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Currently there's no easy way to determine if a player dropped an item using the Z key.

I have need to detect this situation and either replace item-on-ground entity with something else, or delete it.

Could we get new event when player drops item using Z key?

Event properties would include: player_index, entity (ref to the item-on-ground entity)

Aside: Would it be worth renaming on_picked_up_item to on_player_picked_up_item? (and likewise: on_player_dropped_item)

EDIT: See also: viewtopic.php?f=25&t=33935

I can add that. However, when the player drops an item onto a belt there's no associated item entity so it's going to be blank in that instance.

Yup, that's OK

Added for 0.15.

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