# Items (especially nonrechargeable ones) spawning with 0 charges

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/items-especially-nonrechargeable-ones-spawning-with-0-charges/23909>\
**Category:** The Garage\
**Created:** [June 9, 2020, 8:56pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/items-especially-nonrechargeable-ones-spawning-with-0-charges/23909 "2020-06-09T20:56:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Xing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/49beb7/32.png) [@Xing](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Xing)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2020, 8:56pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/items-especially-nonrechargeable-ones-spawning-with-0-charges/23909/1 "2020-06-09T20:56:34Z")

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Hello,  
I am playing this game in version 0.E-2733-g6a45cf7 and wanted to report what i think is a “not working as intended” issue. In one playthrough I had several items that should have an amount of charges, namely “lighter” and “matchbook” spawn with 0 charges. The lighter was spawned both on my starting companion NPC and a randomly spawned human corpse, the matchbooks when I disassembled MRE rations. I tried to disassemble MREs several times and always got matchbooks with 0 charges, and also got a lighter spawned on another starting NPC in a different playthrough with 0 charges, so I believe this is not a single instance. I do believe items spawned like this should have at least a random amount of charges, even better those MRE matchbooks should have full charges all the time (they do come from an unopened bag after all).

Many greetings

Xing

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**Author:** ![Valase](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/valase/32/6972_2.png) [@Valase](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Valase)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2020, 9:15pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/items-especially-nonrechargeable-ones-spawning-with-0-charges/23909/2 "2020-06-09T21:15:03Z")

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This is a known issue:

> <https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/issues/40819>
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> Describe the bug
> Matchbook and Cellphone of Survivor profession are spawned unloaded, that is, Matchbook 0/20 and Cellphone without battery.
> Versions and configuration
> OS:...

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**Author:** ![Xing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/49beb7/32.png) [@Xing](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Xing)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2020, 9:20pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/items-especially-nonrechargeable-ones-spawning-with-0-charges/23909/3 "2020-06-09T21:20:27Z")

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Thanks. For some reason i couldn’t find this post by googling, only similar posts from years ago. This post can be seen as finished then.