Is there a way to rename NPC?

[sfsworms]

So, I now have about 8 NPCs in my camp. Most of them are just grunt crafting and collecting stuff (and eating my food reserves), but I decided to keep two of them with me at all time, to help with crafting, pulp zombies and the like. I chose two with decent melee skills, gave them some decent-ish gear and so on.

However, they’re still called “refugees”, I’d love to rename them to “companions” or “bodyguard” or something so that I can easily identify them and not send them collecting firewood per mistake. Is there a way to do so?

[cainiao]

You can use debug menu to rename yourself/NPCs.

[Axema]

Debug is cheating and it will ruin the game.

[cainiao]

It is not if you know what you are doing and restrain yourself not to cheating.

[Profugo_Barbatus]

Agreed, debug only ruins a game when you use it to do ruinous things. Nicknaming an NPC should be an existing function, but right now all we have is the debug option.

[Axema]

Too bad… If someone could allow NPC naming via mods.

[Profugo_Barbatus]

NPC naming would almost certainly have to be done via a proper pull request, Modding generally cannot touch that sort of stuff. Maybe with LUA modding, but thats in constant threat of just being deprecated and breaking. I don’t think they’d have any objection to an NPC nickname feature though.

[Zhilkin]

Debug is cheating and it will ruin the game.

No, it is not - renaming NPCs is purely cosmetic.