**REPORTED** Issue when placing Bee Hives and Antlion Eggs

[firecat666]

Steam or GOG

GOG

Single Player/Multiplayer

Single

Controls Used

Keyboard/Mouse

Note: Originally I only noticed this issue with Bee Hives but I rewrote the whole thing after I noticed this affects Antlion Eggs too.

You can place Bee Hives and Antlion Eggs in the space occupied by existing ones, causing them to break. In the case of Bee Hives, the newly placed one falls to the ground alongside the existing ones, in the case of Antlion Eggs, only the existing ones break.

The real issue here seems to be that can place any block in the same space as those two objects (not just another Bee Hive/Antlion Egg) but this becomes an annoyance when trying to place either of those in the world for decoration or whatever purpose, since if you hold click you'll start placing them on top of each other, breaking the ones you've already placed and causing enemies to spawn. If you need to spawn a million bees/antlions, you can already shoot a flare and place the Hive/Egg on top of it, causing it to break instantly.

I thought this would be an issue when placing Cactus too, since they break and start rolling if you do as little as just sneeze on them, but you can't place blocks in the space occupied by a placed Cactus.

 

[punchready]

Bee hives and antlion eggs behave that way because they are supposed to be easily destroyed by projectiles, and that same property is also used for automatically breaking decorations when placing things manually.
All boulder types on the other hand are solid blocks that do not get replaced when placing things, so they are implemented in a different way.
To "fix" this, the projectile fragility and auto breaking when placing things would need to be separated which is substantial effort and probably not worth it.

 

[firecat666]

You sure about that? Because Cactus can get dislodged by projectiles too. And Bee Hive kind of behaves like a Boulder in that it drops from the ceiling and rolls on the ground. It shouldn't be hard to just change them to be a furniture-like thing like Cactus, although implementing such a solution might break existing worlds.

Also, Life Crystal Boulder isn't solid like the other boulders but you can't place anything on the same space it's occupying.

Either way, I guess this could be remedied somewhat by making those two items simply not "autofire" when holding the button, like Flower Seed packets.

 

[punchready]

Yes i am sure, boulder type tiles are not in the "tileCut" set, while various plants, bee hives and antlion eggs are, and therefore all share the same properties.

 

[firecat666]

I just noticed Pumpkin Seeds can be planted on top of any breakable thing except unripe pumpkins and those can be be replaced by any other placeable thing except Pumpkin Seeds. So maybe this can be fixed easily without messing with anything.

 

[Sigma90]

I can't say for sure if this is a bug, but I think it's worth checking and will flag it as such. Thank you for the report!