Case:
Viewing the inventory while doing a long manual mining for a resource.

Expected behaviour:
Opening the inventory (E- window) does not affect the current mining progress.

Real behaviour:
Mining progress resets when inventory window opens.

Replicable:
100%

Build:
15.6 Mac OS X

System:
Sierra

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