Mystery cage beast spawning without a mod for them???

[kenpachi85]

I have had random cage beasts spawning in random parts of the map pretty much since I started playing the game and can't figure out why. I have no mods that add it not the animals all kinds of animals, Genesis or UWE. They most commonly spawned around Squin around the rim of the valley or in the area wherever I put my base almost like they are haunting me. This time I decided to down it with a eagles cross and see what would happen if I tried to tame it and sure enough I was able to and named it WTF. He moves around like the cage beasts did in Genesis hopefully keeping him as a pet doesn't corrupt my save or something.

Sorry I don't have pics I can take screenshots in other games but for some inexplicable reason kenshi doesn't let me. It says the button is F12 on the steam page and either F8 or printscreen in my ingame menu but none work it just won't take pics for me. Looked everywhere and this reddit post is the only other person that has seen these spawn without a mod. https://www.reddit.com/r/Kenshi/comments/biw8ki/found_a_cage_beast_whilst_fighting_dust_bandits/

[kenpachi85]

I did try Genesis once so I am familiar with them but they spawned well before and after trying that modpack. I've saved and reloaded the game a couple times to see if he would disappear from my squad but the tame beasties mod seemed to have worked on him and he isn't going away now. Before I tamed him he would just stand in place and not move even if you started shooting but would attack if you got in close with melee. After taming he walks around all normal like and will attack stuff I tell him too. I think my game is haunted

Actually was able to figure out screenshots turns out I needed steam overlay enabled.
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561199154867048/screenshots/?appid=233860

[Womp Womp]

Often, when you disable or add mods, you need to import your save to remove the old, or add the new.

[kenpachi85]

Oh this happened before I ever used Genesis and I import anytime my modlist changes. I tried Genesis a long time ago and the loading screens were too much there is not a trace of it in my modlist. I have a few thousand hrs in this game and 12 pages of mods I know how this stuff works and WTF has no reason to exist unless it's a easter egg from Living World or some other mod I've used since the beginning. The guy from the reddit post I linked to also did not have a mod that adds them in.

If I had mods that added them they would be for sale at the nomad village and nomad caravans among others would have them. These mystery cage beasts just randomly spawn standing perfectly still in random areas and don't exist anywhere else in the game world.

[kenpachi85]

Not making this up not looking for attention or trying to be weird here I have no mods that add these and yet the game seems to randomly birth them at times from thin air. If you don't import after removing most mods your game will crash when trying to load the save or at least mine does so trust me thats not the issue here.

[Hatsune Neko Gaming]

there is not much we can do about mod issue's.
importing your game is about the only option after disabling said mod(s).

Edit, you might want to try verifying your games cache as well.

[Shidan]

Odds are you just have a mod that adds them and either you just didn't notice it says it adds them, or the mod straight up doesn't say it adds them (it sucks, but some mods do crazy unrelated things, I once saw a furniture mod that altered weather data for no apparent reason).

[kenpachi85]

Shidan's idea about it being something somebody added in as a joke is all I can think of this playthrough has never had a mod installed that had them. Btw your a legend man ty for all the work you put into this game you as well Hatsune. To be clear this has happened over a dozen playthroughs even back when I just had a few mods namely 5x attack, living world and bandits expansion.

It's not a problem it's just been creeping me out how they can spawn like this and how they have seemed to follow me around at times spawning in the distance and just standing there like slenderman. I've shot them dead and had them respawn and continue to stand there looking at me in the distance. If somebody did this as a joke they are a genius actually and I'm tickled that the tame beasties mod worked on this phantom. Until I found that reddit post above I thought I was losing my mind but I'll just not question it since it doesn't hurt anything. There's a old bible saying "I am that I am" and this cage beast is that he is lol