# Updated artifact effects?

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/updated-artifact-effects/18018>\
**Category:** The Bunker\
**Created:** [December 20, 2018, 5:29pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/updated-artifact-effects/18018 "2018-12-20T17:29:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Gregbois1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@Gregbois1](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Gregbois1)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2018, 5:29pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/updated-artifact-effects/18018/1 "2018-12-20T17:29:05Z")

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I just came across some humming beads in a field. Upon pickup I get -3 STR and “You feel a pleasant tingle”. A quick search found an artifact list but it seems a bit outdated. Anyone have any idea what the pleasant tingle is? Is there an updated list of artifact effects?

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**Author:** ![nameless\_survivor](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/nameless_survivor/32/4476_2.png) [@nameless\_survivor](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/nameless_survivor)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2018, 5:53pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/updated-artifact-effects/18018/2 "2018-12-20T17:53:22Z")

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yeah I found a cube that causes “your body feels gelatinous” or something like that. I have no idea what that means.

It passively cloaks you & causes random rattling noise every time you move. Which is pretty good for robots and turrets and such, but less good for other things. Its like a really noisy cloaking device lol.  
On activation, it teleports you, creates a firestorm centered on you at the teleported location, causes nausea, and the “your body feels gelatinous” or whatever.

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**Author:** ![Orange01](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/orange01/32/2469_2.png) [@Orange01](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Orange01)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2018, 2:44am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/updated-artifact-effects/18018/3 "2018-12-21T02:44:40Z")

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Now that is a useful artifact.

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**Author:** ![Junknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc348/32.png) [@Junknown](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Junknown)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2018, 5:21pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/updated-artifact-effects/18018/4 "2018-12-21T17:21:26Z")

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Anybody who is interested in learning the exact effects of any given artifact just needs to follow these steps:

1. Open cataclysm/save/[insert current world name]/artifacts.gsav with any text editor.

2. Compare your artifact’s values of “effects\_carried” and “effects\_activated” to those listed [here](http://cddawiki.chezzo.com/cdda_wiki/index.php?title=Artifacts#Effects) to find out if it has any useful/deadly abilities.

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**Author:** ![nameless\_survivor](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/nameless_survivor/32/4476_2.png) [@nameless\_survivor](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/nameless_survivor)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2018, 5:24pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/updated-artifact-effects/18018/5 "2018-12-21T17:24:46Z")

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I checked that list for the “you feel gelatinous” effect when I first saw started experimenting with the artifact. Its not on that list.

I am going to have to crack open the game files though and see what its doing. I didn’t know you could do that.

Also, I’m dead certain the chance for the rattle effect is higher than 5% as listed on the wiki. It happens literally every move I make.

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**Author:** ![Junknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc348/32.png) [@Junknown](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Junknown)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2018, 5:27pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/updated-artifact-effects/18018/6 "2018-12-21T17:27:33Z")

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Yeah, the effect names only tell you approximately what the artifact does. To find out for sure you have to open the game files like I said.

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**Author:** ![nameless\_survivor](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/nameless_survivor/32/4476_2.png) [@nameless\_survivor](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/nameless_survivor)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2018, 5:35pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/updated-artifact-effects/18018/7 "2018-12-21T17:35:10Z")

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I wish you could cut up and remake artifact clothing. I’ve got a Gelatinous leather jacket that adds +3 perception and causes a slight bit of nausea. I’d love to turn it into a pair of socks, underwear, etc, so that it doesn’t have as high a chance of being damaged or destroyed.

And also it would be nice to rename them. I’d make it into underwear and call it my Gelatinous Leather Man-Thong of Dyspeptic Perception.