The Artifact Recombobulator™

[Frank_Stein]

I really like this idea, especially for giving Toxins something to do other than kill each other and delete the station.

Rerolling sounds great, actually. You still need to find the artifacts, and many of them are either useless or next to impossible to activate. Maybe make the crappier artifacts much more common than the interesting ones so you'll need to spend extra patience to get the ones you want.

Breaking a large artifact into smaller ones might be an issue. While large artifacts could be either useful or deadly to the user, normal ones are almost always great. Might need a bit more investment to crack a noisemaker into a superbeaker.

When I say break them down into smaller components, I don't mean smaller artifacts, but a new artifact junk material

Things like "Eldritch doohickey, Martain whatchamacallit, Forerunner thingamajig" etc where those pieces can be used to build other artifacts, large and small

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Think of it as similar to how you can build musical instruments, except stranger. Like using the same items but in a different order can create an entirely different artifact. Or maybe exposing the component pieces individually to stimuli like heat, cold, radiation, and what not changes them to another component piece of a different type

The attached video explains it better:
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