# Drop individual items?
**URL:** https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/drop-individual-items/557
**Category:** The Drawing Board
**Created:** [March 23, 2013, 6:41pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/drop-individual-items/557 "2013-03-23T18:41:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@pingpong](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/pingpong)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2013, 6:41pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/drop-individual-items/557/1 "2013-03-23T18:41:01Z")
It’s nice stuff stacks, but sometimes I end up with like 3 bottles of clean water I don’t want to carry, or like 40 aspirin or 2-3 inhalers i want to keep separate. Basically the same thing for foods too.
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### Author:  [@KA101](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/KA101)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2013, 7:16pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/drop-individual-items/557/2 "2013-03-23T19:16:43Z")
Poorly documented interface: hit the number of items you want to drop, then the letter. The - symbol next to the item should change to a # rather than a +, and when you confirm the drop you’ll drop whatever amount you specified.
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### Author:  [@pingpong](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/pingpong)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2013, 8:04pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/drop-individual-items/557/3 "2013-03-23T20:04:48Z")
Thank you, only after screwing around with it now I remembered the # sign could come up, at least now I know how to do it reliably.
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### Author:  [@Sep](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Sep)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2013, 9:34am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/drop-individual-items/557/4 "2013-03-26T09:34:07Z")
okay! i finally got it.
with a caveat … if the thing you’re dropping shows (qty) then the ‘-’ isnt going to change into the ‘#’. meaning you don’t get the visual feedback you would if [qty] was shown.
so i tried it with meds and never saw it … until i tried it with rocks and it became clear. yeah. ty!
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### Author:  [@Wuzzy](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Wuzzy)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2013, 5:37pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/drop-individual-items/557/5 "2013-03-26T17:37:28Z")
Oh, thank you.
I didn’t know this, too. I always dropped everything. 😃
It seems to me that this feature is indeed nowhere documented, not in the [wiki](http://www.wiki.cataclysmdda.com/index.php?title=Controls), not in the in-game help. This must change. 😉