Mushtree spores typically spawn with 5/6ths freshness

I expect that the behavior when catching spores from mushroom planters is identical, but I have not tested this.

Spores in the air have a very short lifecycle. (60 seconds if from a Funcap, 90 if from a Mushtree).

You waiting 10 seconds is going to cause them to be somewhat spoiled cause the conversion of the 60/90 seconds in the air to the 15 days in your inventory is rather big, causing that big loss in days. They need to be caught IMMEDIATELY (spamming space before you even visually see it) if you want almost nearly fresh spores. It also won't be a full 60 days either due to seasonal spoilage rates, iirc.

I do agree it could use some improvements though.

I wish u can feed spores with something and get max freshnes back =D

19 hours ago, lakhnish said:

You waiting 10 seconds is going to cause them to be somewhat spoiled cause the conversion of the 60/90 seconds in the air to the 15 days in your inventory is rather big, causing that big loss in days. They need to be caught IMMEDIATELY (spamming space before you even visually see it) if you want almost nearly fresh spores.

You misread my post. Whether or not I wait 10 sections or am pre-holding the action key I get a spore with 5/6^ths freshness.
Making sure they go straight into an insulated pack makes it pretty clear when using a mod which tells you its remaining freshness.
A completely fresh spore in an insulated pack has 30 days freshness.

Caught immediately -> 24.9 or 25 days freshness
Wait 10s after spawning -> 24.9 or 25 days freshness 

Edited November 2, 2019 by L. Ringmaster

28 minutes ago, L. Ringmaster said:

Caught immediately -> 24.9 or 25 days freshness
Wait 10s after spawning -> 24.9 or 25 days freshness

Oof I see it now, you lose a bunch of days for no reason now.

I hadn't caught a spore for lights since they've upped the spoilage time when Salty Dog came out, which is why I said what I did (it was what it did before).

Edited November 2, 2019 by lakhnish

I don't really see any logic in the code which seems to imply this is intended behavior... Perhaps somthing called after inst.components.perishable:StartPerishing() during makespore's CreateEntity inst is taking too long relative to the extremely fast perish rate of loose spores? Maybe moving StartPerishing() later in CreateEntity would mitigate this? 

One solution might be to set a slower perish rate during entity creation using inst.components.perishable:SetLocalMultiplier and have it set itself back to the current rate in ./scripts/brains/sporebrain.lua a couple seconds after spawn. The onpickup function already utilizes SetLocalMultiplier, so it shouldn't impact other spoilage rates.

1 hour ago, L. Ringmaster said:

Perhaps somthing called after inst.components.perishable:StartPerishing() during makespore's CreateEntity inst is taking too long relative to the extremely fast perish rate of loose spores? Maybe moving StartPerishing() later in CreateEntity would mitigate this? 

Probably something along this. Before this patch came out, you could never ever get a fully fresh spore of 30 days. It was always below that (something like 28 days iirc).

Changed Status to Fixed

@ScottHansen Amazing, thanks! I haven't really played since the turn of the new year, but I'm really excited for this change!