Enshrouded: How to Delete or Drop Items

Enshrouded gives you two ways to delete items from your backpack, and both take effect immediately. The backpack itself has no drop option for getting rid of items. If you hold a lit Torch in your hand, though, the HUD shows “R Drop Item”.

Quick answer: Remove an item immediately by pressing B, right-clicking its entry and choosing “Delete”, or selecting it and pressing DELETE. Neither method asks for confirmation. Press R to drop a lit Torch you’re holding.

Delete items from the Enshrouded backpack

Delete with the right-click menu

Press B to open the BACKPACK tab, then right-click the item you want to discard. For a spare Ragged Shirt, the available choices are “Equip”, “Equip (Cosmetic)” and “Delete”.

Enshrouded Backpack menu with an action list open over the Ragged Shirt item, showing its armor stats and description. — The Backpack menu shows the Ragged Shirt, a Level 3 Common Upper Body Armor, with Equip, Equip (Cosmetic) and Delete actions.

Choose “Delete”. The item leaves its slot straight away, and the right panel changes to “No Item Selected.” No confirm prompt appeared for us.

Enshrouded BACKPACK tab after choosing Delete on a Ragged Shirt, top left slot empty, right panel showing No Item Selected — After choosing Delete, the Ragged Shirt slot is empty and no confirm prompt appears.

The options in the right-click menu change with the item. Delete was on both menus we opened.

Item	Right-click options
Ragged Shirt	Equip, Equip (Cosmetic), Delete
Rusty Sword	Salvage (9), Delete

Delete with the DELETE key

In the backpack, select the item or stack. The footer of the item card shows “Move”, “CTRL + Partial Move”, “Actions” and “DELETE Delete”. We selected a stack of Twigs, whose card read “Twigs”, “Materials”, LEVEL 1, COMMON.

Backpack screen with a stack of Twigs selected and its item card details showing — A stack of Twigs selected in the Backpack screen, with its item card open.

Press DELETE. Our whole Twigs stack was removed in a single action without a confirmation prompt, and the panel then displayed “No Item Selected.”

Enshrouded BACKPACK tab after pressing DELETE on a Twigs stack, showing the empty slot and No Item Selected in the right panel — Pressing DELETE on the Twigs stack empties the slot with no confirm prompt.

The Rusty Sword’s menu also has “Salvage (9)”, which turns it into Runes instead of deleting it (see salvaging items for Runes). The same footer has CTRL + Partial Move for splitting stacks and G Sort Inventory (see splitting stacks and sorting the backpack).

Drop items on the ground in Enshrouded

We found no way to drop items from the backpack: its card footer provides Move, Partial Move, Actions and Delete, and the right-click menus we opened had no drop command either. The only drop we saw was on a lit Torch in hand.

Hold a lit Torch in your hand and the HUD shows “Torch” with “Attack” and “R Drop Item” (see making and dropping a Torch).

A character holds a lit Torch in a forest at dusk while the HUD shows Torch, Attack and R Drop Item — With a lit Torch in hand, the HUD lists Attack and R Drop Item.

Press R. Our Torch dropped onto the ground and kept burning.

Enshrouded character in a forest at dusk with empty hands, the Torch lying burning on the ground beside them — Pressing R drops the Torch, leaving it burning on the ground beside you.

With a Lockpick selected in action bar slot 6, the HUD showed no drop prompt.

Player at a Flame Altar at sunset with a Lockpick selected in action bar slot 6 and no drop prompt — Lockpick in slot 6: no drop prompt, just E Commune with the Flame.