Must be easy, but I can't see it: how do I delete items?

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Must be easy, but I can't see it: how do I delete items?

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Delete items that is. I know 'Z' is the default to drop on the ground, but I don't want to just fill up the ground. I am playing Bob's mods where I am getting a ton of sodium hydroxide. It is used in one other recipe, but not at the rate I have been creating it. I also know in the base game I was getting too much wood to hide, so deleting is still useful in vanilla. (Current solution has been a lot of steel chests lying around... ugly.
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Re: Must be easy, but I can't see it: how do I delete items?

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There is no true delete but throw them into chests and shoot the chests.
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Re: Must be easy, but I can't see it: how do I delete items?

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If you just want to empty a chest without destroying it, you can hover over it with the mouse cursor and run

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/c game.local_player.selected.get_inventory(1).clear()
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Re: Must be easy, but I can't see it: how do I delete items?

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Moved from General to Gameplay Help.
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