Artifacts
Artifacts are items which a hero may find while out questing. Monsters usually carry them around and some even fall from the sky from time to time at the whim of the gods. Most are useless pieces of junk which not even a beggar would find tasteful, but a minority are ancient rarities, or advantageous potions.
Follow this link to see the complete List of Artifacts
Gameplay Information
A list of artifacts the heroine is currently carrying appears in their inventory, which will grow in size as the heroine attains higher Levels. The heroine will sell them all for gold when they visit a town or meet a wandering trader.
Besides normal artifacts, there is a plethora of special artifacts which are more rare :
Examine command
You can tell your heroine to examine an artifact by putting its name in quotes in a godvoice message, such as:
examine "portable photon generator"
It's important to remember that your heroine may not listen, so you might have to keep trying. If the heroine chooses to listen, a variety of things could occur--some beneficial, and some useless. The heroine will usually examine the item you specify, but she might well pick a random item, and if you don't specify an item, she certainly will pick a random one.
- The possible outcomes are
- Lose the artifact without rewards
- Lose the artifact but gains experience points
- Lose the artifact but gets a different one instead
- Find some gold coins inside the artifact
- Find another artifact inside the artifact
Crafting command
Heroines can make new artifacts using whatever stuff they have in their backpacks. Heroes are too lazy to do that on their own, but a proper voice of god command should give them a much required push :
combine "Artifact X" and "Artifact Y"
There are several crafting commands, which are interchangeable, and described on the Voice Of God page in more detail.
A simpler method is let the game build the command for you by selecting the first artifact from your inventory, which will then give you a list of other artifacts with which you may combine that artifact.
The resulting command is placed in the command line of your Remote Control. Remember to hit the Send button for the command to actually be issued. This is useful in case your hero started doing something else while you were busy looking at the inventory--this works best if they are not in the middle of fighting a monster or in town, like most voice commands.
Heroes will generally refuse to combine gold bricks, tribbles, and boss monster artifacts (like "Ear of the...").
| Artifact X | Artifact Y | Results | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| More probable | Less probable | |||
| normal | normal | normal | bold | activatable |
| normal | bold | bold | activatable | normal |
| normal | activatable | activatable | bold | -- |
| bold | bold | activatable | bold | -- |
| bold | activatable | activatable | bold | -- |
| activatable | activatable | activatable | -- | -- |
08:26 PM - Saw “Compile Bananalyzer and Bag of 99 red doubloons” spelled out in smoke. You really should think of a more environmentally friendly way to get your message across, Exalted One.
08:25 PM - The voices in my head are telling me to do things. Is that you, Almighty, or did I forget to take my medicine?
08:24 PM - I ate a fortune cookie and the note inside said: “Compile Bananalyzer and Bag of 99 red doubloons.”
Bold Artifacts
Bold Artifacts are special artifacts that your heroine may come across while questing. Hence their names, these artifacts appear Bold in the inventory.
Your heroine will not find these types of artifacts very often as they are quite rare, however, these items will fetch a higher price than normal artifacts while conducting trade with a merchant, usually a few hundred gold.
Compared to regular bold artifacts, some bold artifacts actually sell for thousands of golds:
- Boss parts
- Bosscoin
- Exotic seashell
- Golden brick
- Old piece of equipment
- Priceless gift
- Quest completion certificate
- Really priceless gift
The goddess can urge the heroine to use any bold artifact in the same manner as any other artifact; although there is a chance the heroine will lose (destroy, etc) the artifact in question, so it doesn't make any sense to lose a bold (expensive) one when there are cheaper alternatives.
Healing Artifacts
These artifacts are the only ones which can be bought by a heroine at a town. Occasionally they may be found during a quest especially by a Looting Pet. The names of these artifacts appear in italics in the inventory.
How to use
Heroines will usually keep these items on them after purchase. They will not sell them and will use them to attempt to heal themselves when they are on low health. They will do this automatically and a god has no say over the matter. Multiple Healing Artifacts can be used within the same non-Boss-battle.
Effects
A healing artifact can only be used once and the results may vary:
- Increase in health — this is what they are meant to do; can heal around 40 (in the case of antidepressants) to 120 hp.
- Bolded healing artifacts (by a Looting Pet) will always heal regardless of the end result. The effect-text itself will take the priority which can lead a hero flee the battle even with the restored health. Hero will also always sell the bolded surplus healing artifacts if they're older / first on the inventory list.
- Increase in experience — the hero misread the label when purchasing or was tricked by a sneaky trader.
- Damage to monster — hero threw it at a monster, who was allergic to it, or even poisoned by it.
- Absolutely nothing — known as a 'healing dud', they are often just bottles of water with added food colouring.
A +30-level Looting Pet can also turn Healing Artifacts into bold resulting them to do some or even enhanced healing. Heroes might still run away from battle in case of bolded "dud" artifacts.
Monsters' Artifacts
Some Monsters carry special artifacts around with them which are often not found anywhere else. These artifacts appear to be normal or bold and are only worth a little more than normal ones so they are not anything to get excited about, but they are a nice surprise for a hero.
A notable exception is the Invite to Godville which is always dropped by Godville Administrators.
If a monster has an artifact associated with it, it will always give it to the hero when defeated in battle.
Activatable Artifacts
Activatable artifacts are a sub-type of artifacts which are worth far more than regular or even bold artifacts due to their rarity and potential use.
They're distinctive by having an activation icon (@) right next to the artifact in question. A goddess or god may "activate" it by clicking or tapping on the symbol for a given effect to happen in exchange for godpower - usually 50% but there are exceptions.
See also
- List of Artifacts
- List of Activatable Artifacts
- Category:Artifacts
- Category:Bold Artifacts
- Category:Activatable Artifacts
- Category:Healing Artifacts
- Category:Monsters' Artifacts