tehAon’s Loot Magnet – Loot That Collects Itself

- No longer bundles its own 0Harmony.dll — it uses the copy the game already ships (the 0_TFP_Harmony mod), so it can't clash with another mod's Harmony and the download is far smaller. If you ever ran an earlier build, delete any leftover Mods/LootMagnet/0Harmony.dll.
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- New block: Loot Magnet Chest — satellite storage the Magnet distributes into. Chain chests onto a Magnet (face to face, box to box) and a whole storage room joins it. The Magnet tops off matching stacks anywhere in the network first, then opens a new slot, filling the chests before its own buffer. Chests never collect on their own; same-owner and unlocked only.
- Three upgrade tiers: Mk1 → Mk2 → Mk3, upgraded in place by hitting the block with forged iron / forged steel (the vanilla writable-crate mechanic). Each tier grows reach, speed and its storage grid (8×8 → 8×9 → 8×10). Contents are preserved across the upgrade.
-No more pickup: the Magnet and chests behave like normal secure storage — destroy to move (contents drop as a bag). Upgrading in place removes the reason pickup existed.
- Per-tier tunables in lootmagnet.xml (one [i]<block>[/i] per tier).
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- First build of the Loot Magnet block: it loots nearby bags, containers and dropped items as if you had opened them yourself — your loot stage, Lucky Looter and loot buffs all apply, at your own hand speed.
- Reach: 15 m for bags and dropped items, 5 m for block containers, 8 m vertical.
- Never touches player storage, death backpacks, locked or in-use containers, other players' land claims, or quest/POI-staged loot.
- Server-side only: install on the dedicated server (EAC off, DLL mod); clients install nothing and keep EAC on. Also works in single-player and hosted games.
- Fully configurable reach and pacing via lootmagnet.xml.

- **Your settings survive updates.** Editing `lootmagnet.xml` never lasted — every update overwrites
it. Put what you want changed in `lootmagnet.local.xml` beside it instead; it overrides the shipped
values and nothing writes over it, because that file is in no release. A `<block>` merges onto the
shipped tier with the same name, so tiers you don't mention are untouched. Logged at startup.

- **Verified on game 3.2 — `GAME_VERSIONS` widened to `V3.0.0-V3.2.0`.** The old label meant "the newest
version anyone had checked", not that 3.2 was known bad; anyone on 3.2 was being told to skip a
mod that works. Checked on a real **V3.2.0 (b10)** dedicated server — the build the public Steam
branch serves, and the one a default client is on: the mod loaded, applied its patches, and the
server reached its start with no exceptions, no missing members and no dropped XML patch.
Every external member the DLL binds to resolves against every version claimed, and the DLL is
built against the oldest of them so nothing can bind to a type newer than that build.

- Works on game 3.3. Game 3.3 rebuilt how every container holds its items: storage boxes, loot containers and dropped loot bags alike. On 3.3 that made 1.3.0 throw an error out of the game's own block update every time a placed magnet ticked, and the magnet collected nothing. Loot Magnet now reads and writes containers in a way that works on every game version from 3.0.0 to 3.3.0, from one download.
- If a later game update moves them again, Loot Magnet says so in the log at startup and switches itself off instead of throwing every tick.
- Nothing else changed: magnets, satellite chests, tiers and settings carry over.