Dwarf walking slowly due to carrying items

[Tighty Dwighties]

I have a dwarf that is carrying dozens of scepters and walks incredibly slowly because of it.
I think it was caused by this dwarf growing up in the fort and not having a room available when he did, causing all his owned items from hauling to be carried around with him. However, now he has his own room with a box and cabinet in it, but he's not storing the 20 some odd scepters in it. Any ideas?

[Fel]

This is sadly "normal", some dwarves have a higher tendency to take items as their own when transporting them to stockpiles.

You have two main ways around this, disable hauling for dwarves with suchg tendencies if you go through their personality traits or make sure that the items they could grab weight as little as possible.

Usually I make sure to only make stuff that could be acquired by dwarves out of bones, and preferably only bone rings instead of bone crafts that put out a whole range of things.

It won't help for dwarves that are already slowed down like that but it will help preventing it in the future at least.

[Doctor Zalgo]

Will he drop them if you forbid them?

[Fel]

He should drop them if you force him to wear a military equipment that replaces clothing but that kind of dwarf tends to get unhappy if they can't pickup new items every now and then since it is a "need", and one that grows pretty quickly in their case.

[Ottfried]

you can set a custom uniform and tell him to only wear clothes.
set it to matching exactly and his routine to always ready. that way he will pick up new clothes, once his clothes get too old and it will tend to his need to acquire stuff.

But to be honest: I would keep him like that. sounds too funny to do anything about that xD

[AlP]

Maybe you can remove the items and melt them?

[[MadTs] Phyrys]

He's probably also weak or very weak. Weak dwarves tend to stop to a crawl when they carry something heavier than a glumprong log. Try to enlist him in some military squad, not to defend the fortress but just as a glorified fitness program so he can get some mass.

You never know, maybe you'll catch him strangling some kea in self defense one day.

Edit : Don't even bother with the armor, just make him do some sick wrestling moves in civvies in some dug pit and you're good.

[Fel]

Well, it also depends on the material of the scepters.
A scepter has a volume (size) of 3000.
A granite scepter would weight: 2600 * 3000 / 1,000,000 = 7.8
If made from bones: 500 * 3000 / 1,000,000 = 1.5
And from copper: 8930 * 3000 / 1,000,000 = 26.79

So the material would have a rather big impact, 20 scepters made of copper or even heavier materials would probably slow down even pretty strong dwarves.

[»Matrim Cauthon«]

You could try forbidding the extra items, IIRC that makes dwarves drop them.

I'd think there would be at least a none-zero chance they might even put them away if they have room storage and you unforbidden them afterwards.

Haven't tried that one specifically, or the general function recently, but I used to forbid items to get stubborn militia dwarves to drop equipment.