cannot destroy transform

[system]

public Object firstPiece;

firstPiece = Instantiate(levelPieces[startinglevelPiece],levelPieceSpawnPointL.transform.position, levelPieceSpawnPointL.transform.rotation);

Destroy(firstPiece);

These are the three line where I use the firstpiece variable directly and yet every time I go to destroy it I get this error "Can't destroy Transform component. If you want to destroy the game object please call 'Destroy' on the game object instead. Destroying the transform component is not allowed." I have tried casting it as a game object and I have tried everything besides directly tagging the object and destroying the objects with that tag, however I KNOW this should be able to work simply like this, what the hell am I doing wrong, am I high or missing some glaring problem (and I have tried changing the "public Object firstPiece;" line to GameObject that gives me lots more errors and problems than it fixes

[loopyllama]

I bet firstPiece is a Transform. Your code "public Object firstPiece;" then casts it to an Object which indeed does not have a ".gameObject" property. This also explains why your GameObject cast did not work...

Destroy can destroy components or entire game objects. However, you cannot remove the transform component of a game object which is why you got your initial error.

instead of:

Destroy(firstPiece);

try:

public Object firstPiece;
firstPiece = Instantiate(levelPieces[startinglevelPiece],levelPieceSpawnPointL.transform.position, levelPieceSpawnPointL.transform.rotation);
Destroy( (firstPiece as Transform).gameObject );

but that code is not pretty. You might want to fix your "public Object firstPiece;" line and post a question about those errors...you probably don't need to cast your Transform to an Object, which forces you to cast it back to a Transform and access the gameObject to destroy it.