What's with the butterflies?

[Arinyes Cant'ari]

I have an issue that butterflies in the butterfly hotel don't do a damn thing if I'm not nearby at the time they become active, on top of which that the butterflies after some previous update started to only to lose health and leave behind eggs ONE AT A TIME.

I'm not sure whether this is intended or a bug, but I just can't get around in my head with the flower that extends butterfly health, and making a 'hotel' for a massive number of butterflies at the same time in which you only can have ONE SINGLE BUTTERFLY SPECIES at a time, for it to then break down to only doing one butterfly each.

That is a ridiculous way to go when you got butterflies with 160 health that are active only at night, since the nights are really short.

[Redlegoguy1]

Originally posted by Arinyes Cant'ari:

the butterflies after some previous update started to only to lose health and leave behind eggs ONE AT A TIME.

This was an intentional change, the full house counting down simultaneously was a bug. See the papillo 2.0.2 patch notes for details.

As for working on butterflies with time requirements, I would recommend looking into time stopping mechanisms. There's a few different options and with incense I think you can freeze time for up to like 8 or so minutes before you have to refill anything, though that option can significantly limit where you're able to stand. There's also no limit on hotels, so if you really want them counting down faster you can just place multiple, they don't have the same range restriction bee hotels do.

[Arinyes Cant'ari]

So it does. Well, it's insane, though I suppose it can be argued the other way around is as well. That said, wouldn't the fact that it will remain inert UNLESS you get close to it when the 'right time' be something to consider a bug? Or is there something in the mechanics about this that I missed?

[Redlegoguy1]

The proximity issue may be a bug if it's happening exactly how you're describing. I don't have a lot of data to compare since I spent a majority of my time very near the butterflies I was working on. When I was working on ones in different locations simultaneously I was telporting around a lot, so it's hard to say if they were working normally because nothing was broken or if it was because I never spent too much time far away.

[Arinyes Cant'ari]

Well, for me this continues to be the issue. Since I have a place where I'm busy breeding the regular bees among some 16 swarmers and supporting hives, which is far removed from the originally spawned butterfly hotel with said nocturnal butterflies.

I pop by there once, then I'm gone several days (I breed my bees for all times of the day activity and all weather and climate) when I return, there's maybe one butterfly egg waiting for me. I am well aware it's a simple thing to add those hotels to where I'm busy, but it's still a bug (of sorts).

I also noticed that when I quit and save my game, the bees that are still active will NOT recognize the modifiers of flowers when I load the game again. Which led to a disappointing first harvest of honey and bee products on my game when it should've been way more.