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5 minutes ago, Telric said:

no no, it was my post that sounded hostile.. i said "it aint hard." and taht just came off as hostile to me... lol. so i changed it. it wasn't anything from you.

When you're in your main area, run a LE command in the console and see what comes up. Maybe run a killall as well, then see what happens. Could just be a clogging of entity spawns in the area.

i didnt see you say "it aint hard" but okay, i thought i came over as rude or something. glad thats not the case

 

regarding the LE command, it only shows me and my bicycle, so that seems fine i guess? i havent tried killall yet, will do the next time, kind of have to struggle with a bloodmoon first before i face that entire matter again.

 

also initial confusion came over after trying out my first thumper... seems fun to play around with, but i kind of forgot or in the end thought about what was mentioned regarding the rewards... stepped out of the radius in the end after i noticed the thumper being done and everything, guess the quest is active until the thumper was salvaged. was kind of a "rip" situation for me at that moment. but hey i got some experience out of it, both ingame and knowledge wise xD

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8 hours ago, Telric said:

This sounded hostile.. so i changed it a bit. lol...  Here, i took out some of the animal spawns in this.. just replace what's in my modlet's files and test it out.

entitygroups.xml 592 B · 0 downloads

im sorry, i didnt mean to sound hostile. i tried and it works, kinda. i just noticed after some testing, that my main area is still pretty dead when it comes to the thumpers, i have to move to different areas that didnt have any thumper drops yet to get soem to drop. could it be that the invisibleAnimalEnemy entities are still around, crowding the area and thus blocking the spawns or something?

 

also again, i really do not mean to come over as hostile, rude or whatever. i deeply apologize if it ever comes over as such

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Just now, Telric said:

@YukikoMirai what controls the rarity of a spawn is in entitygroups.xml. If you want more thumpers to spawn, remove some of the

<entity name="invisibleAnimalEnemy" prob="4"/>

In spawning.xml, the max count is how many within this group can be spawned, i think within a chunk. The respawn delay is in days, so in this case it takes 2 days before more can respawn in that area. What probably happened is, since thumpers are quite rare, you just got a lot of invisibleanimal spawns instead of an actual thumper each time which is possible. Changing the entitygroups.xml and removing a few of the invisible animal spawns will make more thumpers spawn.

i can try and give that a shot later, thanks for the response tho.

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5 hours ago, mr.devolver said:

Are you mostly staying at your base, or going far from the base to explore the world? It seems like the game doesn't spawn that many entities (besides wandering hordes of zombies) when you stay in one place. This basically gives you a chance to clear out the area of zombies, but has some side effects on non-zombie entities too, such as thumper. You should try to travel around the map and see if they start spawning again. Try to travel far from your base, but don't go too fast, because entities may take a while to spawn and if you travel at high speed, you may either miss them or they may not even spawn at all.

 

If that doesn't help, you could also try to reload the game and go back to exploration.

i do both and had both faster travel and slow travel happening. what kinda difference are we talking about? furthest i went was like 1.8 km but still the same biome. i tried to go for another biome, but sadly enough picked a direction that seemed to be the same biome all over the place.

 

regarding speeds, i went for walking with no/padded armor, walking with heavy armor and bicycle, none of that seemed to make a difference. i dont know if some may have spawned and the sound played out of range tho, because sometimes it was like i seen random stray zombies of that kind standing or walking around. could also have been some strays from when i was not ready to deal with them yet tho

 

Reloading/restarting didnt help, tweaking the spawning.xml by increasing the max count by one spawned atleast one more before that also ceased to work.

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hi, i got a small question regarding the Thumper mod... when i first installed the mod, i got like around 5 thumpers within 20 minutes, but after that none would spawn even after a few days have passed. what would the rate for crashed thumper spawns be like? is it normal to not get any thumper drops within 5-7 days?