Swing the pickaxe in third person and the survivor does a real overhead strike: the pick goes up over the head, trails behind the hands on the way down, both hands meet at the butt for the blow, hips go back and knees bend, eyes stay on the rock, then the pick is levered out. The sledgehammer swings the same way. Nothing here was keyed by hand, bought or recorded: the motion was generated on each survivor’s own skeleton within real human joint limits, and the male and female survivors each have their own.
Hold the left mouse button to keep swinging. A blow that sticks in the rock is wrenched out with the hand still on the handle, not teleported out, and a pickaxe no longer hangs in the rock behind you when you walk away after a hit.
Known for now: a rock far to the side, very low or very high still mines, but the pick visibly misses it. Strike variants come next.
