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When a container contains multiple coins those coins are automatically put into a pile. You can pull individual coins out of the pile or pull all the coins of a particular type out of the pile.

I think it would be nifty if other objects could be heaped into piles as well. If there are seven swords on the ground, I'd like to see:

a heap of swords is here

instead of

a sword, a sword, a sword, a sword, a sword, a sword, and a sword are here

This could be controlled by adding something like:

int CanBePiled() { return 1; }
string PileNoun(int numItems) { return "pile" }

to LIB_OBJECT. Objects that shouldn't be piled could then override CanBePiled() and have it return 0. Other objects can alter the noun.

By altering the noun based on the number of items a we could do something like have a dozen roses when there are 12 otherwise we'd have a bunch of roses.

A pile wouldn't be created unless there are five or more objects or some such.