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[eharper256]

Just a random curiosity of mine: it seems that no matter what world I play or see, that artifacts as a general rule of thumb cannot exist during world-gen. All I've seen are oodles of books and sometimes slabs that are made during the creation of the world from time to time. Always figured its a bit weird that you can have 1000 years of history and yet apparently every mood-able dwarf must have been atom-smashed before making their creation. Its because of this that I always like to start early on and craft things just so we don't have empty history with nothing cool in it.

Anyone know if there will ever be artifacts of legend (which is often the point of artifacts in the first place; and would make finding them in adventure mode something cool to do)? I'd love to see a history about a dragon coming in and looting a legendary gold floor grate and other such nonsense.

Also, crazy and undwarfish as it might sound, I'd also like to see them woodhuggers and oomans occasionally crank out an amazing work. Surely there must be geniuses out there who aren't necromancers!!

What are your thoughts about this?

[Spehss _]

Probably worldgen artifacts are just not implemented yet outside of books and slabs.

[neblime]

Probably worldgen artifacts are just not implemented yet outside of books and slabs.

this is true.  It is planned however for worldgen artifacts to exist, presumably not just for dwarves either (and in fact for artifacts in general to be improved in various ways at some point)

[Girubev]

Spehss is correct. I've always entertained myself by thinking that fort mode artifacts are produced from a touch of our [the overseer's] madness rubbing off on a dwarf for better or worse.

[zazq]

the first anvil that made all the other anvils was totally an artifact.  made out of soap bars.

[eharper256]

Surely the first anvil was made out of Slade?

I'd give +10 internets for someone to figure out how to mod it in. I've seen enough copies of "It must have been the Human!" (a human skin bound book) to last a lifetime.

[random_odd_guy]

Surely the first anvil was made out of Slade?

I'd give +10 internets for someone to figure out how to mod it in. I've seen enough copies of "It must have been the Human!" (a human skin bound book) to last a lifetime.

An anvil of slade, with magma as a heat source. And a warhammer made of slade, encrusted with blood and decorations of adamantine. These were the tools with which Armok forged the world.

[eharper256]

^ This ^

[Repseki]

I feel like there should be a few more images on it, perhaps involving said creation of the world.

Are there still issues with Artifacts leaving Fort sites during Adventure mode? Because that would be a big one of the things to fix.

[celem]

Have you ever been to most of these sites in adventure mode?  These guys cant build to save themselves and little in the way of stockpiles and workshops.  Moody dwarves in worldgen die of insanity due to incompetent rulers and no supplies.