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Hi devs!

Is it possible to place the whole item stack on the ground? So, that dozens of iron plates need the same place as only one, but with description:
item-stack-on-ground
with stack definition
{name = item_name, count = count}

This is already possible. surface.create_entity{name="item-on-ground", position=target_position, stack={item="iron-plate", count=100}} works just fine.

For example, Nougat Mining has this as a hidden config option by editing the variable at the top of control.lua. You can switch to generating items robot cargo sized stacks instead of singular items for much faster mining.