The look should change for sure… maybe someone volunteers to create 2 models for the placed item and for it while it is in stock / carried
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And what do we do if there are no volunteers around? DIY
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I thought it might be nice to go back to @Froggy’s idea of using crates for transportation and implement them as the proxy-version of items in this mod:

Acceptable first try, no? And would leave room to add later on additional resources by just changing the icon on top of the crate.
P.S. Actually I have created a first version of this mod which can be found here:
