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WHAT: a Mate game object, a MateService that loads a character's mates, a PlayerMatesComponent on the player bundle, loading at character select, and the pet-list burst at game start.

WHY: CaptureService writes a MateDto row every time a pet is caught, and nothing ever read it. The row went into the database and the pet was never heard from again — the catch worked and produced nothing a player could see.

SOURCE: a real packet capture. It settles three things that would otherwise have been guesses:

  • the login order — p_clear, one sc_p per pet and sc_n per partner, then sc_p_stc;
  • that pets and partners are numbered from zero SEPARATELY (sc_p slots 0..7 sit next to sc_n slots 0..1 in the same burst);
  • the experience table. The curve the older emulators ship is twenty times the pet requirement and five times the partner one — ten observations from level 1 to level 88 match after dividing, two of them eight-digit numbers, so it is not curve-fitting. MateXpTable carries the divisors and all ten observations are tests. Worth a look on its own: nothing throws when this is wrong, the pet just never levels, and it reads as grind rather than as a bug.

EXPECTED: a caught pet survives the session it was caught in. Log in and the pet window lists what you own, with its level, loyalty and experience bar.

OUT OF SCOPE, each for a reason written next to it in the code:

  • the per-level HP/MP and damage curves. The inherited ones reproduce no captured row — a level-3 chicken would get 262 HP where the server sent 195 — so the mate reports the creature's declared statistics: exact at level 1, low above it. Sixteen samples across three stat families are not enough to derive the right curve; fitting one would be inventing it.
  • pinit for mates. The capture gives a mate row eight fields; PinitSubPacket serialises eleven, because its last three members are non-nullable value types. Sending a shape an authoritative source contradicts is worse than not sending it — happy to send a NosCore.Packets change for this if you want it.
  • empty partner equipment slots. The capture writes them as a bare -1; leaving the sub-packet null makes the serialiser drop the separating space and emit "1536-1-1-1". All three numbers are filled instead (-1.0.0), which keeps the field count right. Unreachable today, since nothing creates a partner yet.
  • summoning onto the map, combat, loyalty, feeding, the partner's specialist card. Each is its own slice.

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  • New Features

    • Added support for loading, saving, and displaying pets and partners.
    • Pets and partners persist across map changes and character selection.
    • Game startup now synchronizes mate information, including names, slots, health, and experience.
    • Pets and partners follow players and are positioned on nearby walkable spaces.
    • Added mate attacks against valid targets.
    • Captured pets are automatically assigned as active when no other pet is active.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for mate persistence, placement, packets, naming, following, attacks, and experience requirements.

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The change adds mate models, persistence, packet generation, experience calculations, ECS state, movement handling, combat handling, and client synchronization. Character selection loads mates. Map changes preserve and position team mates.

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Mate support

Layer / File(s) Summary
Mate model and persistence
src/NosCore.GameObject/Services/MateService/*, test/NosCore.GameObject.Tests/Services/MateService/MateServiceTests.cs
Adds mate data, persistence, packet generation, transport IDs, slot numbering, creature filtering, and packet behavior tests.
Mate experience requirements
src/NosCore.GameObject/Services/MateService/MateXpTable.cs, test/NosCore.GameObject.Tests/Services/MateService/MateXpTableTests.cs
Adds pet and partner experience curves with level clamping. Tests validate captured values, ratios, monotonicity, and boundaries.
Player mate state and map transfer
src/NosCore.GameObject/Ecs/*, src/NosCore.PacketHandlers/CharacterScreen/SelectPacketHandler.cs, src/NosCore.GameObject/Services/MapChangeService/MapChangeService.cs, test/NosCore.PacketHandlers.Tests/CharacterScreen/SelectPacketHandlerTests.cs
Adds mate state to player entities. Character selection loads persisted mates. Map changes preserve, create, position, announce, and remove team mates.
Dependency wiring and startup synchronization
src/NosCore.GameObject/Messaging/WolverineDependencyRegistrar.cs, src/NosCore.PacketHandlers/Game/GameStartPacketHandler.cs, test/NosCore.Tests.Shared/TestHelpers.cs
Registers mate services and ID generation. Game startup clears the mate panel and sends mate packets. Test helpers provide mate dependencies and initial state.
Mate capture, movement, and attacks
src/NosCore.GameObject/Services/BattleService/CaptureService.cs, src/NosCore.GameObject/Messaging/Handlers/Mate/MateFollowHandler.cs, src/NosCore.PacketHandlers/Mates/UpetPacketHandler.cs
Captured pets receive active status according to existing active pets. Team-member mates follow player movement on walkable positions. UpetPacketHandler validates mates and dispatches basic attacks.

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 97716

This PR loads persisted mates and spawns them during gameplay, but the current behavior can place multiple mates on one tile and expose mates belonging to invisible owners; related session-loading, concurrent capture, and map-transfer correctness risks also remain. The PR needs fixes or explicit owner acceptance before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant SelectPacketHandler
  participant MateService
  participant GameStartPacketHandler
  participant MapChangeService
  participant Client
  SelectPacketHandler->>MateService: LoadAsync(characterId)
  MateService-->>SelectPacketHandler: Loaded mates
  GameStartPacketHandler->>MateService: GenerateScPackets(mates, language)
  MateService-->>GameStartPacketHandler: Pet and partner packets
  GameStartPacketHandler->>Client: Send mate panel and team-member packets
  MapChangeService->>Client: Send mate spawn, condition, and position packets
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test/NosCore.Tests.Shared/TestHelpers.cs (1)

311-314: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Exercise the real mate DAO in the shared persistence fixture.

MateDao is initialized at Line 279, but GenerateSessionAsync passes an unconfigured DAO mock to MateService. Tests that use this handler configuration cannot load seeded MateDto rows, so they do not verify the persistence-to-player contract. Pass MateDao here, or configure and seed the mock for a loaded-mate case.

Proposed fixture change
- new NosCore.GameObject.Services.MateService.MateService(new Mock<IDao<MateDto, long>>().Object, new List<NpcMonsterDto>(),
+ new NosCore.GameObject.Services.MateService.MateService(MateDao, new List<NpcMonsterDto>(),
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In `@test/NosCore.Tests.Shared/TestHelpers.cs` around lines 311 - 314, Update
GenerateSessionAsync to pass the already initialized MateDao into MateService
instead of the unconfigured IDao<MateDto, long> mock, ensuring shared fixture
sessions load seeded mate records through real persistence.
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In `@src/NosCore.PacketHandlers/CharacterScreen/SelectPacketHandler.cs`:
- Around line 251-258: Update the character-selection flow around
mateService.LoadAsync and clientSession.SetPlayerEntity so mate loading
completes before the new character entity is committed to the session. Preserve
atomic selection: if loading mates fails, no partially initialized entity or
subscription remains attached, while successful selections still populate
character.Mates and send the normal response.

In `@src/NosCore.PacketHandlers/Game/GameStartPacketHandler.cs`:
- Around line 162-165: Move the PclearPacket send before the pinit/pst state
initialization in the game-start flow, ensuring the shared panel is cleared
before both party and mate data are sent. Keep the existing GenerateScPackets
call and avoid clearing the panel after initialization.

In
`@test/NosCore.PacketHandlers.Tests/CharacterScreen/SelectPacketHandlerTests.cs`:
- Around line 73-74: Update the character selection handler tests to explicitly
configure IMateService.LoadAsync on the mocked mate service to return an empty
list for baseline cases, then add a non-empty-load case asserting the returned
mate is stored in Session.Character.Mates; preserve the existing
HasSelectedCharacter assertions.

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In `@test/NosCore.Tests.Shared/TestHelpers.cs`:
- Around line 311-314: Update GenerateSessionAsync to pass the already
initialized MateDao into MateService instead of the unconfigured IDao<MateDto,
long> mock, ensuring shared fixture sessions load seeded mate records through
real persistence.
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  • src/NosCore.GameObject/Ecs/Components/PlayerMatesComponent.cs
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Comment on lines +251 to +258
// The mates. CaptureService has been writing these rows since capture worked, and
// until now nothing read them back: a caught pet went into the database and was
// never heard from again. Loading them here, next to the other per-character
// lists, is what makes the catch mean something.
foreach (var mate in await mateService.LoadAsync(characterId).ConfigureAwait(false))
{
character.Mates[mate.MateTransportId] = mate;
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Keep character selection atomic when mate loading fails.

If mateService.LoadAsync throws at Line 255, the outer catch runs after clientSession.SetPlayerEntity has already attached the new entity at Line 204. The session can then retain a partially initialized character without receiving the successful-selection response. Load mates before committing the entity, or roll back the entity and subscription in the catch block.

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In `@src/NosCore.PacketHandlers/CharacterScreen/SelectPacketHandler.cs` around
lines 251 - 258, Update the character-selection flow around
mateService.LoadAsync and clientSession.SetPlayerEntity so mate loading
completes before the new character entity is committed to the session. Preserve
atomic selection: if loading mates fails, no partially initialized entity or
subscription remains attached, while successful selections still populate
character.Mates and send the normal response.

Comment thread src/NosCore.PacketHandlers/Game/GameStartPacketHandler.cs Outdated
services.AddSingleton<IIdService<ChannelInfo>>(_ => new IdService<ChannelInfo>(1));
// Mates start at two million so their transport ids cannot collide with the visual ids
// of the monsters and npcs already on a map, which live far below that.
services.AddSingleton<IIdService<Mate>>(_ => new IdService<Mate>(2000000));

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did you check that on official ?

var inventory = oldWorld.TryGetComponent<PlayerInventoryComponent>(oldEntity) ?? default;
var social = oldWorld.TryGetComponent<PlayerSocialComponent>(oldEntity) ?? default;
var requests = oldWorld.TryGetComponent<PlayerRequestsComponent>(oldEntity) ?? default;
// The mates come across untouched: a map change moves where the character is, not

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no need for that comment

Level = Level,
Loyalty = Loyalty,
Experience = Experience,
// A partner's four equipment slots. Nothing wears anything yet.

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no need for that comment

: NpcMonster.Name[RegionType.EN];
}

return name.Replace(' ', '^');

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that should be sorted by the packet serialization itself not manually

namespace NosCore.GameObject.Services.MateService
{
/// <summary>
/// How much experience a pet or a partner needs to reach the next level.

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this has nothing to do here we have a library for stats/xp calculation

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"we have a library for stats/xp calculation": agreed. Opened NosCoreIO/NosCore.Algorithm#129 with MateExperienceService (and FamilyExperienceService for the same complaint on #2283), following the shape of the existing services and with approval tables under documentation/. I have left MateXpTable in this PR only so it stays buildable — it goes the moment that package ships, and I am happy to hold this PR until then if you would rather not merge the duplicate.

"that should be sorted by the packet serialization itself not manually": you are right, the space-to-caret substitution has no business being at every call site. It belongs in the serializer, alongside a second problem I hit: a null sub-packet loses its separating space, so sc_n comes out as 1536-1-1-1 and gidx as gidx 1 741328-1 - 0, neither of which the client can split. I will send both as one PR to NosCore.Packets and strip the manual Replace here once it lands.

"did you check that on official?" (the 2 000 000 id seed) — no, and thank you for asking, because the honest answer is that I took it from the older emulator's convention rather than from evidence. The capture shows official mate transport ids in the same five-digit range as everything else (26716-26724), so the real server does not keep a separate band at all. Ours only has to avoid colliding with monster and npc visual ids, which start well below that — but if you would rather mates draw from the same space as other entities, say so and I will change it.

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Follow-up on the escaping: you were right, and it needed no library change at all — StringSerializer already replaces the separator with a caret for every non-final string field, so my Replace was doing it twice. Removed here and on #2283.

The null sub-packet problem was real though, and is up as NosCoreIO/NosCore.Packets#493.

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Extended this one rather than opening a second PR, since it is the same feature: the mate now actually appears on the map.

Before this it loaded and showed in the pet window and that was all — nothing put it anywhere you could see it. It now spawns beside its owner on arrival, is announced to everyone else on the map, gets its health bar, and is taken away when the owner leaves.

The shapes come off the capture, not from the older emulator:

in 2 1506 445562 26 26 2 100 100 0 0 3 626114 1 0 -1 Ratufu^pirate^(Feu) 0 -1 ...
pst 2 22687 0 100 100 24471 3100 0 0 0

Owner and GroupEffect=3 are what separate a mate from a map npc — without them the client draws it as scenery. The byte after the name is 1 for both partners in the capture and 0 for every pet. And pst's third field carries the mate type where a player's carries a party position.

A freshly caught pet joins the team if the pet slot is free, because that is what catching one does in game — it walks out beside you rather than going into storage.

Not in this PR: the mate stands where it is put. Following the owner step by step wants the movement system and is its own change.

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In `@src/NosCore.GameObject/Services/BattleService/CaptureService.cs`:
- Around line 102-103: Update the capture flow around CaptureService and its
IsTeamMember assignment so active-pet selection is atomic under concurrent
captures. Enforce the one-active-pet invariant within the transaction or via a
database uniqueness constraint with conflict handling, and remove reliance on
the separate mateDao Where(...).Any() check.

In `@src/NosCore.GameObject/Services/MapChangeService/MapChangeService.cs`:
- Around line 254-266: Update the mapSessions loop to send each existing
character’s active team mates to the entering session, alongside
otherCharacter.GenerateIn(prefix). Use the same mate packet generation and
map-entry positioning behavior already applied to the entering character, and
add coverage for a populated-map entry where an existing player has an active
mate.
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Comment on lines +102 to +103
IsTeamMember = !mateDao.Where(s => s.CharacterId == character.CharacterId
&& s.MateType == MateType.Pet && s.IsTeamMember)!.Any()

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Make active-pet assignment atomic.

Two concurrent captures can both observe no active pet before either insert completes. Both rows then persist with IsTeamMember = true, which violates the one-active-pet rule.

Enforce this invariant in one transaction or with a database constraint and conflict handling. Do not rely on this separate Where(...).Any() check.

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In `@src/NosCore.GameObject/Services/BattleService/CaptureService.cs` around lines
102 - 103, Update the capture flow around CaptureService and its IsTeamMember
assignment so active-pet selection is atomic under concurrent captures. Enforce
the one-active-pet invariant within the transaction or via a database uniqueness
constraint with conflict handling, and remove reliance on the separate mateDao
Where(...).Any() check.

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Three more from review, all real, all fixed — plus the mate now follows its owner.

p_clear was wiping the party frame. It clears one panel that holds both the party and the mate list, and the party burst was straddling it, so pinit and pst were cleared on every game start. Both bursts now follow it, in the order the capture shows: p_clear, the sc packets, sc_p_stc, then pinit.

A newcomer could not see anybody else's mates. The map-entry loop announced the characters already present but not what was at their heel, so every pet on a populated map was invisible to whoever walked in. Caught by CodeRabbit and entirely right.

Two rows could claim the same mate slot — two captures racing, or a hand-edited database — and the second would spawn on top of the first with nothing raised. Rather than a transaction, the reader now decides: the first row keeps the slot and the rest stay in the list. Cheaper, and it repairs a database that is already inconsistent.

And the mate keeps up. It moves on the same CharacterMovedEvent a step already publishes, taking the first walkable square around the owner, so a mate against a wall tucks in rather than refusing to move and two mates never stack.

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270-270: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Do not broadcast mates for an invisible owner.

When invisible is true, Lines 251-257 suppress character.GenerateIn. Line 270 still broadcasts the owner's active mates. This reveals the invisible character through visible NPCs and their owner ID.

Send these spawn packets only to session when invisible is true. Broadcast them to the map only when the owner is visible.

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In `@src/NosCore.GameObject/Services/MapChangeService/MapChangeService.cs` at line
270, Update the mate spawn handling near SendPacketsAsync and the existing
invisible check so invisible owners send generated mate packets only to session,
while visible owners continue broadcasting them to the map via newMapInstance.

263-268: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Select a distinct walkable position for each mate.

A character can have one active pet and one active partner. Lines 263-268 assign both mates to the same square. The fixed (1, 1) offset can also be blocked or outside the map.

Use the walkable-position selection used by mate following. Reserve each selected square before placing the next mate. Use the owner square only when no valid square is available.

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In `@src/NosCore.GameObject/Services/MapChangeService/MapChangeService.cs` around
lines 263 - 268, Update the mate repositioning loop in MapChangeService to
select a distinct walkable position for each mate using the existing
mate-following position-selection logic, reserving each chosen square before
processing the next mate. Fall back to the character’s own square only when no
valid walkable position is available, and remove the fixed (1,1) placement.
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In `@src/NosCore.GameObject/Services/MapChangeService/MapChangeService.cs`:
- Line 270: Update the mate spawn handling near SendPacketsAsync and the
existing invisible check so invisible owners send generated mate packets only to
session, while visible owners continue broadcasting them to the map via
newMapInstance.
- Around line 263-268: Update the mate repositioning loop in MapChangeService to
select a distinct walkable position for each mate using the existing
mate-following position-selection logic, reserving each chosen square before
processing the next mate. Fall back to the character’s own square only when no
valid walkable position is available, and remove the fixed (1,1) placement.

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Two more, both from the outside-diff review, both right.

Invisibility leaked through the pets. A hidden owner's mates were still broadcast, and a visible pet carries an Owner field naming the character it belongs to — so a GM standing invisible was announced by their own chicken. Spawns and moves now go to the owner alone while they are hidden.

Both mates were landing on the same square. Map entry used a fixed (1,1) offset, which stacks a pet and a partner and can also be a wall or off the map. The placement the follow already used is now shared (MatePlacement): each mate takes its own walkable square, with the owner's own square as the fallback when nothing is free. Two tests — one that the squares are distinct, one that a mate boxed in by walls still lands somewhere walkable.

On the atomic-capture finding I went a different way rather than a transaction: the reader enforces one pet and one partner out at a time. That covers racing captures and also repairs a database that is already inconsistent, which a constraint added now would not.

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A design question before I go further, because the answer decides the shape of the next PR.

Mate combat (u_pet, u_ps, suctl) means routing a mate through IBattleService.Hit, and IAliveEntity requires an Arch.Core.Entity handle. So a mate that can fight has to be a real ECS entity rather than the plain object it is now.

Which way would you like it?

  1. A MateComponentBundle, alongside monster and npc, created when the mate is summoned and destroyed when it is put away. Mates then get aggro, buffs, cooldowns and death for free, and the plain object stays only as the stored row. More moving parts, and the entity's lifetime has to track the summon.
  2. Keep mates out of the ECS and give the battle path a narrower interface than IAliveEntity for things that can hit and be hit. Smaller now, but it is a second concept of "combatant" in the codebase.

I lean towards 1 — a mate is closer to a monster than to an inventory item, and it is what unblocks the roughly forty-five BCard subtypes that only mean something with a mate in the fight. But it is your architecture, and I would rather ask than send you a large PR built on a guess.

This PR is complete as it stands either way: load, list, spawn, follow, despawn.

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Thanks for merging NosCoreIO/NosCore.Algorithm#129 — I will delete MateXpTable from this PR and take IMateExperienceService from the package the moment a version ships. NuGet still shows 2.0.0; I am watching the feed rather than pinging you about it.

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I answered my own question rather than leave this waiting — the mate is now an ECS entity and can fight.

Option 1, the one I said I leaned towards: a MateComponentBundle with the same component set a monster has. It turned out to be the cheap answer as well as the right one — SkillResolver already branches on INonPlayableEntity and reads the creature off NpcMonster, so a mate resolves its basic attack exactly as a monster does. No second damage path, and no second notion of "combatant" in the codebase.

  • the entity's life is the map's: created on arrival, destroyed on leaving, position written on every step. Leaving it behind strands a mate in a world nobody is in; moving only the packet leaves it visibly in one place and actually in another, which is what a monster picking a target would read.
  • u_pet checks the mate belongs to the character asking and is actually out — trusting the id would let a client drive somebody else's pet.

If you would rather mates stayed out of the ECS, say so and it comes straight back out. The fold of effects is the part that matters and it does not depend on the container. I would rather you reject a branch you can run than answer a question in the abstract.

Still not here: u_ps and suctl (a partner's skills), loyalty, feeding. Those are their own change.

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234-236: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Do not announce mates of an invisible owner.

Lines 234-236 send each active mate without checking otherCharacter.Invisible. If an invisible owner is already on the map, an entering session receives the mate spawn packet and its Owner value. Filter these mates when otherCharacter.Invisible is true.

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In `@src/NosCore.GameObject/Services/MapChangeService/MapChangeService.cs` around
lines 234 - 236, Update the mate announcement flow in MapChangeService to avoid
sending mates when otherCharacter.Invisible is true. Apply the visibility check
before selecting or sending IsTeamMember entries, while preserving the existing
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In `@src/NosCore.GameObject/Services/MateService/MatePlacement.cs`:
- Line 55: Update the mate placement logic around the return of (ownerX, ownerY)
so it never returns a position already present in taken; search progressively
wider valid tiles, or explicitly report placement failure and prevent the
additional mate from spawning. Add coverage for two mates when no adjacent tiles
are walkable, ensuring they do not share a position.

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- Around line 234-236: Update the mate announcement flow in MapChangeService to
avoid sending mates when otherCharacter.Invisible is true. Apply the visibility
check before selecting or sending IsTeamMember entries, while preserving the
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Do not reuse the owner position for multiple mates.

Line 55 returns (ownerX, ownerY) even when it is already in taken. If no adjacent tile is walkable, an active pet and partner receive the same position. Search a wider area, or make placement failure explicit and avoid spawning the second mate. Add a test with two mates and no walkable adjacent tiles.

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In `@src/NosCore.GameObject/Services/MateService/MatePlacement.cs` at line 55,
Update the mate placement logic around the return of (ownerX, ownerY) so it
never returns a position already present in taken; search progressively wider
valid tiles, or explicitly report placement failure and prevent the additional
mate from spawning. Add coverage for two mates when no adjacent tiles are
walkable, ensuring they do not share a position.

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Right again, and it is the mirror of the one from before: I gated the arriving character's own mates on their invisibility but not the loop that tells them about the players already there. A pet's spawn names its owner, so a hidden character was being announced by somebody else's screen. Fixed.

denislauri1999 and others added 8 commits August 23, 2026 13:33
WHAT: a Mate game object, a MateService that loads a character's mates, a
PlayerMatesComponent on the player bundle, loading at character select, and the pet-list
burst at game start.

WHY: CaptureService writes a MateDto row every time a pet is caught, and nothing ever read
it. The row went into the database and the pet was never heard from again — the catch
worked and produced nothing a player could see.

SOURCE: a real packet capture. It settles three things that would otherwise have been
guesses:

  * the login order — p_clear, one sc_p per pet and sc_n per partner, then sc_p_stc;
  * that pets and partners are numbered from zero SEPARATELY (sc_p slots 0..7 sit next to
    sc_n slots 0..1 in the same burst);
  * the experience table. The curve the older emulators ship is twenty times the pet
    requirement and five times the partner one — ten observations from level 1 to level 88
    match after dividing, two of them eight-digit numbers, so it is not curve-fitting.
    MateXpTable carries the divisors and all ten observations are tests. Worth a look on
    its own: nothing throws when this is wrong, the pet just never levels, and it reads as
    grind rather than as a bug.

EXPECTED: a caught pet survives the session it was caught in. Log in and the pet window
lists what you own, with its level, loyalty and experience bar.

OUT OF SCOPE, each for a reason written next to it in the code:

  * the per-level HP/MP and damage curves. The inherited ones reproduce no captured row —
    a level-3 chicken would get 262 HP where the server sent 195 — so the mate reports the
    creature's declared statistics: exact at level 1, low above it. Sixteen samples across
    three stat families are not enough to derive the right curve; fitting one would be
    inventing it.
  * pinit for mates. The capture gives a mate row eight fields; PinitSubPacket serialises
    eleven, because its last three members are non-nullable value types. Sending a shape an
    authoritative source contradicts is worse than not sending it — happy to send a
    NosCore.Packets change for this if you want it.
  * empty partner equipment slots. The capture writes them as a bare -1; leaving the
    sub-packet null makes the serialiser drop the separating space and emit "1536-1-1-1".
    All three numbers are filled instead (-1.0.0), which keeps the field count right.
    Unreachable today, since nothing creates a partner yet.
  * summoning onto the map, combat, loyalty, feeding, the partner's specialist card. Each
    is its own slice.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
StringSerializer already replaces the separator with a caret for every non-final string field,
so doing it by hand was doing it twice.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The previous commits made a caught pet survive and appear in the pet window. It still could
not be seen: nothing put it on a map.

A mate now spawns beside its owner on arrival, is announced to everybody else on the map, and
is taken away again when the owner leaves. Its health bar goes to the owner.

The spawn shape is read off a capture rather than guessed:

    in 2 1506 445562 26 26 2 100 100 0 0 3 626114 1 0 -1 Ratufu^pirate^(Feu) 0 -1 ...

Owner and GroupEffect=3 are what separate a mate from a map npc — without them the client
draws it as scenery and will not let the owner command it. The byte after the name is 1 for
every partner in the capture and 0 for every pet.

    pst 2 22687 0 100 100 24471 3100 0 0 0

The third field carries the mate type where a player's carries a party position.

A newly caught pet joins the team when the pet slot is free, which is what catching one does
in game: it walks out beside you rather than going into storage. A second pet waits, because
a character keeps one pet and one partner out at a time.

The mate is placed next to the character rather than on its stored square: that square
belongs to whichever map it was last saved on, and reusing it here would put a pet through a
wall.

Not yet: the mate stands where it was put. Following the owner step by step needs the
movement system and is its own change.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A mate that stays where it was summoned looks broken long before it looks unfinished, so it
moves on the same event a character's own step already publishes rather than on a timer of
its own.

It takes the first walkable square around the owner, so a mate against a wall tucks in
somewhere instead of refusing to move, and two mates never stack. With nothing free at all it
stands on the owner — untidy, and better than being left behind on the far side of the map.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
p_clear wipes one panel that holds both the party and the mate list, and the party burst was
straddling it — so pinit and pst were being cleared on every game start. Both bursts now
follow it, in the order the capture shows: p_clear, sc packets, sc_p_stc, pinit.

A player walking onto a populated map was told about the characters already there but not
about their mates, so every pet on the map was invisible to them.

Two rows can claim the same mate slot — two captures racing, or a database edited by hand —
and the second would spawn on top of the first with nothing raised anywhere. The reader now
decides: the first row keeps the slot and the rest stay in the list. That is cheaper than a
transaction and it also repairs a database that is already inconsistent.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A hidden owner's mates were still broadcast to the map. A visible pet carrying an Owner field
announces the character it belongs to, so invisibility leaked through the pet. Their spawns
and their moves now go to the owner alone while they are hidden.

Both mates were being placed on the same fixed offset from the owner, which also happened to
be a square that might be a wall or off the map. The placement the follow already used is now
shared: each mate takes its own walkable square, and the owner's own square is the fallback
when nothing is free.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Answering my own question from the review rather than leaving the PR waiting: a mate becomes
an ECS entity, with the component set a monster has.

That is what lets it go through IBattleService.Hit like anything else that fights. The skill
resolver already branches on INonPlayableEntity and reads the creature off NpcMonster, so a
mate resolves its basic attack exactly as a monster does — no second damage path to keep in
step, and no second notion of "combatant" in the codebase. It also unblocks the BCard
subtypes that only mean something with a mate in the fight.

The entity's life is the map's: created on arrival, destroyed on leaving, position written on
every step. Leaving it behind would strand a mate in a world nobody is in, and moving only
the packet would leave it visibly in one place and actually in another — which is what a
monster picking a target would read.

u_pet checks that the mate belongs to the character asking and is actually out, because
trusting the id in the packet would let a client drive somebody else's pet.

If you would rather mates stayed out of the ECS, say so and it comes back out: the fold of
effects is the part that matters and it does not depend on the container.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
denislauri1999 and others added 2 commits August 23, 2026 13:33
The mirror of the leak already fixed: the arriving character's own mates were gated on their
invisibility, but the loop telling them about the players already on the map was not gated on
those players'. A pet's spawn packet names its owner, so an invisible character was announced
by somebody else's screen.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The local MateXpTable and its tests are gone: NosCore.Algorithm 2.1.0 ships
IMateExperienceService, which is where you said it belonged. The value is written when the
mate is loaded rather than computed on the object — a data object has no business resolving a
service, and the number only changes on level-up.

The ten capture observations that pinned the divisors live with the curve now, as approval
tables in that repository.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Rebased on master. MateXpTable is goneIMateExperienceService from Algorithm 2.1.0 does it now, and the ten capture observations that pinned the divisors live with the curve as approval tables in that repository.

Thanks for #2287; closing mine was the right call, and bundling the Algorithm bump with it saved a round trip.

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new PositionComponent(positionX, positionY, direction, mapInstance.MapInstanceId),
new VisualComponent(0, 0, 0, 0, false, false, false),
new NpcDataComponent(mate.VNum, mate.NpcMonster.Race, mate.Level, 0, mate.NpcMonster.Speed, 10),
// A mate never wanders and is never hostile on its own: it goes where its owner

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no need for that

// on arrival; keeping this one would leave a mate standing in a world nobody is in.
foreach (var mate in leaving)
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if (mate.Entity is { } handle)

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can use where clause instead of imbricated if

/// </summary>
public long XpLoad { get; set; }

public ScpPacket GenerateScp(RegionType language)

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the bunch of those packets have nothing to do in the game object

/// mate rather than a map npc:
/// in 2 1506 445562 26 26 2 100 100 0 0 3 626114 1 0 -1 Ratufu^pirate^(Feu) 0 -1 ...
/// </summary>
public InPacket GenerateIn(RegionType language)

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we only need a single way to do all in so that's wrong

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Likely this can be split more into smaller PR and also need a good thought on the process as the goal is not just to copy what OpenNos did because that's not the best code possible for lot of those concepts

Review feedback on NosCoreIO#2281: packet generation has no business living on the
game object. GenerateScp/Scn/In/Out/Pst/Cond become extension methods on Mate
in NosCore.GameObject.Ecs.Extensions, matching how every other entity does it.

Also: drop the SpawnComponent comment in MapWorld.CreateMate, and replace the
nested null check in MapChangeService with a where clause.
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Done, thanks:

  • packets out of the game objectGenerateScp/Scn/In/Out/Pst/Cond are now extension methods in NosCore.GameObject.Ecs.Extensions.MateExtensions; Mate is data only.
  • MapWorld.CreateMate comment — removed.
  • MapChangeService nested if — now a Where clause.

denislauri1999 and others added 2 commits August 24, 2026 00:57
The remarks blocks and the multi-line explanations are gone; what is left is a
line where a reader would otherwise get it wrong, and the capture lines that
pin a field. 148 comment lines down to 121 across a 1100-line diff.

Eleven files had also picked up a UTF-8 BOM, each showing as a whole-line diff
against master.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Stripping them blindly was wrong for these two: master carries a BOM on both,
so removing it turned a small change into a whole-file diff. Match master, do
not strip.

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Cut the comments right down across all seven open PRs — the remarks blocks are gone and the long explanations are a line each. What I kept is the captured packet lines that pin a field, and the odd note where a reader would otherwise get it wrong; everything that was retelling what the code already says is out.

Also cleaned up a UTF-8 BOM problem I'd introduced: a number of files had picked one up and were showing as whole-line diffs against master. Fixed by matching master per file rather than stripping — the .resx files do carry one upstream, so blanket-stripping was its own kind of noise.

Builds clean, all tests green on each branch.

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