Bit of necromancy, but better than firing up a new topic I guess; this is kind of a fun discussion anyway.
So: I just discovered that you can duplicate a silly amount of absolutely everything using MFR and Ars Magica 2. Steps are as follows:
1. Get a zombie to pick up whatever you want to duplicate.
2. Catch the zombie in a safari net and pop it in the MFR auto-spawner.
3. Spawn it with "spawn exact copy" on.
4. Disarm it using an AM2 disarm spell.
After that, the zombie might immediately pick the item up again, but it doesn't really matter; by that point, the item counts as a pickup rather than spawned-with equipment, so the zombie will drop it anyway when you kill it. I imagine you could automate this with casters, but you don't
really need to because...
*drumroll*
Zombies pick up backpacks. Which means that you can duplicate an entire inventory's worth of stuff every time you spawn a zombie in. I'm sure you can see how the returns rapidly start to accelerate given this little factoid.
As silly as it is, I'm considering making an emergency supply zombie to kit me out if unexpected death happens.