If you have space in your bag, and don't pick up any items that would fill the slot when the item breaks, you can press Q to drop the tool even if it "breaks" and it will very often drop the tool. If immediately following the tool being broken you pick up an item that would fill the inventory space that that tool was in the tool will no longer exist.
E Strother
If you have space in your bag, and don't pick up any items that would fill the slot when the item breaks, you can press Q to drop the tool even if it "breaks" and it will very often drop the tool. If immediately following the tool being broken you pick up an item that would fill the inventory space that that tool was in the tool will no longer exist.