# Could someone give me a list of places considered 'safe' by NPCs?
**URL:** https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/could-someone-give-me-a-list-of-places-considered-safe-by-npcs/22873
**Category:** The Bunker
**Created:** [February 27, 2020, 11:09pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/could-someone-give-me-a-list-of-places-considered-safe-by-npcs/22873 "2020-02-27T23:09:35Z")
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### Author:  [@redxlaser15](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/redxlaser15)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2020, 11:09pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/could-someone-give-me-a-list-of-places-considered-safe-by-npcs/22873/1 "2020-02-27T23:09:35Z")
I was told a couple things, like evac shelters and farms, but presumably there’s more places that NPCs can go around to find refuge.
I want to finally find an NPC that I can have as a companion, dang it! I don’t want to simply be by the Hub’s static NPCs, they are only useful for quests and trading, it seems.
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### Author:  [@dpwb](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/dpwb)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2020, 12:47am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/could-someone-give-me-a-list-of-places-considered-safe-by-npcs/22873/2 "2020-02-28T00:47:36Z")
> **[CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA](https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/search?q=source_safety&unscoped_q=source_safety)**
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> Cataclysm - Dark Days Ahead. A turn-based survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world. - CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA
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### Author:  [@redxlaser15](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/redxlaser15)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2020, 1:21am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/could-someone-give-me-a-list-of-places-considered-safe-by-npcs/22873/3 "2020-02-28T01:21:46Z")
This kinda helps, but it isn’t especially explanatory.
I’ve gather that lighthouses (or a variation) is safe, that some sort of agricultural ‘terrain type’ is safe (presumably meaning farms and such), military places are supposedly safe (although presumably is more specific since the one I spawned in was littered with zombies), and commercial buildings are safe.
What exactly these are isn’t really all that obvious, and I have no clue what ‘overmap\_terrain\_hardcoded’, refer to, as well as ‘destination\_locations’.
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### Author:  [@Mega\_Glub](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Mega_Glub)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2020, 1:50am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/could-someone-give-me-a-list-of-places-considered-safe-by-npcs/22873/4 "2020-02-28T01:50:31Z")
I don’t have a complete list, but i know that cabins also make the list of safe houses for npcs.
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### Author:  [@redxlaser15](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/redxlaser15)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2020, 1:56am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/could-someone-give-me-a-list-of-places-considered-safe-by-npcs/22873/5 "2020-02-28T01:56:51Z")
Okay, I had suspected as much but I wasn’t sure. Every little bit helps.
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### Author:  [@dpwb](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/dpwb)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2020, 10:13am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/could-someone-give-me-a-list-of-places-considered-safe-by-npcs/22873/6 "2020-02-28T10:13:06Z")
Open the files shown in that search result.
And in each one do a CTRL+F browser text search for “source\_safety”
This will show you each and every overmap terrain in the game that is listed as such for the NPCs AI.
There is no overall list because such a list does not exist, it is purely compiled in-game and in-code for the NPCs AI.
Therefore to see this list, youll have to search those files yourself, there are 99 entries in total, for which the NPCs may travel to.
[https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/blob/0bac1c971a8be9173e20709ed3a97fb25d71d2cf/data/json/overmap/overmap\_terrain/overmap\_terrain\_hardcoded.json](https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/blob/0bac1c971a8be9173e20709ed3a97fb25d71d2cf/data/json/overmap/overmap_terrain/overmap_terrain_hardcoded.json)
[https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/blob/ed3d6dc4632c1f78ce6624bc10d7b3ccb49cac8a/data/json/overmap/overmap\_terrain/overmap\_terrain\_military.json](https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/blob/ed3d6dc4632c1f78ce6624bc10d7b3ccb49cac8a/data/json/overmap/overmap_terrain/overmap_terrain_military.json)
[https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/blob/7185c169d39a57982ac6b35aa83844cdce7058ee/data/json/overmap/overmap\_terrain/overmap\_terrain\_agricultural.json](https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/blob/7185c169d39a57982ac6b35aa83844cdce7058ee/data/json/overmap/overmap_terrain/overmap_terrain_agricultural.json)
[https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/blob/3c7ffe51b3d9b2ee561126dcb805a505193dabf3/data/json/overmap/overmap\_terrain/overmap\_terrain.json](https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/blob/3c7ffe51b3d9b2ee561126dcb805a505193dabf3/data/json/overmap/overmap_terrain/overmap_terrain.json)