Wow, it looks like that artifact shows all the history of dwarves being elected to be leaders on it.Worth 157200.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
I wonder how much damage gold weapons deal.
My best in terms of quality was an iron battle axe. Plus, it filled the mandate for battle axes that one of my nobles had out.
My best in terms of pure awesome was far, far, far beyond a plain ol' metal axe. It was still a battle axe, but it was made of Goblin bone. And it got even better: the free decoration in Goblin bone? It was an Elf prostrating himself before a Dwarf as his civilization was conquered!
Frog... Demon... Bone... Seriously, if you're going to use demon bones, at least make SOMETHING be cringing. It woulda been awesome if it showed the death of that particular demon in its own bones.
Yeah, specially civ symbols pop up a whole lot.Frog... Demon... Bone... Seriously, if you're going to use demon bones, at least make SOMETHING be cringing. It woulda been awesome if it showed the death of that particular demon in its own bones.
You can't really control what artifacts or engravings depict... the dwarves decide on that.
Like you might have had an awesome zombie fish mob assault that a heroic team of 3 swordsdwarves massacred effortlessly and your next masterpiece engraving will be of a retarded artifact you made in the early fort like a legendary thong being held trimuphantly aloft
My marksdwarf shot my armoursmith in the leg while practising, after he recovered the dwarf was possesed and made an artifiact....This is the best artifact EVER. Not even that adamantine sword with the dying demons and evil dwarves on it and the badass name I can't remember beats this.
"Leghurt the copper leggings" it was called.
"On this item is the image of a dwarf and a dwarf in copper. The dwarf is shooting the dwarf."
I love this game...
An artifact flute. I thought it was useless, but then I looked at the materials... It was made of carp leather, bonded with unicorn leather and it had menacing spikes made from elephant bones... that was cool.If only it were a sword . . . then it would empower its wielder with all the terrible strength of DF's most deadly creatures.
An artifact flute. I thought it was useless, but then I looked at the materials... It was made of carp leather, bonded with unicorn leather and it had menacing spikes made from elephant bones... that was cool.
Basic Value: 4772400☼Unholy Armok, 4.8 MILLION monies?
It says it's an image of a different Adamantine platemail on it.Nonononono. No. Artifacts can have images of themselves. It's just that using them creates a paradox that crashes the game.
Of course, this implies that this one is his fort's second - or even third or fourth or Nth - artifact adamantine platemail :oBasic Value: 4772400☼Unholy Armok, 4.8 MILLION monies?
Edit: Also, I forgot what the alt-numbers thingy for the ☼ symbol is :-[ . Can somebody remind me of it?
It says it's an image of a different Adamantine platemail on it.
Of course, this implies that this one is his fort's second - or even third or fourth or Nth - artifact adamantine platemail :o
the tile number is 15 for ☼Ah, thank you
http://www.dwarffortresswiki.net/index.php/Character_table
Are you sure you're looking at the correct part of the description? It actually does have an image of itself on it.Crap, you're right, I was looking at the wrong part :-[
Future reference: Find any one of my 1000+ posts.the tile number is 15 for ☼Ah, thank you
http://www.dwarffortresswiki.net/index.php/Character_table
(http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/3414/doomhammerzx1.th.jpg) (http://img515.imageshack.us/my.php?image=doomhammerzx1.jpg)(http://img515.imageshack.us/images/thpix.gif) (http://g.imageshack.us/thpix.php)I thought artifact did x5 bonus damage/protection?
"The Brave Glories" An Inobtanium Doom Hammer
The Greatest Weapon known to dwarf.
For those of you who don't use Sean's mods. Here is the greatest reason ever to use them. Inobtanium does 1200% damage and doom hammers have a base damage of 160 and a critical boost of 4. Tag on a 3x artifact modifier and I can start up the Goblin space program.
For reference:
Adamantium: 500% damage
Battle Axe: 110 Base Damage, No Critical boost
Sigun Kosothamost, Peasant has created Amemmatul, a human bone armour stand!
On the item is an image of a cut gems in Star ruby.
On the item is an image of Amazedditches the Stability of Butchers the Adamantine plate mail in Adamantine.Hehe it comes in a set :D have every one ever made a full set of adamantin artifacts?(preferably with images of each-other on them but not needed)
On the item is an image of Amazedditches the Stability of Butchers the Adamantine plate mail in Adamantine.Hehe it comes in a set :D have every one ever made a full set of adamantin artifacts?(preferably with images of each-other on them but not needed)
artifacts can be anything made out of anything and be built in workshops where it can't normally be made.Is it possible to have a "This is a Potash chainmail." type item?
artifacts can be anything made out of anything and be built in workshops where it can't normally be made.Is it possible to have a "This is a Potash chainmail." type item?
My marksdwarf shot my armoursmith in the leg while practising, after he recovered the dwarf was possesed and made an artifiact....
"Leghurt the copper leggings" it was called.
"On this item is the image of a dwarf and a dwarf in copper. The dwarf is shooting the dwarf."
I love this game...
Yeah, I hate when a moody dwarf claims a craftdwarf's workshop and makes a beeline for the wood stockpile. Not only do I wind up with a legendary crapcarver, but I also wind up with an artifact worth 3600☼ :'(
I agree that woodcarvers are far from useless, and you're correct that a ☼wooden bolt☼ and a no-tag iron bolt do the same damage (with the ☼wooden bolt☼ actually being slightly superior due to the skill bonus that item quality also gives). The problem with woodcarvers is that anything they can do, a bonecarver can do with a resource that doesn't have many better uses (as opposed to wood's use for such things as beds and barrels).
Ammo: Bone bolts are identical to comparable wood bolts, and unless you have to use the bones for armor, there isn't much better to do with them.
Crafts: Stone crafts are effectively identical to comparable wooden crafts, and no matter how much wood is available, virtually every single fort is going to have a hell of a lot more stone to work with. And stonecrafters have the option of using more expensive stone, namely flux and maybe obsidian, to make more valuable crafts.
I disabled artifacts after the first three fortresses, it gets tiring FAST to have dwarves going crazy or berserk cuz I don't have silk clothes, shells or gems >:(Take a few with you when you embark then. Some leather, thread (which can be woven into cloth on site if that's needed instead) and cheap gems go for under a 100 easily (14 *3 [thread] + 5 *3 [leather] +10 *3 [gems] = 87). Just take a bit less food.
Take a few with you when you embark then. Some leather, thread (which can be woven into cloth on site if that's needed instead) and cheap gems go for under a 100 easily (14 *3 [thread] + 5 *3 [leather] +10 *3 [gems] = 87). Just take a bit less food.
Those numbers were from memory. I play too much. :-[
a cave spider silk thong with an image of the aluminium spearThis is hilarious.
every room in my fortress has at least one engraving of a mule leather long skirt or a dwarf raising said long skirt.
A mule leather long skirt encircled with Bands of obsidian and microcline. It menaces with spikes of gem. (I forget the actual gen, just some ornamental stuff).
It didn't even have any images on it, and It's worth an incredibly rediculous amount of money. Following the creation of this item, every room in my fortress has at least one engraving of a mule leather long skirt or a dwarf raising said long skirt. Most have several. Nobody has put it on, simply because it's so valuable. All three of the artifacts following this artifact have had an image of, you guessed it, a mule leather long skirt.
It's a pretty awesome skirt, I'll have you know.
you can force moody dwarves to use the materials you dictate by locking the workshop and dropping the things they need in through a hole in the roof. or trying to run around frantically forbidding or locking up everything you dont want them to use. you can also forbid items allready in the workshop using t to view them. i get really nice artifacts this way, like an adamantium crown with faint yellow diamond, gold and GCS silk. it had a picture of an adamantium crown on it. it was originally going to be copper with onyx and iron, but for my forbid spree. now i got a 969000 dwarfbucks crown instead of a cheap coppery one. yay.Personally, I prefer forbidding. With proper stockpile setup (i.e. putting the expensive stuff in one place and the rest of the stuff elsewhere) you can just mass-forbid the crappy stuff when somebody goes into a strange mood. With certain things, you don't even need to forbid stuff: put expensive gems, the best metal bars, and GCS silk and leather a couple tiles closer than the rest and simply don't use them otherwise. Expensive ores are even easier, just put a stockpile for the most expensive ores you have directly above or below the mason and craftsdwarf workshops.
In the early days of my most awesome fort, the dwarves were constantly plagued by the fire imps emerging from the magma vent and starting wildfires by shooting fireballs at passing gorillas.But at least it's on fire right?
One day I had finally had enough of this, drafted a gaggle of recent migrants, handed them crossbows, and ordered them to go forth and end the imp menace.
One brave recruit caught an imp's attention and got burned to death while the others loosed their bolts for the glory of Likottinöth.
Shortly after that recruit had received a hero's burial, an obscure dwarf whose original profession I do not recall went into a mood. After claiming my craft shop, Lokum Cogziril dashed out the front gates of the fort and scooped up the bones of Shasadestun the fire imp.
This was all she needed for her vision, shortly thereafter she produced Tombhaunt the fire imp bone statue; it is adorned with hanging rings of fire imp bone, and on the item is an image of Tombhaunt the fire imp bone statue in fire imp bone.
It is worth 54,000, and it forever marks the grave of the brave dwarf who gave his life so that the fort might not be plagued by fire imps.
I have an iron grate named Stranglesqueezes.
46,000 Dwarfins for a mousetrap... this guy should work as a National Defense contractor.
I prefer the method of just letting dwarves build shit.
Sure, four adamantine furniture pieces are worth more than a gold one, a silver one, a pig iron one, and a brass one, but I like flavor, dammit.
To me, artifacts are kind of pointless if they aren't actually original and weird as hell. I like my rose quartz cabinets.
I have an iron grate named Stranglesqueezes.
Duthalison Sholid Ostar
Worthplanned the Clutch of Burying
A Silver warhammer.
This is a Silver war hammer. All craftsdwarfship is of the highest quality. It is studded with Lead. This object menaces with spikes of cave lobster shell.
Is that... is that a picture of a GOD on the artifact sword?
Holy crap! Dwarf Paladin!
The warhammer was made by a child I might add.
The warhammer was made by a child I might add.
That child must be made into a Hammerdwarf. Destiny demands it!
Ungeg Inketh 'The Failure of Justices" a Willow Statue
This is a Willow Statue All craftswarfship is of the highest quality
It is decorated with a turtle shell and encircled with bands of Willow and turtle bone
On the item is an image of a dwarf and a elf in Kaolinite The dwarf is embracing the elf.
*Edit*
I'm just really amused by this.
Fix'dUngeg Inketh 'TheThe name perfectly depicts the image.FailureSucsess of Justices" a Willow Statue
This is a Willow Statue All craftswarfship is of the highest quality
It is decorated with a turtle shell and encircled with bands of Willow and turtle bone
On the item is an image of a dwarf and a elf in Kaolinite The dwarf isembracingstabbing the elf.
*Edit*
I'm just really amused by this.
I made a mod that allows you to artificially make aluminum, like they do inmovies!real life.
Well, isn't bauxite pretty much it when it comes to mining aluminum? And don't you need electrolysis or something crazy to extract the stuff? (I guess its time for wikipedia....).Pretty much, yeah. You can get aluminum out of bauxite if you have electricity, which DF doesn't. That leaves the only source as "regular" aluminum, which is seriously fucking rare.
I've never quite known how they get these complicated engravings on something as thin as a bow. Or an amulet with half a dozen pictures on it.
I made a mod that allows you to artificially make aluminum, like they do inmovies!real life.
Well, isn't bauxite pretty much it when it comes to mining aluminum? And don't you need electrolysis or something crazy to extract the stuff? (I guess its time for wikipedia....).
What COULD you do with aluminum in those days that other metals couldn't do?
What COULD you do with aluminum in those days that other metals couldn't do?
Make things that are sturdy, but that you can lift easily?
What COULD you do with aluminum in those days that other metals couldn't do?
Make things that are sturdy, but that you can lift easily?
as far as i know, aluminum was nothing more than an expensive novelty to nobility up until the last 100 years.
I've never quite known how they get these complicated engravings on something as thin as a bow. Or an amulet with half a dozen pictures on it.
Lol once I had a solid gold coffin called Stabwound. But a raccon stole it. Lol
Lol once I had a solid gold coffin called Stabwound. But a raccon stole it. Lol
Good god. Gold is heavier than lead. How the hell does a raccoon drag that away?
Maybe it was really the devil, who needed it for a contest with an undertaker.Lol once I had a solid gold coffin called Stabwound. But a raccon stole it. Lol
Good god. Gold is heavier than lead. How the hell does a raccoon drag that away?
Maybe it was really the devil, who needed it for a contest with an undertaker.Lol once I had a solid gold coffin called Stabwound. But a raccon stole it. Lol
Good god. Gold is heavier than lead. How the hell does a raccoon drag that away?
You can't trust raccoons. They'll trick you out into the desert, and you'll disappear.
Lol once I had a solid gold coffin called Stabwound. But a raccon stole it. Lol
Good god. Gold is heavier than lead. How the hell does a raccoon drag that away?
Maybe he took it piece by piece, like in that Johnny Cash song.
i just got an adimantium anvil menacing with spikes of adimantium, platinum, gold, emerald, giant cave spider silk, turtle shell, olivine, and fire ruby. it's encircled with bands of adimantium, platinum, gold, and turtle shell. it has 16 images of various other artifacts, all in adimantium, three images of itself, in adimantium, platinum, and fire ruby, and has hanging rings of emerald and platinum.
dumb dwarf wouldn't stop collecting stuff, but that is the best artifact ever. went in my magma forge immediately, with an adimantium block, making the best forge ever that i know of.
i found the value, and was relieved I'd just sent my brother with a glass of water, because he had to revive me with it.
Jesus, an adamantine ANVIL, with all that stuff added to it? That must've been in the tens of millions!yes, 43,734,600 dwarf bucks, to be exact. name was something like "gloriedbattle of rage". and that was before i figured out how companion works. kept saving and loading mid-mood, though. every time he grabbed another item, i saved the file, and when i finally stopped... well, you know.
Seems pretty overrated, considreing a masterful ring with the same decorations masterfully would be not even half that price.
Yeah, of course, artifacts have crazy high value modifiers.QFT. Masterpieces have a x12 value modifier...artifacts have a x120 modifier :o
^^ try putting stockpiles of really valuable stuff near your workshops/forges. you can make stone artifacts out of ores, they will grab it if its closer then anything else.This is exactly what I do as well. I even have a map on dfma (http://mkv25.net/dfma/map-4439-bridgeslaughters-dathaecamo) that you can look at as an example. It's several game years out of date, but it still has the basics of the system in place:
Hey, do artifacts ever pop up elsewhere, or is your Dwarf Fortress the only source of them?
Like, if I go into adventure mode, am I going to find other civilization's artifacts?
Is it just me, or are some of the artifacts, especially the clothing ones,Urist cancels place brochure on kiosk: out of thongs.a bitreally tacky?
I just completed an artifact. I got lucky and had found platinum in the early stages of my fortress. When the total wealth was 60,000 or so, in my second year, my armorer gets a fey mood. So I get this:
"This is a Platinum greaves. All craftsdwarfship is of the highest quality. It is studded with Platinum. This object menaces with spikes of Platinum. On the item is an image of a dwarf in Platinum" Total worth: 288,000☼. More than 4 times the worth of the rest of my entire fortress combined. I love my platinum pants.
Is it just me, or are some of the artifacts, especially the clothing ones,Urist cancels place brochure on kiosk: out of thongs.a bitreally tacky?
I haven't had many artifacts but I do have a favorite. It was the first year of my fortress and my Outpost leader was possesed. He goes out and makes an Obsidian Mechanism of all things. The engravers wouldn't carve anything else for ages.
My chain worth 1.5 million dorf-bucks is not pleased at its lack of attention D:
I dare someone to try to come up with a more valuable artefact.
Alright, now another armorer made a set of legendary adamantine greaves worth 1,800,000.*cough*
My chain worth 1.5 million dorf-bucks is not pleased at its lack of attention D:
I dare someone to try to come up with a more valuable artefact.Alright, now another armorer made a set of legendary adamantine greaves worth 1,800,000.*cough*
Is it just me, or are some of the artifacts, especially the clothing ones,a bitreally tacky?
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Ah yes, I love when dwarves do stuff like this.
It's a pig tail bag. Decorated with more pig tail. It menaces with MORE pig tail spikes.
But the best part?
On the pig tail bag is an image of ANOTHER pig tail bag, IN PIG TAIL.
The Snarling Stances, a Platinum bucklerIt's meant to be used as an earring.
This is a Platinum buckler. All craftsdwarfship is of the highest quality. It is encrusted with Onyx and encircled with bands of goblin bone and Native gold. This object menaces with spikes of Gold, giant cave diper silk, cat leather, and Native gold.
On the item is an image of Fikod Shotwashes the dwarf and dwarves in Platinum. Fikod Shotwashes is surrounded by the dwarves. The artwork relates to the ascension of dwarf Fikod Shotwashes to leadership of The Dyes of Veiling in 174.
On the Item is an image of a shining sun in Bituminous coal.
234,000☼
Now that's what I call bling!
It's a belt buckle. A massive belt buckle.
On the item is an image of The Extrication of Meetings the dragon leather thong in turtle shell.
<shudders at the mental image of a dwarf in a thong>
i dunno... a dragon leather thong sounds pretty nifty to me...
(http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m6/tcei/DF/Plungedloot.jpg)Kinda tiny. You have a better screenshot?
Do I dare ask what you have you resolution set to?(http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m6/tcei/DF/Plungedloot.jpg)Kinda tiny. You have a better screenshot?
Do I dare ask what you have you resolution set to?(http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m6/tcei/DF/Plungedloot.jpg)Kinda tiny. You have a better screenshot?
Every year since then images of it encrust the goods of dwarves, humans, and elves as they come to trade. but worse than that, the very season after it is created, the goblin ambush leader is wearing... an exceptional pair of giant cave spider silk socks with the screw on them TWICE.
Bubnusshilrŕr, "Scouredtulip", and enormous Steel corkscrewHeheh, execute them with it.
This is a enormous Steel corkscrew. All craftdwarfship is of the highest quality. It is studded with Steel and decorated with rhesus macaque bone. On the item is an image of blazing suns in Felsite.
Weight: 1256 Value: 74400
I imagine it to be tulip shaped. Maybe
i should put it in a trap if they like it so much.
Of course, the one I like better, and maybe good adventureer gear even from the same fort (got me a legendary weaver at least:
Dural Nilim, "The Honor of Tweeting", a Pig tail tunic
This is a Pig tail tunic. All craftdwarfship is of the highest quality. It is studded with Lead and Pig iron and encircled with bands of cow leather. It is made from pig tail cloth. The thread is red, well-colored with Redroot Dye. On the item is an image of a large gem in Pig tail (loom is right next to jewelers, and lots of large green glass gems come out of there).
On the item is an image of Kűbuk Craftlulls the dwarf and dwarves in green glass. Kűbuk Craftlulls is surrounded by dwarves. The artwork relates to the ascension of the dwarf Kűbuk Craftlulls to the leadership of The Slave of Books in 163.
Weight: 15 Basic Value: 31800
well, my training master weaponsmith got a possesion, and soon enough made a screw. Oh, well, empty pump in dining room then, nothing more notable... except...
As a 200 year world due to megabeast survivability, apparantly this is the most notable event in all of history.
Every year since then images of it encrust the goods of dwarves, humans, and elves as they come to trade. but worse than that, the very season after it is created, the goblin ambush leader is wearing... an exceptional pair of giant cave spider silk socks with the screw on them TWICE.
(http://i41.tinypic.com/2kmsgj.png)
One of the guys in my current fort produced a pretty snazzy spear:All of your dwarves are going to die
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All of your dwarves are going to die
This is a Chestnut earring. All craftsdwarfship is of the highest quality. It is encircled with bands of Chestnut. On the item is an image of a Chestnut earring in Oak.It's actually an earring SHAPED like a chestnut. (fresh chestnuts are encased in a spiky outer husk, which looks TOTALLY dwarven... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chestnut03.jpg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chestnut03.jpg))
Is that epic or what?
Just curious.. how do you make an image of a chestnut earring with oak? Is that like painting a picture of a red car with only blue paint?
"Gullypleat the style of Executing, a Alunite Grate"
I had a trio of Armorers get into moods.... This is looking to be my favorite fort so far! :)Spoiler (click to show/hide)
I can't wait for one of my Dwarves to hit Champion so I can equip him with all 3.
I'm hoping for my Weaponsmith and 4th Armorsmith to get into a mood soon.
Stettad Gutid *The Tax Of Uttering*, a Spiked Iron Ball.Speak, friend, and enter!
I had one that had a nice follow up artifact...
The first was a Sard Sarcophagus. Its name. The Point of Medicine.
Now think of it. A Coffin called the Point of Medicine, clearly if there was medicine then a coffin wouldn't be needed as much.
But the Follow up was a Jet Bed, and on it was an Image of the Coffin...
Now go make your bed and lay in it...
I like the artifact in my sig. You can't go wrong with underwear that has both spikes AND rings.
I like the artifact in my sig. You can't go wrong with underwear that has both spikes AND rings.
I like the artifact in my sig. You can't go wrong with underwear that has both spikes AND rings.
You don't seem to have a sig...Could you just post the relevant information here?
"Impaleescorts the Pregnant Courtesy"
Its going into a weapon trap hehe
...and it is! lol, i kept seeing my dwarves heading up the back doorway, bringing back goblin corpses. i wondered where they were coming from. OH the weapon trap 1-shotted an entire ambush party, and it doesn't bring up the ambush alarm! lol...
HA! I beat you all by far!
Say hello to my little friend:Spoiler (click to show/hide)
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I think The Monarch is up to something.
A legendary crapcarver would be pretty cool, in a horrifying and disgusting sort of way.
Some day I hope to get anything that isn't an artifact willow earring. The only useful artifact I've ever gotten was an artifact statue made from obsidian and studded with platinum, aluminum, and steel, which immediately launched my dining room to legendary. Later I moved it into my mayor's office/dining room as my engravers and masons had made the dining room legendary by virtue of the furniture and engravings.
Mwhahaha. If only that was called shakencrumble AT the plan of butterflies :D All of his plans suck though.
and i was talking about a game... it's not reality... you gotta accept that :D
My fortress is 16 years old. I got 6 migrants in the 3d year, then they stopped coming, presumably due to my starting civ being too small.
Finally, my population is over 20.
My expedition leader is called Hammerforge (by me, at the beginning of the game). He is already legendary in weaponsmithing (I cheated some on embark with Dtil).
The very first mood I get is a fey mood, and Hammerforge is the one taken by it.
He proceeds to grab a single bar of adamantine (I have modded in a reaction to make adamantine from 2 steel, 1 pig iron, 1 iron, flux and coal), and starts working furiously.
He made an adamantine warhammer named Fatscaly. Worth 720000 dwarfbucks.
Now that is a nice start for the artifact list. Bit of a shame it has no decorations, but still.
Three interesting artifacts from my last fort:
Staleblanch the Lovely Lull, a cat bone battle axe.
Floodrock, a cat bone spear.
Embracegranite, a cat leather long skirt.
I love the name of the battle axe. Also, I think all three of these were made by children.
This one isn't very valuable, but I found it amusing.
Sungconfuses the Blazes of Spoiling, a raccoon leather thong. It is decorated with turtle shell and encircled with bands of raccoon leather.
So far, so good, but then:
On the item is an image of Kib Confinedblockade the dwarf in rat leather.
On the item is an image of The Wooden Tooth the rope reed chausse in cave spider silk.
Kib Confinedblockade is the king of the mountainhome.
So, on this thong is an image of the king and an artifactpair ofarmor-grade socks? I wonder who would wear such a thing? :D
Anyone else think about giving visual interpretations to some of these?Something like this?
Cavernstyles the Even Medicine
This is a raw dragon scales chain mail. All craftsdwarfship is of the highest quality. It is encircled with bands of raw dragon scales, obsidian and turtle shell. This object menaces with spikes of turtle shell.
Basic value: 19,326,000
Contents: "blood covering"
The value of this thing is through the roof.
My dwarves didn't even kill the dragon. He was set upon by a wave of orcs.
Best artifact?
I would have to say the Carp Bone spear. It had a picture of Rat Weed... in elf leather. Bahaha. 8)
elf leather
^First, you strip an elf from the herd (protip: tell him there's a tree that wants to talk to him). Then you club him real good...
You also can't make things out of dwarf leather, but fell moods do anyway. Artifacts aren't subject to the same rules as the rest of the game.
I sincerely doubt that fell moods grab visiting elves, hilarious as that would be.
Have fun with those sieges.
Best artifact ever was a rose gold anvil decorated with silver, sapphires and a slew of other materials (glass, shell, wood). Worked out to about 500,000-ish moneys. The most impressive thing was the metalcrafter who made it. She had a broken leg. The magma forge was at the top of my fort, right on the crater. Most of my goods stockpiles were on the very bottom: 5 z-levels down and half of the (5x5) map away!>.>
...
Can HFS contain elf leather?
Im sorry to say this but i think you had the gayest fortress in the history of dwarvkind...
I cant remember to have had a very awesome artifact but i once had a fortress full of selfappointed art critics. The details are lost to history, i only remember two names and some pictures but it basically went like this:
1. Artifact - "Something something" the basalt ring - nothing special here
2. Artifact - "Somethingsomething the false Idols" the diorit floodgate - engraved on the artifact was a picture of the creator of Artifact 1, holding his ring - i later checked and in fact, the creator of 2 had a grudge on 1
3.-8. Artifact - all creators where friends of either 1 or 2, all of these artifacts were made from basalt or diorit (was the most common stone in my fortress) and had an engraving of artifact 1 or 2 or theyre creation
9. Artifact - "Somethingsomething the useless bickering" the steel warhammer - engraved with both 1 and 2 (the first one who had both), my smith seemed a little pissed of about the ongoing argument which artifact was great and which one should be tossed down the chasm
Between artifact 2 and 9 i had lots of engravings of 1 and 2 but after the creation of the 9. neither got engraved anymore or was mentioned on later artifacts. I always imagined that my smith, artifact steel hammer in hand, ran into the meetinghall and shouted atop of his lungs "I just created this hammer and i swear to Armok, the next moron who talks about a basalt ring or a diorit floodgate will be a fine paste on the wall!"
Sometimes the RNG is just awesome...
a simple wooden one and was cremated via magma (my usual burial arrangement when i have magma).
not only is that self-refrential, but it's double refrential! ug, that's gotta be an FPS drop.
I always imagined cloth spikes as being more like frills or something. Soooo lame.It menaces with its bright pink "spikes"... menaces as in it will BLIND YOU UPON EYE CONTACT WITH IT.
Those trousers sure do look meancing, though. ;D
Nah, THESE are cloth spikes!
(http://www.imusic.stylemysite.co.uk/images/jester-hat-a.jpg)
Or at least leather. Also, they can't be spikes, because they don't menace.At her current age... yeah, I imagine they would be leather. And I disagree with you: Old lady tits are very menacing.
I just got my first artifact thong. It's probably my first because I've never bothered with a cloth industry before. This map has an undergound river right next to my fortress, though, so cave spider silk is easy. Thus, weavers and clothiers.That is possibly the coolest thong I've ever seen. You could have the worlds ugliest dwarf with pubic hair out of EVERYWHERE wearing nothing but that thing and he'd look good.
It's pretty hardcore.
Samamtalin, "Couragedrums", a giant cave spider silk thong.
It is incrusted with star sapphires and encircled with bands of emerald. The GCS cloth is midnight blue with dimple dye. It's adorned with hanging rings of GCS silk. It menaces with spikes of GCS silk, raw adamantine, emerald, AND admantine. On the item is an image of a wave in emerald. On the item is an image of Alders in emerald.
Yes, that's right. Spikes of GCS silk, Raw Adamantine, emerald, AND adamantine.
Value: 1,000,200☼
What. The. Hell.
And I disagree with you: Old lady tits are very menacing.
Samamtalin, "Couragedrums", a giant cave spider silk thong.
It is incrusted with star sapphires and encircled with bands of emerald. The GCS cloth is midnight blue with dimple dye. It's adorned with hanging rings of GCS silk. It menaces with spikes of GCS silk, raw adamantine, emerald, AND admantine. On the item is an image of a wave in emerald. On the item is an image of Alders in emerald.
Yes, that's right. Spikes of GCS silk, Raw Adamantine, emerald, AND adamantine.
Value: 1,000,200☼
What. The. Hell.
And I disagree with you: Old lady tits are very menacing.
And I disagree with you as well: Madonna is not old.
Madonna is AT LEAST 50 years old.And I disagree with you: Old lady tits are very menacing.
And I disagree with you as well: Madonna is not old.
I just got my first artifact thong. It's probably my first because I've never bothered with a cloth industry before. This map has an undergound river right next to my fortress, though, so cave spider silk is easy. Thus, weavers and clothiers.
It's pretty hardcore.
Samamtalin, "Couragedrums", a giant cave spider silk thong.
It is incrusted with star sapphires and encircled with bands of emerald. The GCS cloth is midnight blue with dimple dye. It's adorned with hanging rings of GCS silk. It menaces with spikes of GCS silk, raw adamantine, emerald, AND admantine. On the item is an image of a wave in emerald. On the item is an image of Alders in emerald.
Yes, that's right. Spikes of GCS silk, Raw Adamantine, emerald, AND adamantine.
Value: 1,000,200☼
What. The. Hell.
[ is now my sworn enemy and must be destroyed.
yes, from now on i shall go trousers free!Quote[ is now my sworn enemy and must be destroyed.
Trousers?
Well, at least you know when the seasons change! XDyes, from now on i shall go trousers free!Quote[ is now my sworn enemy and must be destroyed.
Trousers?
DOWN WITH TROUSERS!
yes, from now on i shall go trousers free!Quote[ is now my sworn enemy and must be destroyed.
Trousers?
DOWN WITH TROUSERS!
Logged in just to report ths one."Menacing spikes, for your... pleasure?"
So, Fish Dissector Tun Stizashiden goes into a fey mood, and creates a dolomite mug. No biggie. Then I read the description, and nearly choked on my tongue.
Egasttitthal Gotom Kukon... "Clenchedplays, the Cavity of Recreation"
Oh god...
It is encrusted with Dolomite, decorated with turtle bone and cave lobster shell and encircled with bands of Dolomite, Tower-cap and Rose Quartz. This object menaces with spikes of Dolomite and turte shell. On the item is an image of Rakust Cloisteredcall the dwarf in Steel. On the item is an image of a satyr in leather.
Anyone else think she just made a primitive fleshlight?
My best artifact was a willow bucket. Yes, a willow bucket. The story of its creation I think is pretty awesome (...)
One would think it wouldn't be a very good hammer then, since a light object wouldn't hit as hard as a heavy one, and hammers rely entire on how hard they hit in order to inflict damage.You do not argue with the might of adamantine! It is above your puny physics!
But hey, what do I know about artifacts?
You do not argue with the might of adamantine! It is above your puny physics!
You do not argue with the might of adamantine! It is above your puny physics!
Yes... Adamantine is x5 damage, and Artifacts are what?... another x5?
A Copper Hammer called "Smash Face"
...Hammer called "Smash Face"
...Hammer Smash Face
Most of my guys were named after metal artists.
It wasn't worth much but it's still awesome and owned by my legendary hammerdwarf.
>:( i can never last long enough D:< i want an artifact :'(
Mastertrapped the adamantine axe.Dfcompanion re-mooding?
made out of ten adamantine wafers.
It menaced with spikes of adamantine, was adorned with hanging rings of adamantine, was encircled with bands of adamantine. Need to find that pic i had.
Edit:Oh, and it had about two or three pages worth of engravings on it.
Nope. I just forbade everything that wasn't adamantine, and he had a magma forge mood.Mastertrapped the adamantine axe.Dfcompanion re-mooding?
made out of ten adamantine wafers.
It menaced with spikes of adamantine, was adorned with hanging rings of adamantine, was encircled with bands of adamantine. Need to find that pic i had.
Edit:Oh, and it had about two or three pages worth of engravings on it.
Nope. I just forbade everything that wasn't adamantine, and he had a magma forge mood.Mastertrapped the adamantine axe.Dfcompanion re-mooding?
made out of ten adamantine wafers.
It menaced with spikes of adamantine, was adorned with hanging rings of adamantine, was encircled with bands of adamantine. Need to find that pic i had.
Edit:Oh, and it had about two or three pages worth of engravings on it.
Moody dwarves happily grab any item they want to use and can reach, no matter if it's 'F'orbidden or not.
Better find that pic... or it didn't happen.
Moody dwarves happily grab any item they want to use and can reach, no matter if it's 'F'orbidden or not.
Better find that pic... or it didn't happen.
Before they claim the shop?
My best ... not mine, traders brought it but ...That's not an artifact?Spoiler (click to show/hide)
I just got a turtle bone statue, probably one of my more interesting artifacts, aside the black bronze greaves in another fort in a long while... I just want to know why have it be about trading with the elves?Obviously, that was the preliminary "please stop cutting down trees" from moments before the caravan was dropped into a carp tarp.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
In my most recent fortress, I've had the best series of artifacts I've ever had - but please bear in mind that I'm a utilitarian. Vast amounts of metals and plentiful coal and lava and an underground river and a bottomless pit and sand, emphasis on the metals, so I've got like 15 metalsmiths going a dozen years in.
First smith's arti: Arti Adamantine warhammer. Second: Arti Adamantine spear. Third: Arti Adamantine short sword. Fourth: Arti Adamantine mace. Fifth: Arti Adamantine barrel.
I put #5 to death immediately. He broke my streak!
I don't think you can put weapons in barrels.In my most recent fortress, I've had the best series of artifacts I've ever had - but please bear in mind that I'm a utilitarian. Vast amounts of metals and plentiful coal and lava and an underground river and a bottomless pit and sand, emphasis on the metals, so I've got like 15 metalsmiths going a dozen years in.
First smith's arti: Arti Adamantine warhammer. Second: Arti Adamantine spear. Third: Arti Adamantine short sword. Fourth: Arti Adamantine mace. Fifth: Arti Adamantine barrel.
I put #5 to death immediately. He broke my streak!
Hey, what? He makes you ARTIFACT barrel so you can keep all those weapons in it and you kill him?
Awwwz, how sad.
I don't think you can put weapons in barrels.In my most recent fortress, I've had the best series of artifacts I've ever had - but please bear in mind that I'm a utilitarian. Vast amounts of metals and plentiful coal and lava and an underground river and a bottomless pit and sand, emphasis on the metals, so I've got like 15 metalsmiths going a dozen years in.
First smith's arti: Arti Adamantine warhammer. Second: Arti Adamantine spear. Third: Arti Adamantine short sword. Fourth: Arti Adamantine mace. Fifth: Arti Adamantine barrel.
I put #5 to death immediately. He broke my streak!
Hey, what? He makes you ARTIFACT barrel so you can keep all those weapons in it and you kill him?
Awwwz, how sad.
Booze, however...
In my most recent fortress, I've had the best series of artifacts I've ever had - but please bear in mind that I'm a utilitarian. Vast amounts of metals and plentiful coal and lava and an underground river and a bottomless pit and sand, emphasis on the metals, so I've got like 15 metalsmiths going a dozen years in.
First smith's arti: Arti Adamantine warhammer. Second: Arti Adamantine spear. Third: Arti Adamantine short sword. Fourth: Arti Adamantine mace. Fifth: Arti Adamantine barrel.
I put #5 to death immediately. He broke my streak!
maybe he was being really smart, like fill said artifact barrel with fire imp tallow, push down hill towards attackers and you have a bomb that is reuasble and doesn't destroy the container? Also you could go Donkey Kong and then it's a weapon.There we go. All you need is a war gorilla.
I've never actually located adimantine. it makes me sad. i wish i could get reveal to work.make it where your miner mines the entire bottom level, and then remove it before he litterly mines it, then try the reveal tool, though I never use the reveal tool because it stops me from making armor out of Adamantine, magma buildings, and some other stuff
>:(
That's why you make a copy of the game and use the reveal tool on the copy so you get a general idea. (And then export them and use Dwarf Fortress's compress bitmap tool to make the pictures more manageable.)I've never actually located adimantine. it makes me sad. i wish i could get reveal to work.make it where your miner mines the entire bottom level, and then remove it before he litterly mines it, then try the reveal tool, though I never use the reveal tool because it stops me from making armor out of Adamantine, magma buildings, and some other stuff
>:(
Mastertrapped the adamantine axe.
It menaced with spikes of adamantine, was adorned with hanging rings of adamantine, was encircled with bands of adamantine. Need to find that pic i had.
Edit:Oh, and it had about two or three pages worth of engravings on it.
I've never actually located adimantine. it makes me sad. i wish i could get reveal to work.
>:(
maybe he was being really smart, like fill said artifact barrel with fire imp tallow, push down hill towards attackers and you have a bomb that is reuasble and doesn't destroy the container? Also you could go Donkey Kong and then it's a weapon.
2. This artifact has a single image of itself on it, in the correct material. This is the artifact I've produced which has such an image.
And it means the maker had to know exactly what it would look like when it was completed.2. This artifact has a single image of itself on it, in the correct material. This is the artifact I've produced which has such an image.
The point is, even one self-image engraved results in an endless loop. Since it's got an image of itself on it, an image of it has the image of itself in the image.
You can view all previous artifacts in legends mode.
You can view all previous artifacts in legends mode.
Ok I found where you can view some basic detail in legends mode, but am I right in assuming there's no way to get the full detail again without finding the item in adventurer mode or something? (The legends mode description tells me what it is, but not what images are on it or what materials it's made of).
2. This artifact has a single image of itself on it, in the correct material. This is the artifact I've produced which has such an image.
The point is, even one self-image engraved results in an endless loop. Since it's got an image of itself on it, an image of it has the image of itself in the image.
[SHAPE:SET_MANDELBROT]
[NAME:Mandelbrot Set:Mandelbrot Sets]
[ADJ:awe-inspiring]
[ADJ:beautiful]
[ADJ:elegant]
[TILE:15]
And yes, it looks like I went around forbidding things.
you don't forbid the ones you want him to use, you forbid the ones you don't XD
Try removing your stockpiles so your dwarves won't take away the extra items. I've managed to use the cheat you're talking about, and yes, dwarves restockpiling stuff is problem, or a disadvantage.you don't forbid the ones you want him to use, you forbid the ones you don't XD
Yeah, I guess you forbid felsite so they use platinum nuggets for a mason's mood, right? That doesn't explain the supposed common wisdom of people increasing their number of ingredients via forbidding.
http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=49177.0
Your dorf wants 1 each of rocks and bars and shells. She brings back a rock, then goes to get a bar. Forbid the rock, then she brings back a bar and goes to get a new rock. Unforbid the rock, then when she comes back she sees the brackets of forbidding gone, uses both. Repeat as desired, although I think Planepacking an artifact requires a different method because this onesupposedly has a limit of (n^2)-(n) total things on it.
Kithnecak, "The Scarce Neutralization", a Native Copper Mechanism. Covered in native copper and platinum, with an engraving of a lizard. The artifact itself, while neat, isn't really "best artifact ever" material, but its name is really cool. I HAVE to use it in some sort of elaborate killing machine.
Kithnecak, "The Scarce Neutralization", a Native Copper Mechanism. Covered in native copper and platinum, with an engraving of a lizard. The artifact itself, while neat, isn't really "best artifact ever" material, but its name is really cool. I HAVE to use it in some sort of elaborate killing machine.Isn't the mechanism un-recoverable then?
I think the best option would be a lever in a nobles room that activates the drowning trap...
Bonus points for boosting room value and killing noble at the same time.
Isn't the mechanism un-recoverable then?
http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=49177.0
Your dorf wants 1 each of rocks and bars and shells. She brings back a rock, then goes to get a bar. Forbid the rock, then she brings back a bar and goes to get a new rock. Unforbid the rock, then when she comes back she sees the brackets of forbidding gone, uses both. Repeat as desired, although I think Planepacking an artifact requires a different method because this onesupposedly has a limit of (n^2)-(n) total things on it.
That's an image of my newly arrived Queen on there, who has been bitching that someone's office was better than hers (not sure how, her throne room is massive and covered in engravings/statues), so I'm sticking this smack in the middle to shut her up.
I remember on my last fort, right before the world went to hell, one of my blacksmiths took over a forge and then later came out with an Iron Shortsword named 'AngelSlaughter the barren epitome.' It had rings and spikes of obsidian and had various engravings of an elf going beserk and killing a bunch of dwarves, and some engravings of elves getting hacked to pieces. Then I accidentally opened a magma pool and lit everything on fire, and this was after the tantrum spiral just started.
He took Catfish Bone Bolts [5]Impossible (unless you modded that to happen, or cheated). Much more likely is that it was sitting in the workshop, but he wasn't actually doing anything with it.
Planepacked all over again. Fix is simple: dwarf in mood should ignore burrows. Did you report it in bug tracker?
The fort is now long gone, but my favorite artifact ever created was a bed made of bituminous coal, encrusted with bituminous coal, and circled with bands of lignite. I put it in a noble's room, and was planning to get a magma-fall in the same room before my fort crumbled :D.
This, is genius.The fort is now long gone, but my favorite artifact ever created was a bed made of bituminous coal, encrusted with bituminous coal, and circled with bands of lignite. I put it in a noble's room, and was planning to get a magma-fall in the same room before my fort crumbled :D.
dude i bet that bed would of burned... forever and the nobles would of slept in it and burned to death in there sleep OMG i want one so bad now
to mr blue gem window appears everywhere - im pretty sure that dwarves make engravings or images of things that happened in the local region. which is why embarking on a big reagion most often gives you more interesting legends engravings. so, forts created in the same region as the blue gem window will get pictures of it. if you want images of your adamantium short sword, you can try embarking in the same region as it. i get lots of pictures of my steel short sword in my current fort, as it borders on the same forest my last fort was on even though they are a million miles from each other. its called the forest of machines, and i also get a lot of epic engravings of a metallicish forest titan comitting genocide against the elves. which is awesome.
On my current fort, my second artifact was my miner. He made a bed out of bituminous coal, encircled with bands of iron and menacing with spikes of bituminous coal.Fun fact: flamable artifacts burn for all eternity without crumbling to ashes, ever.
I don't care how much it's worth, it's a goddamn spiked bed made of coal by a miner.
And the sad thing is, I could probably use it to dispose of nobles...but it's too awesome to magmarize.
Why is it you can only make bed's out of wood, but if a dwarf goes crazy he can make a comfortable bed out of adamantine?Artifacts can be made out of ANYTHING. Silk anvils, coke axes, bone armour, soap chair, whatever you want. Ever-popular are burning forever graphite beds for nobles.
I had a dwarf make a sapphire cage once. Through sheer luck, it was in the first cage trap when the dragon arrived...
TRIUMPHANT EDIT:20,688,000☼Spoiler (click to show/hide)
I only counted 13.
Oh, and I only let him use half my adamantine.
Ah, my best artifact ever would have to be "Dustpurges" the adamentine short sword, created in the Skyseal bloodline game. The thing was worth 1.4 million, used three separate adamentine wafers (including one for its base metal), along with some rough gems and green glass, and could send goblins flying farther than Babe Ruth's home runs. I would kill (many of my dwarves) for another artifact like that one.
I recently got Frightcrater, an alunite ring adorned with rings of alunite.I'd like to imagine that those rings of alunite were adorned with their own alunite rings.
This is a alder figurine of Zon Hatchetface. All craftsdwarfship is of
the highest quality.
The item is a masterfully designed image of Zon Hatchetface the dwarf and
dwarves in alder by Reg Likotedos. Zon Hatchetface is surrounded by the
dwarves. The artwork relates to the ascension of the dwarf Zon Hatchetface
to the position of queen of The Disemboweled Silvers in 1.
It is decorated with oak and encircled with bands of alder. This object is
adorned with hanging rings of pig tail fiber and menaces with spikes of
mountain goat leather.
On the item is an image of humans and elves in ash. The humans are fighting
with the elves. The artwork relates to the attack by The Submerged
Confederation on The Poetic Clouds in The Just Swamp in the late autumn of
20 during Ngiranoloc, "The Furious Battles".
I had a woodcrafter make this:Wow. The only thing that would make those names more appropriate is if The Submerged Confederation were dwarves.Code: [Select]This is a alder figurine of Zon Hatchetface. All craftsdwarfship is of
the highest quality.
The item is a masterfully designed image of Zon Hatchetface the dwarf and
dwarves in alder by Reg Likotedos. Zon Hatchetface is surrounded by the
dwarves. The artwork relates to the ascension of the dwarf Zon Hatchetface
to the position of queen of The Disemboweled Silvers in 1.
It is decorated with oak and encircled with bands of alder. This object is
adorned with hanging rings of pig tail fiber and menaces with spikes of
mountain goat leather.
On the item is an image of humans and elves in ash. The humans are fighting
with the elves. The artwork relates to the attack by The Submerged
Confederation on The Poetic Clouds in The Just Swamp in the late autumn of
20 during Ngiranoloc, "The Furious Battles".
My most recent one is Oddomimesh, Cloistersprinkled, a rope reed fiber coat worth 765080:A certain piano player is going to be looking for that coat, I think. ;)
"This is a rope reed fiber coat. All craftdwarfship is of the highest quality. It is encrusted with yellow grossular and schorl, studded with adamantine and encircled with bands of quartzite and phyllite. It is made from rope reed fiber cloth. This object menaces with spikes of schorl. On the item is an image of waves in rope reed fiber. On the item is an image of saguaro in rope reed fiber. On the item is an image of two tower-caps in adamantine."
Waste of good adamantine though.
Urist McMozart?My most recent one is Oddomimesh, Cloistersprinkled, a rope reed fiber coat worth 765080:A certain piano player is going to be looking for that coat, I think. ;)
"This is a rope reed fiber coat. All craftdwarfship is of the highest quality. It is encrusted with yellow grossular and schorl, studded with adamantine and encircled with bands of quartzite and phyllite. It is made from rope reed fiber cloth. This object menaces with spikes of schorl. On the item is an image of waves in rope reed fiber. On the item is an image of saguaro in rope reed fiber. On the item is an image of two tower-caps in adamantine."
Waste of good adamantine though.
Actually, I was thinking Liberace, but now that you mention it, Wolfgang kinda fit the mold as well, didn't he? :DUrist McMozart?My most recent one is Oddomimesh, Cloistersprinkled, a rope reed fiber coat worth 765080:A certain piano player is going to be looking for that coat, I think. ;)
"This is a rope reed fiber coat. All craftdwarfship is of the highest quality. It is encrusted with yellow grossular and schorl, studded with adamantine and encircled with bands of quartzite and phyllite. It is made from rope reed fiber cloth. This object menaces with spikes of schorl. On the item is an image of waves in rope reed fiber. On the item is an image of saguaro in rope reed fiber. On the item is an image of two tower-caps in adamantine."
Waste of good adamantine though.
"He has an astonishing knack for music. He has difficulty with words and language."
Skills:
Legendary Composer
My artifacts mostly suck (a silk fibre left sock?) but my favourite was a rock statue of the creator staring at roaches, adorned with fox leather, I think. He hates roaches. When I put it on display in the main room, he eventually went mad....A true bohemian, suffering for his art.
One day, a random weaponsmith goes into a fey mood. Which is awesome in and of itself, I get a legendary weaponsmith out of the deal. He hauls in a bar of adamantine. I'm thinking "Sweeeeet". Next he needs body parts. None are available at the moment, but I'd just murdered a bunch of unicorns. He goes straight for the bone and brings it in. So I'm thinking awesome. I hope it's an adamantine battle axe that menaces with spikes of unicorn bone, that would perfectly round off the luck with RNG. He works... and then he comes out with...
Utharod Govultakuth, "Firstlimb the Untrustworthy Chasm", a adamantine war hammer. 688,800 DwarfBucks
This is a adamantine war hammer. All craftsdwarfship is of the highest quality. This object is adorned with hanging rings of adamantine and menaces with spikes of unicorn bone.
...it even got the menacing spikes right, but it had that one crucial flaw. It would be about as effective in combat as a fluffy pillow.
On the upside, I just pumped out three exceptional and one masterwork battle axes, and that hammer will be perfect for the Hammerer if I can workaround the lack of noble immigrants bug.
Ushulroldeth Limur Emen, "Realmanguish the Nadir of Strength", a gold battle axe.
It is decorated with cat leather. This object menaces with spikes of dog bone.
On the item is a picture of prickleberries in gold.
On the item is an image of Id Cavebronze the Gold of Mines, the deity of metals and minerals, depicted as a male dwarf in dog bone. Id Cavebronze the Gold of Mines is laughing.
On the item is an image of Realmanguish the Nadir of Strength the gold battle axe in obsidian.
Value 165600
So, you know... I like the name 'Realm anguish'. Though I first read it as 'real man guish'...
But the nadir of strength? That's the opposite of the zenith of strength... That sort of does not bode well, does it?
The image of Id Cavebronze? Appropriate. The 'Gold' of Mines? Odd typo or just unusual figure of speech?
And an image of itself on it... in obsidian. How can you be sure it's actually an image of a gold battleaxe when the image is in obsidian, fer cryin' out loud?
So yeah... Me like, but me raised a few eyebrows at this.
http://df.magmawiki.com/images/thumb/2/2b/This_is_a_shitload_of_worth.PNG/800px-This_is_a_shitload_of_worth.PNGWait, what? How much is this worth exactly?! I mean, this is likely to be worth more than whole fortresses!
:P
Beat that.
It also contains 36 images of itself.
And more then 10 from some random deity.
I sure love burrows and raw duplication :D
The item is a masterfully designed image of Gust Sprayedyear the human and a dwarf in bituminous coal. The dwarf is striking down Gust Sprayedyear. The artwork relates to the killing of the human Gust Sprayedyear by a dwarf in Riddledslings in The Axes of Gates in the midwinter of 85 during Etosp Spuspo, the Siege of Thorns.
Really? I get that a lot actually, with more unidentified killers than known ones. :oThe item is a masterfully designed image of Gust Sprayedyear the human and a dwarf in bituminous coal. The dwarf is striking down Gust Sprayedyear. The artwork relates to the killing of the human Gust Sprayedyear by a dwarf in Riddledslings in The Axes of Gates in the midwinter of 85 during Etosp Spuspo, the Siege of Thorns.
That's interesting. I've never had any sort of engraving or statue fail to identify the killer when it depicts somebody being struck down.
186th Pillaging of Apeswitch: HOLY FREAKING SHIT 186th pillaging?!?!
Urist McHandicapped: Oh Armok, the spikes, the spikes they're so menacing! Make them stop!
Sakzulorshar, "Trumpetweb", a palm amulet.
This is a palm amulet. All craftsdwarfship is of the highest quality. It is decorated with cave spider silk. This object is adorned with hanging rings of palm and menaces with spikes of iron and cave spider silk.
On the item is an image of Onol Visetraded the dwarf and dwarves in acacia. Onol Visetraded is surrounded by the dwarves. The artwork relates to the ascension of the dwarf Onol Visetraded to the position of king of The Folded Lenses in 91.
On the item is an image of Udil Fencedcacti the dwarf in green glass.
I got a red beryl statue recently. According to wikipedia, it looks like this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Bixbite.gif). No wonder the dwarves were partying all the time. I really wish items could become objects of worship so I could co back there as an adventurer and find a bunch of snakemen treating it as a god.
Another fort earlier had a silver anvil that became a de facto symbol of the dwarven civilization. They were carving pictures of it everywhere.
I got a giant drill just now. If only I could get a dwarf to wield it by hand.Rename a dwarf Urist McSimon and have him PIERCE THE HEAVENS WITH HIS DRILL!Spoiler: Pic (click to show/hide)
It's amazing how they can make an entire floodgate out of the bones of 2 cats.One cat per tile.
yo.I got a giant drill just now. If only I could get a dwarf to wield it by hand.Rename a dwarf Urist McSimon and have him PIERCE THE HEAVENS WITH HIS DRILL!Spoiler: Pic (click to show/hide)
An obsidian bed.
I was like, LOLWUT???
Battle Axe!!!!At least he seems to have made a combat weapon, and not the official Hammerers weapon of office. :D
To bad he was possessed, he still has a long time making bolts before he can touch anymore of the blue stuff.
making bolts
http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/5701/brownjasper.png
Apparently my dwarf made a picture of his perfect brown jasper on his perfect brown jasper... in brown jasper. I honestly wonder how he managed to put a picture of his masterpiece on his work of art before he finished making it.
Okay. This is by far not my best, but still...Is that a bone
A crown. Made of donkey bone. Being made of bone, the cow half and horse foal bones just disappeared in the making.
The name? The Influential Will. Fitting for a crown.
The name in dwarvish? Immastud.
He a stud.
psshsppshpsphspshshshshhhhhhhhhh
(http://i53.tinypic.com/1zd51u1.jpg)
Dwarfdom is very proud of you UristMcMoody. We always wanted that. <_<
Value: 752400
(http://i53.tinypic.com/1zd51u1.jpg)
Dwarfdom is very proud of you UristMcMoody. We always wanted that. <_<
Value: 752400
I...umm...
It's adamantine, but it's a stupid piccolo, so it's cool but it sucks and it sucks but it's cool and my brain just fried trying to work the logic out.
My best artifact in my current for is going to cause some controversy... but here goes.All controversy I have in stock for you is... you can glaze adamantine now, and not just pottery?
Kanzudzaneg, Conventralic, a Raw Adamantine Crown.
This is a raw adamantine crown. All craftdwarfship is of the highest quality. It is glazed with hematite. This object menaces with spikes of raw adamantine and rope reed fiber.
Value? 612000db
My best artifact in my current for is going to cause some controversy... but here goes.All controversy I have in stock for you is... you can glaze adamantine now, and not just pottery?
Kanzudzaneg, Conventralic, a Raw Adamantine Crown.
This is a raw adamantine crown. All craftdwarfship is of the highest quality. It is glazed with hematite. This object menaces with spikes of raw adamantine and rope reed fiber.
Value? 612000db
I think that since glazing is, technically, a decoration it can be applied to artifacts. I will need to run a fort to test this!
First one in my current fort is ''Fungusimpaled The Accidental Scenario'. It's a coffin, making the name somehow entirely appropriate.
First one in my current fort is ''Fungusimpaled The Accidental Scenario'. It's a coffin, making the name somehow entirely appropriate.I can think of several plots involving fungiwood spikes and levers, for some reason...
My most value so far is this. 900,000
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I currently have an artifact STEEL SPEAR.
I currently have an artifact STEEL SPEAR.
SPEAR OF RAW STEEL!! High chances that you wont get the reference though.
my fort is quite new, so nothing amazing, but my two best artefacts are:Trifle pewter is basically the stuff metal figurines were made from in the '80s and '90s. Its about as hard as (cold) butter. :)
Minedabbling the raw oar: a trifle pewter mace. Its decorated with bands of pig leather, wolf leather and trifle pewter. (Well, its not very good, but im not sure if trifle pewter makes a good mace, as you can't normally make weapons out of it)
Crowntrailed the aching strength: an iron mail shirt. It menaces with spikes of gneiss, and has an image in it in iron, of elves and humans fighting.
My first weirdly epic artefact was a pig iron spear. I had no clue how he made a spear out of it O.O"Nourishchain the euphoric violator the adamantine short sword" omg XD
Then I learned more about artefacts in DF. After that I had a lot of epic artefacts, but my personal favourite atm. is the first one made out of adamantine :] . I got no screens of it, and the world got deleted...
EDIT: OMG! It's not the artefact it self, but it's the next best thing :]Spoiler (click to show/hide)
In the end this just ends up being a harmless piece of crap.Spoiler: A larch Toy Axe. (click to show/hide)
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Who climbed out of his hospital bed to make this. He is like Santa Claus if Santa Claus was awesome and a one-legged survivor of a Draltha attack.
No joke, my weaver just made an artifact pig tail fiber thong, complete with bands, hanging rings, and spikes. It would appear to be some kind of chastity belt. And the best part? It's named The Admiration of Mortification. No joke. For those unaware, a meaning of mortification is "(Christianity) the act of mortifying the lusts of the flesh by self-denial and privation."Even better addition:
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I did get a nice adamantine mail shirt though. Weakencleaned. "Encircled with bands of towercap, sheep leather and pigtail fiber, adorned with hanging rings of goliath tarantula silk (mod) and menaces with spikes of alpaca wool. On the item is an image of mountains in adamantine, dwarves traveling in bismuthininte and a cloud in rose quartz." So it's kind of a little sunset scene with blue mountains, pink clouds and dwarves traveling underneath. :)
XagonialsetGold is bad for edged weaponry. Very bad.
A gold spear, which my Militia Captain is now wielding and has yet to claim any lives.
This is the proper use of gold :Now THIS, this is a masterpiece.
(http://i51.tinypic.com/2i6kxuv.jpg)
Its hammer time (its worth about 150k)
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I can see the pic perfectlyThe spoiler tag doesn't have anything it, and when I use the link acquired from quoting your post it leads me to a log-in screen on the forum you're hosting on.
i acctually had this one in the corrosion fort:Pretty sure that's a lie, since artifacts get a decoration made of the same material as their base.
the "Freeman", an iron crowbar.
this is an iron crowbar. all craftsmanship is of the highest quality.
and that's it.
edit.: changed it, had to check the game again.
Romekorshar Enkos Zokun, "Longwebbed the Taker of Sieging", a schist bed
This is a schist bed. All craftsdwarfship is of the highest quality. This object menaces with spikes of schist.
i acctually had this one in the corrosion fort:
the "Freeman", an iron crowbar.
i acctually had this one in the corrosion fort:Pretty sure that's a lie, since artifacts get a decoration made of the same material as their base.
the "Freeman", an iron crowbar.
this is an iron crowbar. all craftsmanship is of the highest quality.
and that's it.
edit.: changed it, had to check the game again.
Awesome hat, thatkid. (Could you tell me what tileset that is? - It looks awesome!)
My favourite artifact was a limestone coffin, unfortunately one of my miner's pet cat's had died, so when I pressed 'use for burial' (To bury my dead hunter, he had attacked an undead elephant...) - The cat ended up in the coffin.
Wow. 7.8 mil for one item? And its not even made of candy? Can you post a description or something?Sounds like another planepacked
Wow. 7.8 mil for one item? And its not even made of candy? Can you post a description or something?Sounds like another planepacked
Chaste Gallows, A badger Leather loincloth...On the item is an image of a plump helmet in copper.He's well hung but refuses to use it?
ummm...suggestive? poor urist couldn't have just used a sock like everyone else?
a loincloth with the word gallows in its name! I actually got a cold shiver that ran down my spine....
a loincloth with the word gallows in its name! I actually got a cold shiver that ran down my spine....
It also has a mushroom on it.
a loincloth with the word gallows in its name! I actually got a cold shiver that ran down my spine....
It also has a mushroom on it.
yeah i knida thought he was trying to be modest and have an image instead of just not having the loincloth on at all...Urit McExhibitionist trying to be more PC and all that.
So I embarked on a site which assured me it had a profusion of metals. Yeah, galena.
So I have a lot of lead hanging around in bins when the RNG decides to improve the odds by giving me a fey weaponsmith.
He takes a single bar of lead and creates Togalallas, a lead warhammer. Sounds nice, although plenty of people will tell you why lead is a bad material for a warhammer. But it should at least be heavy!
Still, I decide that the honour of carrying this thing goes to the Captain of the Guard. It turns out that being an artifact makes it pretty awesome in combat. The CotG has now racked up five personal kills with it, and it's starting to build itself a nice little legend.
So, not the fanciest, or most adorned, but definitely my best because of the new tracking for weapons giving it such a great history.
My favorite artifact, was also my first one, Zustashotol (Ancientfound) It was a brown jasper statue, with bands of brown jasper, and an image of itself... in brown jasper.very meta
My favorite artifact, was also my first one, Zustashotol (Ancientfound) It was a brown jasper statue, with bands of brown jasper, and an image of itself... in brown jasper.
Just got myself a wonderful Mechanism. Made from 16 pieces of stone, 2 gems, some leather and some wood.
Images of Rope Reed, Rhesus Macaques, Nether-Cap, Clouds, Crosses.. 2 images of an Elf and a Minotaur fighting (same image twice). 2 different images from the founding of my fort, an image of a previous artifact (a pig iron mace), a dwarf admiring sharks.....
I think your finger would fall off if you wore this.This is... ...very blue, I guess.
http://i56.tinypic.com/mmd440.png
One the one hand, this must have been made by the sleaziest dwarf ever. On the other hand, that name is pretty creepy....
But on the whole, I find everything about this artifact to be made of win.
(http://i.imgur.com/Uvnno.png)
That made me laugh so much:D
A sceptre with a picture of itself on it. Not only is this sceptre my first artifact, but it's my first piece of art as well. And this kid's my second legendary, er... human I guess. (And my first was a miner, and there was sand to be dug so he almost doesn't count.)
In short, kid showed up, decides to mark his awesomeness by making a sceptre, and marked the sceptre's awesomeness by engraving the sceptre into itself.
I pity his sibling. How can you compete with that. "Your brother made an artifact when he was ten! What have you done with your life?!"
This. http://kepfeltoltes.hu/110923/Tornado_of_Thrones_www.kepfeltoltes.hu_.jpgBah, it's just a statue of an elf having his
Just how hardcore is that elf?
A turtle bone cage! It's been a while, so I forget the details, but I put it where everydwarf could see it. I filled it with 200 cats and a (tame turtle). Turtleception?
A turtle bone cage! It's been a while, so I forget the details, but I put it where everydwarf could see it. I filled it with 200 cats and a (tame turtle). Turtleception?Spoiler (click to show/hide)
A turtle bone cage! It's been a while, so I forget the details, but I put it where everydwarf could see it. I filled it with 200 cats and a (tame turtle). Turtleception?Spoiler (click to show/hide)
YES
The first one in my current fort is also one of the awesomest sofar. A golden anvil. It is dwarfiness incarnate although I don't trust it in a magma forge.
This is a adamantine shield. All craftsdwarfship is of the highest quality. It is encircled with bands of adamantine. This object is adorned with hanging rings of maple and menaces with spikes of granite. On the item is an image of a acacia in fungiwood.This artifact is worth 1336800 dwarfbucks.The first one in my current fort is also one of the awesomest sofar. A golden anvil. It is dwarfiness incarnate although I don't trust it in a magma forge.Use gold blocks as the other ingredient to the forge. Or possibly Nether-cap. That would be bad-ass; I like gold and deep blues together.
The first one in my current fort is also one of the awesomest sofar. A golden anvil. It is dwarfiness incarnate although I don't trust it in a magma forge.
You need to build some kind of shrine around it. Find a dwarf who worships a god that's about forging or something and have him create statues and whatnot.
You can kinda do that using a custom stockpile. Just make a finished goods stockpile and restrict all the types except anvil and all the metals except gold. Then you make a 1 tile stockpile where-ever you want the anvil and use q-t to designate the anvil to be taken from whatever stockpile it's held in currently.
Artifacts can't be destroyed, and gold isn't flammable (so no ‼Artifact Anvil‼), so you should be able to use it in a magma forge just fine. Said magma forge should be the centerpiece of the temple described above.
Artifacts can't be destroyed, and gold isn't flammable (so no ‼Artifact Anvil‼), so you should be able to use it in a magma forge just fine. Said magma forge should be the centerpiece of the temple described above.
I've had an artifact floodgate destroyed by magma
Artifacts can't be destroyed, and gold isn't flammable (so no ‼Artifact Anvil‼), so you should be able to use it in a magma forge just fine. Said magma forge should be the centerpiece of the temple described above.
I've had an artifact floodgate destroyed by magma
You sure it was truly destroyed? Maybe it was just hidden by the flow bug? Did you check the stocks?
Artifacts don't fully burn, though, so it would just end up burning infinitely. Not good if you want water to go through it without boiling into steam.Artifacts can't be destroyed, and gold isn't flammable (so no ‼Artifact Anvil‼), so you should be able to use it in a magma forge just fine. Said magma forge should be the centerpiece of the temple described above.
I've had an artifact floodgate destroyed by magma
You sure it was truly destroyed? Maybe it was just hidden by the flow bug? Did you check the stocks?
Artifacts are only magma-resistant if the base material is magma-resistant. So if that was wooden floodgate, for example, then it is no more.
An artifact addy crossbow... The pony meme slayer. Speaks for itself :dExcept adamantine is extremely light, so you only get the accuracy boost. Better have a lot of bolts, cause your marksdwarf will be so damn dead.
An artifact addy crossbow... The pony meme slayer. Speaks for itself :dExcept adamantine is extremely light, so you only get the accuracy boost. Better have a lot of bolts, cause your marksdwarf will be so damn dead.
Just crafted a billion breastplate. Anyone know if that is worth using? If not, any suggestion on how to display it?
I don't know about best ever, but my latest fort made a gold whip. It even had a picture of the leader being chosen as such. Though it said she was a wife of a troll, so she apparently married a night creature sometime down the road.That is, literally, the second most powerful artifact possible. We all know how godlike whips are, and gold is obscenely heavy. Just use a danger room to level someone up, and let them go. Platinum is heavier, though, and also iron grade in terms of Armour pen which makes it godlike against goblins, (because platinum weight + bonus criticals = something like 95% chance of critical hit through iron breastplate/helmet).
Which reminds me.. my best ever was a platinum mace, on my computer at home. When I saw that, first I orgasmed because omg blunt object made from platinum. (Ill give it to the sheriff!) Then I saw, legendary weaponsmith and then I decided this fort will go well.
Which reminds me.. my best ever was a platinum mace, on my computer at home. When I saw that, first I orgasmed because omg blunt object made from platinum. (Ill give it to the sheriff!) Then I saw, legendary weaponsmith and then I decided this fort will go well.
Sheriff.... Platinum mace....
D:
My all time favorite one was a saguaro rib ring, decorated with saguaro rib. It was worth about 400 or something.
Mine's not really that great, but I like it nonetheless.Set it on fire, and you have a sure way to dispose of nobles by appointing them to this bead^^
Visecradle, a lignite bed
This is a lignite bed. All craftsdwarfship is of the highest quality. It is encrusted with rock crystal, decorated with oak and encircled with bands of lignite and iron. This object menaces with spikes of lignite, pin jade and iron.
On the item is an image of Vinena Tamecrows the elf in rock crystal. Vinena Tamecrows is traveling. The artwork relates to the journey of the elf Vinena Tamecrows to The Plains of Twisting in the midsummer of 14 during the Fifth Journey of the elf Vinena Tamecrows.
On the item is an image of Visecradle the lignite bed in badger leather.
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The artifact itself isnt all that great; what makes it so great is the dwarf pictured in it. The dwarf pictured in it went berserk in the early stages of the fort and had to be cut down. Oddly enough Melbil was never more than a passing acquaintance to the creator. Which makes it unusual as I've only ever seen dwarves depict others with something they hate when they have a grudge against said dwarf.
Reminds me of the time the Mayor's "friend" engraved a picture of him surrounded by purring maggots, looking terrified, right at the head of his bed...The artifact itself isnt all that great; what makes it so great is the dwarf pictured in it. The dwarf pictured in it went berserk in the early stages of the fort and had to be cut down. Oddly enough Melbil was never more than a passing acquaintance to the creator. Which makes it unusual as I've only ever seen dwarves depict others with something they hate when they have a grudge against said dwarf.
I dunno about that. One fort I had two dwarfettes were best friends. One of them had a boyfriend, who was also the expedition leader. The other dwarfette and the leader had a mutual grudge. His *girlfriend*, her best friend, engraved scens of him surrounded by purring maggots....and him terrified.
I lol'ed.
I once had a miner with a leg missing. then he created an iron crutch.
not awesome but touching.
I'm pretty sure the only way to destroy an artifact is atom smashing it.Artifacts don't fully burn, though, so it would just end up burning infinitely. Not good if you want water to go through it without boiling into steam.Artifacts can't be destroyed, and gold isn't flammable (so no ‼Artifact Anvil‼), so you should be able to use it in a magma forge just fine. Said magma forge should be the centerpiece of the temple described above.
I've had an artifact floodgate destroyed by magma
You sure it was truly destroyed? Maybe it was just hidden by the flow bug? Did you check the stocks?
Artifacts are only magma-resistant if the base material is magma-resistant. So if that was wooden floodgate, for example, then it is no more.
I'm pretty sure the only way to destroy an artifact is atom smashing it.Does letting the kobolds steal it count as "destroyed"?
It would disappear from history. I'd say that's a moral victory.I'm pretty sure the only way to destroy an artifact is atom smashing it.Does letting the kobolds steal it count as "destroyed"?
That's probably fixed in the next release though, as it seems toady implemented item tracking. So, if you embark/visit the site, it'll be there. That might just be adventure mode though.It would disappear from history. I'd say that's a moral victory.I'm pretty sure the only way to destroy an artifact is atom smashing it.Does letting the kobolds steal it count as "destroyed"?
That's probably fixed in the next release though, as it seems toady implemented item tracking. So, if you embark/visit the site, it'll be there. That might just be adventure mode though.It would disappear from history. I'd say that's a moral victory.I'm pretty sure the only way to destroy an artifact is atom smashing it.Does letting the kobolds steal it count as "destroyed"?
How'd you get it so your guys use bows?
Nick
I recently got a leather skirt with studded gold and pictures of elves on it... wtf!!!Maybe you misread, and it's a leather skirt with studded gold and pictures of Elvis on it.
"Delltoned" a dog bone pick
"Delltoned" a dog bone pick
Was this made in a craftsdwarf workshop?
It would be interesting to have a game run through a (ableit save-scummy) process where you "advance technologically" by having an artifact open up the way for you. Has anyone posted an artifact anvil made of a non-metal, or made outside of a forge yet? Because that'd be one of the big hurdles that if it couldn't be cleared, would prevent this idea from happening.
Jaxler have you ever tried that mace on your justice givers, maybe its so nice that being hit actually raise the moral!
Jaxler have you ever tried that mace on your justice givers, maybe its so nice that being hit actually raise the moral!
why that sounds great, i'll give urist mcserif it
Jaxler have you ever tried that mace on your justice givers, maybe its so nice that being hit actually raise the moral!
why that sounds great, i'll give urist mcserif it
He never asked for this...
Elf bone helmet depicting my militia commander cutting down his first kill, the elf the bone belonged to.
I had a steel shortsword artifact, nothing particularly interesting except for the image of the dwarf stabbing the dwarf, strange as in the history of my fort, a dwarf hadn't stabbed another dwarf yet. The sword was given to the militia captain, just as a dwarf went beserk, The dwarf was killed by that sword. (Insert twilight zone music) The creepy thing was it had "Prohetic"or something like that in its name. O_O
I recently had a dwarf make a granite grate. It's not worth much, and it's not very fancy, but it does have two things going for it.
1. There's an engraving of an elf killing a dwarf.
2. It's called "The Windy Violator".
I'll leave the rest to your imagination. :P
I just got "Agelucky", a horse bone pick. I'm just so fascinated by the notion of mining with a decorated spike of bone :o
I got a coffin with the picture of an elf devouring a dwarf! Then there is also a picture of a minotaur killing a dwarf... The elf devourer is supposedly related to an event, so what does that mean, that elves are dwarves eaters?
I hope you gave that one to your first miner.I always enjoyed that one.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
It is as though it is a statement to our wealth, and it has a fitting name.
also once I got a silver war hammer.
I just got a sterling silver shield. That should be good for bashing. I gave it to Asmel, our resident fortress champion, to go along with his artifact gold shortsword.
Fun fact, artifact iron spears can't touch Bronze Colossuses and steel axes mostly dent them but artifact gold shortswords will cut them in half. Even the pommel strikes fractured it.
an adamantine whip. gave it to a dorf and he now kills everything.This is modded right
Think this is my favorite, Simple, elegant, yet brutally effective.
(Old picture, it got a lot more use, and the wielder got even more kills). I dont remember the killtotal the end.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
an adamantine whip. gave it to a dorf and he now kills everything.This is modded right
Not sure why the steel axe doesn't kill them, but iron is pretty much useless against bronze colossi. If I remember correctly, iron is better for weapons, but bronze makes better armor("armor" includes bronze colossus skin) than iron weapons, but makes weapons weaker than iron armor.I just got a sterling silver shield. That should be good for bashing. I gave it to Asmel, our resident fortress champion, to go along with his artifact gold shortsword.
Fun fact, artifact iron spears can't touch Bronze Colossuses and steel axes mostly dent them but artifact gold shortswords will cut them in half. Even the pommel strikes fractured it.
That doesn't make any sense.
Not sure why the steel axe doesn't kill them, but iron is pretty much useless against bronze colossi. If I remember correctly, iron is better for weapons, but bronze makes better armor("armor" includes bronze colossus skin) than iron weapons, but makes weapons weaker than iron armor.I just got a sterling silver shield. That should be good for bashing. I gave it to Asmel, our resident fortress champion, to go along with his artifact gold shortsword.
Fun fact, artifact iron spears can't touch Bronze Colossuses and steel axes mostly dent them but artifact gold shortswords will cut them in half. Even the pommel strikes fractured it.
That doesn't make any sense.
Dunno about the gold sword. If anything, it's smashing(not neccessarily cutting) pieces off, since gold is pretty heavy, and thus good for smashing(pommel strikes are smashing attacks as well).
Of course, I'm probably just blowing all this out of my ass, so take it with a grain of salt.
heh, a coat called 'Armor'
The thing that's weird about this artifact is: It was created with gold in a forge.!!Forging!! !!Lignite!! can only be !!Accomplished!! by a truly skilled !!Metalcrafter!!
Yet it includes lignite.
HOW did that forging work, exactly?!
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Goes for a whopping 902,400 urists
Very proud of these delightful little bastards
At the moment my favorite one is a kobold bone amulet named Morningswoods.
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Goes for a whopping 902,400 urists
Very proud of these delightful little bastards
Wow...it menaces with spikes of mountain goat leather :)
My best artifact... is something boring, I don't remember. What was impressive was the dedication behind it. Oddom O., crawled back and forth, across the entire fortress 4 times to achieve his vision...with a broken spine. He's never moved again, he just lays on a bed, quadriplegic.
My dwarf just went all Legendary Clothier."McDoyle rules!"
He made a leather and sheepwool vest.
It showed a serpent rising out of the ground and attacking a dwarf.
Some little part of me wants to put it on and run around shouting "tunnel snakes rule!".
But I wont. That's my new sherrif's job.
So I had a 4-year-old make a bracelet. Nothing really special, but...Spoiler (click to show/hide)
This one! Multiple pages of obsidian cabochons and pictures of itself. Worth only a million or something though.The best part has got to be the image of the elf in fetal position in elf leather. Haha.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Must've been a menacing wooden dildo trap.
This child will be...decapitated by a novice goblin lasher equipped with a copper whip.epic.
The Fortunes of Fame
It depicted how one of the local human kings... became king. It was a longsword, which added to the epicness. The problem? It was made of lead.
I had a goblin bone throne once. It's regular value was almost nonexistent, but it's coolness-priceless.This one is my favourite. Like the Game of Thrones dragon bone throne, just dwarven version.
(http://i.imgur.com/QPzsJ.png)What... What is an ethereal sword? I guess its a mod but what does this weapon do... Why are your dwarves incapable of feeling pain?
(http://i.imgur.com/TpD3u.png)
:L
Took 6 years to create. Three years after that, I stormed hell with purely military force with a guy wielding this leading the charge. Half my surviving soldiers are now incapable of feeling pain.
Ethereal is from the legends of forlorn realms mod. It's slightly weaker than adamantine.(http://i.imgur.com/QPzsJ.png)What... What is an ethereal sword? I guess its a mod but what does this weapon do... Why are your dwarves incapable of feeling pain?
(http://i.imgur.com/TpD3u.png)
:L
Took 6 years to create. Three years after that, I stormed hell with purely military force with a guy wielding this leading the charge. Half my surviving soldiers are now incapable of feeling pain.
Does the artefact status outweight the flimsy materials?I don't think so. Bone armor is VERY weak vs any metal weapon. I'm not sure, but I think that copper armor would be better than artifact bone armor. Unless you're enemies with wooden weapons (a tribe of bowless elves?) bone armor is basically worthless.
(http://img352.imageshack.us/img352/2460/theultimatetaxvq1.png)Niiiiiiice! *Raises a mug of dwarven ale!*
The ultimate tax... is your life.
The ultimate tax... is your life.
I was tempted to give this one to the hammerer when he dealt with unruly taxpayers, but since there are no unruly taxpayers as of yet, I simply gave it to a hammer lord. It served admirably, braining many a goblin. I find there is a certain elegance in the blunt (hurr hurr) simplicity of design.
I live this game.Did... did you just confess to being a mass murdering psychopath?
I live this game.Did... did you just confess to being a mass murdering psychopath?
Uh...
TL;DR; 2 years old psychomaniac wrestles down adult dorf and makes an armorstand out of his bones. No one gives a fuck.It's especially funny how a week after the fell mood, "Urist McVictim has been missing for a week".
Aftertalks. Punch first, talks after.
TL;DR; 2 years old psychomaniac wrestles down adult dorf and makes an armorstand out of his bones. No one gives a fuck.It's especially funny how a week after the fell mood, "Urist McVictim has been missing for a week".
-snip-inb4 "it was done already"
I just like the fact that it contains an image of itself. Makes me wonder if that image contains a smaller image which contains another even smaller image ad infinitum.
my best artifact was an orthoclase lever. :DLevers are buildings, not items. How is that possible?
If dwarves can make a cabinet out of a single gem, then they can carve a crown onto a quark.-snip-inb4 "it was done already"
I just like the fact that it contains an image of itself. Makes me wonder if that image contains a smaller image which contains another even smaller image ad infinitum.
But yeah, what's YOUR definition of Highest Quality? molecules? Atoms? Quarks? Quark Defining Subparticles?
Glass, metal, bone and gem moods can create a wide variety of items that aren't possible otherwise, like metal beds, glass buckets, horse bone thrones and ruby floodgates. Good stuff.Ha! I bet that was good stuff too! I don't think I am going to doubt the power of the simple mason/carpenter moods ever again! (Maybe save the craftsdwarfshops. . .)
My favourite was a simple wooden door. Used it as bait for a forgotten beast poking automaton (upright spikes linked to a dwarf-operated lever).
A gold shortsword made using the planepacked glitch, it used (I think) 10 gold bars in its construction.
It was worth quite a bit.
Just now I acquired "The Dirge of Beasts," a dwarf-bone mace. On the item is an image of dwarves and dwarves. The dwarves are striking down the dwarves. Crafted by a fell child in the final days of Knightspear, amid the chaos of the last 30 miserable bastards left alive, to tantrum and kill each other in the last sad, sickening parody of the fellowship they once lived in.It sounds like a thing of beauty.
When I reclaim that fortress, I'll be sure to equip it on someone of importance. Nothing imbues the gravity of office like a mace made from the bones of your failed predecessor. :DJust now I acquired "The Dirge of Beasts," a dwarf-bone mace. On the item is an image of dwarves and dwarves. The dwarves are striking down the dwarves. Crafted by a fell child in the final days of Knightspear, amid the chaos of the last 30 miserable bastards left alive, to tantrum and kill each other in the last sad, sickening parody of the fellowship they once lived in.It sounds like a thing of beauty.
Just now I acquired "The Dirge of Beasts," a dwarf-bone mace. On the item is an image of dwarves and dwarves. The dwarves are striking down the dwarves. Crafted by a fell child in the final days of Knightspear, amid the chaos of the last 30 miserable bastards left alive, to tantrum and kill each other in the last sad, sickening parody of the fellowship they once lived in.That sounds so awesome. Too bad bone sucks in melee.
Too bad bone sucks in melee.Yeah, a bone blunt weapon is going to be absolutely useless. Bone has a density of 500, the same as wood. Compare that to Aluminum, the least dense metal (besides candy), which has a density of 2700! An aluminum mace will be about 5 times more effective than one made out of bone, assuming they're the same quality. Since yours is artifact quality, it will be slightly less ineffective than that.
My favorite artifact is the last one I've gotten, the only practical one I've ever had.It'll suck for crushing attacks, but the material of a shield doesn't affect its blocking capacity. So it's the best defense you could have. Treasure it.
Duthnurinstol, "Guardbursts", a honey badger bone shield.
"This is a honey badger bone shield. All craftsdwarfship is of the highest quality. It is decorated with rattlesnake bone and encircled with bands of maple and cave spider silk. This object is adorned with hanging rings of chalk and menaces with spikes of honey badger bone and cave spider silk."
Value: 12,840 Urists.
I like to think the cave spider silk spikes are really just the silk wrapping the bone spikes, and that the maple bands are reinforcement, with the silk bands like stripes of color on it. It looks cool in my head, I promise. It's currently being wielded by my militia commander.
Does anyone know the properties of a bone shield? Is it a pathetic shield, or is it something worth handing down through the generations of soldiers?
It's not a fort mode artifact, but Legends mode coughed up this gem... With emphasis on what makes it so great, I present... "Annihilation Without Limits"!
(http://oi47.tinypic.com/fu04md.jpg)
(Long story short, I'm going to dump that Goblin King in the magma sea, declare war on everyone and live as a Goblin-free independant state. With this axe as a catalyst :D )
also once had an adamantine sock :|Which begs the question: if you didn't want something useless, why were you turning your adamantine into cloth?
Maybe he wanted an adamantine thong. The ultimate chastity belt.also once had an adamantine sock :|Which begs the question: if you didn't want something useless, why were you turning your adamantine into cloth?
Earlier, I got one lead right gauntlet, which was funny, but I just got "Lertethadar, The Tangled Mortality, a perfect amethyst". It's encrusted with ruby and the value is....BLANK! There isn't even a zero! So, essentially my (already) legendary gemcutter took something of value and made it worthless beyond even noting.Sorry to burst your bubble, but the reason that the item shows no value is that you have no broker trained in appraisal.
Earlier, I got one lead right gauntlet, which was funny, but I just got "Lertethadar, The Tangled Mortality, a perfect amethyst". It's encrusted with ruby and the value is....BLANK! There isn't even a zero! So, essentially my (already) legendary gemcutter took something of value and made it worthless beyond even noting.Sorry to burst your bubble, but the reason that the item shows no value is that you have no broker trained in appraisal.
Ezum Alron, "The Hame of Amethysts", a adamantite mace. It has a picture of itself on it. Given to a rookie for the hell of it, haha.
Ezum Alron, "The Hame of Amethysts", a adamantite mace. It has a picture of itself on it. Given to a rookie for the hell of it, haha.
candy is very bad for maces tho, so you should probly give the mace to your captain of the guard or hammerer.
And spikes are only decorative
My two best artifacts were created one after the other, on the same fortress, a few months back.
The first one was an iron short sword, encrusted with a red gem. I was quite happy, as it was my first artifact weapon, and gave it to my best swordsdwarf. Then I got another artifact, an iron chainmail also encrusted with a red gem of some kind, that I gave to the same dwarf.
Build a mechanism and it becomes a lever. Artifact mechanisms make especially shiny levers that make your dwarves very happy when they are placed in the dining room.my best artifact was an orthoclase lever. :DLevers are buildings, not items. How is that possible?
[...]It has a picture of itself? That's awesome.
And it's just thrones all the way down...
larimyam, neoyawned the candy shield. worth around 1400000 DB. it had a picture of a cloud made of candy on it.Sorry to pop your bubble but all shields have exactly the same defensive ability, even wooden ones compared to candy.
two candy wafers for a shield is a solid deal considering most candy shield cost 4 wafers.
i believe it will have a poor shield charge attack, but great defensive capabilities due to candy being the strongest material in the game.
larimyam, neoyawned the candy shield. worth around 1400000 DB. it had a picture of a cloud made of candy on it.
two candy wafers for a shield is a solid deal considering most candy shield cost 4 wafers.
i believe it will have a poor shield charge attack, but great defensive capabilities due to candy being the strongest material in the game.
I disagree.larimyam, neoyawned the candy shield. worth around 1400000 DB. it had a picture of a cloud made of candy on it.
two candy wafers for a shield is a solid deal considering most candy shield cost 4 wafers.
i believe it will have a poor shield charge attack, but great defensive capabilities due to candy being the strongest material in the game.
An artifact steel (or other heavy material) shield is better, since all artifact shields block 3x more than a normal shield, but you can't really bash things with candy shields. Also, all shields are indestructible and can block anything.
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Ustuth Stinthadamaith, Planeter, has created Ubas Ziril (The Scream of Fire), a water buffalo bone crossbow. All craftsdwarfship is of the highest quality. It is encircled with bands of water buffalo bone, dog bone and square brilliant cut cats eye. this object menaces with spikes of water buffalo leather. On the item is an image of Iden Gusiles the dwarf in granite.
I place its value at 30,000*.
The odd part about this is the picture of our first fortress liaison, Iden Gusiles. He was here all that first winter, but hasn't returned since.
My best artifact, I haven't had many so its one of these two:
Krition: A leather right-hand glove
or
A palm table whose name I cannot remember. A party was thrown at it once.
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7349/10458147845_b02f412e98.jpg)
Does this count? Found it in Legends. I was pretty freaked out, tbh.
Laluthebal, "Floodrevered", a adamantine mace
This is a adamantine mace. All craftsdwarfship is of the highest quality. It is encrusted with rectangular sandstone cabochons, studded with adamantine and encircled with bands of bugbat leather, trillion cut clear zircons, cushion orthoclase cabochons and rectangular red flash opal cabochons.
This object is adorned with hanging rings of bugbat leather
On the item is an image of Floodrevered the adamantine mace in rope reed fiber
Basic value: 1033200
also the hammer lord has one more kill than the swordmaster.But that troll counts as two!
Well, I can tell you the WORST artifact I've ever gotten. "This is a copper short sword. All craftsdwarfship is of the highest quality. It is studded with copper." And that's it. No engravings, no menacing spikes, nothing.
What I want to know is how the weapon-smith became legendary from THAT.
It was just a very boring bracelet, but I like to think that the possessing entity did it to honor the dog's spirit.Now, how can you be sure that it wasn't the dog's spirit itself doing the possessing?
Only that one had the picture of the second on it.
And the second had one of the first.
Only that one had the picture of the second on it.
And the second had one of the first.
- How is that even possible? The 1st guantlet couldn't have a design showing the second because that didn't exist until 3 years later.
My current fort is cursed in this manner. Had I known the price I would pay I never would have culled my history for performance gain.Wow, it looks like that artifact shows all the history of dwarves being elected to be leaders on it.Worth 157200.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
I wonder how much damage gold weapons deal.
Too bad show all history isn't on.
Berulekir, an alder chair.
This shall be the seat of the Dwarven-king.
This, for all the obvious candy reasons :D
(http://i.imgur.com/054eCUG.png)
Accompanied by his buddy the Captain of the Guard, who now has an artifact crossbow. I have never had a fort make me useful artifacts with this frequency. I'm expecting some sort of zombie-dragon invasion momentarily.This, for all the obvious candy reasons :D
Its wielder must be sent, alone, against all non-webbing, non-death-misting FBs.
that should be 'native' not 'naive' Damn you, autocorrect!Sig'd.
I don't usually get any really epic and useful artifacts; my moody weaponsmiths tend to go for candy warhammers and similar ironic items and other artifacts are just shiny junk menacing with spikes of anything.
My last 34.11 fortress produced a mildly interesting one, though: "Notchmatched the Ignited Risk", a lignite earring. I spent a lot of time trying to get it actually to ignite, just for !!!FUN!!!
I was very impressed, but there was much more...Spoiler (click to show/hide)
This was the greatest Artifact, which i´ve ever seen...
freakin awsome!!!
Now it is in my Dwarvenbooze Hall
Look here- > (http://www.bilder-upload.eu/thumb/5dbf21-1409760304.jpg) (http://www.bilder-upload.eu/show.php?file=5dbf21-1409760304.jpg)
I count 52 images of itself on that thing. :oPerhaps it's changes during creation were recorded step per step upon its surface...