Does the beginner quest always lead you to Jen first off?

[A Pebble]

In my new A20 game I did the usual beginner quest to find out where the traders are. I complete it and it tells me trader is 2.1km away (oof). I go over there and find Jen.. Like at the start of literally every other playthrough.

I do missions long enough to get the first special job. It leads me to Trader Rekt, who was exactly 450m from where I spawned in at the start. Why did it make me run 2.1km to Jen instead of to Rekt? Does the game have bias towards making Jen your first trader?

[Zordiark Darkeater]

i never get jen as 1st trader.....

90% of the times i get Trader joel

HELL even if i go to other biomes i have a 80% chance to just get ANOTHER Trader joel lol

this is an ongoing thing for me for like a year now.
im ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ sick of Joel

[Rio]

My first alpha 20 (experimental) was trader bob. Though my first trader (stable) was jen.

[Loner]

Originally posted by Slick:

In my new A20 game I did the usual beginner quest to find out where the traders are. I complete it and it tells me trader is 2.1km away (oof). I go over there and find Jen.. Like at the start of literally every other playthrough.

I do missions long enough to get the first special job. It leads me to Trader Rekt, who was exactly 450m from where I spawned in at the start. Why did it make me run 2.1km to Jen instead of to Rekt? Does the game have bias towards making Jen your first trader?

That second trader, Rekt, is he in a different biome than forest ?

I tweaked my game yesterday and discovered that there is a filter that prevent the first trader quest from redirecting the player in another biome than forest. I get rid of that filter because my random map didn't have trader in forest, it was saying "no trader".

[CrazedTrucker]

The traders are random , from the beginning one on up.

We're on our 3rd map restart , but our 2nd map our noob trader was hugh, he sent us to jen then she sent us to jen and so on. We ended up with 1 hugh, 1 joel and i think 7 jens, and we hadn't even discovered them all. so who knows how many jens were on that map.

this map we're on our 4th jen so far.

[A Pebble]

Originally posted by Loner:

Originally posted by Slick:

In my new A20 game I did the usual beginner quest to find out where the traders are. I complete it and it tells me trader is 2.1km away (oof). I go over there and find Jen.. Like at the start of literally every other playthrough.

I do missions long enough to get the first special job. It leads me to Trader Rekt, who was exactly 450m from where I spawned in at the start. Why did it make me run 2.1km to Jen instead of to Rekt? Does the game have bias towards making Jen your first trader?

That second trader, Rekt, is he in a different biome than forest ?

I tweaked my game yesterday and discovered that there is a filter that prevent the first trader quest from redirecting the player in another biome than forest. I get rid of that filter because my random map didn't have trader in forest, it was saying "no trader".

Yes, where I spawned was right on the border of a desert biome and that's where Rekt was. If it purposely tries to keep you in the forest now for your first trader I guess that makes sense.. I don't agree with it though. Not a fan of walking 2km to my first trader

[Loner]

Originally posted by Slick:

Originally posted by Loner:

That second trader, Rekt, is he in a different biome than forest ?

I tweaked my game yesterday and discovered that there is a filter that prevent the first trader quest from redirecting the player in another biome than forest. I get rid of that filter because my random map didn't have trader in forest, it was saying "no trader".

Yes, where I spawned was right on the border of a desert biome and that's where Rekt was. If it purposely tries to keep you in the forest now for your first trader I guess that makes sense.. I don't agree with it though. Not a fan of walking 2km to my first trader

I created a mod for myself allowing the closest trader to be chosen without biome filters. Certainly not good for balance, but for me it is useful. https://7daystodiemods.com/no-trader-workaround/