It would be very cool to have a device to block the magnet from functioning in a zone, it would apply to the items in the zone not only when the player is in the zone.

Like the solegnolia from botania: https://botaniamod.net/lexicon.php#solegnolia

the next version will respect the preventRemoteMovement tag on Forge, which would mean any demagnetizer which uses this tag will work
on fabric there isn't such a tag

Oh no, I'm on fabric :|
Wondering about how the solegnolia work on fabric then 🤔

there is a non-zero chance the solegnolia works completely different, and only works with botania's ring of attraction

but this is definitely a feature I want too, since picking up items accidentally is pretty annoying

worst case I just have to port demagnetize myself :D

Ok, looking forward to this ^^
Thanks btw 👍

If going through the trouble to port demagnetize to fabric, I would suggest making that a separate library mod that then exposes essentially the same tag for others to use.

This is a much needed feature seeing how the AE2 magnet pulls things through walls and has a huge range.