Ingested matter stays at zero for a while before disappearing

[Teashrock]

Describe the bug

I was playing, engulfed some other microbes. Suddenly bumped into the amount of ingested matter being equal to zero and not disappearing.

To Reproduce

1. Play the game.
2. Engulf a bunch of other microbes (that was what I did).
3. Wait for the amount of ingested matter to reach zero.
4. See the bug.

Expected behaviour

The "Ingested Matter" counter should've disappeared when my cell ran out of it.

Screenshots

System information

• OS: Windows 10
• Graphics card: NVIDIA RTX 2050 Mobile
• Thrive: 1.0.0.0

Game Logs

https://pastebin.com/vxUhEqsS

Additional Context

P.S. The matter disappeared, but not immediately. It was something like near 10 seconds before the counter disappeared.

[hhyyrylainen]

P.S. The matter disappeared, but not immediately. It was something like near 10 seconds before the counter disappeared.

I mean that is exactly the fix for this bug that's been made.

#4794

So what this issue is about is that the fix works too slowly? I'll mark this as a low priority thing that likely never gets improved on...

[Teashrock]

@hhyyrylainen
The bug is that the meter seems to be stuck at zero (at least in this case) for some time before the zeroed bar disappears. I just noticed it, so I thought I'll report it. I never knew there was any previous fix from 2024 (the bug was found recently, in 2025), though.

[hhyyrylainen]

There was an old bug where the engulfed matter bar permanently got stuck on the screen. This earlier pull request fixed that: #6268 but if I remember right there is a slight delay before the digestion safety threshold is hit and the bar disappears. So you probably saw the fix to the earlier bug in action. And as such this issue is about just tweaking the fix to trigger earlier. As such this is more of a minor thing than a major bug.

[Teashrock]

@hhyyrylainen
Okay. So, it just needs a tweak.