v0.34 Talk:Legendary artifact

Sometimes dwarves will grow particularly attached to weapons and armor, and if they become attached enough, they will name their armor/weapons.

Dwarves are not the only ones that can name items, nor is it restricted to actual weapons. a named bucket and a named shoe, both wielded by demons that have been terrorizing the wildlife and invading goblins for about two years now. There was no announcement like when a dwarf names his weapon, but they both appear in blue on the artifacts list. I doubt armor can be named (and have never seen it myself), as the naming seems to stem largely from the item's kill list, and normally armor doesn't score kills. -- Qazmlpok 18:55, 23 September 2012 (UTC)

Armor can definitely be named - I've had it happen numerous times in version 0.31. It mainly happens when the armor has successfully deflected a large quantity of attacks, and danger room training causes that to happen rather quickly. --Quietust 21:56, 23 September 2012 (UTC)

Artifact mechanisms can jam

The page is flat out wrong, weapon traps with artifact mechanisms can jam in v0.34.11. Proof -91.157.56.136 11:17, 21 April 2013 (UTC)

Building Destroyers

While it's true Artifacts cannot be destroyed by Building Destroyer creatures, aren't they deconstructed instead? If so that would be worth noting.

Legendary Weapons

Having 4 dwarves with legendary weapons named, I thought I would add the information to the wiki, but there's a discrepancy I now noticed. Those 4 dwarves are dead, and yet only one weapon is listed as available.

To avoid adding pictures, the best description of this would be, in the stocks menu, that 1 named weapon is in yellow, and the other three are in purple (the color that indicates forbidding).

Using the specific equipment menu of the military, I also can only select the weapon at yellow. They are in the same place, so another factor must be the cause. I noticed that, of the four dwarves, only one has a proper memorial slab engraved (regardless of being buried, which they were), and that one has the weapon at yellow.

I'll try and engrave the remaining slabs to check if that's the cause. If named weapons would be as good as Artifact weapons, that would confer a boon to any military.--Doktoro Reichard (talk) 22:28, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

Engraved the slabs, nothing happened. Checked the corpse list and I don't see the corpses of the dwarves whose weapons are forbidden. However a peculiarity appeared: a weapon had two slayers, one of them was buried, the other I didn't see a trace. So, in order for a weapon to be "re-used", all dwarves that owned it have to be properly buried. Smells like DF.--Doktoro Reichard (talk) 22:58, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

I've been adding some information to the page regarding legendary weaponry and armor. I have had several dwarves naming their weapons and armor. I have had two cases where the objects in question hadn't killed anything. My thoughts on this is that use of items is somehow recorded in the object, hence making sparring sessions fair ground for naming weapons. This should be tested thoroughly.--Doktoro Reichard (talk) 12:41, 22 February 2014 (UTC)