Is there a way to remove items from debris?

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#1

Hello! I am currently working on a free build type of game and I wanted the blocks that the players built to get added to debris for 60 seconds, but if they joined back, their blocks would be removed from the debris. Is there a way to do this? And if not, should I use Destroy for this?

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#2

you might as well do something else, because debris only has two functions

#3

Nope, there are simply no other function with the Debris service allowing for this to happen, there is only :AddItem and SetLegacyMaxitems from the Debris | Roblox Creator Documentation documentation as @D0RYU said.

You can instead use a custom task scheduling function with a cancel function like this post.

local function Destroyed(x)
	if x.Parent then
		return false
	end
	local _, result = pcall(function()
		x.Parent = x
	end)
	return result:match("locked") and true or false
end

local function customDebris(instance, lifetime)
	local continueDebris = true

	coroutine.wrap(function()
		task.wait(lifetime)
		local isDestroyedAlready = Destroyed(instance)
		if continueDebris and instance and not isDestroyedAlready then
			instance:Destroy()
		end
	end)()

	return function()
		continueDebris = false
	end
end

local cancelDebrisForPart = customDebris(Instance.new("Part"),5)
wait(1)
cancelDebrisForPart()
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#4

oh okay, thanks for the fast answer :wink: