Attuning animals for possession?

[Birdskull]

Hey all.

I'm hoping someone can help me figure out what it is I'm missing, here.

The idea is the character will have the option to "possess" a deer as a form of revival.

I borrowed from the meat effigy and have attached that code to this post for convenience.

Problems:
- Health penalty doesn't occur upon attuning
- Character becomes immobile after revival

Relevant excerpt from my modmain:

AddPrefabPostInit("deer", function(inst)
    inst:AddTag("resurrector")

    if not GLOBAL.TheWorld.ismastersim then
        return
    end

    inst:AddComponent("attunable")
    inst.components.attunable:SetAttunableTag("remoteresurrector")
    inst.components.attunable:SetOnAttuneCostFn(onattunecost)
    inst.components.attunable:SetOnLinkFn(onlink)
    inst.components.attunable:SetOnUnlinkFn(onunlink)

    inst:ListenForEvent("activateresurrection", inst.Remove)
    end)
	
function DeerPostInit(inst)
local function onattunecost(inst, player)
    if player.components.health == nil or
        math.ceil(player.components.health.currenthealth) < TUNING.EFFIGY_HEALTH_PENALTY then
        return false, "NOHEALTH"
    end
    local delta = math.min(math.max(0, player.components.health.currenthealth - 1), TUNING.EFFIGY_HEALTH_PENALTY)
    player:PushEvent("consumehealthcost")
    player.components.health:DoDelta(-delta, false, "statue_attune", true, inst, true)
    return true
end

local function onlink(inst, player, isloading)
    if not isloading then
        inst.SoundEmitter:PlaySound("dontstarve/common/together/meat_effigy_attune/on")
        inst.AnimState:PlayAnimation("attune_on")
    end
end

local function onunlink(inst, player, isloading)
    if not (isloading or inst.AnimState:IsCurrentAnimation("attune_on")) then
        inst.SoundEmitter:PlaySound("dontstarve/common/together/meat_effigy_attune/off")
        inst.AnimState:PlayAnimation("attune_off")
    end
end

local function PlayAttuneSound(inst)
    if inst.AnimState:IsCurrentAnimation("place") or inst.AnimState:IsCurrentAnimation("attune_on") then
        inst.SoundEmitter:PlaySound("dontstarve/common/together/meat_effigy_attune/on")
    end
end
end
AddPrefabPostInit("deer", DeerPostInit)

local function possessedDeerFree(inst)
	inst:DoTaskInTime(0, function()
		if inst.char == "oracle" then
			local x, y, z = inst.Transform:GetWorldPosition()
			inst:Remove()
			GLOBAL.SpawnPrefab("deer").Transform:SetPosition(x, y, z)
		end
	end)
end
AddPrefabPostInit("skeleton_player", possessedDeerFree)

Video of what's currently going down:

 

resurrectionstatue.lua

[Ultroman]

Seems like a very specific problem, probably a sever/client problem. See if there's a difference between trying it on a server with and without caves. If not, try printing everywhere you can, so you can see what is and isn't happening as you'd expect. It seems the player isn't being properly activated again.