PC Screamer hordes are just annoying

RipClaw said:
The heat levels can be displayed. Switch to debug mode with dm and press F8 twice. Then the heat is displayed.
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Thanks for that. 

Yeah, I don't  mind distractions so much as most. I know one of my friends used to do it to zen. Just put on a movie or some tunes and just mine for an hour. He hated the interruptions, but I reckon half of that was because then he'd have to focus on the game rather than the movie.

I tend to be more single focus. If I am gaming, I am gaming. So for mining, I am there to mine. A break in the monotony is good, but being unable to mine is bad. 3-4 times an hour is perfect. A little more would still be okay. More than once every 5 mins would be annoying.

 
A small update on the matter. I have now modded the heat values of metal and made them identical to those of rock.

Normally I leave everything vanilla as far as possible but the screamer hordes were just too annoying to leave it as it is.

I still need to check why the screamers now seem to have x-ray vision since they spawn a horde even when I am on bedrock and they are not supposed to have line of sight. It could be that it is connected to the Feral Sense setting.

 
Is there any difference in Biomes with heatmap/screamer spawn.
I am currently on a full wasteland map and only once had 2 screamers right after my horde night. never before and never after. Not even Mining for an hour spawned any of them. I play full vanilla and my CS is 44

 
Diragor said:
Is there any difference in Biomes with heatmap/screamer spawn.
I am currently on a full wasteland map and only once had 2 screamers right after my horde night. never before and never after. Not even Mining for an hour spawned any of them. I play full vanilla and my CS is 44
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No this is the same for all biomes. But it makes a difference what you mine. Coal, nitrate or oil shale only increase the heat by 0.5% when a block breaks and this heat only lasts for 60 seconds.

Iron and lead, on the other hand, increase the heat by 0.10% per hit, and when the block breaks, another 2.84% is added on top. This heat lasts for 90 seconds.

If you use an iron pickaxe or steel pickaxe, for example, the frequency of hits is relatively low. If, on the other hand, you have an auger, then the impact frequency is significantly higher. The auger itself raises the heat 1% every time you press the button and if you have all the "The Art of Mining" books, you can sometimes destroy blocks with a single hit. All this in combination can quickly raise the heat above 100% when you mine iron or lead.

 
Yeah I have only ever seen a few screamers in vanilla but I don't do that much mining and never use augurs. I know some players only use candles and mostly spend night in the dark because they're afraid of screamers but I've lined my bases with torches and only ever had one screamer at my base. The fact that 100% heat only rolls a die to see if a screamer will spawn means your odds of ever seeing a screamer in normal gameplay are pretty low unless you go absolutely berserk with a machine gun or apparently spam the augur at iron/lead.

 
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