Equip a new Pickaxe

So as ridiculous as this sound I'm currently in a 5 skull mine and my pickaxe broke. I picked up 3 more Pickaxes in the mine itself but it won't let me equip it? They look the same...same stats etc. Suggestions?

 

you can't equip them by dragging them onto your paperdoll, but you should be able to by rightclicking them and hitting equip. failing that, if you open your skills sheet with k and go over to the mining tab in crafting, you'll see your current tool in a box in the bottom left and can drag to and from that slot.

 

No right clicking equip is not a option. Believe it or not I just figured it out by dropping it on my paper doll. Thanks for the K tip.

 

be sure to unequip the broken one first if you are using the menu system.

 

Yeah, I had a weird moment last night, perhaps it's a bug. I couldn't equip the new one until I unequipped the old. As in, right click -> equip didn't appear until I'd freed up the slot. Since most other gear doesn't work this way, it may be a bug, or a bug only related to broken items.

 

This is how its been for the last few years at least so I don't think its a bug.

 

That doesn't mean it's not a bug. I just right click-equipped a new cubit measure when the old one was destroyed, so the difference in behavior means one of the two is a bug. I'm betting on the pickaxe.