Artifact
About
An Artifact is an item which can be attached to one of the Slots in Clothing and provide a bonus. The purpose of clothing is to hold artifacts.
Each artifact and each item of clothing have an number of Proficiencies that they are associated with. If there is a proficiency-match between an artifact and clothing, then it will be easier (lower chance of failure) to attach the artifact to that slot.
Clothing and Artifacts also have Difficulty ratings, listed as a high and low number. When there is a proficiency match, the low number is used. If there is no match, the larger number is used. The difficulty rating of the Artifact and the Clothing are then added together to provide the Total Difficulty of that particular slotting.
- More powerful artifacts tend to have higher difficulties.
- More valuable clothing has lower difficulties, and more slots.
Artifice Bonus Effects
Each Artifact gives a bonus to one or more Artifice types, their effects are as follows:
- Affluence
- Allows players to "Push" players with lower Affluence and to enter certain buildings in Providence.
- Alloying
- Increases the bar yield when smelting and crafting bars.
- Blunt Defense
- Defends against Club Uppercut, and Punch
- Blunt Power
- Increases power of Club, Uppercut, and Punch
- Common Combat Power
- Affects all attacks the player can make. Highly desirable.
- Common Combat Defense
- Similar to common combat power, this affects defense against all attacks.
- Criminality
- Decreases the amount of Black Bile drain taken when committing crimes.
- Feasting
- Enables the bonuses that come from Gobble Points. For every 10 points in this artifice after 100 you are enabled to use the bonus. So if you have 150 Culinary you may able to get bonus humour point from every point 10 to 15 and no bonus if you go further. See Gluttony for more info.
- Feral Defense
- Affects defense against all animal attacks.
- Impact Power
- Increases power of Polearm, Leg Sweep and Roundhouse Kick
- Impact Defense
- Defends against Polearm, Leg Sweep and Roundhouse Kick
- Mining
- Lowers the phlegm when mining a mine tile, increases the Purity of boulders that are pulled from the wall and lowers the hardness of rubble.
- Piercing Power
- Thrust offense.
- Piercing Defense
- Thrust defense.
- Adds a pocket to your clothes, an extra inventory space that allows teleporting even when full.
- Production
- Bonus to all Civilian bonus categories.
- Rummaging
- Increases the chance for to get double items when foraging.
- Slot
- Adds a bonus slot to an item of clothing when successful.
- Soil Digging
- Increases speed to digging. +10 Soil digging confers approximately a 2% bonus per tick of digging.
- Spellpower
- Assumed to affect witchery somehow (?).
- Weaving
- Reduces the amount of cotton needed to create cloth.
- Wood Working
- Speed bonus to tree chopping, work at the Whittler's Bench and Carpenter's Bench, but not the Sawbuck.
Note: Concussive Power and Concussive Defense don't have artifacts yet, this affects: Bullrun, Leap At, and Stomp.
