# Make dropped items stack

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/make-dropped-items-stack/8380>\
**Category:** The Drawing Board\
**Created:** [December 21, 2014, 4:06pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/make-dropped-items-stack/8380 "2014-12-21T16:06:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![razor](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/razor/32/398_2.png) [@razor](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/razor)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2014, 4:06pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/make-dropped-items-stack/8380/1 "2014-12-21T16:06:46Z")

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Inventory management in Cata is relatively easy on your person but quickly becomes a disorganized headache on the ground.

It would be a nice touch to make like items stack with eachother as they do in the player inventory. As a small example my vehicles welding rig inventory looks something like:

scrap metal  
scrap metal  
sheet metal  
scrap metal  
wire  
scrap metal  
steel plating  
scrap metal  
sheet metal  
wire  
lump of steel  
wire  
wire  
cobber tubing  
scrap metal  
sheet metal  
scrap metal  
scrap metal  
etc

It goes on like that for several pages on the inventory screen, even though I have perhaps 10 unique item types in that pile. This makes any resource a nightmare to organize, especially crafting materials and ingredients for cooking.

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**Author:** ![Weyrling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7bcc69/32.png) [@Weyrling](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Weyrling)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2014, 6:03pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/make-dropped-items-stack/8380/2 "2014-12-21T18:03:54Z")

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While I fully agree with this idea, you can use the advanced inventory management (/ or \ I forget) to get the same effect.

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**Author:** ![razor](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/razor/32/398_2.png) [@razor](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/razor)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2014, 6:28pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/make-dropped-items-stack/8380/3 "2014-12-21T18:28:58Z")

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That was quite helpful and makes my life simple, thank you.

I would still also like items to stack for convenience sake, even if this would only apply to items that are likely to be found in quantity. Ie: Scrap metal would stack, firearms would not.