Custom weapons cannot be picked up unless a new Project is made

Summary

Custom items cannot be picked up in the testing phase if the player has access to their harvesting tool or the Project was reopened from a previous save.

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Unreal Editor for Fortnite

What Type of Bug are you experiencing?

Assets

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Create a New Project in Unreal Editor for Fortnite

  2. Create a custom weapon of any kind

  3. Attempt to pick it up after either: enabling the player’s harvesting tool or reopening your project from a previous save.

  4. All attempted interactions with the weapon fail.

Expected Result

Custom items should be able to be picked up on interaction when their collision is set up correctly.

Observed Result

The player character does not add the desired custom weapon to their inventory for playtesting.

Platform(s)

PC

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I have similar issue. Interact is displaying, but the custom weapon from template is not getting picked up even if I didn’t change anything.

FORT-1113920 has been ‘Closed’ as a duplicate of an existing known issue. Origin Issue: UE-383989

UE-383989’s status has changed to ‘Ready for QA’. A member of the QA department is investigating the issue.