# Weird spawn behaviour

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/weird-spawn-behaviour/3409>\
**Category:** The Garage\
**Created:** [October 8, 2013, 9:59am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/weird-spawn-behaviour/3409 "2013-10-08T09:59:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Therrus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dbc845/32.png) [@Therrus](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Therrus)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2013, 9:59am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/weird-spawn-behaviour/3409/1 "2013-10-08T09:59:16Z")

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Greetings fellow survivors!

I’ve started playing Cataclysm at version 0.6 I think(well to be exact at 0.1 until I knew there was DDA with version 0.6). I had issues with the whole ASCII graphics up until I watched a Let’s Play to get into it but I totally forgot about the game up until recently and well…tiles! =)

Now my issue is that I get weird spawns of enemies. For example I only saw swimmer zombies or child zombies…was that changed and are cities not that full anymore? Except for the occasional Eye Bot of wasp I didn’t see anything. I made a new folder without changing any options( I usually don’t like dynamic spawn as I’d like to have some progression thus I prefer static spawn) but then all I get to see are fungaloids…nowhere near a fungal bloom?!

Is something broken or did I accidently change something again? The way it is without that many zombies it was far too easy to take a whole city…anyone knows why that spawning is behaving that way?

Thank you for taking your time.  
Greetings

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**Author:** ![Petethegoat](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/petethegoat/32/1027_2.png) [@Petethegoat](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Petethegoat)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2013, 1:23pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/weird-spawn-behaviour/3409/2 "2013-10-08T13:23:45Z")

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You’ve probably encountered [this](https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/issues/2725) issue. What’s the decimal symbol set to? (presuming you’re on Windows)

> When game reads saved options from data/options.txt, spawn rate is rounded down. At least on Windows with version 0.8-308-ge683a00... if the decimal symbol for Windows is set for something else than dot. Like when some of us eurotrash like to use comma.

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**Author:** ![FunsizeNinja123](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/funsizeninja123/32/118_2.png) [@FunsizeNinja123](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/FunsizeNinja123)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2013, 1:26pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/weird-spawn-behaviour/3409/3 "2013-10-08T13:26:10Z")

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> [@Petethegoat](#):
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> decimal symbol

Decimal symbol. The decimal symbol.

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**Author:** ![Therrus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dbc845/32.png) [@Therrus](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Therrus)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2013, 2:05pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/weird-spawn-behaviour/3409/4 "2013-10-08T14:05:06Z")

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[quote=“Petethegoat, post:2, topic:3409”]You’ve probably encountered [this](https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/issues/2725) issue. What’s the decimal symbol set to? (presuming you’re on Windows)

> When game reads saved options from data/options.txt, spawn rate is rounded down. At least on Windows with version 0.8-308-ge683a00... if the decimal symbol for Windows is set for something else than dot. Like when some of us eurotrash like to use comma.

[/quote] That is partially it. But on my unchanged version I had noone except fungal spawns(without fungal bloom nearby). I've tried it out and now it works again...weird spawning indeed although I kind of liked not encountering those pesky brutes..oh well =)

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**Author:** ![kevin.granade](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/kevin.granade/32/1316_2.png) [@kevin.granade](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/kevin.granade)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2013, 3:36pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/weird-spawn-behaviour/3409/5 "2013-10-08T15:36:15Z")

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The reason it was inconsistent is that some of the zombies use the “old static” system, while most of them use the “new static” system.