> Another important thing we need is "attaching" things to the clonk. For example for digging the clonk needs to hold the shovel. For the firearm-animation he has to be able to hold a weapon. Well ck, that should be your task I think. Perhaps we need to discuss a bit how this should be done.

This is only about attaching meshes, not about attaching objects, right? I am somewhat afraid of the latter because of network synchronization issues. So would something like the following be enough as a first step?

int AttachMesh(id source, string bonename);
bool RemoveMesh(int attach_id /* return value from AttachMesh */);