Traders don't receive top soil deco

[arramus]

Version

V2.3 (b9)

Platform

Windows

Trader compounds for the V2.3 Stable update no longer appear to be receiving their top soil decorations for grass, nests, junk containers, etc.
The topsoil looks very well kept.

 

[Space4Ace]

It's not a bug. They removed those from inside the traders compound.
Here's the description of the fix:

• Weeds and debris appear inside trader bounds

 

[arramus]

Fixed:
- Weeds and debris appear inside trader bounds

Well, if Pine Forest topsoil grass is considered a weed, then the traders' new gardeners are straight off the golf course.

 

[Riamus]

Fixed:
- Weeds and debris appear inside trader bounds

Well, if Pine Forest topsoil grass is considered a weed, then the traders' new gardeners are straight off the golf course.

Yes, those biome decorations were intentionally removed from trader compounds. I don't see any reason to do so, but they apparently wanted a specific look for the traders and perhaps some biome decorations were spawning there that looked bad. As you know, POI (including traders) have an option to entirely disable topsoil decorations. It's easy to just enable that for traders. If there was some specific thing that was sometimes spawning in traders that looked bad, trying to prevent that specific thing would require extra programming rather than just changing true to false in the trader XML files, so they did this. Maybe they didn't think a trader would allow a lot of trash around their compound or something. They could probably add some grass/etc. to the POI directly so that it's still how they want without being "mowed."

 

[NiteViper]

I miss hitting up traders on day 1 for bird nests, random trash piles and duffle bags lol

 

[bdubyah]

It looks terrible so I hope they revert it.

 

[Jugginator]

Yep not a bug, this was to prevent deco spawns that weren't intended by level design. Manually placed stuff is planned though.

 

[arramus]

Just a heads up if manual placement is the next step forward.
The current clearing effect extends to 62 x 62 (at least the one block additional trimming around default Trader size) and continues to leave the empty clearing. Verified for default Trader Jen since this image is the old Trader Rekt at 60 x 60.

 

[Uncle Al]

Hopefully this means no more shopping trolleys spawning in trader gateways.

That was annoying when it happened as it would block the gateway to vehicles, and there was no way to remove the trolley.