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Lustra1

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What modifications do i have to make with the spawning to increase the chances for them to show up? i been on my 7th day, and i didn't see any spawn at all. using the current build for core and npc mods. 

 
There should be a spawning.xml file in the Config folder. You open it, and you will see that entity groups detailed there have 2 important values:

- Maxcount (you can increase the number to spawn more at a time).

- Respawndelay (you can decrease the number to spawn them faster). 

Be careful, too many NPCs might lead to worse game performance. 

 
the respawn delay was set on 1 default, so i take it 0 means continuous? which means you go to like -1.

0 would be the limit timer?

 
Lustra1 said:
the respawn delay was set on 1 default, so i take it 0 means continuous? which means you go to like -1.

0 would be the limit timer?
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FWIW, this should be in the Discussions and Requests sub-forum.

Anyway - this is documented in the vanilla spawning.xml file:

<!--
biome
maxcount: byte - the sum of all spawned entities in the group may not exceed this number in a 5 chunk by 5 chunk (80m x 80m) "biome chunk"
respawndelay: game days - .000278 real seconds, .0167 mins
daytime: Any,Day,Night - determines the time of day the entity spawns
tags: restricts the spawn to areas that have any tile/POI with those tags
notags: restricts the spawn to areas that don't have any tiles/POIs with those tags
(...the rest refers to info that is no longer used...)
-->




A respawn delay value of 1 means "delay one game day." The lowest vanilla respawn delay value is 0.1, which means 10 per game day will spawn.

This is up to the max count, but the max count is per 80m x 80m square area, which is not a very big area.

However - NPC core, and most NPC Packs, also spawn "nothing" 97% of the time. This is specifically to prevent over-spawning. In the entity groups representing the biome spawns, you will find this entry:

none, 97




It is probably easier to lower this number if you want more NPCs to spawn. They will still spawn only one per 80x80m area, but that will mean more areas will spawn them.

Here are some example values:

  • 64: ~4.5% chance to spawn NPCs, or 1.5x the existing spawn rate
  • 47: 6% chance to spawn NPCs, or 2x (double) the existing spawn rate
  • 30: ~9% chance to spawn NPCs, or roughly 3x the existing spawn rate
  • 9: 25% chance to spawn NPCs - this will spawn a lot of NPCs

You can experiment with either to spawn more NPCs.

Also, if you are using any of my NPC packs, there is commented-out XPath in entitygroups.xml that you can un-comment to accomplish this.

HTH.

 
khzmusik said:
FWIW, this should be in the Discussions and Requests sub-forum.

Anyway - this is documented in the vanilla spawning.xml file:

<!--
biome
maxcount: byte - the sum of all spawned entities in the group may not exceed this number in a 5 chunk by 5 chunk (80m x 80m) "biome chunk"
respawndelay: game days - .000278 real seconds, .0167 mins
daytime: Any,Day,Night - determines the time of day the entity spawns
tags: restricts the spawn to areas that have any tile/POI with those tags
notags: restricts the spawn to areas that don't have any tiles/POIs with those tags
(...the rest refers to info that is no longer used...)
-->




A respawn delay value of 1 means "delay one game day." The lowest vanilla respawn delay value is 0.1, which means 10 per game day will spawn.

This is up to the max count, but the max count is per 80m x 80m square area, which is not a very big area.

However - NPC core, and most NPC Packs, also spawn "nothing" 97% of the time. This is specifically to prevent over-spawning. In the entity groups representing the biome spawns, you will find this entry:

none, 97




It is probably easier to lower this number if you want more NPCs to spawn. They will still spawn only one per 80x80m area, but that will mean more areas will spawn them.

Here are some example values:

  • 64: ~4.5% chance to spawn NPCs, or 1.5x the existing spawn rate
  • 47: 6% chance to spawn NPCs, or 2x (double) the existing spawn rate
  • 30: ~9% chance to spawn NPCs, or roughly 3x the existing spawn rate
  • 9: 25% chance to spawn NPCs - this will spawn a lot of NPCs

You can experiment with either to spawn more NPCs.

Also, if you are using any of my NPC packs, there is commented-out XPath in entitygroups.xml that you can un-comment to accomplish this.

HTH.
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. i have been trying to figure out a few things. After when i installed a mod call Better Biomes, it's on Nexus. i guess the score is not comparable with better biomes or urban decay. After i uninstalled both mods and started a new game, it seemed to work to a certain extent. For some reason, I can't get the Civilians mod or the one from NPCCORE to spawn at all. i even took the spawning down to 30%, and nothing spawned even after 10 minutes in-game. i had better luck with using the Score 1.2.4 than the current version. How do you un-comment something in the XLM? Another thing this mod doesn't like is zombie spawn increase mods. Before they updated 7 days with 1.4, everything worked great, and I could use zombie spawn increases as well. Any suggestions?


 






 
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