Witches

[Vorpal]

So, these Mother F*****s keep showing up. Even when i don't have a forge or Fire or ANYTHING going on. It's super annoying. What's going on? Why is she showing up?

[Vorpal]

I only have one up. I get them like, every 3-4hours in game. it's driving me nuts!

[Fruts]

She shows up cause of the "heat" u produce. And it doesn't mean heat from candles, torches, campfires or torches. Just everything u do or build in a certain area of the map or with how many players etc... Even workbenches, crates, cement mixer etc etc all adjust to heat...

[Nobody]

muhahahaha
Works as intended ^^

Nothing that make noise,light, heat or smoke ?

[Splatter58]

Even Building a base will raise your heat map. Go do some exploring for a few game days. That should allow the heat map to go down some. Good luck. Once you have maxed out on heat it doesn`t take much to keep it high.

[NotReally]

Or place bunch of spikes around your base... I always laugh as they walk into them and die.

[Enzane]

Heat is raised by anything that needs fuel. forge/chem station,/cookfire Anything that does not need fuel, cement mixer, workbence, crates and number of players does not raise the heatmap. Torches and candles do raise the heat map, but candles very slightly. An animal that dies, but then not harvested will decay after some time. A decaying animal will raise your heatmap significantly. Some tools when used will also raise the heatmap, but at a minor rate, accept augers/chainsaws which can raise it very fast.

The easiest way to test what raises the heatmap is to play a SP map, then go F1, type ~ symbol. Then hit F8 twice. This will bring up a running total for your heatmap in a chunk. Go into creative mode and place anything you want, bang away with a gun, pipe bomb, whack away with a pick, shovel, axe, or sledge and actually see what cause the heatmap value to rise.

Do not get a random wondering horde and a heatmap horde confused. You can not stop a random wondering horde from spawning. It just happens and when the wondering random horde spawns, it will make a bee line towards the area that the targeted play was at when it spawned.

A heat map horde will begin with a screamer(s). When spawned they/her will move towards the area where the heatmap was trigged. Could be your forge, gun fire, dead decaying animal. If a player is then noticed by a screamer, it will scream and trigger a heatmap horde.