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Howdy,
I am requesting that "pick_sound" and "drop_sound" are accessible from an item prototype that was retrieved at runtime.

Here is how it pertains to my use case. I have several entities (plants) which are not plantable by any item, however they are spawned depending on the quality of a seed that was planted. This means that I cannot pipette the plants like usual to get seeds, so some scripting workarounds are required. Not difficult, however this means that sounds are not played unless I use `play_sound`. However there is no way to play the correct sound outside of hardcoding the filepaths to a list of seeds etc.

With how many fields of an ItemPrototype are visible, it feels odd that the sounds are not something we can access.

EDIT: This is possible via SoundPaths. I will leave this up just because it may still be an idea that benefits someone else

The only intended way to access sounds at runtime is via the soundpath, so since it's available there this already exists.