Parenting the character while having a tool equipped wrongly fires Unequipped event

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#1

Reproduction steps:

  • Equip a tool to a character
  • Parent the character to another model

Reproduction file:
Tool unequipped event bug.rbxl (47.0 KB)

In the file above, run a play session

  • First, the event Unequipped is listened on the tool instance, so that we can print something when the event fires.
  • Then, the tool is equipped to the character
  • After that, the character is parented to workspace.Model

As you can see in the screenshot below, we see that the Unequipped event is fired
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Expected behavior

Unequipped event should not fire

#2

Thanks for the report! We’ll investigate and follow up with updates.