The 'weight' of an item - from nugget, to chain, to iron bar, to ingot, to chestplate, to block, to anvil, etc - would affect the strength and speed with which the item is attracted. An immediately obvious use would be to aid collection in iron farms and automatically filter out poppies, but a more interesting use could be as an alternative form of wireless redstone transmission, timing, or detection.
An iron item could be redirected along a horizontal path of lodestones with hopper/dispensers in front of the iron's trajectory to pick it up, fire it within range of the next lodestone, and move it elsewhere without interfering with any other redstone, and across a much larger distance than a water conveyor. A lodestone above a falling iron item could slow the acceleration of its descent, and a lodestone below a falling item could speed up the descent. Perhaps the lightest iron items like nuggets and ingots could be suspended when within close proximity to a lodestone above. Extremely long-delay clocks could be made by firing a heavy iron item back and forth between a row of cobwebs with lodestones at either end.
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