Man, this is bizarre... We literally never touch the code that drops pet hunger, and yet every once in a while, this will happen.

I will sit down and take a proper look at what's going on with it today.

So it turns out, pet hunger not dropping was due to unlucky RNG, but was within normal RNG fluctuations. Imagine flipping a coin 10 times. It's unlikely that it will land on tails 10 times in a row, but if you are flipping coins every day, chances are it will happen occasionally.

However, I have some good news! In the past, we always wanted to make hunger drop faster for gourmand pets. At some point, this stopped functioning correctly. We think we've just fixed the issue. That means your pets will be at the mercy of RNG no more!

You should start noticing this change over the next 2-3 days. After that, gourmand pets' hunger should drop about once an hour.

This topic will be left open in the meantime, so you can ping me if you still experience issues after a couple days. Please specify the pet(s) still having problems if you do.

Is it appropriate to ask how the system knows a gourmand pet from a non-gourmand pet? It makes a reasonable guess based on the number of foods the pet has eaten.

Quick update, we are aware the cron stopped moving. Looking into it!

We deployed a fix for an issue that was affecting the hourly cron. Should be going back to normal now!

If your gourmand pet's hunger is still stuck after 1:00 PM Subeta time, please visit their Foods Eaten page, then wait another hour. If there is still no decrease, please post here and ping me with the name of your pet.

That could have happened while I was debugging and testing it earlier...

I promise I've stopped messing with it for now D:

Looking into this

Hey everyone! Just checking in - please let me know if you notice your pet hunger dropping normally over the rest of the day.

Welp, well, the cron has been kinda wonky the past 2 days or so. We'll have to see how the happiness progresses over the rest of today but I would bet it is normal now. Happiness doesn't necessarily drop once per hour; it's random every hour whether it drops or not.