i think it was the being honest thing, i never told the rat king in any of my saves about him. and so far that seems to be the only difference in our saves, ill try and tell rat king and see if i can get it to work and you could try and not tell rat king and get it to work.
Blast, but that at least does theoretically explain it!
I do like the way the story goes there, as you kind of give a plea to the Rat King (that he mostly ignores) on the expectation that, well, it's not the largest junkyard haha, Scrap might get tripped into anyway. So I'm cool with being an honest idiot, haha, and I guess that explains why I'm stuck there.
Thanks for the information and the heads up! I'll still make sure I pop by to hand Scrap any new food options I trip into, of course. ^_^