August 18th, 2023 Video

Creature Spawning

https://youtube.com/embed/RIZS_qyiLH4?autoplay=1&start=209&end=304

Topics

• Environment > Creatures
• Satisfactory Updates > Released > Satisfactory Update 8

Transcript

we also noticed that the creature spawning system that we have in place was causing a lot of issues and we decided to rewrite that system again because it wasn't performant and while we were at it we also updated the logic for that system so if you're an avid watcher you know that this is not the first time we've done this if you don't know what I'm talking about I am talking about the system where creatures will stop spawning if you've placed a specific amount of factory buildings so the intention is that we can balance the game in a way where creatures like never respawn near places that are obviously intended to be a factory space for example places to have large Foundation floors or functional buildings such as miners manufacturers generators you know Etc but we do want to respawn creatures near smaller infrastructure such as pipelines power lines conveyor belts and you know roads that span between factories and in this way players won't feel like the world is dead just because they've expanded their infrastructure throughout the map so the way it works now is that each buildable in the game now have a value and if the total combined value of the buildings in a vicinity is high enough then nearby spawners will be disabled an example of this is the case with the minor versus the foundation so a single Miner is enough to disable nearby spawners but a single Foundation piece will not be enough to stop spawning so instead you know you need multiple Foundation pieces so yeah that's pretty much it we'll probably keep tweaking the system more in the future and please let us know on our QA side if you feel like it's not working in the way it's intended so back