trap base

[Zombiewarpig]

I must be missing something as I can not get the horde to step foot on any foundations. I made a hallway leading to the spacetime beacon with no stairs and they just hit the walls and refuse to proceed. The video shows them climbing stairs and going through a maze of traps and I can't get them to do a straight line. It's like they have no ai pathing programmed.

[Nordaak]

If you have the beacon surrounded by foundations in the middle or anywhere in your base that is the issue. They need a clear path from the "lure" to the "beacon". Way to fix this is to place the "beacon" in a 2 foundation space (one for the beacon, one for a set of stairs). They will then flow from the lure, up the outside stairs, run your maze and attempt to get to the beacon down the stairs you placed there.

Hope that helps!

[Zombiewarpig]

I see, so I just can't enclose the beacon. Thanks for your help, I was going nuts for a second.

[Nordaak]

If you just enclose the beacon the AI will just stop at the stairs and start attacking them, when the stairs are destroyed they will commence with everything else, working their way to the beacon.

[Groovy]

Originally posted by Nordaak:

If you have the beacon surrounded by foundations in the middle or anywhere in your base that is the issue. They need a clear path from the "lure" to the "beacon". Way to fix this is to place the "beacon" in a 2 foundation space (one for the beacon, one for a set of stairs). They will then flow from the lure, up the outside stairs, run your maze and attempt to get to the beacon down the stairs you placed there.

Hope that helps!

Are you able to place the beacon on a foundation? Seemed like it wouldn't let me.

[walterf2000]

Originally posted by Nordaak:

If you have the beacon surrounded by foundations in the middle or anywhere in your base that is the issue. They need a clear path from the "lure" to the "beacon". Way to fix this is to place the "beacon" in a 2 foundation space (one for the beacon, one for a set of stairs). They will then flow from the lure, up the outside stairs, run your maze and attempt to get to the beacon down the stairs you placed there.

Hope that helps!

Can someone please describe this in more detail


I have the same problem.
The Monster don't use the stairs.
They either destroy the stairs or run around the outside.

And
They used the stairs.
I put some railing
Then they destroyed the stairs
I destroyed the railings
The monster destroy the stairs again

[Zombiewarpig]

Beacon goes on the ground, you can build around it so long as you have stairs that go to the ground as well to access it. from there you can make your maze and set the trap where you want them to start.

[wolfpack]

aight side topic question

can u place spawner further away from beacon? some reason we can only spawn spawner a couple platforms away from beacon but we want it further away to increase maze

[Zombiewarpig]

Originally posted by wolfpack:

aight side topic question

can u place spawner further away from beacon? some reason we can only spawn spawner a couple platforms away from beacon but we want it further away to increase maze

You have to place spawner inside circle of beacon but you can upgrade beacon to a bigger radius.

[Zombiewarpig]

Originally posted by Zombiewarpig:

Originally posted by wolfpack:

aight side topic question

can u place spawner further away from beacon? some reason we can only spawn spawner a couple platforms away from beacon but we want it further away to increase maze

You have to place spawner inside circle of beacon and it's circle can not touch your base, but you can upgrade beacon to a bigger radius.

[Rex Smashington]

TLDR: AI Is too stupid to navigate any placeable structures. For a big emphasis of this game basically being "Rust with PVE", the PVE really got no love at all during development.

[Das Hexenmeister]

Originally posted by Zombiewarpig:

Originally posted by wolfpack:

aight side topic question

can u place spawner further away from beacon? some reason we can only spawn spawner a couple platforms away from beacon but we want it further away to increase maze

You have to place spawner inside circle of beacon but you can upgrade beacon to a bigger radius.

How do I upgrade my beacon to a bigger radius?

[Zombiewarpig]

Originally posted by Das Hexenmeister:

Originally posted by Zombiewarpig:

You have to place spawner inside circle of beacon but you can upgrade beacon to a bigger radius.

How do I upgrade my beacon to a bigger radius?

Click open beacon and then hammer which shows what you need on you to upgrade

[Das Hexenmeister]

Originally posted by Zombiewarpig:

Originally posted by Das Hexenmeister:

How do I upgrade my beacon to a bigger radius?

Click open beacon and then hammer which shows what you need on you to upgrade

I feel stupid but thank you.

[Hellgater]

Hmmm. Is it only the inside ring radius that grows? Reason I ask is that I placed a foundation where the outer ring was before upgrading from 1 to 2. It didn't move. Upgraded to 3 and the outside ring still didn't move. I didn't, however. Mark the inside. Now I have to test again unless someone knows :). Thank you for the two space knowledge. Couldn't figure out why they hated paths haha

[Das Hexenmeister]

Originally posted by Hellgater:

Hmmm. Is it only the inside ring radius that grows? Reason I ask is that I placed a foundation where the outer ring was before upgrading from 1 to 2. It didn't move. Upgraded to 3 and the outside ring still didn't move. I didn't, however. Mark the inside. Now I have to test again unless someone knows :). Thank you for the two space knowledge. Couldn't figure out why they hated paths haha

From what I saw, the inner ring grows. I did the opposite and looked where the inner one was then upgraded and had seen it moved. You can only place the lure up to the inner ring anyway.