MAJOR - Item remover not working properly

General Issues and Bug Reporting
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Summary

Hello,

It looks like the item remover doesn’t work as intended since the last update, especially when “Amount to remove” is set to “Percentage” and “Percentage to remove” is set to “100.0”.

Here are my item remover settings: ItemRemoverSettings1.png - Google Drive
ItemRemoverSettings2.png - Google Drive

Here’s a video that shows all of the items are not removed correctly: ItemRemoverNotWorking.mp4 - Google Drive

Please select what you are reporting on:

Unreal Editor for Fortnite

What Type of Bug are you experiencing?

Devices

Steps to Reproduce

Place an item remover with different items, such as weapons, consumables and ammo.
Give all of the items in the remover to a player, via an item granter for example.
Trigger the item remover.

Expected Result

All of the items owned by the player and that are also in the item remover are removed from the player inventory.

Observed Result

Ammo and resources are NOT removed.

Platform(s)

PC (probably all since it’s related to devices)

Additional Notes

If you have any questions, I’ll be happy to answer them!

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Hello,

I tried to reproduce the issue on another island and it still happens.
I even put different items to make sure it wasn’t only about some specific items.
Here are the settings of my item remover: ItemRemoverNotWorking1V2.png - Google Drive / ItemRemoverNotWorking2V2.png - Google Drive

The trigger is activating the item remover when stepping on it.

Video of the bug on a new island: ItemRemoverNotWorkingVideoV2.mp4 - Google Drive

I’d be glad to give more info if needed.

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i will also try this and confirm the results

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I would confirm results but my session isn’t loading yet again

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I setup the devices and it took minutes i also tested and it does not remove any of the ammo or stone not even the initial 1 set in the remover so how this cannot be reproduced is completely beyond belief to me as literally i did exactly what i had to in order to test and first setup bam faulty

@ Vysena Woyka

Bug reporter please reopen the ticket

It is probably due to a tag on the items after the resource change in the previous update (Just a thought)

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Post a new report with votes

That scene looks really awesome btw

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i reported the vote button is missing this morning

TY i like it just published the 1st person mode

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I’m not sure to understand. Should I recreate a whole bug report with all the explanations?

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It might be it is removing 100% of the number specified for you item, not 100% of what the player has. Can you check?

I remove 100% of 2000 stone and it works.

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I can’t check it right now but I will edit the post when I do.
Anyway, it’s still mentioned “1” as the item quantity in the item remover.
100% of 1 = 1, so it should remove 1 brick and 1 of each amo I have in this case, which is not happening.

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AtAshTag’s onto it

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@Hardcawcanary

Yea i agree the specified option percentage set to 100% should remove 100% of the item regardless of the amount in the device. This works with weapons and items i.e. shockwaves etc. With the weapons you can also have it set to weapons, percentage, 100% and it’ll remove every weapon without any weapon in the index slots.

If you want to remove amounts then the options are amount in the device or change the % value so i do think its bugged tbh

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Update here! We were able to reproduce this here and we’ll have a fix coming in a future update.

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Amazing, thank you!

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Hey Flak! I see you responded a month ago and was wondering on that udate. I also am having the issue where the item remover isnt removing material and ammo and I can’t set it to drop when eliminated cause I need my players to retain the gold.

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Thank you, I’ll check into it.

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Is anyone else still having this issue?

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Just setup the devices and items again and its still not working

It never removes materials and ammo

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Appreciate it, @AtAshTag

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Could we get some island codes so the team could dig in? We’re having trouble getting a repro here. @AtAshTag

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I just placed the devices

Give me 10 mins and ill do a vid from start to finish on a blank island

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So I just changed my published version to drop all on elimination as it was ruining the gameplay. If I give you a private island code would you be able to play it and see? Or I can publish the old version again if give it to you when it gets approved