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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.
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<onlyinclude>'''EventInfo.product.sbyml''' is a [[Yaz0]]-compressed file that stores information about all game [[event]]s. It is used by the [[event manager]] to load events.</onlyinclude>


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".
EventInfo is a machine generated file. It is not meant to be edited directly; much of the information it includes are either automatically generated or copied from event flows and other source-only files.


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>.
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== Scheduled Blood Moons ==
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== Panic Blood Moons ==
Panic Blood Moons occur when the game is running out of memory<ref>0x71007A95B4 (Switch 1.5.0)</ref> or when some tasks are taking too much time.
 
Panic conditions are checked every frame by [[GameScene]], which also keeps track of the panic reason in an unsigned 32-bit integer so that memory issues can be reported to Nintendo via the [[telemetry]] system.
 
{|class="wikitable"
|+ Panic Blood Moon reasons
! Bit !! Description
|-
| 0 || '''[[Resource system]]'''<ref>0x7101213144</ref>: at least one of the following is true:
* Bit 12 is set in the ResourceMgrTask's flags (indicating a problem with a resource load{{check}})<ref>0x710120C5E4</ref>
* ''An'' overlay arena's heap free size percentage is ''less than'' its configured minimum percentage.<ref>0x71011FCDE4</ref>
**The limit is 0% for the OverlayArena system itself, "Tera SZS work" (Tera decompressing buffer), Audio and [[StarterPackMgr]]. The default is 0% too.
**The limit is 5% for the "ForResourceS" (small) and "ForResourceL" (large) heaps, which is where most resources are allocated from.
|-
| 1 || '''[[PhysicsMemSys]]''': Havok main heap is running out of memory (''less than'' 5% free)<ref>0x7101216C08</ref>
|-
| 2 || '''[[PlacementMgr]]''': Actor spawning heap is running out of memory (''less than'' 5% free)<ref>0x7100D5DC40</ref>
|-
| 3 || '''ResourceSystem/OverlayArena''': ForResourceS heap is running out of memory<ref>0x71011FCFF8</ref>
|-
| 4 || '''ResourceSystem/OverlayArena''': ForResourceL heap is running out of memory<ref>0x71011FD000</ref>
|-
| 5 || '''ResourceSystem/OverlayArena''': Audio heap is running out of memory<ref>0x71011FD008</ref>
|-
| 6 || '''ResourceSystem/TextureHandleMgr''': Last TextureHandleMgr::calc execution took more than 60 seconds{{check}}<ref>0x710120C670</ref>
|}
 
A panic moon causes enemies and other respawnable objects to respawn since it calls [https://eventviewer.zeldamods.org/viewer.html?data=/d/Demo011_0.json&params=1&entry=Demo011_0&node=Event3 Demo011_0] just like the regular blood moon code. The demo contains a call to [[AIDef:Action/EventOffWaitRevivalAction]] (OffWaitRevival), which appears to be what actually resets the revival flags.
 
== Inhibitors ==
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== Notes ==
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[[Category:Game mechanics]]
[[Category:Internals]]

Revision as of 07:55, 18 February 2020

This resource is found in Bootup.pack.

Its canonical resource path is "Event/EventInfo.product.byml".

EventInfo.product.sbyml is a Yaz0-compressed file that stores information about all game events. It is used by the event manager to load events.

EventInfo is a machine generated file. It is not meant to be edited directly; much of the information it includes are either automatically generated or copied from event flows and other source-only files.