#Magnet Dumpsters Are Evil

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clear ore
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A shift or two ago my captain and I were salvaging a wreck. I was making use of a dumpster bought from trade to magnet up all the reclaimable materials.

At some point it became glitched, visibly, to me, sliding off the wreck while still being held by me in my ui. When I let go of it, it snapped back onto the wreck.

Further attempts to drag it off had similar results, teleporting it around when I grabbed it and returning it after I let go. My captain tried and got stuck in some alternate dimension and when I tried to grab her I was teleported violently and thrown about, let go I was put back.

@hoary thicket had to free us (twice) because we were completely unable to free ourselves from the state we got put in.

bold ledge
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I've observed other strange physics bugs for players in other contexts than the dumpster, I'm not sure if it's specific to this. I recall it once happening with a construction box that pinched a teammate and made their physics velocity go nuts - upon pulling them I myself got "infected" and started flying around erratically

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the difficult part in debugging this is how unpredictably this bug occurs, so it's hard to identify or diagnose without a case in the wild one has a view variables feed on

sweet lodge
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I had this happen actually, when I was on Taava dragging a construction box

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I was running a long the wreck, fell asleep and dropped the box but not actually, I was still holding and pulling it but it was just nowhere and my movement was kinda jittery after

bold ledge
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I had a similar case happen with a goblin I went to rescue, who reported being stuck in place on a wreck - I think there was something off with the walls there or something

sweet lodge
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Box was gone though

proven mantle
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I"ve had this drag bug happen before yeah... I'll drag something but it doesn't move but it says i'm holding it. Not the exact same but similar idea. I don't remember if it was something with a magnet or not...

lofty island
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This sounds exactly like what happened to me and a friend, except it was on a pulsar with a fuller salvage bay and moving an ore processor. My buddy was wrenching it down, and from my eyes it looked like the game had trouble rectifying their location with the processor now occupying that tile, and it struggled to find a free space around it to push them into. Ultimately 'pinning' them in place, presumably placing them in a spot they actually couldn't occupy. When I tried to free them, they started teleporting all over the place and I also ended up pinned. We had to Ahelp to be pulled out of it as well.

bold ledge
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some kind of "poisoned"/"polluted" physics data

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that is "transmitted" when you try to pull that entity

clear ore
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This reeks of scrapcode, chaos has infested our beautiful machines. Cleansing rites must be performed to maintain their purity.

sweet lodge
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THE MACHINE SPIRITS MUST BE PLACATED

clear ore