blood moon enemy spawn count confusion

[d_d_c_95]

ive been bit confused since way back what does the enemy spawn count number mean in the settings ive always had it set to lowest cause i prefere the base building aspect of this game a bit over the combat but ive noticed even at lowest they still keep coming after the number i selected . does that number just represent how many per wave and waves keep coming till morning?

[Shurenai]

The blood moon has a total number of zombies to spawn based on your game stage, and will continue spawning new zombies as you kill them until that number is depleted or morning arrives.

Blood Moon Count, as it explains when you mouse over it in the menu, is how many Blood Moon zombies are alive at any one time per player; If you set it to 4, then only 4 will be alive at any time, and if you kill one, one will respawn.

[Kamui]

If you exit the game and enter the wave will "restart" even if you already beaten it.

[d_d_c_95]

ok ty both i guess that one time when i had it set to 4 and there was closer to 40 was a bug then

[Ragequit Inc.]

Originally posted by d_d_c_95:

ok ty both i guess that one time when i had it set to 4 and there was closer to 40 was a bug then

No.

Just to correct before things go to ♥♥♥♥ for you; like Shurenai said, the 'Blood Moon Count' setting within the world options ONLY determines how many zombies you get AT A TIME, ie. it's how many zombies you will have coming at you at any given time, during the blood moon.

The TOTAL number of zombies that spawn during a blood moon depends on your gamestage. That's not related to the 'Blood Moon Count' setting.

(I've just repeated exactly what Shurenai said, but hopefully a bit clearer, I don't know, lol)

[Kamui]

I'm not 100% sure, but i think this number is per player. So if you are 3 players, make it x3. Correct me if i'm wrong plx.

[d_d_c_95]

purely a solo player here. and that incedent i was talking about was on the first and second blood moon it was also way way back in games history

[SiEgE]

Originally posted by d_d_c_95:

ive been bit confused since way back what does the enemy spawn count number mean in the settings ive always had it set to lowest cause i prefere the base building aspect of this game a bit over the combat but ive noticed even at lowest they still keep coming after the number i selected . does that number just represent how many per wave and waves keep coming till morning?

The value is either max amount of zombies per wave, or max amount of zombies total during bloodmoon, per player, per wave(or just per player).
If you want to see less zombies - you need a mod that reduces the max total amount of zombies. The said value also overrides the bloodmoon zombie count. I keep it at 20 so I won't lag out every now and then.

[ltlvxn]

Resurrecting this thread as it touches on what my question is about. It also might be a really stupid question, but I can’t find an answer, so I’m curious.

I understand the Blood Moon count, but if you have your game set to no enemies spawning, does that include the blood moon? I enjoy the scavenging and building aspects of the game mostly, but I like a bit of the zombie stuff too, so having a set number of zombies spawning periodically would be pretty neat imho.

[Ragequit Inc.]

Originally posted by ltlvxn:

Resurrecting this thread as it touches on what my question is about. It also might be a really stupid question, but I can’t find an answer, so I’m curious.

I understand the Blood Moon count, but if you have your game set to no enemies spawning, does that include the blood moon? I enjoy the scavenging and building aspects of the game mostly, but I like a bit of the zombie stuff too, so having a set number of zombies spawning periodically would be pretty neat imho.

Yes, it includes BM's, so no zombies will spawn.

In your case, what I'd do (unless you wanna go into modding) is exit the game just before a Blood Moon is about to start (at 22.00/10pm) and turn the enemy spawning on.

Then, after the horde night is finished -meaning the next MORNING, NOT only after the horde zombies have stopped coming- just turn enemy spawning off again. This does potentially mean that you might have some 'regular' spawns elsewhere during the night as well, so prepare to clean those up as you continue.