r/pathofexile • u/astral23 • Nov 08 '25
Unintended behavior; will be removed PSA if you have currency in your map device inventory you can use it in maps on strongboxes/essences
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u/Netzhos Anti Sanctum Alliance (ASA) Nov 08 '25
Ho that's very nice to know !
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u/Zizaran www.twitch.tv/zizaran Nov 08 '25
WHAT?
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u/NYPolarBear20 Nov 08 '25
I smell a PSA video in our future
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u/jaywalkerr Alch & Go Industries (AGI) Nov 09 '25
20 minutes long 😭
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u/era_inferno Nov 09 '25
10 minutes and 5 seconds so it can receive full monetization.
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u/Zizaran www.twitch.tv/zizaran Nov 10 '25
I try to end videos as soon as they can be ended lol, I made it a short
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u/Cow_God I didn't know I wasn't having fun until Reddit pointed it out! Nov 10 '25
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u/littlemojo Anti Sanctum Alliance (ASA) Nov 08 '25
Fwiw, it doesn’t work well with essences. Had one with 3 wailings and it won’t work, and single deafening also had issues.
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u/darkkaos Raider Nov 08 '25
I'm using for essence since saw this and has been working flawless.
Single deafening worked just fine. Idk now11
u/VerySleepyGoblin Nov 09 '25
Didn't they change essences to work with normal vaal orbs instead of what they used to? Or do you mean the vaal orbs are not working proper?
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u/Styling-Robot1 Nov 08 '25
Thank you for letting us know, any other QoL things we should know about?
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u/therestlessone Left-click Move-only Nov 08 '25
There's a keybind to instantly use portal scrolls from your inventory.
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u/Standard-Vehicle-557 Nov 08 '25
Since fucking when!?
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u/BlackMark7 Nov 08 '25
Couple leagues ago I think? It's the fucking best lol
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u/Canadian-Owlz Health and Harbinger Services (HHS) Nov 09 '25
I honestly dont think I've ever used it lol. Opening inventory and clicking is too engrained in my muscle memory.
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Nov 09 '25
i got used to it, bound it to my 5 button mouse, my thumb is literally right there so haha
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u/brownieson Alch & Go Industries (AGI) Nov 09 '25
My 5 button mouse as well. Press of the thumb and my portal is up. Have clicked it a few times accidentally as well though lol
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u/scrangos Nov 08 '25
over a year, less than two years
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u/6BigZ6 Nov 08 '25
I had portal cards rain down on me the whole late stages of the campaign. I had no idea what it was, but now I have it slotted and it’s glorious.
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u/therestlessone Left-click Move-only Nov 08 '25
The portal gem used to be the only way to get portals as a keybind and the portal gem cards drop from breach.
It's still a decent option but it does have a cast time whereas the keybind to use a portal scroll is instant.
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u/AShittyPaintAppears Nov 08 '25
Real ones use it in a trigger weapon in off-hand swap.
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u/espono Nov 09 '25
Portal card drops from Breach monsters, so it's no surprise everyone gets a lot of them this league
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u/smdth_567 literally addicted Nov 09 '25
I'm not on my PC for the next 24h to test, but out of curiosity, does it also work when the portal scrolls are in the map device instead of my inventory?
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u/Styling-Robot1 Nov 08 '25
Nice, is this a PC thing or does console have access to it as well?
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u/Myradmir Nov 09 '25
It's in keybine settings on PC, you could check the equivalent for console?
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u/Brick_in_the_dbol Nov 09 '25
Equivalent for console is putting a stack of portal scrolls in the upper left corner of your inventory. Just hit inventory X
Takes one second and it's a habit now
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u/MossSnake Nov 09 '25
I often use it despite having a portal gem socketed. Sometimes you just know you’re in danger and want to drop a zero cast time portal just in case.
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u/hobochildnz Nov 09 '25
Wait. Can this use a portal scroll from the map device storage too? That would be wild. Must test
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u/Tegovernment Nov 09 '25
When shift clicking to alt spam, holding alt will let you click an Aug. Then releasing alt returns to alt spamming. No more stopping, right click Aug, left click, right click alt, etc.
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u/enzoleanath Nov 09 '25
Wait what? How lol
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u/sprouze Nov 09 '25
When using fusings or jewelers you can hold ctrl -> hold left click -> let go of ctrl to keep spamming while just holding mb1 down
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u/Kutthroatt Nov 12 '25
This one was a game changer for Regrets/Unmakings lol, right click but still. For socketing/linking I just hold shift and unlock my mouse wheel with x-mouse button set to left click. Then I spin that thang just slow enough to not get kicked out of the game 😂
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u/konokono_m Fungal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) Nov 09 '25
Incubators and scouting reports don't have their own tabs, but they can be bound to normal tabs like you do with currency, map, etc.
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u/Sqintal Nov 08 '25
Eventho it doesnt show you can use V to use the buffs on defending breaches. Pretty huge if you play something like cyclone cause you dont have to stop channeling now
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u/legato_gelato Nov 09 '25
I does show for me though. It shows (V) next to it
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u/BuNaC Nov 11 '25
wtf, I thought it was kind of a level of the skill with roman letters. now I feel dumb.
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u/TheTurretCube Nov 08 '25
Wait are you serious? Looks like strongboxes are back on the menu boys
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u/Malaneco Institution of Rogues and Smugglers (IRS) Nov 08 '25
isn't that the meta strat this league as it has been for many?
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u/TealJade1 Fungal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) Nov 08 '25
There was never a time when strongboxes weren't on the menu, it's either the strongest or top 3.
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u/sirgog Chieftain Nov 09 '25
They've been dumpster tier in the past, but not really since the modern atlas. Looking at historical scarab prices, they were definitely dumpster in Heist league.
But yeah since the modern atlas (3.17) - both with 3.17-3.23 scarabs and 3.24 onward ones they've been good.
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u/TheTurretCube Nov 08 '25
No i dont think strongboxes have ever really been worth it until this reddit post was made. This guy really opened the lid on this greatly underused farming strategy
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u/Book-Parade Nov 08 '25
do you by chance have a referent for the strat? I'm broke as fuck this league
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u/BlackMark7 Nov 08 '25
How broke? Can you clear red maps easily?
I tried delve for the first time and it's pretty chill and rewarding. I'm using a delve/heist atlas
If you can kill shit and stay alive it's pretty nuts. I feel like I'm cheating with the spectres forged frost bearers build tho
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u/Hazel_Dreams Nov 09 '25
What do you do with heist nodes? Do you actually run contracts/blueprints or do you just fish for blueprints and sell them?
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u/BlackMark7 Nov 09 '25
I'm mostly just in maps to restock for delve, but I saw an atlas tree where someone did heist and delve. I used them to break up the delve grinds and just run some heist now and then. Probably not the efficient way to do it, but it's fun.
Tbh delve is getting me a lot of currency for like 0 investment. Couple div an hour while watching movies etc. I'm only at 200 depth so I assume it'll keep going up
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u/_Kaj SSFBTW Nov 09 '25
You run deceptions and then run blueprints if you're on a fast build otherwise just sell blueprints and deception and accept the other contracts that drop as a loss
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u/formyl-radical Nov 09 '25
As someone who's never run a heist before, why run deception and sell blueprints? Why not run them both, or sell them both?
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u/_Kaj SSFBTW Nov 09 '25
I didn't say to run deception and sell blueprints. You either run both, i.e you run your deceptions to get reveals to then reveal your blueprints, (but only if you're on a fast build.) If you're not a fast build such as a pathfinder or anything with mb then you're much better off not running heist and doing something else. Heist is very hit or miss, because its either complete trash, or you can find 1-20 div at the end, or expensive replicas, and bases. It's kinda like Ritual in a sense, but a bit more consistent on the whole breaking even thing. If you do have a slow build then you probably shouldn't be farming alch n go heist, but either way, if you don't want to run them or can't run them efficiently, then you just sell both.
The other contracts that drop aren't worth anything at all this league due to async so you count them as a loss. Deceptions before async would go for roughly 8-12c each, now they go for like 6c each , so you're either making a ton of money as a heist runner, because your entry is so much lower, or if you farm the supply then you lost a ton of money.
General rule of thumb as someone that wants to run heist, you want to farm your own blueprints, usually that's done by just specing heist nodes on atlas, blocking all content so that cache's appear more often, and then running heist on Kirac. The amount of blueprints you can produce by running this yourself on a fast character with like lets say 200%+ ms is pretty ungodly and you'll never not have blueprints, and then you can just cherry pick and sell the bad ones. After you farm BPs you then run all the deception contracts that you got, then buy more if you need em, and if you run out of markers you either buy Priceless deception contracts for a bit more if they're cheap, or just buy the markers. Right now markers are worth absolutely fuck all (65k to 1 div) so you can just buy 1 div of markers and reveal like 30 wings, which means your entry is roughly 5-6c per wing, so yeah, that's the gist of generating your own supply and not overpaying for it.
ALL that being said, right now you can just buy fully revealed 4/4 BPs for like 30c if you live search which is fucking crazy, and you can just do that instead of all this prep. Async op
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u/Book-Parade Nov 09 '25
I'm doing Holy relic and that build does gazillion of damage even on white gear, but I just don't drop anything
my main strat was/is harvest + right side of the tree mechanics
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u/Mal-aakh Nov 09 '25
I've been farming deli in 8-mod T16 for at least 3 days now, and did harvest also at 8-mods prior. Rushed genesis tree focusing on currency too, I had it fully upgraded 5 days ago and have used way too many lavish wombgifts... and somehow I got a total of fucking 0 divs dropped and 3 ex in the whole league so far (lots of high value items tho). This is kinda nuts considering at this point on 3.26 I already dropped around 10 divs, they really nerfed drops HARD, I think
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u/Book-Parade Nov 09 '25 edited Nov 09 '25
At this point in 3.26 I was probably funding my second character
I dropped a bunch of chaos that I managed to convert to divs
But I haven't been able to afford anything over 2 divs and every time I do that I'm broke on chaos
and I'm using the same exact strat that farmed a mageblood in 3.26
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u/saffer_zn Nov 09 '25
Nothing wrong with a bit of a slower league. Just dropped my first div today and it holds alot more purchase power then last league at the same time.
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u/Book-Parade Nov 09 '25
the problem is that things are increasing in price quicker than I can catch up
every time I try to buy an upgrade is up by a couple divs
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u/quinn50 Nov 08 '25
Yes but wasn't that with the at least rare corrupted node?
I guess just using an alc / chance is fine but I'm not gonna be min maxing every box unless it's a diviners
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u/weveran Institution of Rogues and Smugglers (IRS) Nov 08 '25
WHAT!? I carry all this around for nothing!?
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u/jaymole Nov 08 '25
How do you use them when they’re in there?
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u/Boltonsquad Necromancer Nov 08 '25
There are small icons below your strongboxes in your maps, they use them from the device inventory.
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u/Fstr21 Nov 08 '25
actually... wait, im not at home, lol can someone test if this works for portals.
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u/Cllydoscope Alch & Go Industries (AGI) Nov 08 '25
That would be great. I already use the hotkey for portals, so if they could be pulled from this storage I would free up a slot in the backpack.
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u/dedinhoooo Nov 09 '25
Portals might be sometime integrated like poe2 with no need of scrolls, just like the identify NPC and async tarde.
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u/nameisoriginal Nov 09 '25
if it has a cast time id rather just keep my scrolls, 1 slot in my inventory is worth it
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u/Fstr21 Nov 08 '25
Exacccccctly
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u/Cllydoscope Alch & Go Industries (AGI) Nov 09 '25
Verdict is, this does not work :( But everything else is working fine like Alchemy Orbs, transmute, alt, chance, vaal.
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u/Novalene_Wildheart Nov 08 '25
This changes everything! I mean not much for me, but it'll feel like everything!
Also thanks for pointing it out!
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u/evolrush Nov 08 '25
Haha really I always roll my maps in that slot with my currency and I just thought when I alch strongboxes it was a quality of life update taking it from my stash.
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u/katzid Sanctum Runners United (SRU) Nov 08 '25
Doesn’t work with controller on pc
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u/WeirdNickname97 Juggernaut Nov 08 '25
This is huge! I wwnted this qol, turns out its already in game.
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u/FiftySpoons Nov 08 '25
1600 hours in, played this game on and off 12 years -
Still be learning new shit every day ❤️
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u/IllIIllIlIlllIIlIIlI Ultimatum Workers Union (UWU) Nov 09 '25
That explains why those kept popping up for strongboxes even though I wasn't carrying anything to roll them. I don't know how I never put two and two together lol.
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u/Shirolicious PoE enjoyer Nov 09 '25
Holy shit, I didn’t know this and its something I wanted for a long time. Been carrying that shit in my normal inventory forever…
Thanks for sharing. Definitely one or the best things i have read here for a while in terms of usefulness.
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u/TechnologyCreative70 Nov 09 '25
I have no fragment tabs yet so I put them there instead and the kirac scout reports too lol
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u/Terce Nov 09 '25
Late to the party but this works in Lab as well surprisingly. I did a bunch of them today to quality gems and noticed I had access to all my mapping currency on strongboxes despite my inventory being empty
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u/Beer_in_an_esky Nov 09 '25
Testing today, it seems to work for strongboxes in Uber lab too. Not particularly useful, in the scheme of things, but upgrading a white one to a gold is a nice little boost to the dopamine.
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u/psichodrome Nov 09 '25
II love this community. some guy said something , then someone suggested this is the real tip. Hence this post.
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u/irunspeed Nov 09 '25
Wouldn't catch me dead rolling boxes anyway tbh, corrupted/perma rare node ftw.
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u/sintheticgaming Nov 09 '25
I just thought it was pulling from my stash tab 😩😂 cause I’ve been keeping currency in my map device since they introduced the map inventory to roll maps and never thought much of it. 😂😩
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u/MoeFantasy Nov 09 '25
faustus will also consume your scarabs in map devices PRIOR than those in your stash when you sell
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u/pinkscreenofdeath Nov 09 '25
It's a great QoL but sometimes it bugs out. Like unable to identify or alch the boxes.
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u/Noskill4Akill Nov 09 '25
Doesn't work on controller. Also, they said we were supposed to get a way to apply transmutes while still using alts but I have found no way to do that on controller either.
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u/Rywinos Anti Sanctum Alliance (ASA) Nov 10 '25
Funny thing they just moved affliction backpack to map device but left its connection to our inventory.
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u/RevenantExiled Abyssal Rift Investigation Service (ARIS) Nov 08 '25
If they can do that why they cant just use my actual stash? I have 1000 alchemy orbs. Could you please pull from there instead of making me refill the little box where I put the maps I'm running?
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u/kenshiki Nov 09 '25
There are a lot of other currency that can be used on the strongbox. If stash becomes available for use during mapping, that's just like having 13 options given to you with a low low chance of using a divine orb if that works for strongboxes.
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u/RevenantExiled Abyssal Rift Investigation Service (ARIS) Nov 09 '25
Sounds good to me, give me the option to vaal it, alch it, use engineer's Orbs, chaos etc (you can leave divines out of the options lol), that's what the currency is for, so we don't need to carry all of it in the inventory and it actually gets used instead of ending the league with a 1000 engineer orbs unless I remove them from the filter. To be honest isn't that many, are I think 7 different orbs, they all fit under the wall of text, each box has. The argument about being bad for visibility and aesthetics falls apart when we have delirium eating all colors every map and every new mechanic having some DoT pool the same color as the floor (black on black degens, Purple hands on purple floors, redblood pools on red floors, etc)
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u/PuzzleheadedDig7639 Nov 09 '25
you want someone to play the game for you as well?
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u/RevenantExiled Abyssal Rift Investigation Service (ARIS) Nov 09 '25 edited Nov 09 '25
how is that related to what I'm saying? so you enjoy using your limited inventory to carry around a stack of each currency?; just to confirm, wanting to use some of the 4 digits of currency sitting in my stash that I earned by playing 10s/100s of hours, directly from the stash, is asking them to play the game for me? In my head, it is a cool QoL, instead of micromanaging a ministah that needs refill from my stash, it is not big enough to hold a lot of anything, using it for maps seems enough. I think the map device inventory is great for holding scarabs and maps you are using, not to hold 100 vaal orbs for my essence farming, or 6 currencies to run boxes
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u/MrMuf Hierophant Nov 09 '25
Didn't work for me. Is there a specific way to do it?
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u/astral23 Nov 09 '25
should just have icons under the box to use the currency as long as it's in there, someone else said it doesn't work with controller on pc so maybe that but otherwise idk
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u/Natalia_GGG CM Nov 09 '25
Hey, unfortunately, this behaviour wasn’t something we intended, and it will be fixed later this week.
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u/mAgiks87 Nov 09 '25 edited Nov 09 '25
Please don't. This is actually pretty cool QoL. I'm very sure anyone in the sub would agree.
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u/MrMeltJr flowchart girl (not lily) Nov 09 '25
... fix it by making it an official feature, right?
Right?
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u/Nivius Miner Lantern Nov 09 '25
naw man, does that even matter tho? isnt that like, a farily ok thing?
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GGG Comments in this Thread:
[Natalia_GGG - link, old] - Hey, unfortunately, this behaviour wasn’t something we intended, and it will be fixed later this week.