FOSS gamedev and creative worlds

what if..instead of dropped items being those choppy (no offense) animated item things..they could be entities?! that way they would have a smoother animation! could randomly be shot in a direction when a block is broken..can be thrown!! and many other things! also the entity can be a 0.2 scale of the actual item?? this would make working with items seem more..fun :)

P.S. wouldnt it be cool if we could use friction with this too? so that when ice comes around we can have golf? :P