[2020] Can we bring "Press E to Harvest Back"?

Originally posted by xerxius: Hm... couldn't there be a mix of the old and new system? Like pressing E instead of hitting it and the plant reverts to seed status.

They work off different ingame systems. Pressing E works off the looting/pickup/interaction system, While punching the crop works off the block destruction system.

Punching causing grown plants to yield their crops and revert to seedlings works on the same system as blocks- EG: When you attack a reinforced wooden block it reverts back to plain wood, then to a frame, then it's broken entirely. The looting/pickup/interaction system however has no way of interacting with blocks that way as things currently are; Interacting with something cannot damage and subsequently destroy a stage of a block and return a preset resource and convert the block into a different preset block.