How to turn NPC spawning on for 0.4?

Heimdall · 2013-04-23T16:38:17.000Z

Hi guys, new to the game. Loving it so far. I saw that NPCs are bugged atm but i was wondering how to turn them back on.

Williham · 2013-04-23T16:53:20.000Z

Step one: Don’t.

They are bugged beyond belief, and will crash, ruin and destroy your game, your saves, and your general experience.

Changes are incoming to make them less retardariffic, but might not make it into 0.5.

Still, 0.6 should see NPCs returned.

Heimdall · 2013-04-23T17:46:23.000Z

Ah ok. Didn’t know they were that messed up. Thank you

Soyweiser · 2013-04-23T20:28:06.000Z

I’m working on a few fixes. Have done a few already. Will do more. I will also make the npc options part of the options, and not the separate npc file we have now.

drake1storm · 2013-04-25T02:56:22.000Z

In the latest test version (download the source code and compile it) they are activated and are mostly bug free.

The only bug I’ve seen so far is they, for some reason, flee the shelter shortly after the world spawns. No crashing, though.

Soyweiser · 2013-04-25T07:44:19.000Z

They flee the shelter? That is new. Sure that this happens to the shelter npc? Or one of your own spawned?

kenoxite · 2013-04-25T08:08:37.000Z

I think he just refers to the fact that NPCs are still psycho wildlife murder machines, so they are actually roaming around killing squirrels with LAWs, and not fleeing.

I haven’t seen them do anything they didn’t do before.

Soyweiser · 2013-04-25T10:07:13.000Z

debug spawned npcs default to the coords -999 -999 iirc. So there is that problem :d.

drake1storm · 2013-04-25T10:58:44.000Z

No, they were NPCs in the shelters that decided to go for a brisk jog. It wasn’t squirrels or anything because I (rather excessively) board up any possible bases (such as the shelter).

Soyweiser · 2013-04-25T12:19:37.000Z

Any more information, did you just spawn? did you use the debug menu? Did you finish the quest, was it an npc from a different save?

drake1storm · 2013-04-25T20:20:47.000Z

I don’t even do the quests. I just go on my merry way towards the town (and usually death), and look at the map a few minutes later to see a pink @ running off to fairy land.

And yes, this only happens on new worlds. The NPCs are long gone by the time I make a new character in the same world.

Soyweiser · 2013-04-25T21:36:10.000Z

That is so strange. They do not do this for me. It simply should not happen. (The npcs only wander off when they have something to do, either a there is a monster they want to kill, or the have some sort of goal (the shelter npcs never have a goal)).

So I’m kinda baffled about this.

drake1storm · 2013-04-25T22:54:14.000Z

Maybe the npc has gained xray vision. Frankly, I’ve just taken to burning them and taking the loot if they are just going to keep running.

Soyweiser · 2013-04-26T12:16:42.000Z

When you say new worlds, do you mean new characters or a world reset?

drake1storm · 2013-04-27T04:13:11.000Z

Full world reset.

It is cheating if you already half cleared a town

Soyweiser · 2013-04-27T13:59:43.000Z

I’m even more confused by npcs btw. The -999,-999 coordinate, is actually 999, 999. So it probably moves to a different coordinate. A well.

drake1storm · 2013-04-28T01:51:34.000Z

Just stick to burning them. It makes life easier, and you get rewarded with many shinies.