<![CDATA[Room.Visual Sometimes Does Not Exist]]>I've been seeing bugs since 4AM EST today that state:

  
TypeError: Cannot read property 'text' of undefined

The error cites the line "thisRoom.visual.text(...", thisRoom being a reference to the current room, which is successfully used prior to this call.

It appears this bug is not consistent, as in every couple of ticks the .visual segment is undefined. I've been successfully using the .visual functions without error for a couple of days now, and haven't made any changes to them since I put them in, so it looks like some small update has caused this issue.

As a side note, escaping this specific line with if(room.visual){} will only cause the next room.visual.text call to error.

]]>http://screeps.com/forum/topic/286/room-visual-sometimes-does-not-existRSS for NodeTue, 10 Mar 2026 18:24:34 GMTThu, 09 Feb 2017 13:23:28 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Room.Visual Sometimes Does Not Exist on Invalid Date]]>I've been seeing bugs since 4AM EST today that state:

  
TypeError: Cannot read property 'text' of undefined

The error cites the line "thisRoom.visual.text(...", thisRoom being a reference to the current room, which is successfully used prior to this call.

It appears this bug is not consistent, as in every couple of ticks the .visual segment is undefined. I've been successfully using the .visual functions without error for a couple of days now, and haven't made any changes to them since I put them in, so it looks like some small update has caused this issue.

As a side note, escaping this specific line with if(room.visual){} will only cause the next room.visual.text call to error.

]]>http://screeps.com/forum/post/1432http://screeps.com/forum/post/1432Invalid Date<![CDATA[Reply to Room.Visual Sometimes Does Not Exist on Invalid Date]]>Same here. I've been getting the issue every few ticks for the past 3 - 5 hours. It seems to happen very randomly.

]]>http://screeps.com/forum/post/1433http://screeps.com/forum/post/1433Invalid Date<![CDATA[Reply to Room.Visual Sometimes Does Not Exist on Invalid Date]]>I also have gotten several of these errors starting about 5 hours ago

]]>http://screeps.com/forum/post/1434http://screeps.com/forum/post/1434Invalid Date<![CDATA[Reply to Room.Visual Sometimes Does Not Exist on Invalid Date]]>I received the 1st error email notification at exactly 4:00 AM EST. The error persists as described by others.

]]>http://screeps.com/forum/post/1435http://screeps.com/forum/post/1435Invalid Date<![CDATA[Reply to Room.Visual Sometimes Does Not Exist on Invalid Date]]>Some server nodes switched to a stale code branch. It is fixed, the error should not appear anymore.

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