When picking up items, you can use C (keyboard) or X (controller)) to leave behind half the stack (or repeat to leave behind ≈¾, ≈⅞, etc.).
But the thing I want to do most often is to move all the items in the stack except for one. This way, the slot remains assigned to the item type (and can automatically be replenished using quick transfers), but you pick up as much as possible for any action you might need to take.
This is super trivial in Minecraft: left-click to pick up the whole stack, and immediately follow up by right-clicking to leave a single item behind. I have yet to find a way in No Man's Sky. 🤷
The closest options to be:
Transfer all the items to another slot.
Pick up the stack and press C/X repeatedly (up to 13 times, for a full stack of common resources) until you have one item.
Move that item back to the original slot.
Pick up the other items.
But that is much slower, easier to mess up, and even more annoying if there is no spare empty slot in the current inventory.
When picking up items, you can use
C(keyboard) orX(controller)) to leave behind half the stack (or repeat to leave behind ≈¾, ≈⅞, etc.).But the thing I want to do most often is to move all the items in the stack except for one. This way, the slot remains assigned to the item type (and can automatically be replenished using quick transfers), but you pick up as much as possible for any action you might need to take.
This is super trivial in Minecraft: left-click to pick up the whole stack, and immediately follow up by right-clicking to leave a single item behind. I have yet to find a way in No Man's Sky. 🤷
The closest options to be:
C/Xrepeatedly (up to 13 times, for a full stack of common resources) until you have one item.But that is much slower, easier to mess up, and even more annoying if there is no spare empty slot in the current inventory.