Prevented from picking up Wirt's Leg (serious)

I can’t pick up wirt’s leg in any difficulty. I know what you are thinking, but I do not have it in any inventory…

  1. Had a Hell difficulty Wirt’s Leg in my stash
  2. Went to Normal to try to get chipped gems - realized the Hell difficulty one won’t work
  3. Go to tristram and drop Hell difficulty leg next to wirt’s body, pick up the normal leg
  4. Used normal leg and opened a portal to cow level
  5. Cleared cow level, started a new game went to tristram
  6. Can’t pick up wirt’s leg at all. The last one I had was just used. Double checked over all inventories, no leg. Checked follower, no leg. I don’t have any other characters.

I think because I threw the Hell leg down on the ground in Normal Tristram and swapped legs quick and then hopped between games… that something in the code didn’t switch right and now I have no leg and literally cannot pick up another. I tried in Normal, in Nightmare, and in Hell. Cannot pick up a new leg.

Edit -

So I found out that if I have my inventory open and pick it up into my hand, I can then place it into my inventory. Something weird definitely happened…

Regardless, it seems to have resolved the issue so at least there is a work around.