Overriding free() not working?

[Oofishy]

Godot Version

4.4

Question

I am making a game where the player and enemies have both have inventories, and I am trying to make a way for them to drop their items when they die, so I tried to override the free() call so that when one got deleted it would spawn the item drop, but it seems like it is never being called. How can I fix this?

The code

func free() -> void:
	*Drop the item*
	super()

I place break points throughout the section, but they never triggered making me think it was never called

[paintsimmon]

Hi, I don’t think you can override the free function. Try overriding the _exit_tree function. The virtual functions that you are meant to be able to override all start with an underscore (_).

Overridable functions

[Oofishy]

Thanks! I didnt realise that