#Items can become stuck when dragging and dropping to bags.

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brazen pebble
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Sometimes when dragging an item to a bag or backpack () the item will become 'stuck'. It floats on the screen as seen with the stack of 10 stones in the top middle of the screen. Additionally, right clicking items to access their menu no longer works. This has happened to me a number of times.

Possibly needs the items to be stacked with ctrl-click?
I haven't noticed this behavior with chests but I can't rule it out
Possibly needs the bag to be unable to contain the full weight of the stacked item?
Quitting to the main menu and returning unsticks the item and returns the game to normal functionality

I semi-reliably reproduce this error:

  • Open the backpack
  • tap left ctrl over the stack of stones to expand it
  • move one stone from the stack to the main inventory
  • attempt to drag the stack of stones from the main inventory to the backpack
    If the stack of stones doesn't get stuck then move some of them back and forth via drag and drop
west sorrel
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This one, as well as #1375043079043809310 message

I found a reliable way to reproduce it:

  • Have a size-limited container (small bag, backpack, or chest) open in your UI (multiple is fine too)
  • make sure the container is NOT FULL (ie: can accept at least one item)
  • drag in stack of items that would "overfill" that container (eg: from the inventory, but could be anywhere)

Result: the action seems to correctly split the stack, and max fills the container. Any that couldn't fit in the container is returned to the original dragged stack
(actually, the originally dragged stack / "remainder" is now glitched, but is not visible in any way)

NOW:

  • after any period of time (seemingly),
  • without having closed the container/inventory with the glitched stack
  • drag THE SAME (glitched) ITEM STACK that would have overfilled the container to anywhere on the screen

Expected behaviour:
normal transferring/dropping/command

Actual behaviour:
ui glitch (consistent)

  • Item stack hovers on the same part of the screen "with no way to clear it" (check fix)
  • some UI actions, including dragging and right-clicking may be blocked

Temporary fix:
Either

  • quit out to main menu, and re-load the game
    or
  • Close (and optionally re-open) the container you were dragging from (the one with the glitched stack, in my case, the inventory),
  • and then drag any stack (including the previously glitched stack)
    the visual bug should go away

Streamlined Temporary fix:

  • only drag from the inventory to "fill" bags/chests
  • have a hotkey (eg: tab) to flick your inventory open/closed
  • every time you "fill" a bag/chest, flick your inventory closed and open again -- fixing the glitched stack before it causes a visual bug
    or
  • use bag designation, and shift-clicking instead
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Aside/note:
I found out how to consistently do it,
by mining stone underground, and trying to "reduce weight" by sequentially storing it in multiple backpacks
And then testing for "why" it happened

rustic gull
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Omg over a year later a potential consistent repro?

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I’ll try to make time to jump over to Wayward dev soon to get this fixed, it’s been annoying people way too long