@chipstix213 perfect got it! Thank you so much!

trying to open admin menu (alt+f10) but the mod settings button does nothing

Might have a bad configuration file, if you delete the folder it will get regenerated

Did the option to add custom characters get removed? There's no section for "additional helpers" in the cfg. In fact whatever changes I make to the cfg get over written when I load the game. What's the new method for adding custom characters?

literally all i wanted, thank god for this mod

@Bronson
besides subscribing to a mod you will need to add it to your worlds modlist via the worldsettings.
it is also recommended to add all hard requirements that a mod has and the softrequirements of it you want to use to a worlds modlist as se sometimes hicks out and doesnt automatically adds the ahrd requirements and never adds the softrequirements.

i have subscribed to this mod but cant find it in my game? never used mods so i just thought it was as easy as subscribing and it works, what am i missing here lol tia

@ghost27m
you can request stuff to be added to the bots memory so they know what to do with it via the discord if you want.

@Abisius Xarvenius Carbensius
Thank you! my problem was using Q-tech Cargo I made a small vanilla cargo and it now works.

@ghost27m
do you have a large grid cargo container accessible to it which is on the same grid as the materials are and on the same map on which the bots are working?
any form of subgrid connection (rotor, piston, hinge, connector) will not work for material supply ad each grid is its own map.

The helper bot description says it will try to retrieve what it needs for welding but that is not happening with mine

@MastahCrackah
by changing the settings.
there is a screenshot of where to find them inside the guide linked in the moddescription

how do i get more than 2 helpers?

It's going to depend on a number of factors, how many, where and with what other mods ...

The game starts to slow down a lot when zombies appear. Is there a way to fix this?

Is there an easy fix for this, or just ignore it?

Exception: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at AiEnabled.Bots.BotBase.CheckGraph(WorkData workData)
at ParallelTasks.DelegateWork.DoWork(WorkData workData)
at ParallelTasks.WorkItem.DoWork(Int32 expectedID)

is there a way to have bots that belong to a faction and dont just attack everything but enemy factions only ?

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If only you could edit comments

The last update hasn't been processed yet for pathfinding

Just a heads up for anyone wanting to use this with fieldwork parts like passages and doors, the bots currently interact or go through them right now

@NeonMegaDog
by going into the texthudapi based adminmenu and telling it you want more than 2 active helpers possible.
how to open it is shown inside the guide linked inside the moddescription.

how do i spawn more than 2 helpers

Patrol routes don't work when this bug occurs.

i would also recommend seperating out moving stuff like a permnently rotating radar dish as from experience that can cause permamapping depending on the speed of the movement.

You can make use of the patrol routes as well as the connector separation to do that

That makes sense since a lot of the grid(s) have large cosmetic features. I think the bots would work better if I could specify a chosen area for them to be confined to.

This can happen if you have a large base and a lot of subgrids. Separating grids by using connectors can limit the size of the maped area.

Bots suddenly lose ability to pathfind and resetting the map does nothing

You can use the admin commands to spawn the entity or you can use advanced mes configuration to have the encounter locked to a location.
Areas at war does similar.
The pathfinding doesn't work on small grid so don't expect any bots to walk across a "large" small grid.

This doesn’t work for manually placed ships dose it. As I'm placing them myself.

Good luck 👍

Cheers @Chipstix213 for the response, I'll have a look at it.

You abuse the drone spawning system in mes with a creature trigger have a look at this one
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3143823972

Hi, I have been looking at setting up a dropship that can deploy a squad of enemy troops for a scenario I'm running but there is only a Large Grid version of the spawner and no Small Grid version. Is this a limitation of the mod, can a SG version be added or is there another way of getting this to work without sub-grids?

Is it intended to hear the Welder bots welding sound no matter how far away he is? Can hear him welding when he's 600m away welding a different ship. Can the sound be configured?

Also @Quarry Master Bessie. There are mods like MES Alien Animals, and Populated worlds npc and Populated worlds creatures that will add actual things for aienabled and MES to spawn in.

Also the Sandworms mod and Martian stone monster mod, Infestation mod etc

@Quarry Master Bessie
besides crew enabled i just told mes to spawn creatures, how to is readable here https://github.com/MeridiusIX/Modular-Encounters-Systems/wiki/Admin-&-Configuration:-Creatures

The mods might force the animal variable off but creature spawning will handle adding them back In.

This mod and mes are frameworks for other add-on mods to spawn NPCs and ships.

You can use the AiEnabled spawner using admin mode to generate some of the enemy character types available but you have to set that up manually

... but doesn't MES (Modular encounters system) add character enemies when used alongside AI enabled?
Either way though, do you have any suggestions for mods that would add active character enemies? I like having wolves and the like attack regularly, and I like Crew Enabled, I just don't know how to have both at the same time, since this mod forces Wolves and Spiders off.

@Quarry Master Bessie
aie by itself doesnt add enemys, it just opens up the possibility to have them added by another mod.

crew enabled https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2803081060 would be one such mod

Hey, I can't get the mod to spawn hostile bots.
I have MES, and checked that creature spawning was enabled, it is.
I have tried on a few different planets and space, and haven't seen any difference.
Does anyone have suggestions?

@Cell Wall
i have one button for each door to turn it back on, didnt want to leave one of the three buttons unused.

yeah my airlock was specifically designed to work without sensor or pb and be manual activation only.

Thank you Abisius, but I just fixed the problem, also my airlock is automated with sensors. The problem was in the safety feature funnily enough, disabling them stopped the bot from being able to interact with the wrong door. Only problem now is if the airlock ever breaks I have no easy way to fix it, but the button you have in your build that turns both doors back on could be a solution for that.

@Cell Wall
you would need to turn the doors of for them to complelty not interact with them.

i have build a relativly botsave airlock built with:
- 2 doors
- 1 vent that is only connectet to the o2 tank of the airlock
- 1 o2 tank that is not piped in
- 1 inset putton panel inside the airlock
- 2 standing button panels outside the airlock (one on each side)
- 1 event controller
- 2 lights for airlock status (pressurized/depressurized and i know it can now be one light, still need to rework that)

the doors are in one group and that gets told by a single button press to close both doors which are turned off once closed by the event controler which switches the depressurisation of the airlock and turns either the interior or exterior door back on and switching the lights depending on pressure state.
the remaining 2 buttons are used to manually turn the doors back on if neccessary or the airlock is not needed due to the external enviroment (foe example on earthlike).

Is there a way to stop a bots from interacting with specific blocks, I have an airlock design that functions fine with players but breaks with bots, because the bot is interacting with the doors during a check that closes both doors and that results in both doors being open at the same time.

Basically everything that adds /commands to the console had them broken by Fieldwork, AiEnabled included. MES also suffered further breakage since it doesn't handle encounters pathing using AI blocks, only the remote control, and IIRC it deletes paths from AI blocks.

It's fine to add or remove partway through a save

Hey there if anyone knows. Is this mod safe to add mid-save?

Did the update stop the Ai from reading the grid map even when i use a brand new save with this mod only they cant seem to path

I haven't heard anything was "suffering"

Did this suffer as badly as MES from the Fieldwork update?