Poisoned (or dead) canaries are invisible in birdcages

For the devs, something about the birdcage broke when the mutant birds were added in Eye of The Storm, since it's been an issue since that update (I think after mutant birds were allowed to be added to birdcages?).

Edited May 7, 2022 by lakhnish

Thanks to grumm9690 from kleicord, we saw that the moonstorm birds are missing a lot of animations to them while every other bird has them, which might be why this issue is occurring?

The moonstorm birds are missing:

• cough1
• cough2
• fall_sick
• hit_skeleton
• idle_sick
• idle_sick2
• idle_sick3
• idle_skeleton

 

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I also see that in the prefabs table, it's missing bird_mutant and bird_mutant_spitter. Again, I don't know if that plays a role.

local prefabs =
{
    "bird_egg",
    "crow",
    "robin",
    "robin_winter",
    "canary",
    "guano",
    "rottenegg",
}

 

 

Edited May 7, 2022 by lakhnish
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On 5/7/2022 at 6:23 PM, lakhnish said:

Thanks to grumm9690 from kleicord, we saw that the moonstorm birds are missing a lot of animations to them while every other bird has them, which might be why this issue is occurring?

The moonstorm birds are missing:

• cough1
• cough2
• fall_sick
• hit_skeleton
• idle_sick
• idle_sick2
• idle_sick3
• idle_skeleton

 

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I also see that in the prefabs table, it's missing bird_mutant and bird_mutant_spitter. Again, I don't know if that plays a role.

local prefabs =
{
    "bird_egg",
    "crow",
    "robin",
    "robin_winter",
    "canary",
    "guano",
    "rottenegg",
}

 

 

The Moonstorm birds are not related to the issue at hand at all.

Well, you're right it did happen in the Eye of the Storm update, but it was a result of some clean up with the birdcage rather then the moonstorm birds themselves affecting things (All the birds share the same animations by the way, since theyre part of the birdcage, it's not two seperate entities layered over each other)

Essentially what's happening is what the birdcage does is it takes the entity thats in it(the bird in this case) and adds its build to itself, this build would just get overridden by the next bird that gets plopped in and they decided to clean it up by removing the last build that was added when that bird is removed.

However this causes issues for the canary since when it gets poisoned, it becomes a whole new entity and then gives the birdcage the "canary_poisoned_build" build(which doesn't exist), while the bird cage needs the "canary_build" build for it to visually appear.

 

TL:DR, Bird Cage needs "canary_build" override build, not "canary_poisoned_build"

36 minutes ago, Hornete said:

TL:DR, Bird Cage needs "canary_build" override build, not "canary_poisoned_build"

Why do all the birds go invisible when the die or are skeletons? Is it the same reason?

1 minute ago, lakhnish said:

Why do all the birds go invisible when the die or are skeletons? Is it the same reason?

Yes, now they're trying to add the "smallmeat_build" to the Bird Cage upon death, which of course doesn't exist, haha.

Changed Status to Fixed