# Partial drops

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/partial-drops/1934>\
**Category:** The Drawing Board\
**Created:** [June 25, 2013, 11:23am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/partial-drops/1934 "2013-06-25T11:23:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Encon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dc4da7/32.png) [@Encon](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Encon)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2013, 11:23am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/partial-drops/1934/1 "2013-06-25T11:23:12Z")

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I find the current system where you can only drop a whole stack of items a bit lacking.  
This may not be a problem with water bottles, for example, where I usually drop about 6 or 7 and then I can pick them up one by one again.  
But batteries are different. There’s no way to divide them, if you drop 2500 charges, you can only pick up the whole 2500 again. And since every 100 of those are one unit of weight/space, I’m usually stuck with either no batteries or not all the carrying capacity I’d like.  
Don’t know if it’ll help, but Stone Soup, for example, does that.  
Thanks in advance.

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**Author:** ![kevin.granade](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/kevin.granade/32/1316_2.png) [@kevin.granade](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/kevin.granade)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2013, 3:06pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/partial-drops/1934/2 "2013-06-25T15:06:19Z")

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We need to fix the help system to make this clear somehow, in the drop menu, if you hit a number and then an item leter, it queues up that many of the item to drop.

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**Author:** ![pingpong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4bbf92/32.png) [@pingpong](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/pingpong)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2013, 9:26pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/partial-drops/1934/3 "2013-06-25T21:26:10Z")

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I don’t think that works with batteries.

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**Author:** ![Lonewolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@Lonewolf](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Lonewolf)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2013, 10:36pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/partial-drops/1934/4 "2013-06-25T22:36:29Z")

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IIRC, you can do that in advanced item management interface. It can be activated by “/”.

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**Author:** ![pingpong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4bbf92/32.png) [@pingpong](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/pingpong)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2013, 11:07pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/partial-drops/1934/5 "2013-06-25T23:07:22Z")

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I was wrong, you can indeed drop numbers of batteries.

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**Author:** ![Stevensonz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@Stevensonz](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Stevensonz)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2013, 11:09pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/partial-drops/1934/6 "2013-06-25T23:09:30Z")

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Not sure if we have partial pickups yet cause it’s the thing that’s really needed because you won’t be able to pick up something like 100,000 batteries at once in a container.