Rat chest needs icon, it cant be placed into Sheds or Wagons

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Rat chest needs icon, it cant be placed into Sheds or Wagons

Postby maze » Wed Jan 07, 2026 5:54 pm

Rat chest needs icon, it cant be placed into Sheds or Wagons.
yesterday I went to put a rat chest into the shed and it just made me stand there. It's really sad!

Maybe here is an idea, make rat chest 6x7 because they're a chest win and reward from rat dungeon, they're currently smaller then small chest.
Jotun Clam (7x8) is wacky.

is this even a critique or idea... im confused!
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Re: Rat chest needs icon, it cant be placed into Sheds or Wa

Postby vatas » Thu Jan 08, 2026 9:01 am

To elaborate: a Rat chest can be loaded in a cart (or any other vehicle that operates with the "diegetic" gray sacks method. Lean-to also probably works.)

The server doesn't allow the Rat chest to go into a Wagon/Shed/Ship because it realizes there's no to display icon in the cargo UI.

Simple solution for issues like these would be some kind of placeholder icon (for an example, all logs, including Old Trunk, use the same generic icon dating back from Legacy.) Jorb is seemingly allergic to adding "placeholder" assets unless there's no way around it... (TLDR: "Perfect is the enemy of good.")
An exception is the "?" icon, perhaps most noticeable on any inventory item if the client needs to load the .res from server) and there are cases where the game refuses to work altogether if it can't perform perfectly. In the worst cases this results in a scenario like client hard crashing because someone dropped a coin made out of Rose Gold on the ground and it can't fetch a .res for it. (This was a real tactic, although it mostly relied on out-dated or buggy custom clients. Root cause was still arguably that Jorb didn't add any kind of failsafe and effectively made a client that prefers to kill itself rather than display slightly worse visuals.)
(Also there was talk of people DDoSing or crashing the resource server so that anyone who didn't already have Rose Gold Coin cached would crash if one was dropped within their render distance.)
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