Robbers love winter?

[Gamilkar]

I noticed an interesting feature: in the winter, the robbers attacked me about 5 times, but at other times of the year much less often. Although at the same time, I travel on the map with the same intensity.
Is this the case for everyone or am I just lucky on winter villains?

[TheMole]

You just happen to be where the bandits spawn during the winter season

[Morri]

Y, just luck/unluck. The spawns are random.

[Gamilkar]

Originally posted by TheMole:

You just happen to be where the bandits spawn during the winter season

is there any information on how many bandit camps can spawn on the map per season?

[TuppenceStick]

The number of camps increases from the start of the game to year 10. The number of live spawns is random but I believe the maximum is 10, unless that's been updated.

[Dutchgamer1982]

Originally posted by Гамилькар:

Originally posted by TheMole:

You just happen to be where the bandits spawn during the winter season

is there any information on how many bandit camps can spawn on the map per season?

there are a number of fixed spawning spots for all "treasures"

that is
**a bandit camp in the woods
**an abadoned camp in the woods
**an abadoned lumber camp in the woods
**a chest + a shovel somewhere in the wilderness or on a mountain top
**a few pieces of clay + a shovel near a claypit
**a pile of rocks with a bag of coins below it
**a broken cart alongside a road
**two open barrels with ores scatters around them at the foot of high mountains
**a barrel, bag, or larger lost package at the water shore

while they generate with a bit of variantion (lodging camps can have 1, 2 or 3 stands, bandit camps can have 2-5 bandits and have more or less bags and so on) they will always generate on the same spots.

think of it like there are 100 such spots where treasures can spawn.
-each season than 10 will spawn, on a random selection of 10 of those 100 spots.
**with them spawning they also spawn lasting 1, 2 or 3 seasons.
-meaning 1, 2 or 3 seasons after they spawned, they are despawned, freeing that spot to spawn a new treasure at a later date.

as such the number of bandit camps per season is not fixed.

when you scoure the entire map in 30 day seasons to make sure you find all things.
I tend to find most seasons 2 bandit camps, with each 4 bandits.
but there are seasons where I only find 1 bandit camp..
and there are seasons where I find 4 bandit camps.. but most commonly I find 2 a season.

likewise I have had bandit camps with just 2 bandits but I also have had ones with 5.. but most commonly they have 4 or 3

[Gamilkar]

Originally posted by Dutchgamer1982:

Originally posted by Гамилькар:

is there any information on how many bandit camps can spawn on the map per season?

there are a number of fixed spawning spots for all "treasures"

that is
**a bandit camp in the woods
**an abadoned camp in the woods
**an abadoned lumber camp in the woods
**a chest + a shovel somewhere in the wilderness or on a mountain top
**a few pieces of clay + a shovel near a claypit
**a pile of rocks with a bag of coins below it
**a broken cart alongside a road
**two open barrels with ores scatters around them at the foot of high mountains
**a barrel, bag, or larger lost package at the water shore

while they generate with a bit of variantion (lodging camps can have 1, 2 or 3 stands, bandit camps can have 2-5 bandits and have more or less bags and so on) they will always generate on the same spots.

think of it like there are 100 such spots where treasures can spawn.
-each season than 10 will spawn, on a random selection of 10 of those 100 spots.
**with them spawning they also spawn lasting 1, 2 or 3 seasons.
-meaning 1, 2 or 3 seasons after they spawned, they are despawned, freeing that spot to spawn a new treasure at a later date.

as such the number of bandit camps per season is not fixed.

when you scoure the entire map in 30 day seasons to make sure you find all things.
I tend to find most seasons 2 bandit camps, with each 4 bandits.
but there are seasons where I only find 1 bandit camp..
and there are seasons where I find 4 bandit camps.. but most commonly I find 2 a season.

likewise I have had bandit camps with just 2 bandits but I also have had ones with 5.. but most commonly they have 4 or 3

thanks for the detailed answer. Have you ever had a bandit camp spawn in a cave for several seasons in a row?

[Dutchgamer1982]

Originally posted by Гамилькар:

Originally posted by Dutchgamer1982:

there are a number of fixed spawning spots for all "treasures"

that is
**a bandit camp in the woods
**an abadoned camp in the woods
**an abadoned lumber camp in the woods
**a chest + a shovel somewhere in the wilderness or on a mountain top
**a few pieces of clay + a shovel near a claypit
**a pile of rocks with a bag of coins below it
**a broken cart alongside a road
**two open barrels with ores scatters around them at the foot of high mountains
**a barrel, bag, or larger lost package at the water shore

while they generate with a bit of variantion (lodging camps can have 1, 2 or 3 stands, bandit camps can have 2-5 bandits and have more or less bags and so on) they will always generate on the same spots.

think of it like there are 100 such spots where treasures can spawn.
-each season than 10 will spawn, on a random selection of 10 of those 100 spots.
**with them spawning they also spawn lasting 1, 2 or 3 seasons.
-meaning 1, 2 or 3 seasons after they spawned, they are despawned, freeing that spot to spawn a new treasure at a later date.

as such the number of bandit camps per season is not fixed.

when you scoure the entire map in 30 day seasons to make sure you find all things.
I tend to find most seasons 2 bandit camps, with each 4 bandits.
but there are seasons where I only find 1 bandit camp..
and there are seasons where I find 4 bandit camps.. but most commonly I find 2 a season.

likewise I have had bandit camps with just 2 bandits but I also have had ones with 5.. but most commonly they have 4 or 3

thanks for the detailed answer. Have you ever had a bandit camp spawn in a cave for several seasons in a row?

I have not yet ever had bandits spawn in a cave.
-> I have had bandits most commonly spawn near a road (either with or without a roadblock)
-> I have had bandits spawn in the middle of the woods, far away from anything remotely interesting not near a road or river.
but not yet in caves..

most commonly bandits spawn near roads... if you walk all the roads in the map... you will find most of the bandits.

[Kwalyz]

Originally posted by Dutchgamer1982:

Originally posted by Гамилькар:

thanks for the detailed answer. Have you ever had a bandit camp spawn in a cave for several seasons in a row?

I have not yet ever had bandits spawn in a cave.
.

By cave, they mean at the entrance to a mine that you can harvest salt, tin and copper in. So if you have built mines at all the caves that you can mine then you will never get bandits spawn there as your building will block theur spawn location.
I’ve had bandits spawn in front of one mine(cave) but not multiple seasons in a row so far.
I usually encounter three to five bandit camps each season. A mixture of locations from ambushes, roadside camps and away from the road camps.

[Gamilkar]

I had a cave in a game in which 5-person bandit camps appeared for several seasons in a row. It was fun.

[Dutchgamer1982]

Originally posted by Гамилькар:

I had a cave in a game in which 5-person bandit camps appeared for several seasons in a row. It was fun.

once I had a 5 bandit camp whith all 5 jumping on me just as I walked around a corner with a rock obscuring them from vieuw.. and as I was combatting them.. 6 wolves jumped in on the action... I had to load a savegame that day..

5 bandit + 6 wolves all at once is a bit too much;)

[Gamilkar]

Originally posted by Dutchgamer1982:

Originally posted by Гамилькар:

I had a cave in a game in which 5-person bandit camps appeared for several seasons in a row. It was fun.

once I had a 5 bandit camp whith all 5 jumping on me just as I walked around a corner with a rock obscuring them from vieuw.. and as I was combatting them.. 6 wolves jumped in on the action... I had to load a savegame that day..

5 bandit + 6 wolves all at once is a bit too much;)

in such a situation, only fast legs can help =)