Confirmed - cause found, patch not written yet.

'afk 1 min' and 'brb food' are ordinary chat lines - nothing reads their meaning, so the bot keeps walking. The flat 12-line pool also makes them roughly 20x too frequent.

Moving it out of OPEN so the list reflects reality: this one is pinned down to exact files and lines, so what is left is writing and testing the change, not working out what is wrong.

Fixed in 2a71c855.

Cause: 'afk 1 min' and 'brb food' were just two entries in a twelve-line chatter pool - nothing ever read the text. The bot handed the line to the speech bubble and took its position for that same frame from the wander model, which has no notion of being stopped. So a bot announced it was leaving and then kept walking its eight-second pacing cycle right in front of you.

Fix: both halves now come from one schedule. A social bot rolls a break per roughly 15-minute window, and the break owns its line AND its duration - so the bubble and the standing still are derived from the same thing and cannot disagree between players. While away the bot also stops greeting passers-by, stops chattering, stops changing expression and stops answering chat, because it is meant to be someone who walked away from the keyboard.

The freeze works by pointing every cycle during a break back at the break's first cycle, so the bot stands exactly where it walked to and steps off again from that same spot when it returns - no sliding or teleporting at either end.

Retest: watch a hub map for a while and confirm a bot that says it is AFK actually stands still, then resumes.