Pets are not summonable

[Trubles]

Any pets on the server that are summoned immediately disappear when the spell is finished casting.


Anyone got a clue? I'm stumped.

[Nightrider84]

if you dont have anything significantly changed in your DB id drop it and recreate it. chances are it was an error on creation. thats the first thing id suggest

[Leetsauce]

Is this happening to all pets or just post 70 pets?

Edit: re-read post. Since it's any pet I would suggest dropping at least the table and restoring it. I had this issue once when I was trying to edit npc's en masse and not paying attention to what I was changing.

[Trubles]

Pets were working fine last night.

Changed spawn timers on some mobs and bam, broken.

Guess I can look through and see if pets have an actual spawn time.

[Leetsauce]

I found out that I had to add ' where Id > 1000 ' to eliminate editing pets.

[Kingly_Krab]

Spawn timers wouldn't break pets, as the pets don't (shouldn't) have spawn2, spawngroup, or spawnentry entries in the database. Do you have any debug logs or anything? Can you do #logs all and see if anything is sent back when you cast a pet spell?

[Mill3nia]

any help would be awesome, I've done a lot to the DB dropping it for a fresh one wouldn't really be an option at this point. I don't see any logs about the spells. everything in the db looks to be in order, when you summon a pet it just vanishes the second it's summoned, what is weird is players claim their pet works one moment and then after I do a server reset, and they can't summon anymore. really confusing.
edit: I went to the bazaar on test character, I am able to summon a pet in the bazaar. but nowhere else I've tried. and it disappears when I zone.
can anyone think of a reason why pets would summon just fine in bazaar, and nowhere else?

[Mill3nia]

Narrowed it down to global_npc.pl I have setup for the random loot. if anybody can take a look at this and see what could possibly cause it let me know please!

sub EVENT_SPAWN{
    #::: START: Akka's Diablo Loot Handler :::#
    $NTYPE = 0; #::: TRASH
    if(substr($npc->GetName(), 0, 1) eq "#" && substr($npc->GetName(), 1, 2) ne "#"){  $NTYPE = 1; } #::: NAMED
    if(substr($npc->GetName(), 0, 2) eq "##" && substr($npc->GetName(), 2, 3) ne "#"){ $NTYPE = 2; } #::: RAID
    $LID = (200000 + ($NTYPE * 1000) + $npc->GetLevel());
    if($npc->GetLoottableID() != $LID){
        $npc->ModifyNPCStat("loottable_id", (210000 + ($NTYPE * 1000) + $npc->GetLevel())); $npc->AddLootTable();
        $npc->ModifyNPCStat("loottable_id", (200000 + ($NTYPE * 1000) + $npc->GetLevel())); $npc->AddLootTable(); 
    }
    #::: END: Akka's Diablo Loot Handler :::#
}

Edit: I figured it out. update if anybody else has this issue put "return unless $npc->GetLoottableID();" after #::: START: Akka's Diablo Loot Handler :::# and before $NTYPE