So, check your map for traders before you get too far.

[seven]

I started a game and just picked the first pregen in the list, Pregen04kA. Finished up through tier 3 quests and still no opening trade route to Bob. Well, there's no Bob. I figured I'd be safe playing one of the maps they include with the download, but no.

[KhanWolf95]

Originally posted by seven:

Originally posted by seven:

That might work. If I get around to it that's what I'll try. Easiest would be to edit prefabs.xml in the world folder and change one of those trader_hugh to trader_bob. Best would be one in an area you haven't been to yet.

What Prince Persona suggested will work for the Meet trader bob challenge, but the spawned trader will not persist so can't use him for missions etc.

So, that worked. I edited prefabs.xml and changed one of the trader_hughs to trader_bob. I went back to Jen and now she had an opening trade route mission for me. Went to Bob (formerly known as Hugh) and got the Meet trader Bob completion message. So, that is a way to fix it.

I tried editing the prefabs.xml and changed the two copies of rekt to joel and bob and I reloaded the save file and they are still rekt compounds and traders but has the name changed? How to fix?

[seven]

Originally posted by KhanWolf95:

Originally posted by seven:

So, that worked. I edited prefabs.xml and changed one of the trader_hughs to trader_bob. I went back to Jen and now she had an opening trade route mission for me. Went to Bob (formerly known as Hugh) and got the Meet trader Bob completion message. So, that is a way to fix it.

I tried editing the prefabs.xml and changed the two copies of rekt to joel and bob and I reloaded the save file and they are still rekt compounds and traders but has the name changed? How to fix?

Before attempting any fix make a backup of your save.

If you have already visited those traders than those chunks/regions have already been generated on the map. As long as your base or other structures aren't near them you can regenerate those areas and it should bring in the replacement traders. You can do this by just deleting the appropriate region files from .../<yoursavename>/Region. Identifying the proper region file I'll try to explain below.

A second way that can work is go to the trader you want to update and then in the console use the chunkreset command, I think "cr f" without the quotes will work but it's been a while since I've done that for a trader. It can cause the trader to duplicate though in past experience.

A third way, if you have chunkreset enabled in the game options you can also just stay out of the area until it resets.


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So, identifying the region file. Go to the trader, enable debug mode (with dm in the console) and then press F3 to display an information panel. Open your inventory so you have a cursor, and then click on the "Ch" radio button at the top of that panel. Now in the text below it will show Region and a name like r.-1.2.7rg. That will be region file you will need to delete. Leave the area before exiting the game, and then delete that file. When you visit the area again it should generate with the replacement trader.

[UrbanNoodles]

The moment I realized traders were tied to zones, I knew I had to spam generate maps till each zone was the right size to have at least 1 trader - which took a long time to do even with the 4x map creation speed. Honestly, the devs should at least make it so the minimum % for a zone still spawns 1 trader, even if there is no town around it. That would fix the quest progression issues. (I love snow biome so much that I want it to be the majority - but it becomes a nightmare to make it the majority without losing traders in one of the other zones)

[Porky_Jones]

If you create a custom map and turn the percentage for a single biome very low, then sometimes no trader will be rendered into that biome. I generated over 30 maps and successfully reproduced that error. I also show it in my video on YT.

[coberloco]

Originally posted by seven:

I started a game and just picked the first pregen in the list, Pregen04kA. Finished up through tier 3 quests and still no opening trade route to Bob. Well, there's no Bob. I figured I'd be safe playing one of the maps they include with the download, but no.

Same problem on a self gen map. In fairness to TFP though, it's 4k and I didn't know to check each biome for a red dot.

Looks like I'll be starting over. Already have something like 108 of the 120 challenges too.

[MayaTKOTC]

read the warning in the world generator

[Nerevar]

dont play pregen. use world gen to make your own pregen maps are outdated. dont go below 6k map size. make sure every biome has the same size. then youll get all traders 100%.

[OZFugazi]

hi..

i made a post/request on something similar as to creating an option to either select the trader per biome or at least have a tick to randomize it. it got buried pretty fast, BUT, there was a reply that might be helpful here.. give a look.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/251570/discussions/0/4417551094437375456/

all the best.

[seven]

Originally posted by Nerevar:

dont play pregen. use world gen to make your own pregen maps are outdated. dont go below 6k map size. make sure every biome has the same size. then youll get all traders 100%.

Well, if you stretch it I guess you could say the pregen maps are outdated. They were built with version 1.0 build 302 and we're now on build 313. New players are quite likely to just start with the pregen maps. The maps should have been checked before they were included in the steam download package.

There is a generic warning about "changing these settings may break trader progression" but the default map size is 8k, and biome sizes are not the same. And are we not supposed to change any of the other settings? That seems pretty boring.

If they are going to force this fixed progression on us, then the map generator should not allow maps that break it, or at least a warning at the end "this map does not include all traders, do you really want to continue?"

[MINININJA]

im the admin for my server and was missing trader bob. if you have admin permission you can tp the trader bob if its in the tppoi. if it is in there you can tp to it and use debug mode and reset the chunk data. was looking all over the dester for trader bob couldnt find him so i decided to turn on admin mode and see if the poi for trade bob was there it had the poi but when i tp to it it wasnt generated in my world just flate land. so i opened up debug mode. if you dont know how to do so hit f1 type dm for debug mode then type cr for chunk reset (must be at the location of were you want to reset it if you do it in your base it will wipe out your base and everything around it and set it back to the default area)