Improve / Better Stack Splitting

9.4K votes

Please let the player split stacks in their inventory with more granularity! At the moment we can only split stacks evenly in half. We can't even take one off the top of the stack. So if I want to take 2 out of a stack of 50, I need to split the stack again and again and again until I have just 2 left, and my inventory is filled with stacks of disparate sizes.

Dyson Sphere Program is a game that fixes this issue perfectly. When right-clicking a stack, it immediately shows a slider bar while right-click is held. You can easily select how many in the stack you want to pick up, and then let go of right-click to pick up the selected amount. The slider bar is also centred around your cursor, so doing a quick right-click (no holding down) will always split the stack perfectly in half. It's a brilliant implementation, and easy to create. Please consider using it!

Done Feature improvement New Suggested by: OllieMimus (21 Jan) • Upvoted: 19 Apr • Comments: 62

Comments: 62

24 Jan
Dero Merged
(Translated from German) To be able to pick up any number of items from a stack, not only half a stack or half of half a stack etc
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25 Jan
Aonyx Admin
"Decide Stack size" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2024-01-24), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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25 Jan
Avatar
This is a nightmare when I want to go on an adventure with maybe 3 pieces of food but I have a stack of 20 in a chest. So I have to split it into 10/10 5/5 3/3 and then I have to drag the 3 into my backpack and then put the 5 stack onto the 10 and the 3 stack onto the 15, etc. If I'm really lucky I'll have enough space in the chest to even do that.
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25 Jan
Maroza
A slider or text input that would determine the exact amount would be great.
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26 Jan
j4dice
Control + mouse wheel up/down to pull 1 from chest or put 1 into chest. It's how modded Minecraft does it and it's glorious.
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26 Jan
asmallrabbit
It's such a nightmare going from games where you can shift/ctrl click to split or pull individual items from a stack and have no way to do it in this. Need this badly.
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26 Jan
Markus Schiefer
The whole UI and usability need a lot of love. Grounded and Raft are the defacto UI / QoL kings. Just look how they do it: No need to reinvent the wheel.
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26 Jan
Ragnarr
YES PLEASE! Just do the same behavior than Minecraft. Being able to split with right click, take stack with left click and stack up one by one from it.
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26 Jan
Citizen
This is a PC game that play with mouse+keyboard. This game should have sth like Black Desert Online, Stardew Valley, even Valheim or some random indie games have this function. We should be able to type specific number or press F to select whole stack, then space bar or Enter to confirm the number we select.
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27 Jan
John Merged
from and to chest by rightclicking stack and entering number
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27 Jan
De4dlnside Admin
"Moving parts of a stack" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2024-01-27), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
27 Jan
Kizmar Merged
Inventory stack right-click context option: add an option that allows us to pick how many items we want off a stack. So if I want 2 items off a stack in a storage bin to craft something.

Storage box stack option: leave [N] items per stack in the container when removing stacks for quick deposit later.
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27 Jan
De4dlnside Admin
"Pick [N] items off a stack / Leave [N] items in chest" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2024-01-27), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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28 Jan
Adi
For example, in Necesse, you can hover over an item and mouse scroll up or down to move to or from the other container. If I hover over an item in my inventory and scroll up, it picks one item of that type from the chest and adds it to the stack from my inventory. If I scroll down, it takes one from my inventory and adds to the stack in the chest. The same way, if I hover over an item in the chest and scroll up, will take from inventory and add it to chest, or if I scroll down, it removes one from chest and adds it to inventory.
28 Jan
Foxglovez N
Slider or input for split please. As it is it is just so annoying. And that added to no indication of what a stack even is when you mouse over inventory it's just very annoying. I want to have information so I can decide if I need to leave stuff back at base or continue to drag it around with me. If it is a stack of 20 vs a stack of 100, big difference and with limited slots would be vast help. Thanks for reading.
28 Jan
John
For stacks, add shift click with a counter similar to WoW that lets you decide how many of each you want to select.
29 Jan
handor
Please add a slider - many games have this already and it is truly a huge QOL feature! Being able to type a number would be nice too, but I'd settle on a slider :)
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29 Jan
Vicarious Glitch
Also having Delete Item next to Split Stack isn't the best option. I accidently deleted a 31 stack of metal scraps because I quickly tried to split the stack and clicked on Delete instead. I found out the hard way that there is an option in the settings, called "Item Deletion Protection". It's a good feature in which you the game prompts you to make sure you want to delete the item by asking a second time. However, the setting is on rare items by default. Not Common, IE Metal Scraps. Maybe have it set to that as default? Either way, keep up the good work, love the game.
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29 Jan
joe builder
yes this is a major piss off. they knew this was going to be an issue, but they bum rushed the QA process. fix now.
29 Jan
MaliciousInjury
(Translated from German) It was always good in Ark. could be used as a role model
29 Jan
Niko Merged
It is crucial to have a split item slider or counter to split n amount of items. This will ease the case when you want to put 1 or 2 items into crafting for example
29 Jan
Tigerlilium Admin
"Add split item slider" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2024-01-29), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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30 Jan
Tigerlilium Admin
"Taking 1 item at a time from a stack" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2024-01-30), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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30 Jan
Arius
Split by number would be perfect. Lego Fortnite has this even, and it's so much nicer than "split, split, split, split, split and combine" to get 6 of something out of a stack of 70.
31 Jan
Milton
This is my number #1 desired feature! Please let me pick how many items to transfer! Only allowing splitting in half is crazy, makes transferring items so unenjoyable! Please address this first as you do this so many times per play session.
31 Jan
Andrew Chapman
Also, as you improve your backpack increase the size of the stack or by the time you have got to the large backpack you can pack away double the amout of items into your backpack.
31 Jan
enshrouded_Player
How about quick drop items into a chest so you don't have to open it and then SHIFT+R. I have enough loot, I just want to drop it off
31 Jan
Alex
Yeah, this is a sorely needed feature, especially when playing in multiplayer.
31 Jan
KKatus Merged
Should be possible to remove 1 item from stack and/or to remove a custom Quantity.
31 Jan
MC
Either a control+click to pull one-at-a-time from the stack, or allow to pick up the stack, and right click to drop one-at a-time into a new slot.
31 Jan
ealam3s
if you steal the food system from valheim, at least steal the other good parts too, like the slider to split stacks with a shift leftclick (obviously something other here because thats taken) and also make it you can press numbers to set a amout, like 1 and 3 would be 13, you get the idea
31 Jan
Tigerlilium Admin
"Stacking Logic" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2024-01-31), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
01 Feb
Chip B
The stack splitting quantity and larger stack sizes are needed. Why do some things stack at 20 or 50 and others at 5,000? All materials should have a 5,000 stack limit or higher.
01 Feb
Jaryth Merged
Please, please give me a button to take just one item out of a stack in the inventory. In a perfect world, a single click would take a single item, and a shift+click or a right click would move the stack. (A shortcut key/key combo for splitting stacks would also be great.) I spend way too much time running back and forth between chests because I have to not only retrieve the things I need for a recipe but I also have to put back what I didn't use.
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01 Feb
Matt
Or just use satisfactory system, basically any of them!
01 Feb
GrifR Merged
I ran into the problem that if I want to take a small number of items from the conditional 50, then I need to split the stack in half many times. Very inconvenient.
Add a counter of how many objects the player can separate, or make it possible to dial the desired number (from 1 or more) by scrolling the mouse wheel.
01 Feb
xavier teixeira Merged
i think should be a menu,or another layer where menu split/give, to choose how much material you want to split or pick up in a stack!
02 Feb
Tigerlilium Admin
"spliting reagents and materials" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2024-02-01), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
04 Feb
ZERA
It's strange that "Allow to take X(user input) of stack" is a suggestion as a feedback from users and. Isn't it obvious that this feature is a must? I couldn't figure in game how to do this, googled and it appeared this game has no such feature... Any game similar to Enshrouded has this. You are not allowing to pick X of items, you are locking "Take crafting materials from storage directly" behind progression. So you force people to play the game split split split split merge, remerge split put back to storage to get X amount or just expect people to carry whole stacks for crafting, but in multiplayer its a problem, if 4 people come back from home questing or doing whatever, they deposit stuff then take other stuff to craft consumables and new items that becomes a mess as someone takes a stack of scraps while needing few etc. That's not fun
04 Feb
PostWarTacos
Enter a number or use of the scroll wheel would be amazing for split stacks!
06 Feb
Justin
I feel like this "Suggestion" is so obvious that it is a given. just being able to hold ctrl and grab 1 instead of a whole stack would be enough for me to be happy personally.
06 Feb
Tigerlilium Admin
"Lemme take just one thing" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2024-02-01), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
06 Feb
TheGrey08
Stack splitting is definitely up there on the QoL list. Solid examples of it would be Valheim or No Man's Sky. Ability to split a stack in half still, but also be able to enter a specific number to grab.
08 Feb
Tigerlilium Admin
"Ability to single out 1 item from the stack" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2024-02-01), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
08 Feb
Cat
Right click option for split amount option

Double klick to transfer 1 from a stack to other container

CTRL + click/double click to transfer 5 or 10 from a stack to other container

Keep shift + click to move whole stack or do it like ARK. A dedicated button to move stacks + shift/ctrl option to move 1, 5 or 10.

Thank you. Something like this is very needed. The simple split stack is a bit frustrating.
09 Feb
AmzDeoris
I'd like to add that you REMOVE "DELETE" from the "SPLIT STACK" option. Just deleted a load of Runes while trying to split the stack. Maybe add an "are you sure you want to delete this item" question or just give it it's own command. *EDITED* I found the setting Vicarious Glitch mentioned and yes, a default to common items at start would be most helpful!!
12 Feb
Has
Another game I played recently does it by:
Shift click = half
Continuing to shift click will half the half.
Ctrl click = 1 to stack in cursor
continous ctrl click adds +1 to your new stack in cursor.

For your consideration.
12 Feb
Storm Reaver
Pressing Y on controller when you're inventory should move things to/from quick slots. It's kind of annoying have to automatically select everything and move them, especially when there's empty slots that could be moved to easily. We have the Y feature when in boxes, but don't have that options when inside our own inventories.
13 Feb
Angel R
Would be really big quality of life improvement to be just able to shift click it for splitting stacks in half or choose to split into precise numbers, very useful sometimes when crafting without magic chests and stuff.
14 Feb
Liberty
Valheim does this beautifully.
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