There is no way to control which items players can fish from lakes/pools/rivers/oceans etc

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Unreal Editor for Fortnite

What Type of Bug are you experiencing?

Devices

Summary

It would be cool if we could control what kind of loot players can get when fishing.

Currently, resources, fish, ammo and weapons can be fished. I’d like to have island settings or a device to control these. For example, only allow certain kinds of fish.

Steps to Reproduce

Place or grant a fishing rod
Ensure players have access to a pool/ocean

Expected Result

Players can only fish allowed items and weapons and optionally some groups of items/weapons.

Observed Result

Weapons and ammo can be fished in non-combat map. We have to remove weapons programmatically and report higher level of violence then needed only because weapons are present in game

Platform(s)

All, PS5, Windows

Island Code

6411-4424-1945

For some reason I can’t upvote this, it says I’m at my limit?

But anyways, I would like to add that this is specifically outside of the Fishing Spot device - as in there’s no way to control what players can fish in default water spaces such as rivers, oceans, lakes, and swimming pools. This can lead to players being able to fish up weapons in non-combat modes, breaking the gameplay loop.

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UCB-1110 incident has been created. Status is ‘Awaiting Validation’.

This setting is already built into the fishing spot (Fishing Zone Device).

Look for the setting Pool Type (red arrow), in the drop down menu you can set it to use the default battle royale weapon pool, or use your own custom weapon pool.

to use a custom weapon pool, set the Pool Type to Device Inventory, then in the Item List (red circle) you can add the loot you want.

There is also a setting in the drop down for Fish Only so you cant catch any weapons, just fish.

And there is another setting called Trigger Only where you will not catch anything, but send a trigger. So you could trigger an item granter to give the player a specific weapon, or random item(s) you choose, or nothing at all.

hope that helps

Please read the steps to reproduce carefully,

this request is about fishing from lakes rivers and pools that do not have fishing devices, you are able to fish weapons even if you are not using fishing zone devices.

sorry i didnt realize you were talking about general waters. Thought you meant fishing spots

NP, yes we know about the fishing spots :slight_smile:

Sorry I never assume people’s level of UEFN knowledge. I’ve seen some pretty basic and silly questions here. :grin:

Same problem here. I don’t want to allow players to catch random items on lakes/rivers, it breaks the ballance in my game. It would be awesome a general setting to control this. Upvoted. :slight_smile:

same issue here. It limits the game completely. I am making a tycoon and you can fish weapons even though i don’t want any weapons in the entire game.

Can we have a setting to disable the allowed action of fishing in any and all water within the asset size(Body of water)

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