# Strange behaviour when disassembling ammo

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/strange-behaviour-when-disassembling-ammo/24834>\
**Category:** The Garage\
**Created:** [September 28, 2020, 2:17am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/strange-behaviour-when-disassembling-ammo/24834 "2020-09-28T02:17:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![MamaLlama](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/mamallama/32/7246_2.png) [@MamaLlama](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/MamaLlama)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2020, 2:17am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/strange-behaviour-when-disassembling-ammo/24834/1 "2020-09-28T02:17:06Z")

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I just noticed a really weird behaviour that is almost certainly a bug. This likely applies to disassembling anything that asks “Disassemble how many?” but I noticed it when taking apart bullets for the smokeless powder. In other menus when asked “How many”, for example the advanced inventory management panel, giving the game a number higher than the maximum just uses the maximum instead. When disassembling ammo I gave the game an obscenely high number because I was going through several stacks of ammo one at a time and didn’t want to pay attention and I noticed suddenly my character started acting like they were actually disassembling far more items than the maximum.

To explain better: I did a test on a totally fresh vanilla mods world to be sure. I made a new character, spawned a kinetic bullet puller and about 20 rounds of 00 shot. Then I split it into a pile of 15 and a pile of 3. I went to the pile of 15 and pressed B to butcher and typed in 15 when asked how many and it took under a second real time to complete. Then I went over the pile of 3 and when prompted how many I typed in 150000 and the disassembly progress never completed because after waiting almost a minute it had not progressed beyond 1% completion. I tried again with B and this time typed in 100 when asked and the disassembly took a bit longer than the stack of 15 but completed and rewarded the correct amount of powder, lead, primer, etc.

Weird

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**Author:** ![dissociativity](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/dissociativity/32/4967_2.png) [@dissociativity](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/dissociativity)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2020, 7:18am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/strange-behaviour-when-disassembling-ammo/24834/2 "2020-09-28T07:18:31Z")

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report bugs here, you’ll need to make a github account

> **[CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA](https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/issues)**
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> Cataclysm - Dark Days Ahead. A turn-based survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world. - CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA