Making an item on the ground with item_first_get_time's "grace period" applied.

[INREM]

Normally, when an item drops on the ground after a monster is killed, a "grace period" for the player who did the most damage (and then the second, and third) goes into effect.  This duration is set with the constant item_first_get_time in drops.conf.

Is there a way to achieve a grace period effect when creating items on the ground with makeitem?  I didn't see anything in the documentation about a parameter to limit pickup on the item to a particular player for a period of time.

[INREM]

For anyone looking into this in the future: I ended up modding the source - extending the BUILDIN_FUNC for the makeitem family of script routines with my own optional variable and then modding map_addflooritem in map.cpp/.hpp, which applies the grace period on floor drops.

Edited May 20, 2022 by INREM