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Was notified via several discord channels that some Dino's are starving within cryo fridges on official servers.

Checked it myself and had to recryo almost an entire fridge worth of creatures. (Again, official).

You can easily check which ones are starving by mousing over the pod and checking if the stats come up. If stats do not appear, you will have to recryo the dino and probly feed it. The pod's tool tip will just say "can be recharged at cryofridge" where the stats should be.

Sorry if this has already been posted, I looked briefly and didn't see anything either here or in patch notes.

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over 5 years ago - /u/WC_ChrisW - Direct link

Wanted to stop by and share some details about how this works. When a dino is inside of a cryopod, it isn't a dino. It's just a string of data - it's nearly identical to when they're uploaded or saved in your savegame. The presence of stats on the detail panel of the cryopod can be an indication of how long ago it was cryo'd (before the patch that added that) or some other ui bug, but those stats are separate from the dino itself and are not an indication of its health inside of the pod.

It's impossible for a dino to starve while it's inside of a cryopod - it doesn't know what food is. The only thing that can happen in that state is the cryopod losing its charge and destroying the dino inside. I think it's likely that that behavior is being misinterpreted as starving.

There is a tricky bit with that when a cryofridge isn't powered and you open it up to look at your cryopods. When you do that, they decay for the amount of time that has passed since they were last examined. This can cause them to pop unexpectedly, even if the cryofridge recently lost power, and is something that is on our list to improve. In the mean time, you don't want to open a cryofridge when it doesn't have power - or you'll want to open it before turning the power off to bank the charge it earned before cutting the power.

It's possible that there are other bugs - and I'd be very interested in hearing if/how you've encountered them, but I'm quite confident they aren't starving.

over 5 years ago - /u/WC_ChrisW - Direct link

Originally posted by myzzterious1

I pulled some dinos out of cryo myself, my rexes AND a gig, i CAN Confirm they were fed full when cryo'd, when i pulled them out they were at HALF food. not cryo sickness, I waited for the timer cd. It seems to be related to the stasis bug, where a dino in stasis when it came out, the game doesn't correctly calculate the food/hunger and it starts starving. THIS IS A KNOWN BUG. Has been around for a LONG time. It became prevalent when the water stasis/raising was fixed and ORP was implemented. It's still happening to some degree. Also related to the same bug where babies starve if you are not in render when they go juvenile, and the poof age of dinos if you are not in render at the time of tame.

Interesting - this bit is worth investigating. Thanks.