Recently spotted that using a hand-rake to weed seems to be giving me crop-sticks in addition to weed seeds. I'm pretty certain that giving me crop-sticks and leaving the set in the world is not an intended effect.

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I was just looking at the related code, so I can at least link to the probable cause of this.

• In the TileEntityCrops::getDrops method, crop sticks are included with the drops. L138
• And that method (different from the Block or Event variations) is called in at least four different places:
  • When you punch a crop, destroying it and getting back the sticks/seeds/fruit. L127
  • When a crop is raked, causing the plant and seed to be removed, but the crop left in place. L393
  • And finally inside BlockCrop::getDrops L212 and BlockCrop::dropBlockAsItemWithChance L117.

Speculation: Given that three out of the four are when the crop is being destroyed, the simplest solution I can think of is to change the lambda inside TileEntityCrop::onRaked to filter out crop sticks. I don't have an IDE in front of me right now, but perhaps something like:

stack -> if (stack.getItem() != AgriItems.getInstance().CROPS) WorldHelper.spawnItemInWorld(this.worldObj, this.pos, stack)

Hope any of this is helpful!

This has been fixed for the next alpha. Thanks for the report!

Also, thanks @CodesCubesAndCrashes for the in-depth analysis!