Remove weakened hivebot beacon from golden slime

[AlaunusLux]

In round cwE-dDLE a "dilapidated hivebot beacon" was summoned by gold slime cores. It was invisible and continuously summoned hivebots. This prevents it from being summoned by the gold slime cores.

For ease of reference, the weakened hivebot beacon is here:

Aurora.3/maps/away/away_site/hivebot_hub/hivebot_hub.dm

Line 119 in 6d7c058

/mob/living/simple_animal/hostile/hivebotbeacon/weakened

[AlaunusLux]

!bugfix

[AlaunusLux]

!review

[FluffyGhoster]

The solution is to fix the weakened hivebot beacon if it's invisible or has some issue, not to remove it

[AlaunusLux]

As the other beacons are excluded from being summoned, and this beacon is in a different file, I assumed it was overlooked and needed to be removed from the list regardless of what caused its invisibility. Especially given that local testing shows neither manually spawning or using the golden slime core replicates the bug, I thought this was the best way to keep it from being an issue admins spend 30 minutes on in the future.

If you know what caused the invisibility issue or how to fix it, let me know. If you don't and don't want to remove this beacon from the summon list in the mean time, close the pull request.

[FluffyGhoster]

As the other beacons are excluded from being summoned, and this beacon is in a different file, I assumed it was overlooked and needed to be removed from the list regardless of what caused its invisibility. Especially given that local testing shows neither manually spawning or using the golden slime core replicates the bug, I thought this was the best way to keep it from being an issue admins spend 30 minutes on in the future.

If you know what caused the invisibility issue or how to fix it, let me know. If you don't and don't want to remove this beacon from the summon list in the mean time, close the pull request.

Check the icon_state if it exists in the file, that's usually the reason when it's invisible

[AlaunusLux]

As I said, local testing does not replicate the issue. It inherits the icon and icon_state from the parent /mob/living/simple_animal/hostile/hivebotbeacon and is fully visible, and also gets destroyed properly when damaged enough.

[FluffyGhoster]

As I said, local testing does not replicate the issue. It inherits the icon and icon_state from the parent /mob/living/simple_animal/hostile/hivebotbeacon and is fully visible, and also gets destroyed properly when damaged enough.

I misread what you wrote, then I do not know why it would be bugged when it happened

[AlaunusLux]

#20166

I opened a bug report for the invisibility issue.