Bricks and blocks, blocks and bricks...

[Dunthor Warsmith]

You can get back multiple, stacked, items (such as the 2 small pieces of ore from breaking a small brick).

You can get multiple different items back (such as making a folded sheet, you get the sheet and the hammer. The gnomish fireworks fall under this category, since they're 4 unique items that just happen to have the same name).

You *cannot* get back multiple non-stacked items. This would include 2 unstacked-but-stackable things, as well as two non-stackable. This is why for the monk summon bag-of-shurikens effect, it summons 3 stacks of *different* shurikens, with identical stats but will not stack with each other.

There are a few potential work arounds (like chiselling into stackable items like "rough large brick of ore" or somesuch, that then can be simply (nofail?) made into the full fledge version. But that allows more ores to have a stackable form, which could be bad), but they don't seem too worried about fixing the problem.

[OberonMiM]

Considering the change in the patch message. I wonder if you can get multiple of the same type back now (if you look at the patch message there was a thing about npc's giving you back multiple items of the same type on the cursor)

[Balkin]

We can only hope eh?

I've broken down only a few pieces of ore over the months, but it annoyed me to no end that so much was lost in the process.

[Jannelle Silverthorne]

I've done it imbuing emeralds too. Heaven help me when I imbue one, and don't get it dropped and hit the key to cast the next imbue spell without realizing I still have an emerald on my cursor. POOF. There goes an emerald. /sigh

Duck is your friend when doing this. =P I've done it myself with emeralds and while making vials of mana.

Mage Quiver of Marr is the same way. There's 4 stacks of arrows in it but they have different ID numbers and will not auto feed to the ammo slot.

Given the patch message, I wonder if they found a fix for the issue.

[Lanir Odysia]

Thanks Kiz never knew that.