But it's not an "Artifact for Exploration +3", it's an ITEM for EXP+3 INT+2 and an ARTEFACT for INT+2 Masonry +3 Lore +5.
I personally believe that should count. But I see how that particular item doesn't count from a programmer's point of view. Since loftar is lazy preoccupied with ruining everyone's knarrs, I doubt the workaround to incorporate gildable items' native stats into the quest system comes anytime soon.
You didn't slot anything into it. It refers to the artifice bonuses, rather than fixed item boni. Could perhaps be looked at.
"The psychological trials of dwellers in the last times will be equal to the physical trials of the martyrs. In order to face these trials we must be living in a different world."
Just bumping this as I just tried to make a fox hat with petraglyph to complete a "make artifact with +3int" credo quest, the hat gave +2 the petraglyph +2. I figured afterwards that it didn't count because 2 comes from the hat not the artifices but it does suck a little, perhaps this could be looked at again/still?