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[Zancor Mezoran]

For some reason, my Marksdwarf just refuses to use my new artifact crossbow.  I marked his steel crossbow for dumping and had some peasant yank it off of him, but now he just stands around doing nothing when there are wooden bolts he needs to be breaking on my archery targets.  I don't know why he won't just pick up the artifact one and use that.  It's not forbidden or anything.

This happened in my previous fortress too.  I had an artifact hammer called Gasolmogshum, and all my hammerdwarves ignored it.  And in the fortress before that I had an artifact golden sword, which nobody would use either.

Is there some kind of specification that a soldier has to meet before they can use an artifact weapon?  Or are my dwarves just acting more...dwarvenly?

[Smew]

For a soldier to use an artifact weapon they must be of hero status or above(aka: Hammerlord, Macelord, Champion, etc).
Once they get to those statuses, they should be able to use artifact weapons.

[Zancor Mezoran]

Ok thanks.

[zchris13]

And they won't drop it. Ever.

[Albedo]

Really? What about activating a different weapon type?

[Smew]

Really? What about activating a different weapon type?

They either:
A: Won't pick up the different weapon type unless it's another artifact weapon, in which case, they will use TWO weapons with one hand.
B:Will pick up the different weapon type and use two weapons with one hand.
I can't recall which happens.

[Rockphed]

I got my dwarves to drop artifacts by switching their weapon.

Also, if it gets stuck in something they leave it behind and go to get another weapon, so you can re-stash it.