minimise transplant stress

I have some seedlings that were planted in a single bucket do to a lack of pots and i transplantd to another pot now halves of some of the leaves are dead, i cut them off quite a few have bounced back to life, any ways to minimise? there was an unfortueate temp drop on the evening of transplant which in know way helped the poor babies.

How far along are they? If they are less than a week you should be able to loosen the soil around them, gently pull them out, and place them in another container.

no i already did the transplants they were about two weeks from sprout, there in the middle of stress period now approx 75% of plants have recovered (other than half dead leaves.) amd 25% are still limp justlooking for tips trixks how to help recover from the wilt shock.