PSA: DON'T CAPTURE MERCHANTS IN SERVERS!

[Shade Wintergaze]

Once you capture a merchant, it will never respawn, even if you drop or butcher it.
Don't be "that guy" and prevent other people from using the merchants by capturing them.

I did this on the server my friend runs, before we knew this, and it sucks.
Usually these merchants are near fast travel points, so just take the few extra clicks it takes to travel to them.

Hopefully this is fixed soon, either by making merchants respawn, or by adding a special exception to merchants that make them uncatchable.

Edit: To clarify, I'm talking about the merchants specifically placed in villages, not any random spawns.
It has been 2 real life days and 1 server reboot since I captured the red and green coat in Duneshelter, and they have not respawned.
I also made sure to do a quick double check on Google to make sure this wasn't an isolated incident, and have found other people reporting the same thing, that capturing in specific doesn't lead to a respawn (but killing does).

This is also all in context to a multiplayer server, I cannot speak about single player, as I play exclusively in multiplayer.

[DemonchanSama (Lilyia)]

They could also just make merchants to where they are unkillable or uncapturable.

[Carnatux]

Originally posted by DemonchanSama (Lilyia):

They could also just make merchants to where they are unkillable or uncapturable.

or make them respawn

[GustavoM]

Originally posted by Shade Wintergaze:

Don't be "that guy" and prevent other people from using the merchants by capturing them.

Today, in "things that motivates griefers to ruin games".

[GamingWithSilvertail]

They do respawn.

[Alex]

Or capture all the merchants and then charge other players to be able to come use them at your base!

[Nikusui 😗]

They don't respawn? oh shiz.

[Aigle1705]

well there are event merchants. those being atked by faction or wild pals.
kill the aggressors n capture the weakend merchant without even getting a bounty. :)

those respawn unlimited.

[GustavoM]

Originally posted by Alex:

Or capture all the merchants and then charge other players to be able to come use them at your base!

That's... brilliant.
I will take notes if I ever venture myself into the marvelous world of the official servers once again.

[Butcher]

Originally posted by Nikusui 😗:

They don't respawn? oh shiz.

They absolutely positively respawn. Every NPC in all settlements respawn endlessly. OP is saying wrong thing.

[GamingWithSilvertail]

Originally posted by Exactly 150 Snails:

Originally posted by GamingWithSilvertail:

They do respawn.

Some of them legitimately wander arround. Could be what you think is them respawning is just you finding one of ther other ones that wander?

No, They definiatly do respawn. It just takes a few in game days.

And if you're playing multiplayer, you gotta threat it as world of warcraft rared camping if this happens on your server.

Dont litterally do this thou, so check the spawns every in game day.

[Exactly 150 Snails]

Pretty sure that they do respawn, but will air on the fence of caution.

The merchants gets attacked by syndicate and other pals and are pretty squishy and does not attack back. Pretty sure that pocketpair made them respawnable, otherwise nearly all of them would just die.

[Exactly 150 Snails]

Originally posted by GamingWithSilvertail:

Originally posted by Exactly 150 Snails:

Some of them legitimately wander arround. Could be what you think is them respawning is just you finding one of ther other ones that wander?

No, They definiatly do respawn. It just takes a few in game days.

And if you're playing multiplayer, you gotta threat it as world of warcraft rared camping if this happens on your server.

yeah, did not think it through when i replied to you. removed my comment too late before wasting your time :/

But as mentioned before, they get attacked so i am also pretty sure they respawn. otherwise they would die out on a server really fast.

[GamingWithSilvertail]

Originally posted by Exactly 150 Snails:

Originally posted by GamingWithSilvertail:

No, They definiatly do respawn. It just takes a few in game days.

And if you're playing multiplayer, you gotta threat it as world of warcraft rared camping if this happens on your server.

yeah, did not think it through when i replied to you. removed my comment too late before wasting your time :/

But as mentioned before, they get attacked so i am also pretty sure they respawn. otherwise they would die out on a server really fast.

Well its also a problem that as people join the server or so, early on in a server, these are wanted.

Once a server starts to get settled, I am sure you'll get an easyer time beccause theyr gonna be less wanted.

[Lord Bofa]

Bro.. this thread is just going to make people want to catch them even more just to troll LOL

[Nia Nythara]

So my friend has a 24/7 server set up and the small settlement merchant DID NOT RESPAWN i repeat the merchant on a steam dedicated server DID NOT RESPAWN it have been over 20 in game days and night, 2 server restarts and 2 real life days of server 99% online no merchant