Certain items, e.g. heated lode, were meant not to
be carryable so that players would need to plan
certain constructions properly. The "hot potato"
feature was added to achieve this, and I had
assumed that players would eventually find it
sufficiently frustrating that they would stop and try
to figure out how to do things properly. This has
not worked out, and players working at a forge
spend a lot of their time fiddling with hot things
trying to randomly throw it into the right spot.
This change should make it more difficult for
players to manipulate the "hot potato" item
physics to move items that shouldn't be movable
by hand once heated. Problems involving heated
item placement need to be solved through proper
furnace design, not workarounds. As a bonus, it's
now also harder to accidentally hot-potato your
items into places it's hard to get them out of.
At some point in the future, we will probably be
adding tongs to provide a proper way to move
these items, once players have reached the
proper tech level.
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