Slowly murdered by my own Homunculus

[Vaati 006]

My best run yet was just ended because I was slowly, over ~60 seconds, chipped down and murdered by my own Homunculus, while I was unable to damage or affect it or run away from it. I'm not sure what caused this behavior, which is why I think it's a bug. The wiki page says that the Homunculus will attack the player if they become polymorphed, but I was not polymorphed when I died, nor at any point in the chaos leading to me hiding in a corner being slowly pew-pewed to death. The Homunculus was not holding a wand, either: screenshot shows "cause of death: Homunculus projectile". https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2293550858
I had the Levitation Trail and Personal Shield perks, but I don't think any of my other perks were relevant (passives like Melee immunity or Toxic immunity or Worm Repellant, i forget). I did not have the Rats perk or More Hatred.
Is this a bug? @developers, is there any valid game situation where the Homunculus should invincibly attack me while I can't do anything about it? I don't mind having weird edge cases where the Homunculus turns on you, but I believe that at any point where it can kill you, you should have the ability to kill it. Otherwise the run is just guaranteed dead, no matter how overpowered you are.

[[BAD]]

This happened to me as well. I noticed that it happened whenever i levitated, so it seems as though the levitation trail damages the homonculi, who then retaliate against the player for an attack.

[nacho_chicken]

Originally posted by BAD:

This happened to me as well. I noticed that it happened whenever i levitated, so it seems as though the levitation trail damages the homonculi, who then retaliate against the player for an attack.

It's definitely the trails. I had a run where I had both Plague Rats and Levitation Trail. I had to be super careful hovering around the rats or they'd all turn on me.

[Why_I_Game]

Interesting.

[Ǵ̶͓̂͑lí̴̤̀̄́tcĥ̸]

Did you also have the "More Hatred" perk? Your helpers will sometimes attack you if you have that perk and there are no enemies nearby.

[Samboozled]

This happened to me a long while ago. I generally don't mind the 'helpers' turning on you from stuff like "More hatred", as long as you can hurt them and deal with this new problem

[Vaati 006]

Originally posted by ⊂卄⫯ㅥ⫯∩':

Did you also have the "More Hatred" perk? Your helpers will sometimes attack you if you have that perk and there are no enemies nearby.

No I did not have More Hatred Perk.
After playing more & learning more about the game, I've found that I just generally don't like to have followers of any kind. They're immune to most spells I cast, but notably can be hurt by Glowing Lance, Levitation Trail, and probably a few others i can't recall. But when you hurt them, they retaliate for a short while. That's all that was going on here, the Levitation Trail perk was the culprit.

[Why_I_Game]

"That's all that was going on here, the Levitation Trail perk was the culprit."

That's not all that's going on, because friends becoming enemies should allow the player to attack them, but they couldn't attack the homunculus. Seems to be a bug with not triggering the enemy status for your pet.

[Bartimus]

this just happened to me and i did not have the lev trail on I just rejoined my game and my 5 minions just started attacking each other and me with different spells i couldn't outrun them lol. i had no perks that should have aggroed them. rip

[Myno]

Originally posted by Lavi:

this just happened to me and i did not have the lev trail on I just rejoined my game and my 5 minions just started attacking each other and me with different spells i couldn't outrun them lol. i had no perks that should have aggroed them. rip

Berserkium, probably.

[memento monopoly]

This happened to me just now. 4 homunculi turned hostile for no reason when I returned to my save. No More Hatred, no berserkium. Nothing. Just another wasted run.

[Why_I_Game]

This is why I pretty much never take any of the companion Perks, they always seem to find a way to mess up my runs! Even the ones that don't directly attack often find ways to ruin you.

[ElivDead]

Пошел 2024 год, а баг не пофиксили. Собрал Убер супер палочки, перки - Phasing, More Blood, Fire Immunity, Explosion Immunity, Melee Immunity, Hungry Ghost и конечно же - Homunculus. Я убил 2 боссов и последнего босса, побывал на всех этажах, но было поздно и решил лечь спать. Утром, включаю компьютер, в руках горячий кофе, включаю Noita, хотел побродить в пирамиде, 1 секунда, 2 снаряда гомункула и меня нет. Я обжег язык, пролил кофе. Noita - I hate you