for removal and renovation of new hallways.  That would be a great advantage to my gameplay.  I often find awful engravings, in high traffic areas, that disturb me and my dorf, incredibly so.

Sincerely,
Knutor

[peskyninja]

Why not an "Art" menu with all the masterwork statues and engravings?

[Loud Whispers]

Why not an "Art" menu with all the masterwork statues and engravings?

This would be a better idea, though there'd have to be some criteria, like only built masterwork items / ones designated as such, otherwise mature forts would be cluttered with them.

[knutor]

I'd rally behind that.  As long as 'named' items stayed in the artifact menu, on the main tree.  The Art went in somewhere else, not off the root.  Art and Artifact are easy for dumb folks like me to confuse.  I wouldn't want them chooses in the same menu.  However Art in and of itself, elsewhere, would be splendid.  Maybe add anything that has a unique description, even figurines, in the event future designs include them somehow for more than a trade item.

Sincerely,
Knutor

[Loud Whispers]

Or even specific items made for artistic purposes? :p

This is a crudely drawn portrait of cheese in dimple cup ink.

[Tai_MT]

I like the idea of being able to see the "Masterwork" items in some menu of some kind.  I don't care about being able to see which engravings are/are not in my fortress however.  The game is kind enough to pop up a prompt that says, "Urist McMoneymakingtask has created a masterpiece!".  We should at least be able to pop up a menu to see what it is if we so desire.  Otherwise...  Why bother informing us of the masterpiece to begin with?