Placing Items
From EUO Manual
The only items worth placing are furniture items, such as braziers, bbqs, fountains, waterfalls etc. Everything else will get looted. Skeletons (0x12d) and the fixed corpse (0x130) can't be picked up by players either.
If you want to put in barrels, use the terrain barrel tile.
Please don't use pseudo items such as medguy, raftguy, orbs, portals, ore spawners, etc.
If you want to make display cases, make sure you put hook features under the items such that people won't steal the items on display. You don't have to put hooks under furniture items such as clocks, braziers, waterfalls, bbqs and fountains.