Close Encounters of the GRiNDTerra Kind V1.0

Close Encounters of the GRiNDTerra Kind V1.0

Adds random encounters on planets that have human presence! See all those random human buildings when you land? Now they may have actual people around them!

Requires Into the Grindfield Starfield GrindTerraformed (Framework)

What this does
This mod adds a very very small random chance that humans will spawn near human buildings! You could encounter civilians, colonists, spacers, ecliptic, or even the military! Va’ruun? Not until after the DLC 😉
These NPCs that are placed will also have either sandbox or hand made routines.

What this doesn’t do
Add encounters everywhere. This does not add to the Story Quest Branch where random encounters usually are. This adds encounters into the system that randomly places those human flavor buildings.
Add space encounters.

This is my first Version. It is really hard to test random proc gen so I am looking for feedback on Nexus.

Warning! Best added to a new game/save. I have encountered some weird bugs if you add to an ongoing save.
None of these bugs seem to occur on a new save.

These bugs seem to go away if you add while you’re in space, and you need to land like two or three times to refresh. I don’t know if these are vanilla bugs or what, but here they are:

none spawn. (It’s actually the people don’t spawn, you may see some items) re landing a couple times fixes.
NPCs only doing one part of their routine and then staying in one spot for an indefinite time. Re landing fixes.
All NPCs everywhere suddenly become afraid and decide you are too strong to kill and run. This one sucks because it will say your in combat even though everyone ran away and it includes all NPCs on the whole map even at POIs. Re loading your save game can fix.

In Vanilla Starfield only a certain amount of NPCs are allowed to be active at one time. This can result in some NPCs staying in one of their routines until other NPCs are killed or despawn. This is only really noticeable on High Density Life worlds.

Removing from a save:
you can remove this plugin in most situations, but NOT the framework mod. The NPCs will still be there as they will be baked in your save. No new things will spawn afterwards. Removing framework = dead save.

To install just drop in your DATA folder like all other mods.
GRiNDTerra mod load order: English Alphabet A load at top Z load at bottom.
This is mod B.

Can also be found in Creations and on Xbox.

 

Credits:

ItsmePaulieB

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