Does the shadow-servant ignore some prefabs?

[NPCMaxwell]

Is it on intention that a shadow servant standing next to a Malbatross beak will completely ignore it and instead "run away" to chop a distant tree instead? I must use the shadow servant extremly much due to my mod character's behaviour so in case there is items the shadow servant won't pick up, I would be glad to have a list of known items [only items you can pick up, not structures to mine etc.] he will ignore, since I fear I can't try out each single one.

 

[GimplyGoose]

Yes, the servants won't pick up equipment as well as some other items. A malbatross beak is an oar so it doesn't get picked up.

[NPCMaxwell]

5 minutes ago, GimplyGoose said:

Yes, the servants won't pick up equipment as well as some other items. A malbatross beak is an oar so it doesn't get picked up.

Thank you!!! You've just saved my Maxwell from never being able to use that item [and some others] in a single player game. So I can reduce my "forbidden items" list by every equippable and then test the rest by console-spawning them next to a shadow servant.

[GimplyGoose]

This might be helpful for you:

 

[NPCMaxwell]

I haven't found any explanation in the above post, but it seems my shadowservant ALSO has no interest in picking up ashes. I have spawned him very close to a recently burned down place with enough ashes piles and little distractions around, but he still rather seems to run "far" away to chop down a tree instead and by the time he returns the ashes usually have disappeared.

I will testspawn in some piles of ashes and my shadowservant now to see if he still ignores them until nothing is left, if yes I fear I must remove them from the "forbidden" items my custom Maxwell refuses to pick up himself.

EDIT: Turns out I forgot to have an empty inventory place for the shadowservant to hand the ashes over so it seems he saw no reason to pick something up when he can't give it to me.

[NPCMaxwell]

It seems that [at least my] shadow servants are also quite "hesitating" when it comes to animal / food drops. Sadly this is what I need them most for in my gameplay as my custom character refuses to pick them up. It's kind of exhausting to spawn a shadow servant with my inventory having lots of free space and he still idles or keeps looking for trees instead of just picking up those silk and meat pieces that I have summoned him right inbetween, and usually keeps being "thinking" or "searching" until I have either been killed by some danger OR I have to protect myself, which makes him despawn before he could finally make up his mind and hand me the "forbidden" items.

I mean...he DOES pick them up eventually, but he still always seems to take his time to search for non-food non-animals drops targets first which usually makes me vunerable to the hostile creatures while I have to wait for him.

I haven't changed any of the coding for the shadow servants. I just want to know if anyone can confirm that this behaviour is normal, that shadowservant will run around looking for trees FIRST instead of picking up what is right under his feed.

(In case someone wants to suggest that: I don't want to change this "forbidden items can't be picked up" part of the code, since it's one of my custom characters major downsides and should encourage the use of the shadow servants.)