**REPORTED** Heart statues don't have a heart drop cap during the halloween event.

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Terrarian
Steam or GOG
Steam
Single Player/Multiplayer
Single
Operating System
Windows 7
Terraria Version
1.4.0.5
Controls Used
Keyboard/Mouse
Heart statues normally have a limit of 3 hearts nearby the statue and then the statue stops producing hearts. However if you are in the Halloween event the hearts are candied apples and the statue produces an unlimited amount of apples. I didn't test this during Christmas but I assume the same problem exists there as well as the hearts are changed to candy canes.
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The problem persists in 1.4.4.9. I'm playing on the everything seed multiplayer (Windows 10). It's not Christmas nor Halloween.

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can't reproduce
there also is a proper check for all 3 heart types in the game code
 
I can also confirm this still happens on 1.4.4.9. I'm playing singleplayer on Windows 10, on a normal world seed, no seasonal events. This is a fairly regular occurance for me in any world where I set up a few heart statues near each other; I've seen it happen many times.

I feel like it happens if I get near enough to the statues to drag the existing hearts away a little, but don't actually pick them up. And then I look over a bit later and they're spitting out several additional hearts. But I'm not sure if that's actually the case or a coincidence.

In the case of this world here, I have 3 heart statues and 3 star statues rigged up to a 1/4 second timer.

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I've given this a test, but was unable to reproduce spawning more than three hearts (or candied apples or candy canes), even with multiple statues. Could someone please share a world that shows the issue? Thanks!
 
I'm unfortunately struggling to manually reproduce the issue where the statues spawn several, one after another. I'll keep an eye out for it and see if I can figure out any more details, as I'm sure it'll come up again once in a while as I play (this has been an ongoing issue for me for more than a year).

I did, however, make a video where I managed to get more than 3 hearts/stars to spawn at a time, by dragging some of them a short distance away from the statues. This is not the original issue exactly, but I'm guessing it's related, and it shows that there's definitely something funky about the way the hearts/stars spawn.

Here's my world file, although as far as I know it's occurred in any world where I've set up these statues (in any arrangement, not always like this).
 

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Heart statues only allow 3 hearts within 18.75 blocks, 6 hearts within 50 blocks and 10 hearts in the entire world, you simply moved the hearts more than 18 blocks away. This check is also very simple and at least to me doesn't look like it has any bugs.
 
I saw a video recently which I think may explain the actual cause of this bug. In the video it's explained that this happens specifically when the dropped item limit has been met.

This would seem to agree with my personal experience, which is that this happens semi-frequently to me, seemingly at random times but often during invasion events (I usually don't gather up items until the events are over). But I couldn't figure out how to reproduce it, it only seemed to happen while I was playing casually. It would make a lot of sense to me if there were simply too many items in my world whenever it happens.

I was able to replicate this on a journey mode world, although I can't seem to get the steps just right to produce a whole pool of hearts. I was able to get it to spawn extra hearts twice, up to 5 around 3 heart statues, with all the hearts sitting right on top of the statues. I don't have time for further testing tonight, but I'm fairly confident this is the real answer.

I did get a whole pool of hearts while I was playing casually tonight, it happened during the martian madness event. I was on a broom farming for saucers, and as a result I was leaving a lot of dropped items on the ground. And then at one point I zipped by my heart statues, and there was a whole pool of hearts waiting. (For the record, on the same world as I sent above)
 
Oh my god, I see the bug now thanks to your investigation, a shame I didn't notice it earlier...
The statue spawn check for nearby items was copied from the check for nearby NPCs, and the loop size was not updated, so item statues only check the first 200 item drop slots, even though there are 400. (Since there are only 200 NPC slots)
This explains why this is only seen with lots of items on the ground. @Kazzymodus this should be an easy fix for a 4 year old bug lol
 
Yeah, I can see where this went wrong. Will fix, thanks for the reports!
 
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