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[weasel]

I had two picks being used by miners, until I recruited them temporarily to repel an attack. They then were dropped on the ground in favor of crossbows.

Originally, they were dropped on top of workshops - I thought they might have been inaccessable, so I deconstructed the shops and built a bunch of weapon racks and scattered them around. No matter what I seem to do I can't convince my miners (no longer recruits; only job set is "mining") to pick their picks back up.  

[GrimmSweeper]

Do you happen to have mining work available? Because whenever I have designated spots to mine, my miners with no picks hunt down the nearest dropped pick and start to work.

Same with Carpenters and axes.

[Maximus]

And hunters with crossbows.  From what I can tell, any weapon-carrying worker will continue to carry the weapon (pick, axe, or crossbow) as long as you keep their mining/woodcutting/hunting labors turned on, even if there's no work of that sort to do.  Keeping hunting on is dangerous, though, since hunters will go after animals spontaneously.

[weasel]

Yeah I have plenty of mining areas selected - I hadn't really changed anything except I recruited them to the military (and assigned them weapons in the military screen).  

[bbb]

hunters only seek x-bows if they have x-bow selected in military screen. (for mine anyway... i have had one or 2 wrestler hunters)

[Satyr]

Do you have weapon racks with some free space that allow picks to be stored? Then maybe the two picks are allready reserved for a hauling job and won't be touched until someone carries them to the rack.
You might then speed this up by changing the "allowed item" options of the racks.