Please explain respawn and land claim

[Zarakaï]

Heya, I'm a bit lost with the respawn and land claim mechanics. I've built a wheel of pain near a small pirate den ( the Crevisse, in the jungle to the East ), captured two NPCs and killed the others.

But now the NPCs won't respawn ( even after restart ). Even the three chests with loot inside their base disappeared. I thought it was IMPOSSIBLE to build inside a base and make NPCs not respawn ? And I didn't build inside their base anyway but outside.

Now I want to make a wheel of pain near Flotsam ( the pirate village to the far East ) to capture their taskmaster and a few other thralls, but I can't. Their is a HUGE radius around Flotsam that prevents building completely.

How does this work exaclty ?

[[CoR]Therenikus]

You have a certain radius around every piece you build that claims the land. Is an npc like a pirate or an object like a chest within, it won’t respawn. If playing solo, you can edit the land claim radius multiplier found in the server config of a hosted server or in \Steam\steamapps\common\Conan Exiles\ConanSandbox\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor\ServerSettings.ini when hosting your own game.
Most likely you will run with 0.2-0.5 multiplier, else many player claim most of the map.
Claimed zones by npc cities can be tricky, your best bet is to build a bridge to get your slaves. Or you use the mod to be able to drag slaves while swimming.

[Zarakaï]

So if I build a wheel of pain at the border of the land owned by Flotsam, the NPCs in Flotsam won't respawn ? Even if it's far away ?

The "claim" radius works on the land itself or just the chests/npcs inside ? If I build something and my radius overlaps Flotsam's beach a bit will it claim all Flotsam ? Even if the NPCs are far away ?

[[CoR]Therenikus]

Just imagine 20 blocks around every item you built, even though the 20 is just an example. Everything that falls within those 20 blocks is technically not existent any more.

[Zarakaï]

Yeah but even the NPCs far away from the wheel at the Crevisse didn't respawn, so it deletes the whole camp and not just what's in the radius of the wheel.

Now I've built a wheel of pain near Flotsam, I'll see if the NPCs respawn or not just because my ♥♥♥'s radius overlaps their land a bit.

It would be stupid if they don't respawn because a tiny bit of their beach 1km away from Flotsam got claimed...

[[CoR]Therenikus]

I checked on my server with a small camp next to tower and it took out the whole camp as well. Only way to solve is reduce claim multiplier as much as possible, but that depends purely on the server.