# Character does splatter animation when fall damage is disabled

**URL:** <https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/character-does-splatter-animation-when-fall-damage-is-disabled/2722979>\
**Category:** Issues and Bug Reporting\
**Tags:** fortnite-creative, unreal-editor-for-fortnite, fixed, fortnite\
**Created:** [May 19, 2026, 9:05am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/character-does-splatter-animation-when-fall-damage-is-disabled/2722979 "2026-05-19T09:05:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![FinestCreative](https://d1ap1mz92jnks1.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.unrealengine.com/finestcreative/32/1034971_2.png) [@FinestCreative](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/FinestCreative)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2026, 9:05am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/character-does-splatter-animation-when-fall-damage-is-disabled/2722979/1 "2026-05-19T09:05:45Z")

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### Summary

When fall damage is disabled, the player still does the splat animation and the character bugs for 2s

### Please select what you are reporting on:

Creative

### What Type of Bug are you experiencing?

Character

### Steps to Reproduce

1. Place down a Team Settings & Inventory device
2. Enable Infinite Building Resources and turn it on (so you can build)
3. Enable Fall damage (leave it off, see image)
4. Start the game and build up
5. Fall down from great height
6. You bug

### Expected Result

You do not play the animation if fall damage is disabled and fall from great height

### Observed Result

It plays the anim and it stutters

### Platform(s)

PC

### Upload an image

 ![Screenshot 2026-05-19 110435.png](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/4/e/e/4eefd427970b9de201c307e20086dd1aa8936d0b.png)

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**Author:** ![ChesseTheWasp](https://d1ap1mz92jnks1.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.unrealengine.com/chessethewasp/32/1044816_2.png) [@ChesseTheWasp](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/ChesseTheWasp)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2026, 6:31pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/character-does-splatter-animation-when-fall-damage-is-disabled/2722979/2 "2026-05-19T18:31:17Z")

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This seems very buggy and should be a toggle in islands with no fall damage and not enabled by default. Noticed you didn’t vote on your own thread btw

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**Author:** ![FinestCreative](https://d1ap1mz92jnks1.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.unrealengine.com/finestcreative/32/1034971_2.png) [@FinestCreative](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/FinestCreative)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2026, 8:20am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/character-does-splatter-animation-when-fall-damage-is-disabled/2722979/7 "2026-06-02T08:20:59Z")

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Something related, sometimes the splatter animation does not play at all!

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**Author:** ![FinestCreative](https://d1ap1mz92jnks1.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.unrealengine.com/finestcreative/32/1034971_2.png) [@FinestCreative](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/FinestCreative)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2026, 8:21am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/character-does-splatter-animation-when-fall-damage-is-disabled/2722979/8 "2026-06-02T08:21:52Z")

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ANother example

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**Author:** ![Bug-Reporter](https://d1ap1mz92jnks1.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.unrealengine.com/bug-reporter/32/997076_2.png) [@Bug-Reporter](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/Bug-Reporter)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2026, 4:02pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/character-does-splatter-animation-when-fall-damage-is-disabled/2722979/11 "2026-06-08T16:02:53Z")

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FORT-1107310 is ‘Closed’ as ‘Fixed’. The issue will be addressed in 41.10.