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Reference counting defers deletion of objects until all references to them have been discarded. Currently the code base presumes sole ownership of objects during deletion with the unforseen side effect of possible orphaned references causing bad deletes later on. Deletion with reference counting wou...

As I understand it, from reading this thread, the source of the corruption is thought to be deletion of an object by a second process/thread/schedule which because the original item has already been deleted proceeds to delete a second random object by reusing a stale/bad pointer which was tracking a...

I assume it is necessary to "clean up" the npc created objects because currently there would be an infinite number of objects given enough time passed. However, as Crysta mentioned, 200 pairs of shears on a table surely isn't working as intended. Wouldn't it be better if NPC crafters check...