Shameful question

[Al-Khwarizmi]

I'm playing ADOM again after a period of inactivity... and I have been struggling for quite some time to do something that used to be very simple: picking part of a stack (e.g. one out of a stack of 2 large rations in Munxip's shop).

In previous versions, pressing "," resulted in a prompt asking how many items to take, but this doesn't seem to be the case anymore. I have gone through the keybindings but there don't seem to be other alternative commands that will help.

I've probably drunk some potion of confusion because it can't be that hard. I've finished the damn game a bunch of times and now I can't pick up an item, it can't get much more ludicrous than that! But... how do I do it?h

[mitres]

If you've tried a ring of the clear mind, and still no go, you can use shift+ letter to pick part of the stack.

[Al-Khwarizmi]

Thanks! That does work when there is more stuff in the ground apart from the stack, and it will be very useful. But I still don't see a way to do it if the stack is the only thing there is. In that situation, pressing ",", "p" or even "Ctrl+p" (which seem to be the only pick up commands covered in the keybindings) seems to pick up the whole stack directly.

[Grond]

To pick up part of a single stack:

1. Press d to enter the drop menu.
2. Use the arrow keys or >/< to move to the pick up screen.
3. Select the single stack with A.

[Soirana]

To pick up part of a single stack:

1. Press d to enter the drop menu.
2. Use the arrow keys or >/< to move to the pick up screen.
3. Select the single stack with A.

And if backpack is empty?..

[Grond]

And if backpack is empty?..

AFAIK you are out of luck in this case.

Silly solutions:

Unequip a worn item so that you can access the drop menu. Of course, this does not cover the case in which you also do not have any equipped items. In that case, you will have to decrease carrying capacity to the point at which picking up the entire stack would make you extremely overburdened (thus giving you a prompt when you try to pick it up). Hopefully the strength penalty from starvation will be enough!