Dogs appearing out of nowhere

[Mightyrick1]

So I saw 4 dogs charging me, which I figured was no problem for my guy who was quite skilled at this point, and suddenly like 10 more suddenly appear out of nowhere, not charging over the horizon but right next to my guy, so I send 4 of my guys from a nearby town to assist him and 10 more appear, so my guys got swarmed and slaughtered :/

[Atzu]

As far as I was aware making it so dogs spawn somewhere nearby and come towards the player is a feature they tend to release after more important things are fixed. So unfortunately this is how the dogs function in the current version but it will change in time. As far as I'm aware.

[Captain Deathbeard]

nothing should spawn on top of you, although it's possible there's a bug.
But most likely, its that characters off-screen are made invisible (for performance), but sometimes when the go on-screen again they are delayed turning visible by a second or two, giving the appearance that they have been spawned or teleported.

[Mightyrick1]

Originally posted by Captain Deathbeard:

nothing should spawn on top of you, although it's possible there's a bug.
But most likely, its that characters off-screen are made invisible (for performance), but sometimes when the go on-screen again they are delayed turning visible by a second or two, giving the appearance that they have been spawned or teleported.

This sounds plausible considering the situation, I would also like to thank you for fixing the building problem, in 0.74.32 I can indeed once again build outside of towns, which is better than somehow colonizing their town square :)