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Timeless Bob

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Artifact failure descriptions:
« on: April 24, 2017, 05:59:47 pm »

Simple enough suggestion: If a dwarf fails to create an artifact, don't have them described as "creator of such and such artifact".  Instead, just have it say something like "Failed to create such and such artifact".  A little tweak, to be sure, but important in the logs of a game as well as the descriptions in engravings and on memorial slabs.
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Re: Artifact failure descriptions:
« Reply #1 on: April 24, 2017, 10:08:38 pm »

Sounds more like a straight out bug than a missing feature.
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Re: Artifact failure descriptions:
« Reply #2 on: April 26, 2017, 10:28:50 pm »

My immediate reaction was to think of this artifact:

A strange mood got me this the other day:

"This is a perfect yellow spessartine. All craftdwarfship is of the highest quality. It is encircled with bands of oval cut yellow spessartines."

My gemcutter promptly named it The Failed Cat...

Not quite the failure you meant.
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