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[Garthor]

Recently I had one of my carpenters craft Lithrushdastot, "The Fetid Sword" Oaken Crossbow.  After wondering why a crossbow would be called a sword, I noticed he was trying to pick up equipment, probably some bolts to use his crossbow with.  This is all well and good, but without a quiver, this means he was trying to hold three things: his crossbow (which I really doubt he'll part with), the bolts (which he needs for his crossbow) and a battle axe (because he has the wood cutting job).  From what I could tell, he picked up the bolts and dropped his axe.  He takes two steps, realizes he needs an axe, and gets a new one from the nearest weapon rack (if it wasn't so close, he might've just picked up his old axe).  So, he picks up the new axe in his right hand, but he's already holding his artifact crossbow in it, and so he drops the axe immediately.  Satisfied, he takes two steps away (he has no job during this time), then chooses a new task: equipping himself for his wood cutting job.  Back he goes to the axe, picks it up, drops it, takes two steps away, repeat.

I assume something similar would happen if someone was trying to pick up a pickaxe for mining.

[Toady One]

Another dwarf in need of three arms.  We need some kind of river of radioactive sludge.  This should be easy to fix.  I suppose you've already turned off woodcutting or whatever you need to do to make the dwarf sane again.

[LordNagash]

You could use the radioactive river to distill uranium to power your nuclear weapons project.

The only problem would be the constant Elf weapons inspections team

[JT]

Bloody elves.  We Dwarves have a right to defend ourselves!

[Gakidou]

You know, it isn't difficult to add another limb to dwarves at the beginning of world generation. Then again, adding 6 tentacles to my dwarves didn't have nearly as large of an effect on my game as I was hoping. I wonder if extra arms can actually be used in dwarf mode yet? Maybe I'll see what happens if I give my dwarves eight arms.

[Toady One]

I really don't have any idea...  they will still only haul one thing, but they might go for more weapons if you give them more grasping limbs.