Russell, Marnie, and Basil: How to Hangout with folks who never leave their shops/homes?

[Koankitsune]

Russell and Marnie are ALWAYS at their shop counters, and no matter which angle I approach them from it just opens their shop menu. Basil seems to never even leave his home, except to shop at my store. I can't seem to initiate a Hangout with any of these characters, and am concerned that this may occur with other folks I'm in the process of unlocking (or that exist in the final two areas).

Am I missing something, or are these three just plain bugged?

[CaffeineCloud]

I haven't seen basil anywhere other than when he comes to my shop, which is almost never. I haven't had issues with the other two you mention, however I never really see them on the map to go bother either.

[Mystic Dragon]

I also have this problem with them; same with Penn. But certainly, I've never seen Basil outside of seeing him in my shop (or behind the counter of his).

[Wobblegong]

I managed to snag hangout time with Russel & Marnie– I spotted Marnie wandering another zone one night and hopped on that. Russel is surgically attached to his shop but I checked one day and he was standing *next to* the shop in chatty mode so I invited him to a hangout too. So those two aren't good, but they're functional.

Basil just doesn't exist, like CaffeineCloud says I've only seen him browsing my store a few times. That's it. Been checking every timeperiod of every day and he's absolutely nowhere to be seen if he's not buying a toothbrush from me.

[Koankitsune]

I managed to find Marnie wandering one evening and dropped everything to hang out with her. Russel never left his shop, but one night I found him clipped INTO the dirt mound on his property and he actually spoke with me, so I immediately maxed his friendship with some gathering. Still no Basil, but that seems to be the norm.

[Pseudo]

Having the same issues here, Russel and a few others driving me up a wall

I moved (hovered) their house to the other side of the map, waited for them to cross the map, the quickly put their house back and talked to them on their run home. That didn't work either. Just gotta wait for them to randomly wander out, I suppose!

[Rakeela]

It's Nellie's birthday and I can't give her the cake I made!

[AVSManfred]

honestly i feel like there should be option to choose between talk and buying from stall, or if it already is in game it should be easier avialable

[Embers]

I had Basil show up near another paleofolk's house and was able to get a hangout with him that way. However, I still have yet to see Chico leave his studio after I built it up for him.

[Koankitsune]

Rowan never seems to stop meditating, I've never gotten to hangout with him either, and I just beat the main storyline. Still never saw Basil or Chico outside of my store, and Basil has two locked quests (presumably locked by Friendship). He has what looks like a stall, but never attends it.

Some of these Paleofolk need serious work on their spawns and schedules.

[Wobblegong]

Originally posted by Koankitsune:

Rowan never seems to stop meditating, I've never gotten to hangout with him either, and I just beat the main storyline.

So I'm not sure if this was advanced double bugged or what, but I tried approaching Rowan's little tent from the wrong side to get the interaction/"store" prompt– I was standing left of it– and when I tried chatting I got the chatty dialogue (talk/gift/hangout/leave)!

He'd been sitting in there continuously since moving in but this let me drag him around banging rocks until he was at ♥5.

I don't think this solves Basil or Chico because they simply never appear on the map, but for shopkeepers this may be worth trying when they're at their stalls...?

[Koankitsune]

Originally posted by Wobblegong:

Originally posted by Koankitsune:

Rowan never seems to stop meditating, I've never gotten to hangout with him either, and I just beat the main storyline.

So I'm not sure if this was advanced double bugged or what, but I tried approaching Rowan's little tent from the wrong side to get the interaction/"store" prompt– I was standing left of it– and when I tried chatting I got the chatty dialogue (talk/gift/hangout/leave)!

He'd been sitting in there continuously since moving in but this let me drag him around banging rocks until he was at ♥5.

I don't think this solves Basil or Chico because they simply never appear on the map, but for shopkeepers this may be worth trying when they're at their stalls...?

I'll try it again, though I have his house facing left so I guess that would mean trying from the bottom... or rotating his house.

I'm quickly seeing why less than 2% of people have beaten the game at this point. I just finished the story, the 1 Million Amber, and the Every Resource achievement today, and now it's just finishing inviting people and doing their quests.