Why doesn't anything work on customized NPC's?

[Dobbi124]

So I have been dealing with a handful of problems lately on my latest creation. Mostly animation issues. I cannot seem to make my custom NPCs preform any animations at all. I have been told by a close friend who is helping me make this addon that since we customized a original npc and made a new npc branching from the original npc, the original functionalities of the new npc won't work. Sorry if I am terrible at explaining this but here is an example.

if math.random(1,10) == 1 then
Antlion1 = ents.Create("npc_emberlion")
Antlion1:SetKeyValue( "startburrowed", "1" )
Antlion1:SetPos( self.npc:GetPos() + self.npc:GetRight() * math.random(-180,-200))
Antlion1:DropToFloor()
Antlion1:Spawn()
Antlion1:Activate()
timer.Simple(3,function()
Antlion1:Fire("Unburrow")
end)

(This is part of a function not the whole thing, and if anything is combined in the code like ifmath.random, it's not originally in the code, I just suck at pasting it and fixing it.) So long story short, the "Antlion1:Fire("Unburrow")" does not work for the custom npc, BUT it does work with the original npc, the npc_antlion.

Another thing that is sort of related to this problem is having the NPC's ragdoll deleted. While deleting the physical NPC is fine, the ragdoll isn't and I am not sure why.

function ENT:OnRemove()

if IsValid(self.npc) then
self.npc:Remove()
end
if IsValid(self.corpse) then
self.corpse:Remove()
end
end

Same issue, idk why this isn't working, and even if there is no way to restore normal functionality, I would at least like insight to why this is truly happening..

Thank you and I hope you all have a great day!