making a slight edit to make note of what is going on bc i finally figured it out. When a new enemy is spawned in, its initial position is set as 0,0 which gets turned off then. going to try to initialize as -1,-1 and see if that helps

Enemy.cs

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ public partial class Enemy : StaticBody2D
     public delegate void ClickedEventHandler(Enemy THIS);
     public bool _hovered = false, _track = false;
     public int _damage = 1, _health = 2, _speed, _speedRemaining, _visibilityRange = 4;
-    public Vector2I _address, _range = Vector2I.Up;
+    public Vector2I _address = -Vector2I.One, _range = Vector2I.Up;
     public List<Vector2I> _path = new();
     public float _movement = 0;
     public EnemyController _enemyController;

Map.cs

@@ -93,19 +93,11 @@ public partial class Map : TileMapLayer
     {
         _addressOccupants[ENEMY._address] = null;
         SetCellSolid(ENEMY._address);
-        if (ENEMY._address == Vector2I.Zero)
-        {
-            GD.Print(4,_astar.IsPointSolid(ENEMY._address));
-        }
         
         ENEMY._address = ADDRESS;
 
         _addressOccupants[ADDRESS] = ENEMY;
         SetCellSolid(ADDRESS);
-        if (ADDRESS == Vector2I.Zero)
-        {
-            GD.Print(5,_astar.IsPointSolid(ADDRESS));
-        }
     }
 
     public void SetCellSolid(Vector2I ADDRESS)