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Hey, now that I read again, you shouldn't be able to plant anything above other plants. My bad! I'll try to check it again and see what's wrong, luckily it will be fixed by the end of the day.

Edit: So, I played my own game again, and you can place a plant of the same type above another one. However, I couldn't get the plant combination bug. Did you know exactly what happened? If you don't, don't worry, I'll try to figure out myself but it would actually be useful. Maybe I can fix it, maybe I can't (I can't actually means I could if I got the premium version). Still, it doesn't hurt to try :D

Edit 2: The bug I encountered has been fixed. It should've fixed the bug you've found as well. If it hadn't, I'd be thankful if you let me know. Again, no problem if you don't, but still. Btw I hope you like having your name saved for eternity on the description for helping me spotting a bug :D (seriously though if you want it removed, just let me know.)

Still, you've helped me much! Really thank you!

Mailchan3 years ago

I'm no expert, but I believe it might be some sort of memory issue. I like to tab out (or in this case, switch tabs) to fix Youtube or whatever, and I think I found out what happened.

So, after placing your plants, I imagine that the plant takes up a tile, which disallows other plants from being placed there. However, if you were to switch tabs, the game seems to forget that those tiles are full, but the plants remain, allowing for Plant Stacks(tm).

MissingWilliam3 years ago

Thanks for the explanation. After checking again, it hasn't been fixed. I trully don't know why the game forgets the tiles are full, but your explanation seems to make sense. Hopefully I'll get to fix it. Seriously though I don't know why this sometimes work and sometimes doesn't. I even found the bug you just got. I'll check again and try to get it fixed. Again, thanks for letting me know.

Mailchan3 years ago(+1)

No problem, always glad to help. And do with that what you will, but in all seriousness, I kind of like the concept of combining "towers" in order to use space efficiently.

MissingWilliam3 years ago(+1)

Actually maybe I can use that idea for a latter game, however PvZ is all about using your space so it doesn't work here, but now that you mention it, it really could be a good mechanic for a tower defense game. Maybe I'll make a game about it in the future, maybe not. Still, great idea.

MissingWilliam3 years ago (1 edit)

Actually, I think I know what the problem was. I put over 3 checks just to confirm that a tile is ocupied because sometimes the game just won't recognize it for some reason. What happens (or what I think was happening, was that one of those checks was if one plant was over another object, which was the tiles. However, what I didn't realize as I made the tiles invisible (so the background tiles would seem as the actual tiles) was that actually, the plants were created on a lower layer than the tiles, thus a plant would never be above said tile, which could cause an error. If this doesn't solve it then I don't know what it could be. Hopefully the new version won't have any bugs.

Edit: I uploaded it and it seems it has been fixed. At least the bug I found before seems fixed, and luckily, the bug you found is so.

Mailchan3 years ago

Legit, I was going to put that it might've been a layer issue in my first reply, but it seems it may not be the case

MissingWilliam3 years ago (2 edits)

Is that screenshot from now or it was from before? Askin cuz I just uploaded again and Imma punch my pillow if it's still not working lol.

Edit: Turns out I hadn't upload the right file. Sorry! If you're still there I'm asking for the actual version.

Mailchan3 years ago

It was from just now, I even closed my browser, hmm. I've got no clue what might be causing it, but the switching tabs thing seems to re-activate it again for whatever reason.

MissingWilliam3 years ago (4 edits)

I just uploaded it again. Could you check it now please? I confused the file before and accidentally put the same one as the old version.

Fr*ck. I think the new version solved it but now I ranned into another bug.

Nevermind I think it was just some other thing. Still I would like you to see if the main bug was fixed. I understand if you're tired but it would really help me.

Forget it, the bug is still there. I'm pretty much gonna stay here a long time, I would actually recommend you to just go and do other stuff, I have actually made you lose a lot of time.

Mailchan3 years ago (1 edit)

It seems a lot harder to get the bug to occur consistently, but unfortunately occur it did. Also, for a bit after the mine explodes, I have some difficulty placing plants in it's tile, was that the other bug?

Edit: After some more testing (and general clicking around) I think I have a hunch, I think it's caused directly by the potato mines. After they explode, after a few seconds, I can start making plant stacks.

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