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The '''Blood Moon''' is a game mechanic that ensures the world stays populated with enemies and weapons. Every time a blood moon occurs, enemies that have been defeated and overworld weapons that have been picked up by the player respawn. | The '''Blood Moon''' is a game mechanic that ensures the world stays populated with enemies and weapons. Every time a blood moon occurs, enemies that have been defeated and overworld weapons that have been picked up by the player respawn. | ||
Blood moons are also used to reset internal state when some subsystems are running out of memory or become unresponsive. Such blood moons are commonly referred to as "panic" or "emergency blood moons". | Blood moons are also used to reset internal state when some subsystems are running out of memory or become unresponsive. Such blood moons do not follow the regular schedule and are commonly referred to as "panic" or "emergency blood moons". | ||
A common misconception is that blood moons help replenish system memory by resetting enemy kill flags. This is however total nonsense, because enemy kill flags are just GameData flags, and all GameData flags are loaded at bootup and stay in memory forever<ref>Even without any code reverse engineering, anyone who has an idea of what they are talking about knows that the game never loads [[Bootup.pack]] (which holds the GameData configuration) again after init so it cannot possibly be unloading flags. Not to mention that it'd be ridiculously inefficient to unload and reload flags all the time.</ref>. | A common misconception is that blood moons help replenish system memory by resetting enemy kill flags. This is however total nonsense, because enemy kill flags are just GameData flags, and all GameData flags are loaded at bootup and stay in memory forever<ref>Even without any code reverse engineering, anyone who has an idea of what they are talking about knows that the game never loads [[Bootup.pack]] (which holds the GameData configuration) again after init so it cannot possibly be unloading flags. Not to mention that it'd be ridiculously inefficient to unload and reload flags all the time.</ref>. | ||