Bug #1759

Lootbugs Erase Minerals Eaten During Mission

Status:	Open
Priority:	High
Added by:	dexyd20 on August 13, '26
Assigned to:	Unassigned
Due date:
Reported for:	S06.04

Steps to Reproduce

1. Feed Lootbugs all of the different minerals on the mule salvage mission in the new bone biome, in 1 hour+1-2 minutes, leaving the level after that time.
2. Apparently the free drink promotion started happened during my mission aswell, since when I got back, I had free drinks that I didn't have before the mission.
3. Pop all lootbugs and see if they only give you around the average amount of gold and nitra, maybe scraps of things they've eaten, but no where near the amount of minerals, or as many types of minerals, that they ate, as tho they didn't eat the entire level. I only deposited to the mule twice after popping all the loot bugs... It would usually be 1-2 trips per lootbug.
4. Get upset, and honestly kinda mad, because all your minerals and time were wasted, on a mission you were lucky enough to set up with so much loot, and the chance to make I little more with only a little more effort with the lootbugs, make a nicer payday, but instead make less then 2000 credits totals and less than 30 different special minerals total, most of wish I accidentally picked up from the floor before the loop bugs could eat them.
5. Make sure to get upset during testing and coding, that could be the key to this all.

Explanation

Loot bugs erase everything they eat.
I was farming my loot bugs and they were eating all of my minerals on the ground so I could pop them for 1.5x more resources, but when I harvested them, I pretty much only got the average gold and nitra from them, even tho they ate most of my materials, including some red sugar that they didn't drop either. I had less than 30 special minerals total for the run, and most of that was from accidentally picking up or that I meant to feed to the lootbugs...
This is the first time it's ever happened to me, that I've been scammed by the lootbugs like this...
It was the first time I went over an hour by a few minutes, so maybe the loot bugs belly inventory resets after an hour of in mission time?
But also it could have been some sort of bit overflow limit where they ate too much and reset?
And it turns out that during that mission the free drinks started, so maybe that reset my lootbugs.
I'm not completely sure why, but I do now know that lootbugs can delete all of your minerals they've eaten from existence,...
And honestly, it made me pretty upset that I wasted an hour of my life like that... It's a hard, tediously slow process, to feed all of your lootbugs, just to lose every mineral in the entire cavern...

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