More Artifacts

[Embolism]

Honestly ArtLab would be a lot more interesting if the current distribution of artifacts is tweaked without needing to add new ones. There's too many artifacts, especially the big ones, that may be interesting but don't do anything useful for its discoverer.

Currently we have:

Watering Can - not bad, especially if it contains rare chemicals; but otherwise not particularly artifact-y.
Elemental Caster - great, although many of them have prohibitive cooldowns.
Force Wall Caster - very good.
Ranged Weapon - variable. Some are great, but just as many are worthless.
Teleporter - very good, though many seem to do terrible things to the caster like lethal radiation poisoning.
Power Cell - ridiculously common compared to the others. Only good thing about them is they don't need to be researched so they don't waste your time.
Activator - vanishingly rare.
Melee Weapon - like ranged weapons, very variable. A lot of them are worse than a toolbox.
Container - I like these, although they can only give owl bombs, bee larvae, light grenades or *groan* power cells. Of these only owl bombs and maybe light grenades are of particular interest.
Injector - one of the better large artifacts. Can occasionally inject hilarious things like vampire serum.
Turret - interesting but largely useless. Targets everything, takes forever to aim and ones I've found all have pathetic shot damage. If it were a lot stronger and doesn't target the activator then it would be useful.
Plant Grower - never really tried it since I'm not that into Botany, but seems uninteresting.
Music Maker - distressingly common. I rather like most of their music though.
Air Conditioner - aside from heaters searing everyone's lungs after a few minutes, largely pointless. Give it an on-off and make its effects a lot, and I mean a lot, faster, then it would be fun.
Mutator - the other interesting large artifact alongside the injector. Mutation's temporary but can be regained on touch.
Lamp - like the music maker, distressingly common and doesn't even give off that much light. At least make them give enough light for you to turn the lights down in ArtLab!
Healer - common but at least it's quite useful.
Healing Field Generator - rare. Pretty nice but as long as you're conscious the healer is adequate.
Harmer - never seems to do that much damage to matter. Minor annoyance. Give it a switch and make the effect a lot stronger, or give it secondary effects like intermittent paralysis or something.
Black Hole Bomb - uncommon. I guess it could be used for devious purposes.
Bomb - more straight-forward version of black hole bombs. Again maybe for traitoring? But if you're a scientist bombs are already easily within reach.
Force Wall Projector - rather niche. Not that great for defence as it covers a reasonable area and has a cooldown after it dissipates. Perhaps better for trapping people with you, or if you also have a teleporter handy.
Borger - kind of loses its charm after you've found it half a dozen times or so.
Recaller - impractical due to the uncertain timeframe. Trying to use it as a lifeline either sends you back prematurely or repositions your corpse, which I guess could be useful to ensure your body gets found? If it can be programmed or triggered in some way...
Imprisoner - would be nice if it protected you from environmental effects. Sadly it doesn't. It totally should.
Darkness Generator - actually find this better for defence than force wall projectors. Not bad.
Gravity Warper - pointless and annoying. If it can be turned on and off, and maybe if it's a bit stronger (enough to significantly impede movement), then it might see niche use.

If we can have less Power Cells, Music Makers and Lamps, and have more togglable +/- stronger effects, then ArtLab would be pretty sweet.