pets preemptively eating

[latent plinth]

pets seem to eat from the trough before hunger fully depletes. This preemptive eating is no bueno if you have a hunger restore pet out as it reaps the hunger restore pet of the opportunity to help out and restore the hunger of other active pets and thus also wastes food to a degree by eating it too early, especially if said crop was gonna completely fill/surpass the max hunger in terms of cost anyway 😛

pls see clip for the hungry hungry butterfly bored eating 🙃

[drowsy path]

yeeeeahhhhh this is a tough one

it eats a couple seconds before it runs out

this is to make sure they don't fail to proc due to running out of food on the way to the trough

[latent plinth]

seconds?!?! That thing acted like it had been starving for minutes

[drowsy path]

open to ideas on how to solve it 😅

[latent plinth]

XD

[drowsy path]

that could be a bug - ill look into it tomororw

[latent plinth]

@cedar flint

[latent plinth]

This makes absolute sense !

[latent plinth]

Uhhh.. not sure if you recall this at all, but back in the day, jake and I did some testing with feeding pets regarding the turthles hunger boost not affecting bees and other pets..

one thing we noticed was how sometimes when feeding pets it would surpass the max hunger but not like, visually on our end, just while watching things happen in the dev console.. uhhh @cedar flint has a suggestion that kind of stems from that ! not sure how it might apply though 😛

[cedar flint]

The one idea I have is to let it overfill the hunger bar by however much extra there is (if there was 200 left, it'll be 25,200 afterwards, assuming the food would have fully filled the bar 😄)

[latent plinth]

like, it wouldn't be something the player could see per se, but it at least takes the lost* hunger restored by x food into account when eating early !

[lean granite]

wouldn't it be possible to reduce the seconds before starving to align with the length of the animation? Right now it seems to start the animation when starvation is 20 seconds away and the animation takes about 2 seconds, so couldn't you start the animation when time to starve <= 2 or 3 seconds?

[latent plinth]

That ^ 💯 🔥

out of curiosity, not sure what all you checked out/noticed but does that apply to all pets? like, do all pets consistently start the animation when starvation is 20 seconds away?

[lean granite]

I only tested it out with Snail and Worm and now with Bunny too. Has been consistent as soon as their time till they starve is <= 20 seconds it spawns and goes to eat.

I used this script to monitor values like pet Hunger and when an activity is logged, just gonna send it if you wanna test yourself

[drowsy path]

the amount of time it takes depends on where the pet is and how quickly it moves