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A recent question of interest has been how to run Floquet codes on devices which have defective \u2013 and therefore unusable \u2013 qubits. This is an under-studied issue of crucial importance for running such codes on realistic hardware. To address this challenge, we introduce a new method of accommodating defective qubits on a wide range of two-dimensional Floquet codes, which requires no additional connectivity in the underlying quantum hardware, no modifications to the original Floquet code's measurement schedule, can accommodate boundaries, and is optimal in terms of the number of qubits and stabilisers removed. We numerically demonstrate that, using this method, the planar honeycomb code is fault tolerant up to a fabrication defect probability of &#x2248;<\/mml:mo>12<\/mml:mn>&#x0025;<\/mml:mi><\/mml:math>. We find the fault-tolerant performance of this code under defect noise is competitive with that of the surface code, despite its sparser connectivity. 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