Bug: unkillable Animals/Wildlife

[Lammy001]

Was trying to cull animals and wildlife on the map. Lethal hits including slaughter, euthanize, missing body parts, and bleeding 100% do not kill the animal. They just remain unconscious. Worse is that this bug starts to slow the game down to a crawl.

Opened up the logs and the screen shot that hopefully you guys can see should give you all the info on this situation. Looking for help to save this colony save.

https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198171934975/screenshots/?appid=294100

[Diarmuhnd]

Is it modded?

[Khan Boyzitbig of Mercia]

That is modded, My guess would be either animals logic or damage indicators but could be any other mods in the list assuming all those screenshots are for the same save.

Last time I saw (un)dead things that were supposed to be dead dead was a bug regarding the Death Rattle mod.

[Lammy001]

Yeah, the game is modded as per screenshot list. I'll see whether it's one of those 2 mods.

Edit- Turned off the 2 mods still no effect even on a save before the bug hits. Then turned all mods off- bug is still happening after loading a previous file. At this point I fear this may be a string of corrupted save files.

[BlackSmokeDMax]

Originally posted by Lammy001:

At this point I fear this may be a string of corrupted save files.

Most likely. Keep in mind that some mods are just not save game friendly with being removed mid game. No idea if any of the ones you are using fall in to that case, but it is something to watch.

[Lammy001]

Looks like the problem is with the save files themselves. I just fired up a colony in vanilla- slaughtering works fine. Fired up another colony this time with all the mods- slaughtering works. The best that I can surmise is that the recent patches have corrupted the save files. I'll have to see whether earlier saves are void of this problem. If not I'm gonna have to start a new colony. It's gonna suck after I put some 200h into that colony.

[Gakko]

Ever figure out how to solve it without deleting the entire save?

[Lammy001]

Little bit of a necro with good merit. No, I was never able to figure out the problem. I made a new colony that eventually became even better than the old one in my estimation- most of the same mods but with SOS2 (pre 1.3) and now the colony are masters of the their own particular Rim World.

As for issue that was plaguing the previous colony, it most likely just the saves were corrupted due to one of the patches at the time. I suspect it was with how certain animals were saved/loaded in the files at the time. No matter how much damage the corrupted animals took, they wouldn't die. It was amusing at first but then the damage started to make the game chug. I still have the save files though at this point with the new updates the zombie animals bug will be a mystery consigned to the games history.

[Gakko]

In my case I'm pretty sure it has to do with the 1.3 update. It broke pretty much every mod I was using, I was able to use Developer Mode to "Destroy" (rather than "Kill") the animals affected, but that not always worked (sometimes they just wouldn't be deleted). It's a bit funny because a bear was endlessly killing a hare whose texture became completely red, dropping my game to 10 FPS. Even after having some success "destroying" the unkillable animals, however, I can't trade with other settlements (nothing happens on clicking on Trade) and trade ships are bugged (they take my money but won't take my goods or deliver them), so I guess I'll just wait until getting Ideology and start over. Sorry about that necro, this discussion was the only proper result when googling the issue.

[test]

when it lags, check harmony patches tab in dubs performance analyzer

[lucas-cake]

I have also experienced the same symptoms, but no matter what I do I can’t seem to pinpoint if it’s a mod or just the 1.3 update, pretty frustrating honestly.

[Frodnar]

having the same bug years later. It's definitely tied to updates. an update just came out and now no animals will die. I think the code for animal corpses got borked cause I can't spawn animal corpses in dev mode and the game doesn't know what to turn them into when they die, so they just don't

[Ufthak]

I'm not having any problems killing animals in a pure vanilla game. You running mods?