Board Thread:Bug Reports/@comment-24108228-20150821002846/@comment-24108228-20150821213225

But could you not do the same thing with berries and sickles? Berries would be even worse to clean up, and create even more lag, and gathering them in bulk is argueably easier.

I see your point, but I've only ever seen sand/snow spamming twice, and one of those times it was done by a hacker (who didn't need to forage the sand). I've played for a long time, and frankly the sand-spammers don't seem to be an existing threat. Similar to airship abusers, it's certainly a potential trolling tactic, but it's not being done, and that means patching it wouldn't really be worth the issues that doing so brings up.