Dropping a previously wielded entity will unwield the current one

[Erik Ogenvik]

If the user has previously wielded an entity (but is now wielding another) and the first one is dropped, the right_hand_wield attribute will be reset.

The reason for this can be found in Character.cpp. Any entity which has at one time been wielded will have it's "containered" event connected to Character::wieldDropped. Since this connected never is severed this also means that if the entity is later on picked up by another entity, the same thing will happen.

Now, there used to be m_rightHandWieldConnection field, which would have handled this. But since that has been removed (commented out) I assume there's a reason. Should this be handled in a better way with more recent features? There's also a FIXME comment:
//FIXME Make sure we don't stay linked to the previous wielded tool

[Al Riddoch (alriddoch)]

Not actually confirmed myself yet, but I can completely see why this would happen.