When a chest burns, it should drop the metal pieces

[NathanielPillar]

Hi, I recently had a house fire. It burnt all of my chests, including the metal pieces they're made of. I can understand the wood burning and disappearing, but the metal bits should drop on the ground so I can build new chests just by getting the wood. I don't think chests would burn at a temperature required to melt the metal - it's not a crucible or burning with coal afterall.

[idiomcritter]

oh, good point!

then again, with the vs theme, the metal bits would end up having damage, and need repairing(?)

And welcome to the forum

[Thorfinn]

If you want consistency, you need to do similar with things like metal tools on a toolrack. Though personally, I think its probably just like the reason for tool durability. There's plenty of metal to be found. Go and find it.

[Dubbs Malone]

I think it's probably more trouble than it's worth to try to parse apart every piece of metal inside every chest that burns. Just to make it more realistic to people who accidentally set their whole house on fire. A pretty niche function for a rare, foolhardy mistake. I'd guess Tyron is putting effort into more pertinent things.

[McFrugal]

OP means the nails.  Chests are made of wood and nails.  However, allowing byproducts from blocks/items burning sets a bad precedent- like, burning a tool should in theory leave you with the tool head, but you could do that with damaged tools to fully repair them, which would be an exploit of sorts.  Or maybe not an exploit, if tools drop their tool heads when broken from durability loss as well.  Honestly that would make more sense... and also tools would generally have the same durability, heh.