nullpointer with vomiting zombie

[pardeike]

nullpointer with vomiting zombie

[pardeike]

Putting a try catch in that expensive function will slow things down too much. The other mod should simply be coded more defensive to prevent the NRE. Sorry.

[exuvo]

Okay then ill try with the other mod creator and see if they can avoid creating the effect it the target is a zombie. What is the best way to detect if the target is a zombie?

[pardeike]

If the class of the zombie is called Zombieland.Zombie. But personally, I would rather add ordinary null checks to cover any other slimmed down creatures of other mods too. So if you deal with property X.Y you always check if X is non-Null or else you bail out. No need to check if X is from a zombie.

[exuvo]

The failing job is a default rimworld vomit job and after looking at the decompiled source at https://github.com/josh-m/RW-Decompile/blob/master/RimWorld/JobDriver_Vomit.cs it think the error is because the vomit job tries to make pawns more hungry each vomit and zombies don't have a hunger need?

So if the target pawn does not have a hunger need, don't add a vomit job.
Does my understanding seem correct?

[pardeike]

Sounds reasonable. Indeed, zombies have no hunger need and if the vomit job references that you better not assign it. Zombies don’t vomit anyway! :-)