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When using single drop (default Z), to drop 1 coal at a time on burners, a single one gets dropped on the floor each time the cursor goes over rock entities, as shown in the video.

Thanks for the report however I don't see this as a problem. The drop logic doesn't care what you have selected - it drops the item on the ground. If you happen to be hovering over an entity it will first try to drop into that entity but otherwise nothing says it won't drop the items on the ground.

I should have clarified, it doesn't have this behaviour for other buildings or ghosts, which doesn't seem to be consistent for me. Another video is attached. When feeding coal, I have the drop key held the entire time (not tapping or mashing it), and when the cursor goes over the rock, it starts dropping coal on the floor, but when the cursor goes over any other building that doesn't accept coal, nothing happens. The reason it's affecting gameplay is that coal can get needlessly wasted to the floor (the context here is I am attempting speedruns, and every piece of coal is important here)