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More actions directly from items?

This may have been discussed before, so apologies if I'm just re-treading old ground. 

I'm always a teensy bit frustrated by the way certain objects/actions are presented. For example, when I click on butterfly milk, I get the option to shake it into butter. When I click on rocks, I only have the option to drop it on the floor — despite the fact that there's not much else to do with rocks except grind them down into elements. If I want to grind the rock I have to go to my pestle + mortar.

I understand the logic behind which actions are available from the object menu — basically it seems to be that it requires a tool to function (eg milling spice), then you have to click on the tool (the mill), rather than the object (the allspice). 

And it is logical. But it also feels cumbersome. At the very least, once you've learned that using the spice mill means you can make spices, it would make life a bit easier to simply click on the object and have all actions available.

Posted 19 months ago by wurzel Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • If this was posted in ideas, I would have said +1 :)

    I think this is perfectly desirable feature. Spices already have this item specific option. 
    You can sniff some, while you taste others. 
    Posted 19 months ago by gia Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Gah! I thought this was in ideas. Had the wrong window open. Should I post again in ideas or is that a bit too much?

    As for spices... Well, sniffing and tasting are both actions that don't require tools, right? So that's why you can do it straight from the object.
    Posted 19 months ago by wurzel Subscriber! | Permalink
  • wurzel. Maybe post in ideas, but provide a link here for people to comment there and not here? I think it will be lost here in general  forums.
    Posted 19 months ago by gia Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Cool.

    I've now reposted this over at Ideas.

    beta.glitch.com/forum/ideas...

    Any comments there, please!
    Posted 19 months ago by wurzel Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I could have sworn we already did this, but it seems like we haven't. It will happen.
    Posted 19 months ago by stoot barfield Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Awesome stew.
    Posted 19 months ago by wurzel Subscriber! | Permalink