Spawn rate makes it unplayable

[JJAttack]

We wanted to build a little, but 20 days in and getting so many spawning so often that there's no point, it's ridiculous. Is there no way to turn this down anymore?

[Lady MacBeth]

Um, zombies are on a 2.9 day respawn in most biomes (just look in the xml if you don't believe me). Only the wasteland is faster respawn iirc and only at night. The only thing I can think of is that you are generating enormous amounts of heat and are getting screamers to spawn. If thats the case, well thats the intended mechanic. You could always turn zombies off or edit the xml to suit your tastes.

Either that or your not playing vanilla. I know I love darkness falls because the world is full of zombies. Lots and Lots of zombies. I can do this in vanilla too with the xml, but theres other things about darkness falls I like. But if you are playing an overhaul mod alot of them have much higher zombie spawns.

[Infrasound]

I like the screamers. I keep it alive to bring the rest. XP!! lol

[↯Zindy⛦]

i could be wrong or this could be outdated info but changes to the environment, i.e. destroying or adding blocks also contribute to activity that will trigger screamers

[Stotch]

Lay down turrets while working, helps for me.

["Hard Tack" Tom]

yeah 3 turrets around my base in a triangle formation was all i ever needed to keep the screamers away. They only scream and spawn zombies when they see a player, and they're very weak so the turrets would kill them for days without using hardly ammo. just be sure to take out the ammo every 7th day cause that'll drain them real quick.

[Confector426]

Look, I understand the heat map, but seriously. I didn't even have time to place down 4 blocks to try and start building a house without getting a screamer every 30 seconds.

That's just way over the top. If they want to force us to a nomad only playstyle, then they need to remove crafting altogether.

As it is, the game is unplayable to me unless i find a way to tone this down without killing the entire idea of the game.

In the time it took me to write this, 7 screamers have spawned.

That is ridiculous. And to think i removed my rant review of this game

[Lady MacBeth]

Originally posted by Confector426:

Look, I understand the heat map, but seriously. I didn't even have time to place down 4 blocks to try and start building a house without getting a screamer every 30 seconds.

That's just way over the top. If they want to force us to a nomad only playstyle, then they need to remove crafting altogether.

As it is, the game is unplayable to me unless i find a way to tone this down without killing the entire idea of the game.

In the time it took me to write this, 7 screamers have spawned.

That is ridiculous. And to think i removed my rant review of this game

Something is seriously screwed up with your files then, or you are out right lying. I have over 300 hours in A19 and what you are saying doesn't happen.

[SylenThunder]

Originally posted by Ming:

Originally posted by Confector426:

Look, I understand the heat map, but seriously. I didn't even have time to place down 4 blocks to try and start building a house without getting a screamer every 30 seconds.

That's just way over the top. If they want to force us to a nomad only playstyle, then they need to remove crafting altogether.

As it is, the game is unplayable to me unless i find a way to tone this down without killing the entire idea of the game.

In the time it took me to write this, 7 screamers have spawned.

That is ridiculous. And to think i removed my rant review of this game

Something is seriously screwed up with your files then, or you are out right lying. I have over 300 hours in A19 and what you are saying doesn't happen.

No offense to the OP, but Ming is 100% correct here. What you are describing is not possible given the nature of the heat system. Either you've got some screwed up data, or it's a mod you're using causing it.

You would not see this kind of activity unless you have a forest of torches up, or a few forges/workstations going with a lot of building activity. Note that if you're especially noisy in killing the screamer and their spawned group, you're just going to raise the heatmap even more and get more screamers. To end it, kill the screamers first and fast.

[Confector426]

I haven't modded ANYTHING, vanilla install. I'll uninstall and reinstall but seriously ya'll need an attitude adjustment via morse code and a blunt object. FFS

[Blue Hasia]

Originally posted by Ming:

Originally posted by Confector426:

Look, I understand the heat map, but seriously. I didn't even have time to place down 4 blocks to try and start building a house without getting a screamer every 30 seconds.

That's just way over the top. If they want to force us to a nomad only playstyle, then they need to remove crafting altogether.

As it is, the game is unplayable to me unless i find a way to tone this down without killing the entire idea of the game.

In the time it took me to write this, 7 screamers have spawned.

That is ridiculous. And to think i removed my rant review of this game

Something is seriously screwed up with your files then, or you are out right lying. I have over 300 hours in A19 and what you are saying doesn't happen.

He is not lying. things like that can happen. devs need to remove that screamers can spawn more screamers

[Blue Hasia]

Originally posted by Confector426:

I haven't modded ANYTHING, vanilla install. I'll uninstall and reinstall but seriously ya'll need an attitude adjustment via morse code and a blunt object. FFS

poeple on the forums some times get on a high horse because the screamer spam never happens to them it doesnt exist.

but it has happened to me also.

one night had about 20 screamers come in with all heat sources off.

new screamers just kept coming in adding to a larger and larger horde night and it wasn't even a blood moon

[seven]

I have almost a thousand hours in A19 and have experienced an unending stream of screamers one time. I'd kill one and there would be another one coming from another direction. I finally just drove away and that broke the cycle. I've also had a problem with spawning slowing down to where I wouldn't see any zombies except sleepers in POIs or a wandering horde outside of BM. I think the above posters are right it's not normal, but spawning does seem to get messed up at times.

[Lady MacBeth]

Originally posted by Blue Hasia:

Originally posted by Ming:

Something is seriously screwed up with your files then, or you are out right lying. I have over 300 hours in A19 and what you are saying doesn't happen.

He is not lying. things like that can happen. devs need to remove that screamers can spawn more screamers

He states that he didn't even get to place 4 blocks to start building a house and screamers started spawning on him every 30 seconds. That is an install problem, or a lie. PERIOD.

[vgifford]

I think I've seen 2 screamers in 265 days. I have NEVER seen more that one screamer at a time. I would like to see proof on these claims. Unless you are screamer farming xp, or the game has been modded, what is being described doesnt normally happen. If you keep in mind the HEAT map and HOW screamers spawn, screamers can be avoided almost all together. You have multiple screamers? How many campfires you have burning? How many forges, Working that Auger? How about that M60 you've been shooting for the last 5 minutes? There are peices to this puzzle that are missing.

[turrón master]

what the hell are you building? on my most recent world, im 40 days in and have easily kept my heat down enough with just a little bit of moderation. on another world, it took me about 100 days to get a screamer.