16
Suggestions / Lead Helper back to Village
« on: January 29, 2018, 12:13:20 AM »
Playing the latest beta. I hired a companion to help fell some trees in the spot I'd picked for my future cabin site. The problem is that he seems to be stuck there now that his service is done. I think the problem is maybe that the spot is on a peninsula with water between the NPC and his village, so instead of walking home, he keeps trampling around on the shoreline.
It's becoming a problem now that that same village has offered me the robbers quest. I wanted to hire some helpers but no one will hire on with me until their "missing" villager returns, the one who continues to tromple around my little home site! And he himself refuses to be hired, so at present I have no means to get him back to his village and he's parading around my homesite like a lovesick puppy.
A simple suggestion:
Perhaps a short-lasting "follow me" command that would wear off after, say, 1-5 kilometers of movement. Then I could lead him back to his home, or at least to a location where he could access it.
This isn't the first thing something like this has happened, but in the past I managed to solve it by rehiring the same villager and making sure their "hiring period" ended somewhere very near the village. But with the changes where they refuse to hire based on reputation, I'm sort of stuck.
It's becoming a problem now that that same village has offered me the robbers quest. I wanted to hire some helpers but no one will hire on with me until their "missing" villager returns, the one who continues to tromple around my little home site! And he himself refuses to be hired, so at present I have no means to get him back to his village and he's parading around my homesite like a lovesick puppy.
A simple suggestion:
Perhaps a short-lasting "follow me" command that would wear off after, say, 1-5 kilometers of movement. Then I could lead him back to his home, or at least to a location where he could access it.
This isn't the first thing something like this has happened, but in the past I managed to solve it by rehiring the same villager and making sure their "hiring period" ended somewhere very near the village. But with the changes where they refuse to hire based on reputation, I'm sort of stuck.