Alien Generator is extremely poorly optimized

[A2ur3]

Disclaimers

• I have searched the issue tracker to check if the issue has already been reported.
• My issue happened while using mods.

What happened?

Alien Generator is extremely poorly optimized. It tends to trigger "event count very high" warning

<ItemContainer capacity="1" maxstacksize="1" canbeselected="true" hideitems="true" containedspritedepth="0.01" autointeractwithcontained="false">
  <GuiFrame relativesize="0.11,0.17" anchor="Center" minsize="140,170" maxsize="280,280" style="ItemUI" />
  <StatusEffect type="Always" target="This" Charge="-1000.0" />
  <Containable items="alienpowercell">
    <StatusEffect type="OnContaining" target="This" Charge="10000.0" setvalue="true" />
  </Containable>
</ItemContainer>

There are two StatusEffects running continuously

Reproduction steps

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Bug prevalence

Happens every now and then

Single player or multiplayer?

Multiplayer hosted using a dedicated server

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Version

v1.12.6.2 (Spring Update 2026)

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Which operating system did you encounter this bug on?

Windows

Relevant error messages and crash reports

No response

[A2ur3]

Another weird thing is that the SE that makes the Alien Generator charge the Alien Power Cell is actually defined inside the power cell itself, rather than on the generator.

<ItemComponent>
  <StatusEffect type="Always" target="This" Condition="2.0" checkconditionalalways="true" comparison="And">
    <Conditional hastag="eq aliengenerator" targetcontainer="true" />
    <Conditional condition="gt 0" targetcontainer="true" />
  </StatusEffect>
</ItemComponent>