Tamed Leap Lizard Keeps Killing Me in the Shelter??

[puppy cuppy]

So I have a pet leap lizard and I love him to death (literally, I've died trying to save him a couple times) but now he keeps chomping and killing me when I'm trying to hibernate in a shelter. Am I doing something wrong? He didn't do this before when I first tamed him and it's incredibly frustrating because now I'm down to the lowest karma and can't go anywhere.

[nannamitchel]

maybe you have to feed him? not sure

[MaskedGandalf]

Probably you threw something at him accidentaly. I think if you throw rock or something at your tamed lizard then he will start attacking you.

[puppy cuppy]

I do kill something every cycle for him, so I'm thinking it can't be that. And I make sure I never throw anything at him... I'm starting to think it's just an AI mess up or something, because it only happens in the shelter and no where else. Outside of shelters he's just fine.

[Felis Alba]

Every lizard has its own personality. I've noticed that some have an issue with the slugcat getting too close to them. Perhaps your lizard is this way, and attacks because you are in it's "personal boundaries." This is why it only attacks in shelters; you have to be close to hibernate

[Darthzz]

Sometimes, lizards can get upset and go after you. One time, I had a red lizard who chased after a scav, but the scav entered a pipe and escaped, causing my red lizard to wiggle angrily and go after ME instead. Keep in mind I had max global lizard rep and fed this guy a bunch. Similar things have happened to my white lizard. I think it might be a bug where, if a lizard fails to catch a target, their AI will switch to you and think you're the target, where the lizard will then go after you and try to kill you.

And sadly, there are some hardlocks like this in the game that haven't been fixed yet, which means you're pretty much forced to reset your entire save if you can't get out. This feels very much unintended though, as some creatures even seem to be coded to hesitate attacking you until the shelter opens up, meaning if a hostile lizard enters your shelter, usually they will sit still until the shelter opens. Same with scavs usually, where a hostile scav will sit there before spearing you.

[Lordly Cinder]

If your pet is hurt then they will snap u up sometimes just letem heal for a cycle maybe then hibernate w/him

[Darthzz]

Originally posted by winteriscoming:

If your pet is hurt then they will snap u up sometimes just letem heal for a cycle maybe then hibernate w/him

It can happen if they aren't hurt, too. Like my red lizard.

[puppy cuppy]

Mmkay, I think I get it then, thanks guys. I have another question too though; if I hibernate without him inside the shelter with me, will he stop following me and being my buddy? That's the only thing I can think of at this point, but I really don't want to lose him. I've gotten like, really attached to him lmao

[Darthzz]

Originally posted by Skye:

Mmkay, I think I get it then, thanks guys. I have another question too though; if I hibernate without him inside the shelter with me, will he stop following me and being my buddy? That's the only thing I can think of at this point, but I really don't want to lose him. I've gotten like, really attached to him lmao

I believe you don't lose lizard rep (at least, you lose very little, possibly), but lose progress towards The Friend.

[puppy cuppy]

Originally posted by miao:

Originally posted by Skye:

Mmkay, I think I get it then, thanks guys. I have another question too though; if I hibernate without him inside the shelter with me, will he stop following me and being my buddy? That's the only thing I can think of at this point, but I really don't want to lose him. I've gotten like, really attached to him lmao

I believe you don't lose lizard rep (at least, you lose very little, possibly), but lose progress towards The Friend.

Ah, okay. Thank you! That's fine then, I already have The Friend unlocked on this file (although it won't show up on steam? Same with The Outlaw and one other one. I'm not sure about that either, might need some answers on that too if I'm not being so bothersome ehe.)

[Godfish]

this happened to me too, I tamed a magenta lizard in chimney canopy by saving him from a vulture and he was following me around and not attacking but as soon as I entered a shelter he gobbled me up, having had no prior aggressive behavior toward me.