Awake / Prefabs / Hierarchy

Unity Engine
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I just ran into a sort of odd result…

I have an monobehaviour that digs for a parent on Awake. The hierarchy looks like this:

RootThing

  • Prefab
    — MyMonoBehaviour (NOT PREFAB - this is an additional component added to the prefab instance)

I’m seeing a weird behaviour where on Awake in MyMonoBehaviour I can’t get to RootThing by walking transform parents.

If I click on Prefab and ‘break prefab connection’ - i can properly walk to parent.

I can work around this - but I’m wondering what exactly is going on here and if there is any documentation outlining this kind of thing?

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Prefab instances can’t have different components. The only things that can change are the position and rotation - everything else may well be reverted back to the original prefab state, unless you deliberately break the connection.