The crafter's output slot is meant to be just for display, not interacted with. The player cannot manually take an item out of it, only craft the item with a redstone signal. However, the game doesn't behave as expected when manually putting an item into the slot.
Steps to Reproduce:
Enable the Update 1.21 Experiment;
Place a crafter down;
Try putting any item on its output slot.
Observed Results:
The item is dropped.
Expected Results:
Nothing happens when interacting with the output slot and the item remains selected.
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After consideration, the issue is being closed as Won't Fix.
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