How am I supposed to be an efficient merchant or alchemist if I can't collect
more than 150 nuggets of ore in a forge? they never lag the mud because I
can't lift many hundreds of them at a time, they are heavy. I don't want to
buy ten blacksmith forges or whatever is needed for an all-day mining session,
nor do I want to stop continually to amalgamate stuff.

I have caused accidental lag a few times with herb handling, since herbs are
light enough to move around hundreds at a time. Perhaps these could be stacked
like reagents or something, but not being able to efficiently handle these is
also annoying, though not as much as the ore.

I don't know what was causing the lag, archwizards probably do, but isn't
there some other way to prevent item handling abuse than to mess up
merchanting methods?