G'day. I noticed that when items dropped on the ground are flagged for "deconstruction," which causes the bots to go collect them, they spend a bit of time in the building animation. Since fetching out of chests and entities that contain items like ammo from turrets they are working to deconstruct is instant, seems like "off the ground" should be too.

This shouldn't be the case with Everbuild. If you're also playing with Peppermint Mining, then that mod adds a pickup time for all ores, dropped or "mined", as the mod cannot determine if the ore was spawned via script or dropped.

Oh! Ah! I'm sorry to have diagnosed that wrong! Appreciate your patience, and thank you.