Stacking items has been an issue for the longest.... I mean think about the Iron Ore for one... You can carry 6000 iron ore... Now it all depends upon what TFP is talking about because the entire 'iron' making process is a bit complicated and extreme compared to the game.
From this source (they all basically say the same):
"To create a ton of pig iron, you start with 2 tons (1.8 metric tons) of ore, 1 ton of coke (0.9 metric tons) and a half ton (0.45 metric tons) of limestone. The fire consumes 5 tons (4.5 metric tons) of air. The temperature at the core of the blast furnace reaches nearly 3,000 degrees F (about 1,600 degrees C). Pig iron contains 4 to 5 percent carbon and is so hard and brittle that it's almost useless. If you want to do anything with it, you have three options. First, you can melt it, mix it with slag and hammer it out to eliminate most of the carbon (down to 0.3 percent) and create strong, malleable wrought iron. The second option is to melt the pig iron and combine it with scrap iron, smelt out impurities and add alloys to form cast iron. This metal contains 2 to 4 percent carbon, along with quantities of silicon, manganese and trace impurities. Cast iron, as the name implies, is typically cast into molds to form a wide variety of parts and products."
So 'technically speaking' it seems we do the pig iron thing as we're whacking on the rocks lol
So just that entire process of making iron has been changed... Technically and 'scientifically' it doesn't matter because this is a game... But the water bottle thing is no different than the canned water... Presumably the same size container, just a different type and your limited to 15 with the canned type whereas the bottle is 500?
This is why I've adjusted the Stacknumber of items in every game we play. There is a modlet that changes them all to 30k but that's extreme. I mean if you need another instance...
You can carry 250 of any type of trophy... But only limited to 5 radiators! "Everyone" should at least be able to relate to the trophy thing, some trophies are small and others like 2 or 3 feet high and higher!!! I'd like to see anyone carrying 250 trophies down the street LOL
I think the entire brass limitation thing isn't 'right' in that if you actually think about it - there is copper everywhere!!! Power transfer lines from the utilities to your house, power lines within your house, every electrical component has copper! In business and industrial buildings there are literally thousands of 'miles' of copper wire. I see this on many sites for copper itself and copper is a large percentage of brass:
An average multifamily unit uses 278 pounds of copper:
125 pounds – building wire
82 pounds – plumbing tube, fittings, valves
20 pounds – plumbers’ brass goods
38 pounds – built-in appliances
6 pounds – builders hardware
7 pounds – other wire and tube
Brass is an entirely whole process like iron... "A wrought brass containing usually about 70 percent copper and 30 percent zinc and having sufficient ductility and other properties to stand the severe mechanical treatment necessary in making cartridge cases."
This is why I like mods like WotW's and Starvation. The ability to make brass is similar to making iron and steel. Adding zinc and copper and the other ones for brass, iron and steel would be logical. So it doesn't matter much - just a few more ores to gather, few more blocks/items to add and it adds yet another step for making brass... Back in Alpha 15.2? Some where around there 'we' ran out of brass and had to convert over to shotguns... It was day 273 or so... 9 of us. Then there have been proposals to have spent casing catchers, etc...