failed to pickup

failed to pickup assets/prefabs/deployable/playerioents/waterpump/water.pump.deployed.prefab but no valid error reason was given

It is displayed in the console when it is picked up, including the player name and ID.
Could you please check this?

On 1/24/2026 at 9:57 PM, Kobani said:

failed to pickup assets/prefabs/deployable/playerioents/waterpump/water.pump.deployed.prefab but no valid error reason was given

It is displayed in the console when it is picked up, including the player name and ID.
Could you please check this?

From what this error is? NEver saw something like that, if it;s from player console i think it's not even handled from server and idk i f i can help much, if its from server feel free to send whole error ,as without that can;'t do much.

14 hours ago, ThePitereq said:

From what this error is? NEver saw something like that, if it;s from player console i think it's not even handled from server and idk i f i can help much, if its from server feel free to send whole error ,as without that can;'t do much.

This error occurs when a player picks up the pump.
Standard pick up, do not hit with a hammer.

8 hours ago, Kobani said:

This error occurs when a player picks up the pump.
Standard pick up, do not hit with a hammer.

Where is that error? In player console or where? As i can't find it on my server.

2 hours ago, ThePitereq said:

Where is that error? In player console or where? As i can't find it on my server.

Rustadmin and server.log

If the error is in logs it means there should be full error log, without that can;'t do much,, sorry.

Hi,

thanks for the reply.

Unfortunately this really is the only message that appears in the logs:

failed to pickup assets/prefabs/deployable/playerioents/waterpump/water.pump.deployed.prefab but no valid error reason was given

There is no additional stacktrace or detailed error output at all.

I just wanted to share a personal suspicion (I’m not a professional in this area, so please take this only as a hint, not a claim):

From what I can see, this message can occur if a plugin blocks a pickup via CanPickupEntity and at the same time removes (Kill()) the entity. In that situation Rust seems to abort the pickup, but doesn’t receive a valid reject reason, which results in this generic log message.

So my guess is that the prefab itself is probably fine, and the message is more a side-effect of the pickup being denied without a proper error reason being returned to the engine.

Again, this is just a suspicion based on observation and testing, not expert knowledge. I understand that without a full error log it’s hard to debug – I just wanted to pass this along in case it helps.

Best regards
Michael