Barbarian Blaster - Enemies damaging Base

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Hi everyone!

I’m working through the Godot 3D course and am stuck on the Health and Labels lesson for Barbarian Blaster. I think I have everything set up correctly, but when I test my game, the Base loses health to quickly and the game resets in less than a second. Any ideas why this might be happening? Code below:

base.gd:

extends Node3D

@export var max_health: int = 5

var current_health: int:
set(health_in):
current_health = health_in
print(“health was changed”)
$Label.text = str(current_health)
if current_health < 1:
get_tree().reload_current_scene()

@onready var label: Label = $Label

func _ready() → void:
$Label.text = str(max_health)

func take_damage() → void:
print(“damage delt to base!”)
current_health -= 1

enemy.gd:

extends PathFollow3D

@export var speed: float = 2.5

@onready var base = get_tree().get_first_node_in_group(“base”)

func _process(delta: float) → void:
progress += delta * speed
if progress_ratio == 1.0:
base.take_damage()

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At the moment, you aren’t freeing the enemies with queue_free() once they have damaged the base, nor are you stopping their _process() functions with set_process(false), so as soon as an enemy reaches the Base, it will call base.take_damage() every frame. These modifications will be covered in the lecture content very soon, if you haven’t seen them already, to solve exactly this problem =)

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Thanks allot for the reply.

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