Bug - can't interact with mushroom boy

[󠀡󠀡 ⁧⁧rykori]

So,
After opening closed shelving unit up against the wall in the gift shop, there's no interaction button - that means I can't get shotgun upgrade...

[Stasyak]

So far, I've encountered two Mushroom Boys: in the Haunted House and in the Mushroom Room. Couldn't interact with any of them :c

I'm playing on Survival Horror Mode
PC, Windows 11

[CaptainCobana]

Has anyone tried yet whether it works on a fresh playthrough and/or on exploration mode?

[SFBTom]

OK, Adam and I have tracked down the bug, and I can't wait to tell you all what it is, it's fascinating! Hoping to get a fixed build up tonight or tomorrow morning! There's one more bug we want to hit too...

[CaptainCobana]

Originally posted by SFBTom:

OK, Adam and I have tracked down the bug, and I can't wait to tell you all what it is, it's fascinating! Hoping to get a fixed build up tonight or tomorrow morning! There's one more bug we want to hit too...

That was fast! Thanks again. You both have done great work with this game.

[Spooky]

Also having issues with the mushroom boys! Can't get the magnum upgrade because of it.
I think I have an idea where this started for me. In the Toy Shop I activated the mushroom boy and got the shotgun upgrade, but I could still talk with him afterwards. Somehow I managed to both talk with him and interact with the cash register, which overlapped the two interactions. Maybe this will help?

[chromatic]

Same happens to me... I can't interact with him at all, but this is inside the "Mush Room". However, in the haunted manor I could, normally.

[CaptainCobana]

Just wait a little longer.

[Whiteagle]

Originally posted by SFBTom:

OK, Adam and I have tracked down the bug, and I can't wait to tell you all what it is, it's fascinating! Hoping to get a fixed build up tonight or tomorrow morning! There's one more bug we want to hit too...

Thank you devs 🙏, i bought it right away 5pm Europe yesterday and are so frustrated I can't continue until it's fixed (btw making a request in the future being able to log all lore file somewhere to read 😅 )

[CaptainCobana]

I'm almost through. If the Patch is out before I get Home from Work, then great. If not: I plan to play it again to get all the Achievements anyway.

[Foemy]

I have done 2 playthoughs in survival and i still cant get the secret the one inside the mushroom king he wont talk with me!!!

[Captain Otter]

Hello. I and a friend of mine have the same problem. Don't know his setup but, i'm on survival mode, windows 11, cpu I7 10700F and gpu RTX 3070ti , if it could help in any way. Thanks ! :)

[Lapóhuy]

Same bug on each mushroom boy in two playthoughs on Survival Horror dif. I'll try to get around it on easy mode, but don't think it'll make any improvements.
Setup: Win 10 Pro, i5-4460, GTX 960.

Upd. Nothing has changed on easy mode. Waiting for the patch.

[Haquecelle]

Hello! I have the same issue but on ps5 🫣 I came to see if I was the only one with this problem, I feel like it’s the end of the game but I’m only missing the mushrooms secrets ! Thanks dev!

[SFBTom]

Alright, I've just pushed an update that should hopefully fix it for everyone! I'll explain in more detail in a moment, but the problem was that the little mushroom boys were xenophobic. It'll take a few minutes to write up why, so just wanted to make this first quick post to let you all know!

[SFBTom]

The little mushroom boys won't talk to anyone from France.
The little mushroom boys will shout at anyone from Germany.
The little mushroom boys will shun anyone from Sweden.
The little mushroom boys will berate anyone from Spain.
And so on. Anyone have any guesses?

What happened was: in some places in the game, we have config settings stored as text. The trigger distance for the little mushroom boys is one of these config settings, one value per boy.

Unlike other places in the game, these distances are fractional values - "0.4" for example.

In the UK, we write our numbers like this: 1,234.56 (meaning one thousand, two hundred and thirty four point five six).

However in France, Sweden and others, they would write 1 234,56
In Germany, Spain and others, its 1.234,56

Under the hood, in the code that takes the mushroom boy trigger range text - "0.4" - and turns it into a number for the rest of the code to use, the default is to use the number style native to the computer the game is running on.

So on French computers, "0.4" turns into 0, since it doesn't know what to do with the "." or anything after it. So mushroom boy trigger range is now 0, and hard/impossible to enter.

On German computers, "0.4" turns into 4, since "." is the thousands separator, so it takes it's best guess at what was meant. Now the mushroom boy trigger range is 4, and will reach halfway across the room.

The fix was just making sure to always use the UK number system, since that's how our configs are written. Explains why it never came up in any of our playtesting (mostly UK and a few US folks).