# spawn-prefab-cycle

> Talos 0.7 · Since 0.7

`prefab` names a prefab that nests itself, directly or through other prefabs (`prefab-cycle` in `engine check`); it has no finite copy, so it is refused at load and every spawn of it, or of a prefab that nests it, answers this

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| Severity | `error` |

## Meaning

`prefab` names a prefab that nests itself, directly or through other prefabs (`prefab-cycle` in `engine check`); it has no finite copy, so it is refused at load and every spawn of it, or of a prefab that nests it, answers this

## Fix

break the loop in the prefab files (the message names it); `engine check` on the prefab says the same