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[Doomshifter]

Hey all! My friend appears to be having some rather... interesting trouble.

Recently, he got a pretty kickass artifact. A pick made entirely of bone. Thrilled with his artifact, he made his miner drop his current pick (by removing mining, forbidding the dropped pick and adding mining again) and go grab the other one. Instead, the dwarf wandered off for a break. After the usual assign/unassign from the military, the dwarf stood there, dumbfounded.

After accidentally losing sight of the forbidden pick and then re-finding it again, he did a number of tricks to get him to pick up the bone-pick. He turned on/off mining, he assigned/unassigned him to the military, waited... nothing. He just wouldn't pick it up.

Frustrated, he went to go do something else. when he comes back, his miner is farming. He doesn't have farming enabled.

In short, does anyone know:
1) What the fuck just happened
2) how to make him pick up the bloody bone pick.

Here is a picture of the artifact. Nothing OVERLY flashy, just kinda cool.

[Demonic Spoon]

http://dwarffortresswiki.net/index.php/Artifact#Usage

'Object types which require a dwarf to wear or use the item will generally not be used by your dwarves, with the exception of artifact weapons and armor.

Artifact weapons or armor will only be worn by heroes and champions'

[Doomshifter]

http://dwarffortresswiki.net/index.php/Artifact#Usage

'Object types which require a dwarf to wear or use the item will generally not be used by your dwarves, with the exception of artifact weapons and armor.

Artifact weapon or armor will only be worn by heroes and champions'

Thanks! I don't normally get many artifacts, so I don't know these things. And he's a new player so he wouldn't know either.

[Quietust]

Put simply, an artifact pick is pretty much useless because only a Hero or Champion will wield it, and once a dwarf becomes a Hero or Champion he is stuck in the military forever and cannot return to civilian status in order to use it for mining. This is further complicated by the fact that a drafted Miner doesn't even receive any "military" experience (since combat uses the Mining skill) and thus will always be a Recruit unless switched to another weapon (which will cause the pick to be dropped), and once the dwarf becomes capable of using an artifact, its Labor menu is locked out and thus prevents switching it back to using a pick.

On the bright side, you can still put it in a weapon trap. If you've had a moody Mechanic, use an artifact mechanism in it, though a normal masterwork one should work just as well.