Biggest Baddest Godot Bug.

Added: 2026-05-28

[00:00:00]I honestly have no clue how I didn't know about this sooner, but a couple weeks ago I went to export an update to my Steam game and what happened was the scariest bug I've ever encountered. So, I'm going to share with you guys because I'm assuming I'm not the only one who's run into this and it's kind of something that might go unnoticed at times. So, the structure of my game, I kind of have these different entities. So, like if I open up my uh barkling enemy, they all have these stats components attached to them. And these stats components are resources that hold like all of their stats. And I'm sure if you guys have seen my stats video, I cover how to make this exact same system, which is another reason why I got really scared when this bug happened. But for the most recent balance patch for my game, I made a lot of changes to all of the stats and made a lot of tweaks. And I exported the game, went to test it, and all the stats were just completely messed up and skewed. Like the player couldn't deal damage to anything. Uh everything had an insane amount of HP, and it was just completely messed up. And I had no clue what was going on. I checked my stats like 10 times. I exported like 10 times in a row with different uh like print messages and bug checks and stuff like that, and I could not figure out why on earth all of my stats were just messed up, and it was only on the exported build. Like everything runs fine in the editor, export it, everything's messed up. So, I was thinking like maybe it's a compilation error, like the way Steam builds your game or something. And I was genuinely about to just give up on retrying exports. And that's when I came across some information that was talking about this Godot folder in your project.

[00:01:37]For those of you who don't know, uh for my understanding, it serves as like a cache for all of your imported assets.

[00:01:43]So, when you import something, Godot like puts it into the cache so that it can read it more easily uh or efficiently. And it sounds like what was happening was that Godot did not want to re-import all of my stats resources. So, most of my custom resources just didn't get imported and when I exported it was using an older version of those resources, which is why I had such weird errors cuz it was like it wasn't all of my resources. It was some of them and some of the properties of some of them. So, it was just a complete jumbled mess. The way you fix it, you literally just delete this folder. So, you can feel free to if you're facing that bug, I'm not going to do it now cuz I have the project open, but just delete this entire Godot folder when your project is closed and then the next time you open the project, it will recreate this folder and recreate all the like import settings and the cache essentially for all of your files. And doing that fixed everything. I was able to export my project correctly. So, I want to share that because I have never heard about this and I've been using Godot for like what 6 and 1/2 years or something like that and somehow this is just gone completely under the radar. So, I think what happened was I upgraded versions a couple times when making the project or developing it and I think what I'm going to be doing from now on is whenever I upgrade versions, I'll just clear that folder, just delete it and make sure everything is like refreshed so I have a clean build. And also whenever I export something, I'm probably just going to be deleting that folder and regenerating it as well. But I would highly recommend you guys verify that for your projects because that's something that like maybe if you had a custom resource that only changed like super slightly, you wouldn't even notice it. So, maybe it's worth just doing that quick, making sure you have a a fresh refresh of Godot. Super weird bug. Again, if you guys know like the exact reasons behind that or want to change my explanation at all, be sure to comment because this is like the first I'm hearing about this.

[00:03:38]Anyways, thank you for watching. Quick shout out to all the channel members and if you want to check out other Godot videos, check out my channel and be sure to subscribe and I will see you guys in the next one. Bye.