Editing Openai/69185ed9-16a4-8011-b841-20ce53d80746 (section)

==== 2. Minimal Safe Patch ====

Edit lua/entities/drgbase_nextbot/relationships.lua around line 524. Wrap the string.upper call with a type check:

<syntaxhighlight lang="lua">-- Original line (approx)
rel = string.upper(rel)

-- Patched version
if type(rel) == "string" then
    rel = string.upper(rel)
else
    print("[DRGBase][Warning] Relationship is not a string!", rel)
    return -- skip updating if invalid
end

</syntaxhighlight>

Explanation of the patch:
* type(rel) == "string" ensures we only call string.upper on strings.
* If rel is a table (or anything else), it prints a warning to console instead of throwing an error.
* return prevents the invalid value from breaking UpdateRelationshipWith.

✅ Safe for both Singleplayer and Multiplayer.
✅ Stops spam errors.
✅ NextBots continue functioning normally.