Despawning dropped items?

[Mad Mephit]

So, I had a peculiar thing happen. I think part of it is my mistake: I'd told the villagers to make glass bottles until 100, but I hadn't set a place for them to actually get taken.

At some point, this resulted in *over half a million bottles* sitting in the forge (as well as a normal max stack of 100 in the other output slot), taking up pretty much all my villagers' spare time shuffling them around. At some point, thinking the dropped items would eventually despawn, I just broke the forge, and the bottles all spilled on the ground - thankfully in one stack! But after a fairly lengthy time sitting next to that stack and Ctrl-Clicking to trash them, I've still not got even down to the even half million.

I went so far as turning on cheats and looking in the F10 menu, but if there's any way to purge loose items I didn't see it. *Is* there a way to do that? It'd be quite nice to not have this stack sitting around seemingly forever, filling up my inventory whenever I happen to wander too close...

[Fair]

This is a known bug, and has been escaping me for a while :/

Items start to despawn off the ground when more than 500 different stacks are laying there. So it's not really easy to make happen :(

I can fix it for you if you send me the save file though. To find it, go to Settings -> General -> Open saves folder

[Cora]

conveyor belts and an incinerator... that would fix it. imagine the possibilities. when the market value on glass bottles collapses we'll know who did it.