Remember, my inventory is full, and I'm trying to craft a chest, but when I pick up an item to free a slot for the chest to land in, as you could do in 0.16, 0.17 now adds a hand there so items WONT enter that slot, so my question is how would I go ahead and remove that hand temporarily (like ...

'q' to drop the item you are holding? (the reason for my question mark is this seems so obvious, it seems I must be misunderstanding what you are saying)


This drops the stack back into the slot where the hand is instead of removing the hand and letting the chest finish crafting.
Remember, my ...

I just started my first playthrough in the 0.17 update, and I just stumbled upon my first inventory management change that actually cause me a headache.

In 0.16 when I had full inventory, I just crafted a new chest, picked up an item so the chest reappear in that slot, place the chest, open it and ...