Plants - Prepared to be picked!

[Brokk_Ironfinger]

I know I have an Ironfinger but even my finger has limits.

Click and drop plants is amazing addition. Thank you to the coders, builders and all things Team! Wonderful!

[Jazz]

Sweet! Now do one for (gem)mining >.>

[Ghostie]

Sweet! Now do one for (gem)mining >.>

Clicking once on a vein is too much? What are you proposing? Also... PIB!

Add my big +1 to the plant picking code. This is a game changer, thanks guys!

[Blackravenfeather]

Its so good! Love it

[Deider]

To expand a bit on what we've done, all of the plants are placeables and still have inventory. But their inventories are all empty. When you click on a plant now the components will spawn directly into your inventory. If someone has already picked the plant, you'll get a message telling you so and that plant won't be pickable again until the components respawn. It's a bit clunky since the plant inventory will open and you have to close it, but changing all of the plants from containers to useable items across all modules is a massive undertaking that we just don't have the bandwidth for right now.

The good thing about this change is that you don't have to click on each component to have it move into your inventory. Less carpal tunnel syndrome for all!! The other good thing is that this eliminates the old components with old icons that were lurking about in some plant inventories.

The bad thing about this change is that if you liked to drag components from the plant directly into a bag you can't do that anymore. Also if your inventory is full the components will spawn on the ground by you. I suggest buying "The Scoop" if you don't have one already.

Some of you requested a "Pick One" option. As Hamlet mentioned we've added a chat command that allows you to toggle between picking all of a plant's components or just taking one. This uses local variables so you'll have to re-enter the command every time you log in or server transition.

Some updates on this, since we've put it back in:
- We will be slowly converting the plants over from placeables with containers to placeables without them. So you won't have to close that inventory box every time you pick components. Stay tuned.
- Some clarification on the /harvest_toggle command: if you activate this toggle you'll only get one component per plant, not one at a time. That means one until the plant respawns its components. So if you activate the toggle and go to an apple tree you will get one apple until the tree respawns. You won't be able to click on the tree six times to get six apples. You'll be able to click on it once to get one apple. Without the toggle activated, you'll click once and get six apples.

[Ambrosia]

this, by the way, is so great

thank you so much!!!!

[Ambrosia]

Dang it. You finally got me back to picking plants again. I might have even made a healing kit or 5.

[Shadowfire]

I used the scoop to load over 200 wheat into my bags for the first time the other day and it took all of maybe 2 seconds. I think my jaw hit my desk. It was so fantastic after the last few weeks of dragging stuff into bags manually. Seriously awesome addition to the game. Thank you so very much!!!

[Blackravenfeather]

That scoop is a major finger saver. Well worth the mons.