Fuling Village: Monster respawn building(s)?

[fredo76]

sweeping the plains, we discovered that we could only stop the massive respawn of fulings in their villages if we destroyed the whole thing. We wonder: What building makes them respawn?
There is no "nest" and no "pile" anywhere to be seen, like in the black forest or the swamp.

[knighttemplar1960]

Here is another angle on the village.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2847009398
In the first screen shot you can see a fuling that has exited the small building on the left. There is also a fuling in the second floor of the larger building which you can see in the other screen shot. There are also 2 more fulings and a shaman inside the bottom floor of the larger building the shaman never exits the building though only the ordinary fulings.

When they respawn the numbers are always the same. 5 ordinary fulings and 1 shaman and they always start out in the same places 1 fuling in the smaller building, 1 in the top of the larger building and 2 ordinary and 1 shaman in the lower level of the larger building. I killed the shaman a couple of times and it always respawns exactly the same every 3 game days. If I remember right I have similar set up with a much larger fuling village on the other side of this section of plains that is also adjacent to a decent sized dragur village. When I get a minute or 2 I'll sail over there and see if I can get a few screen shots of that one too.

[Pantstron]

Wow this is amazing, so maybe the fulings respawn as long as you don't kill all the fulings in village. Maybe once all killed it automatically destroys the respawn mechanic?

[knighttemplar1960]

Originally posted by Fzanco:

Wow this is amazing, so maybe the fulings respawn as long as you don't kill all the fulings in village. Maybe once all killed it automatically destroys the respawn mechanic?

Nope. I've killed all the fulings in the village several times now both with and without the dragurs helping. If 3 or more game days pass between visits the same number and types of fulings spawn in the same places in the village. I picked all the barley that grew there after killing all the fulings once and the barley hasn't respawned/regrown. That was OK though since I used that barley to start my own barley farm.

I'm not sure where the fuling that spawns in the upper level of that building would spawn if I destroyed the upper level or the entire building.

[Complaintdesk]

I have cleared probably close to 100 Fuling garrisons of all their inhabitants, leaving all the buildings and totems intact, and have never seen more than 1 or at the most 2 spawn in the vicinity (usually during nightfall). I have also cleared and repurposed numerous Fuling garrisons and keeps, always leaving the totems with their Fuling effigies in place, and have never had any problems with Fulings respawning. If this respawning mechanic is happening, it is due to a very recent patch.

[knighttemplar1960]

Those screen shots are from the 2nd week of August. I've been back there several times since then and have always come up with 5 or 6 black metal scrap (probably because I couldn't find one that the dragurs killed.) I gathered all the black metal I needed for my sword and shield from that village alone. I didn't venture too near to the village at that point in time. You can tell from the screen shots that I was still in iron gear and troll cape.

At that point in time I was farming the dragur village for entrails. the fuling war made that easier. I could just sprint in, run through all the sparkles, and sprint back out. then I went to where my boat was parked Eastnortheast of the village. I'd stash the black metal scrap in the boat and portal back with the entrails to keep myself in sausages. When I ran low I'd just go back and watch the war again. I had to rely on sausages for a long time I had lots of tame wolves but it took me forever to find my first 3 onion seeds so I could start making wolf skewers.

[knighttemplar1960]

Nope, just went there and checked again and you can see that the fulings have spawned again inside the buildings.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2874988992
Also it appears that one of the barley fields has regrown but the other has not.

I built my plains base where I grow my barley and breed my lox within sight of the village and at night 4 fulings will spawn and head toward my base. The earthen staircase I built is too steep for them to climb so they can't get inside my berm and they despawn at day break but there is a boar and deer spawn point near by too and usually in the morning there is boar meat and leather scraps and deer meat and hides sparkling on the ground.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2874989013

This is on a dedicated server and not a local game. I wonder if that is why they respawn?

[Pantstron]

The question must be asked. Are you using any mods at all in these worlds that have repopulating fuling villages? And if so do you mind turning off the mods and then checking if your still getting respawns.

Otherwise this has to be some trolling right. Fuling villages do not respawn enemies.

[Ataxio]

Originally posted by Fzanco:

The question must be asked. Are you using any mods at all in these worlds that have repopulating fuling villages? And if so do you mind turning off the mods and then checking if your still getting respawns.

Otherwise this has to be some trolling right. Fuling villages do not respawn enemies.

In my personal experince I've never seen the villages reapawn over vast periods of time. OP either has a bug, an odd happenstance of RNG spawns or something else. I honestly wish they respawned like this to farm black metal.

[knighttemplar1960]

Nope, no mods. Straight up vanilla on a server that I don't own (the owner of the server hasn't played for 3-4 months now). If you look at the screenshots you can see the fulings and you can tell by the minimap that this is the same location in all the screen shots and you can tell by my gear that the shots were taken several hundred game days apart. In fact there is a buried thread somewhere around here when I first posted the screen shots 2 months ago since I thought it was pretty unique that a dragur village and a fuling village existed so close together that they would fight each other.

No trolling involved. It might be a bug though which I would be curious about. I thought i had another neighboring village location on this island on this save but I did't mark it so I'll have to wander around a bit and see if I can find it and if so if it behaves the same as this one.

Edit to add:

This is not the first spawn that shouldn't happen that I have had playing this game. I have a huge base in the meadows that is completely surrounded by an earthen berm. No monsters spawn inside it because it has complete work bench coverage and even ground raids can't get inside (including trolls) but on several occasions I have had this happen:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2860289081
You can see that a deer has spawned inside the base and can also see that the work bench coverage is complete. Its only ever deer that spawn in there and I have tame wolves inside the base so occasionally I'll find deer meat just laying on the ground sparkling. My wife has seen this inside this base too and she doesn't know how to use dev commands so even if this weren't on a server where dev commands can't be used by us she wouldn't be able to spawn a deer inside (though if she wanted to troll me sh'e perfectly capable of dropping deer meat inside the base and giggling about it).

[Ataxio]

I believe you. But it's not normal, so something is different or anomalous with your world or save file. You mentioned this is a hosted server, that opens the door to many possibilities from a malicious user, mods, save file corruption ect.

You may not ever be able to pinpoint why, but that dosent matter too much. I'd just enjoy it. But the bottom line is, it is not typical or normal behavior compared to standard vanilla gameplay.

[knighttemplar1960]

Originally posted by Ataxio:

I believe you. But it's not normal, so something is different or anomalous with your world or save file. You mentioned this is a hosted server, that opens the door to many possibilities from a malicious user, mods, save file corruption ect.

You may not ever be able to pinpoint why, but that dosent matter too much. I'd just enjoy it. But the bottom line is, it is not typical or normal behavior compared to standard vanilla gameplay.

I thought about those things too but its a rented server with out any installed mods. The owner hasn't played Valheim in 3 or 4 months and the other player that was let into this world gave up before we defeated the first boss and hasn't been back in 6 months. Its pass word protected so its unlikely someone hacked into the server and is greifing by respawning fulings in a fuling village or a single deer inside a major base.

The game is still EA its very possible that its a bug. There's no real point in enjoying it since I all ready have more black metal scrap than I can use. I'm just mentally filling it as an oddity.

Edit: and it updated all on its own when the last patch was released.

[Ataxio]

Honestly wish this would happen to me. Also thought I had enough black metal.. then they released those black metal chests.