Weird interaction when engulfing a cell that's ejecting another

Gears · August 18, 2025, 3:26am

If you engulf a cell while it’s ejecting a cell, then the ejected cell has a chance of just sitting there motionless and uninteractable.

My guess as to why is that it has something to do with the ejection animation not ending and spawning the cell back in. I also saw Engulfed object doesn't have attached to component set when doing bulk animation showing up constantly in that stage, which might also have something to do with it. See log

aah31415 · August 18, 2025, 6:07am

Were there by any chance abnormalities with the ingested matter meter during the duration of this glitch?

hhyyrylainen · August 18, 2025, 7:17am

I suspect this is related to this problem:

github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive

Getting ejected from an engulfer due to indigestibility that was itself in an engulfer breaks the player entity

opened 08:50AM - 11 Mar 25 UTC

hhyyrylainen

difficult programming bug C# stage:microbe

There's been now two reports that from what I understand are the following seque…nce of events: - Have a indigestible membrane on the player - Get ingested by a cell - While you are not yet ejected, the cell that ate the player needs to itself get ingested - Now when the player is ejected from the first engulfer the logic for how that is handled while it is inside another engulfer doesn't work correctly The result then is probably that the player cell is ejected outside everything but the entity state is still in ingested mode thus preventing the player from doing anything.

There is a pretty rare condition to trigger where an ejected entity just gets broken and sticks around as a ghost / zombie cell that cannot be interacted with.

That is likely related. And most likely this is related as the message is related to an engulfed entity not being setup correctly so the normal operations cannot proceed.

As this is quite a rare problem it is kind of unlikely to be fixed.

Kind of related on Saturday’s Thrivestream I vented a bit about how the engulf mechanic is way too complex in terms of functionality and it causes an absolute ton of bugs that are super difficult to solve.