Would be cool to see a plug in added to prevent players from taking too much free stuff and having the shop stop them from taking free stuff after a limit Could encourage more free item shops

 

in game suggestion from other player think it would be cool to have this added

 

Use a dispenser with a button on it. Then they have to tap for each free thing. If they really need half a stack of food, they’ll be patient. Has completely eliminated spamming from my 6ish free shops on my island. Alternatively, if you have a free food shop, for instance, make players trade something useless for it. I have a rotten flesh for food trade shop next to my public pigman spawner, for instance. I don’t think this feature is needed in the form you have suggested.

 

I have a mapart suggestion chest with free paper to suggest in a dispencer with button. Had ppl clear out 9 full stacks of paper on a regular. So if ppl want to clear out something, they'll just do it ^^'

 

I don’t believe I have been wiped out of food even once since implementing this. Perhaps you’ve had the issue because a book and quill are more “worth” stealing than food.

Another way to prevent this, JustMe, is, as I mentioned, not making the books and quills completely free, even with a button. Convert this to a trade shop. If someone really wants to make a suggestion, they are probably quite willing to wrangle a stack of cobble or something else low-value to trade for a book, to then write and submit a suggestion to you. I don’t think anyone is going to find the hassle of wiping you out worth it with it set up like that.

 

Its only simple paper in that dispencer. Next to it is an anvil to name the paper and a hopper chest to submit. Paper wasnt worth much with lots of sugar cane cropper farms.

 

Well, I guess suggestions should be written on rotten flesh then XD

I see some benefits to this suggestion, but I am still ultimately neutral on it. There are workarounds to spamming free shops etc.