Villagers can hunt FOOD FROM TREES indefinitely

[Hjoerleif]

I know Haroo already made a report on this but he left out a little bit of the “CRITICAL” requested game info first and foremost in the template so I thought I might as well give you a fresh report with more details and which does not omit that + gives further videos and rec helping you reproduce and solve this issue faster. At least the issue does not risk not being reviewed because the report misses game build anymore. Cheers.

GAME INFORMATION

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• GAME BUILD #: 101.102.43233.0 (#108769) 13814609
• GAME PLATFORM: Steam
• OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows 10

ISSUE EXPERIENCED

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Villagers can gather food from trees as hunt.

The ranked ladder is plagued by individuals like this one who think they have to cheat in multiplayer and exploit the bug against other players in order for it to be fixed. As a result, some users have poor online experience having to play against users cheating by exploiting this bug.

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

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• 100% of the time / matches I play (ALWAYS)

REPRODUCTION STEPS

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Here’s the steps to reproduce the issue:

1. Kill a deer or boar.
2. Build a mill next to a forest (optimally, no forage bush nearby)
3. Order villagers to harvest from deer/boar carcass
4. Move villagers to between the mill and trees (far from the carcass)
5. Use drop-off command.
6. Villagers can start hunting from trees now, if they do this, they are permanently tree hunters and will continue harvesting hunt food from trees indefinitely as long as there is a tree.

EXPECTED RESULT

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Villagers are not supposed to be able to harvest food from trees.

IMAGE

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30 second video to show how it works:

Food from tree exploit (April 2nd 2024, build #108769) (30 seconds)

20 minute video to demonstrate you can do this with any amount of villagers repeatedly and they will continue to hunt food from trees for the whole game:

Food from tree exploit (April 2nd 2024, build #108769) (20 minutes)

GAME FILES (SAVE / RECORDING)

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SP Replay v101.102.43233.0 @2024.04.02 165013.aoe2record (9.8 MB)

[Harooooo1]

GAME INFORMATION

• GAME BUILD #: Latest one as of march 31st 2024
• GAME PLATFORM: Steam
• OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows 11

ISSUE EXPERIENCED

Villagers can hunt trees and gather meat from them.

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

• 100% of the time

REPRODUCTION STEPS

Here’s the steps to reproduce the issue:

1. Gather between 1-9 food from a boar or deer
2. Move the hunters close to a tree
3. Press drop off hotkey

Villagers will start shooting trees and hunting them, harvesting food from trees.

EXPECTED RESULT

IMAGE

GAME FILES (SAVE / RECORDING)

New way to hunt trees in Aoe2DE

[Xyrr6134]

Can confirm. Game breaking bug

[LiningGull724]

I also checked with my mod and the same thing happens.
Trees lose wood and villagers harvest meat.

The villagers must be picking invisible fruits from the trees.

[DerRichterrr]

Hello. Thanks for the report, we are tracking the issue.

[RetiredTurtle]

People still using this bug. It doesn’t seems solved.

[Wandraak]

• **GAME BUILD VERSION 101.102.43233.0 (#108769) 13814609
• **GAME PLATFORM: Steam (any)
• OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows 10 (any)

ISSUE EXPERIENCED

Wood/food conversion bug/exploit

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

Reproducible anytime

REPRODUCTION STEPS

1. task villagers to hunt/deer and let them collect at least 1 food
2. put villagers near a wood-line and a mill
3. Click A (new drop-off button)
4. villagers start collecting hunt/food from the trees, depleting the tree-tile and dropping off at the mill

EXPECTED RESULT

Implement checks if resource collected == resource dropped off when using drop off function

Video proof: (by another person)

New Vegan Villagers Bug Build Order | AoE II: DE