Merm and Pig AI

[ZeRoboButler]

I wanted to bring this little tid-bit of information to peoples attention if it was not already and I merely missed it, but I have been seeing some very strange behavior with the merms and the pigs. When they are befriended they will do task as normal, however once they lose interest, they don't seem to make the best effort to make their way back to their respective homes. After using large amounts of pigs or merms to chop or fight or whatever you are using them for, the merms will take short awkward steps home rather then just consistently walking home, and in some cases the pigs and merms respectively will never return to their homes. unless you were to walk back with them if they are not in player loaded areas, they just get stuck there in the last place they were left.

Perhaps this is a small issue but it feels like it happens to me a fair amount, a whole village of merms, bunny men or pigs will just be lost to something silly like this until I walk them a certain distance home. 

Please, do tell if this has happened to you as well, its a frequent occurrence to me.

[Kur0u]

Easy fix, kill them, they respawn anyway. For pigs it's easy to start a war with only one survivor, you get free loot plus whatever you made them work for you. Why go through the hassle of walking them back home when their home will constantly spawn new mobs? I also found it utterly annoying when I took some bunnymen with me on a quest only to find out their homes were empty the next week. Guess I was too fast going back home so they just unloaded in the area I left them. Had to kill all of them because they went into an endless sleep mode.

[ShadowDuelist]

Its a fairly big bug that affects Wurt the most, every time I played Wurt this was the biggest problem I faced because if they get stuck in different places you essentially will not have those merms available anymore until you find them and kill them.

I think if the merms, bunnymen or pigs have not been friends with anyone for at least 2 days, and have been more than a screen and half away from their house, and have not been loaded in the area by anyone for at least half a day, they should teleport to their respective house (unless the house has been destroyed, obviously). The other fix I guess would be to correct their pathfinding.

There is a mod that adds a fix for this.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2088617774

 

 

[ryvrdrgn14]

I admit that I don't utilize pigs labor as much as I should. If ever I do, it's just 2 pigs at most and I have monster meat to turn them into werepigs to kill for loot right after. I didn't even know this was a thing.

I can see this as being an issue for Wurt whose main theme is to amass a merm army to do stuff with. I think that they should just simplify the issue and make these guys teleport home after spending a night sleeping out or if the area is unloaded rather than making some complicated solution for them to path back to their houses while being all the way across the map.

[Cheggf]

8 hours ago, ZeRoboButler said:

Perhaps this is a small issue

I don't think "lol ur entire power is gone" is a small issue. This really hurts Wurt.

[Pikapikap]

@PeterAMaybe klei should be fixing them?