can I split stacks of items in sims 4

[Sierrebrarc]

So I have stacks of items in my inventory, and I want to move part of those stack to either another sim, or the fridge/chest. Take potatoes for instance. If I have 40 of them and want to move half to a second sims so we can both use them to fish, I would have to open the stack and move them one at a time. I can move whole stack, and I can open the stacks to move them one at a time, but not partial stacks.

I searched online, and found a post that said I CAN move partial stacks, and it said the following.

"Actually you can move a number of items at one time. Hold down shift when you click on the triangle and drag it to the Sim you want to have the item.  Then a window will appear that looks like the one to give a nooboo it's name. Just say the number of the item you want them to have and voila!"

all the following posts said thanks, and indicated it worked great. That is until the very last post which no one ever replied to.

I've talked to Origin tech support via the chat feature resulting in repairing the game, followed by reinstalling the game. No mods are currently installed, I am playing with a new save, and there has been no fix.

If I mouse over the triangle it refers to, I get a finger icon to use the click action, "open stack." Holding shift, ctrl, or alt does not change it to the grab hand. Clicking the triangle and dragging has zero effect, even when using any of those keys. So again I am left with moving things one at a time, or whole stacks.

The chat operator, and the support technicians Yogesh spoke to, seamed to think I was supposed to be able to do this.

If there was a patch that changed/disabled this ability, please let me know.

[crinrict · Accepted solution]

AFAIR, it's not possible in Sims 4, only in Sims 3 so maybe that person was mixing up the game ?

[crinrict · Accepted solution]

AFAIR, it's not possible in Sims 4, only in Sims 3 so maybe that person was mixing up the game ?

[Sierrebrarc]

How sad... How is it the folks manning the chat system and their specialist team (that I had to wait 3 hours to talk to) didn't know this? Well thanks for the info. (I'll leave this open for a short time just in case.)

[crinrict]

I've tried this yesterday on my own game and yeah, I couldn't get it to work either so I'm pretty sure it's not possible on Sims 4.

Maybe they also got confused with Sims 3. I'm sorry to hear you had to go through all this trouble.  I don't really know how they are organized in details but other players are often better help to gameplay issues like this.

I'll tag @EA_Mai to see this so she can forward this as feedback.

[Sierrebrarc]

Sounds good. Thanks for the help.

I remember there was a time that game designers would give you an instruction book and a help line. If you really wanted to, they would even walk you through completing games lol. Now it's is it broken? No? OK, then ask the other players. Someone has figured it out by now.

[EA_Mai]

Thanks for tagging me @crinrict, I have forwarded this feedback to the Studio so they can read it, @Sierrebrarc.

Cheers,

-Mai

[ShinyGeodude]

Was this ever fixed?

[LittlBowBub]

Nope, not that I know of

[jpkarlsen]

@ShinyGeodude

You can expand the stack then drag one item at a time out of it.

[SheriGR]

I find my ability to drag/move inventory items depends on the item, the type of inventory (personal or household), the number of items in the stack – and whether an item(s) is 'stuck'/glitching.

For instance, I can drag stacks of produce items into the Lice Cold Freezers as a stack, even if the stack has over 99. BUT, if I want to sell produce in a stack, USUALLY if the stack has over 99 I need to open the stack and sell them one by one until I get to 98. Then I can sell the stack. 

Also... I've had situations where some of the items were 'stuck'/bugging. For instance, I had flowers in a personal inventory that I was trying to add to the flower arranging table's inventory. I couldn't move the stack for one of the types of flowers. I could move them if I opened the stack and moved them one at a time (but not from the top of the stack). I found that several of the top of the stack flowers would not drag, were not delete-able, and were 'stuck – plus they were making the stack 'stuck' when trying to drag it as a whole. However, if I select the 'stuck' item(s) one at a time, I CAN request that the sim 'place in world'. They will then place the item(s) on the ground. If they're not on your lot you can't do anything with the item, but if they're on your lot, you can then drag them from the floor to delete or to sell. If you fix those 'stuck' items first, then you can move the rest of the stack as a whole (unless 99 or more). Usually.

It's a bit funky and I've had to creatively use these methods in a number of situations where inventory items are 'stuck'/glitching, but it works for me.