In my reskin mods, I display "tier" pips on hundreds of items. They show up primarily in the inventory/crafting machines, and I use the "pictures" field of items/items-with-entity-data and so on to avoid showing the pips when items are on belts or on the ground.
With one glaring exception:
For reasons that I cannot explain, vehicle-based item icons display pips when on the ground. This used to work, so I'm unclear what changed.
In inventory, these are all Item's with entity data, which inherent the pictures property from the Item prototype.
Inspecting the item, the pictures field is properly defined:
But it's being ignored as far as I can tell, when placed on the ground:
Thoughts? Ideas?