Coral Nubbins are still pointless.

[KCDA]

Coral Reefs never grew back, so Coral Nubbins are still pointless. The part of the code that would start the process is still just a comment.

 

in the reef_fn inst:AddComponent("growable")
inst.components.growable.stages = growth_stages
inst.components.growable:SetStage(3)
inst.components.growable:SetOnGrowthFn(OnGrowthFn)
--inst.components.growable:StartGrowing()

 

For readers who don't look at the code (such as myself) a -- indicates a comment. (Oh and thanks Infected_Asylum for looking at the code again for me.) 

[Maslak]

 I'm still not sure, I remember my reefs regrowing (before beta), it was just really slow and I never saw them fully grow back, just slightly. I remember you discussing this with Arethena on sub before. If I remember correctly, according to them coral does regrow, but it's very slow and you need to load it everytime you relaunch game/switch worlds or something?
 Either way, it's pretty messy indeed and should be changed. It's fine for them to have long regrow time, but it should work as intended and be guaranteed.

[GLERMZ]

I still think the issue is, stuff takes a lot to regrow if its not in the loading zone. I think its all around that issue. If you remember the Whales not progressing trough out the stages if you don't constantly go there. Spiders nest stay level 1 in islands you never go too, etc...

Idk, i'm a noob in this matters, but thats what i think the issue might be (: 

[KCDA]

Either way, during the new Beta, I've been on and off testing this in a world just for testing. 28 days so far, and tons of rain. Nothing.

 

And just casually passing by them during 500 or so days of SW (pre-beta), never saw them grow.

[JimmyJam]

I have had it regrow in the beta but... i mined it around day 7 and its only just regrown on day 120 so... it needs to be changed lol

[Jason]

I've found the issue. The time until the coral reef would go to the next stage was resetting each time you saved and loaded. For coral, that's a pretty long time, 6 days. So if you saved and loaded reasonably often, less than 6 day intervals at least, your coral would never grow. 

It's fixed for the next update.

KCDA, if your interested in the code of why that was happening, for some reason, the coral prefab had a save and load function that was setting it's current growth stage. The growable component was also doing this and it was saving the correct time as well. Unfortunately, the prefabs load function was happening after the growables.. so the growable components correct time was being reset by the max time when the prefabs load function kicked in. The prefab just doesn't need to do it's save and load function. 

 

[KCDA]

3 minutes ago, Jason said:

I've found the issue. The time until the coral reef would go to the next stage was resetting each time you saved and loaded. For coral, that's a pretty long time, 6 days. So if you saved and loaded reasonably often, less than 6 day intervals at least, your coral would never grow. 

It's fixed for the next update.

KCDA, if your interested in the code of why that was happening, for some reason, the coral prefab had a save and load function that was setting it's current growth stage. The growable component was also doing this and it was saving the correct time as well. Unfortunately, the prefabs load function was happening after the growables.. so the growable components correct time was being reset by the max time when the prefabs load function kicked in. The prefab just doesn't need to do it's save and load function. 

Thank you for fixing it, Coral will be a useful resource now! People will stop considering world hopping for just Coral now (I know I was in that camp.) Say, do they still have to be on screen for the timer to tick in order to grow, or will it just update accordingly when loaded?

[Jason]

Ahh.. yes, the growable components didn't process multiple stages  when things returned on screen. I changed it so that it should now.