In first person your empty hand hangs below the view (until November 4 it rested low on the right of the screen), and when you pick something up it reaches for it: look down at a stone and the hand opens toward it, palm to the ground, then closes and goes back. A stone you hold sat in the curl of your fingers then; since November 8 it sits cupped in your palm. At a blueberry bush the hand comes in cupped and the thumb rolls a handful off.
In third person, stand still and press E on a stone near your feet: he brings his back foot up, squats with a straight back and takes the stone with his free hand, the left if the pickaxe is in his right, holding the pick low beside his knee, then steps back into his stance. From further off, E still takes it at once.
