PC Game Without Screamers

Exactly that. In Alpha 18.0 i had a screamer incoming every 5 minutes and it was annoying. Since 18.1 i never saw one.
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That was a bug in A18.0 that caused this about on screamers.

I have no problem getting screamers. Every time I'm in the iron mine I get a screamer every 5 minutes. Maybe because I have the day length of 120 minutes. The heat seems to be dissipating too slowly. I have also tried to work crouched but that doesn't help.

 
My day is also 120 minutes and my base is also my mine. Must be a different reason.
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How deep is your mine? I dig from top to bottom so I am close to the surface. If you are close to the bedrock the screamers are not spawning.

That's the reason I build my forge room in A17 near bedrock to get get rid of the screamers.

 
Ok we TRIED to spawn them last night. 4 forges running. Workstation pumping out bullet boxes. Chem station spitting out gas and gunpowder. Fire pitt purifying water, 4 cement mixers mixing constantly. For over an hour. No Screamer. I went out and fired a unsilenced rifle at a few stray zeds. Brazenly. Screamer is on vacation still.

It's WEIRD. I'm tempted to start throwing explosives to see if she's deaf.

Is the poor thing stuck under the ground somewhere?

 
Ok we TRIED to spawn them last night. 4 forges running. Workstation pumping out bullet boxes. Chem station spitting out gas and gunpowder. Fire pitt purifying water, 4 cement mixers mixing constantly. For over an hour. No Screamer. I went out and fired a unsilenced rifle at a few stray zeds. Brazenly. Screamer is on vacation still.
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Did you look into the console with F1? Sometimes the game can't spawn a screamer because there's a mountain where the screamer should spawn. With the debug mode you can also display the heat by hitting twice F8. When it reaches 100% a screamer will be spawned.

 
don't forget its only a 60% chance one spawns....you could be rolling 61-100 every time (based on a 100 sided die)
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True. But if it is checked every 5 minutes or so I would say it is safe to assume Screamer spawn is broken. The odds of never getting a screamer over a few hours with massive heat generation should be extremely low.

 
Honestly I'm having the opposite problem as the OP. Got an auger very early as a quest reward. Now anytime I dig up more than about 8 tiles, I'm getting a screamer. Doesn't matter where I'm digging.

Doing a level 5 quest, I'm using that auger on safes and some doors, I almost always exit the POI to a screamer beating on the walls.

Digging in my main mine about 1 chunk away from my base? About 4 minutes in I need to stop and kill the 2-3 screamers that trickle in.

Augers cause screamers.

Conversely, I can run 2 forges, 2 cement mixers, 1 chem lab, and a workbench, and odds are I won't get a screamer til I start upgrading blocks.

 
The problem here is nobody is specifying the build they are running, nor are they stating whether or not it is a fresh map within that build.

Results will vary.

 
The problem here is nobody is specifying the build they are running, nor are they stating whether or not it is a fresh map within that build.Results will vary.
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I'm getting them quite regularly, even while just looting POI's, but unfortunately for any sort of feedback, my current game is a modded one, so no point in reporting it.

 
We (two player co-op) just got our first screamer, day 29. Forge & cement mixer running, both players using augers for multiple in-game hours.

I guess they should be a bit more common, as we actually got our first demolishers before the screamer during the day 28 horde.

Running A18.1 b8.

 
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