Where have all the bandits gone?

[Blackkat]

I've started playing the game since last Friday. I have gone hunting and exploring. I have found bandit camps. I have yet to come across the bandits themselves. I have found caves and bears. I just haven't found any bandits. I was really looking forward to fighting bandits. That was the cherry on top of a medieval world building simulator game. I notice each time I play a new game, bandit camps don't show up in the same places. Same with abandoned wagons. I figure it's the same with bandits. Will they show up later?

[Goldi:AI]

The longer you play the more bandits spawn. So, if you are still in the early years there are fewer. They also change according to a random generator.

[rhwilson1953]

When starting a new game it takes a while for bandits to show up. Abandoned camps usually start from the beginning but the I believe the bandits takes 2 seasons before they appear, and then you need to be lucky or unlucky whichever way you want to say it to encounter them.

[TheMole]

Originally posted by rhwilson1953:

When starting a new game it takes a while for bandits to show up. Abandoned camps usually start from the beginning but the I believe the bandits takes 2 seasons before they appear, and then you need to be lucky or unlucky whichever way you want to say it to encounter them.

Bandits also spawn from day 1, although in very low numbers

[Morri]

Originally posted by TheMole:

Bandits also spawn from day 1, although in very low numbers

Can confirm. There's usually just one group in the entire valley at the start.

[bstangeby]

I think bandits should spawn in regular Numbers from day one. It is the first couple years you are running around the map. Later years have horse to ride or enough cash to spend on fast travel. I am 18 years into current game and only encountered bandits 3 times. Of course do not go looking for them and use the wagon guy all the time now.

[Goldi:AI]

Bandit camps by now start spawning from day one if not turned off. Their number and the strength of the bandits increases with time. From year 10 on you will have the most and strongest.

[nilsross]

Old thread i know BUT ! . I have traveled the roads thin and found no bandits after i build a structure at one of their spawn location. (north mine).
They deffinately spawn at fixed locations. so perhaps im blocking the spawn circle.
Perhaps there is a command to reset ?

[*Morri*]

Originally posted by nilsross:

I have traveled the roads thin and found no bandits after i build a structure at one of their spawn location. (north mine).
They deffinately spawn at fixed locations. so perhaps im blocking the spawn circle.
Perhaps there is a command to reset ?

There's many possible bandit spawn points all around the map. Blocking off one of them will not affect there suddenly being no bandits in the whole map anymore.
As with animal spawn points, if you build too close to a bandit spawn point, they won't spawn there anymore. The fix for that is very easy: destroy the building or road that's too close and the spawn point becomes available again the next season.
Keep in mind that those are RANDOM spawn points, so there's no guarantuee of bandits appearing there.