Item Component in Fortnite

In the Custom Items and Inventories system, an item_component becomes a class that defines what an item is and isn’t. Refer to Working with Entities and Components for how to add a component to an entity.

Entities are only considered items if they have an item_component. Without one, entities will not be added to inventories properly and lots of Custom Item and Inventories functionality may be broken.

• References to an “item” are directly referring to an entity with an item_component.
• References to “inventories” are directly referring to an entity with an inventory_component.

Class Definition

Attaching an item_component to an entity turns the entity into an item. Items have a number of properties that can be leveraged by other components:

• They can be manipulated by inventories.
• Picked up and dropped.
• Items may be equipped and unequipped.