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Super-Stuck Pregnancy   
Lurhstaap

Lurhstaap
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  9/28/2023

I'm running a DuoDragon CFF world (the version I released "officially";) and an odd problem has arisen. I don't recall this happening in the past. So, the first six Gen1s made a few eggs as soon as they hit Youth, as normal. Then I noticed that new eggs stopped appearing after a while. I tried to use Inseminator on one of them, but it said she's already pregnant. I waited an hour or so, but no egg was laid.

So I tried using both targ norn and Devthing to force egg-laying, but neither worked. Yet she's still reading as pregnant to Inseminator and according to her history (it shows her being impregnated, but no egg following that).

Any other stuck egg or pregnancy clearing solutions?

EDIT: So this is weird. I noticed that some of my females were stuck like this, but others aren't. X-Ray won't work, sadly, and I don't remember any other way to check organ health percentages, so I can't check if their uteruses have died for some reason. According to Inseminator, normal kisspopping, and their histories, the affected females are pregnant. But! They don't register as pregnant according to the Pregnancy Detector gadget. I'm guessing that's why none of the force-egg-laying approaches worked.

And I just did an experiment with Inseminator. If you clone one of the affected females, the clone is not pregnant and can be inseminated. But if you clone the pregnant clone, the new clone is pregnant. So the affected females aren't actually pregnant at all.

Turns out they're not stuck pregnancies so much as phantom pregnancies. What does one do about this?


Conclude with killer catchphrase.
(Lurhstaap)
"This is not knowledge -
this is information!"
New Model Army, "Courage"

 
Vermidia

Vermidia



  9/28/2023

Going to try my best here, not sure why X-Ray isn't working. Have you tried x-ray+? I think I seperated the catalogues out so you can avoid that issue.

Creatures are marked as pregnant only if their genome slots (a feature every agent support) above 0 are full. Usually a norn pregnant with a single kid will have only slot 1 filled.

"inst gene kill norn 1" would remove the moniker in slot 1 of the selected norn, so assuming this is somehow strange phantom monikers running about, this may help?


You know...wait...nevermind... wait...no...umm...maybe later...
 
Lurhstaap

Lurhstaap


 visit Lurhstaap's website: Addicted To CAOS
  9/30/2023

X-Ray has always been a bit cantankerous for me. Some installs it runs fine, other times it autokills. I did try XRay+ and it didn't work either... at first. But I just reinstalled it for shiggles and it works now?? No idea. *shrug* I like the upgrade though!

So here's a funny thing. I had exported the stuck females to make room for others who didn't have that problem. So I imported one to test your solution on her, but double-checked with Inseminator and... she got pregnant. So the phantom pregnancy was cleared by being exported. Could that be the moniker slot issue? Or did the engine just hiccup? This is a weird one lol.


Conclude with killer catchphrase.
(Lurhstaap)
"This is not knowledge -
this is information!"
New Model Army, "Courage"

 


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