Pick Up Objects in Unreal Engine 5 | Physics Pickup System + Hand IK (Blueprints Only)

Ever wanted to pick something up in your game level but couldn’t find the right tutorial? In this video I build a complete pickup system from scratch in Unreal Engine 5, using no plugins and no code, just Blueprints. Press E to grab and E to drop, with real physics. Then we go a step further and use Two Bone IK so the character’s hands actually wrap around the object. What you’ll learn: Creating a pickup actor and a pickup manager Blueprint Finding the closest object to the player with a search loop Attaching an actor to a skeletal mesh socket Dropping objects with physics and collision restored Adding a custom hold socket to the UE5 Mannequin Stacking and knocking over a wall of physics cubes Using Two Bone IK in the Animation Blueprint to place both hands Fixing wrist rotation with Transform (Modify) Bone 00:00 Intro 00:30 Project & Pickup Cube 02:58 Pickup Manager & E Key 08:05 Finding the Closest Cube 13:05 Picking Up the Cube 17:32 Dropping the Cube 21:09 First Test 22:55 Hold Socket 31:46 Bonus: Wall of Cubes 34:45 Hand Targets (Event Graph) 47:10 Two Bone IK (Anim Graph) 54:06 Fixing the Wrists 59:37 Outro