That explains the random squads I get upon importing...

They are not a physical squad. Check your squad list, you should have new empty squad entries, those are the ones with AI.

I have had them say they've arrived and there's no one there. What do?

just came here to ask why my squads stop spawning but I guess I killed that broken patrolbot, ah well. thanks for adding more features to this game, have used this mod for years and its kinda buggy but does exactly what it says.

Can confirm it still works, but note; Whether it's my dozens of mods and something is conflicting, but when you get the Squad, your people or animals assigned to it will not begin to patrol. For some reason, you have to restart your game, then it works correctly.

Can confirm works. Took 1-3 days before it arrived. Playing with genesis mod as well.

Does this mod still work?

Question, does the patrols actually go get food on their own inside the outpost?

I love this mod and I have some tips for the commenters below.
-To move patrols to a new outpost: remove char from squads, remove squads, import in new outpost, wait for new squads.
-If you don’t want your people to sit instead of patrol: 1) don’t have places to sit 2)have less places to sit than you have people patrolling so they take turns sitting down whenever someone gets up to eat or attack 3) when characters are in the squad and you have places to sit, they will patrol as long as you have them selected
-you can use this mod with the other “Player AI” squad mods by stilldoll (I use wandering trader)

vvv would also like to know this please

Awesome mod, it works as expected :D only thing i can't seem to figure out is how to send the squad to patrol another outpost instead the one is automatically assigned to. Anyone know how to do that?

I don't know why but I saw 2 new empty squad and I put my character (which don't have any task) in and he just stand there or find somewhere to sit. Nothing else.

UPDATE: I simply had a mod conflict, only needed to move this one down to the bottom of my load order. Excellent mod, adds some immersion and aesthetics to the game as well as useful wandering outpost guards. Thank you for this mod, Love it :)

i get the squad alert but the squads do not show up on my squad bar... maybe i have a conflict somewhere preventing them from showing up. Or do i need to go find the 'Broken Patrolbot' in order for the squads to activate?

Awesome mode, dude! It is working as expected. I would love to see this expanded to other base features, like production or resource gathering. I can try and expand yours and share it with you.

Go ahead. I finally got a new place to live close to my work (after more than a year of looking) but it needs some work till I can live there.

And even then I do not know if this "bug" still works after all these updates.

Hope you come back to work on this! Or maybe I will take it on as a project. I think this would be awesome for different trade hubs!

I have the alert but they never arrive

Hey, will this mod be updated? Thanks

The mod doesnt seem working
Already import game multiple times and still no patrol squad alert

Not a clue I have not updated nor played Kenshi for 7 months. And I will unlikely return to until atleast september (due to work).

Just to add... The mod is injecting as your skeleton is there and has appeared... not sure why the trigger is not happening for the spawns.... am i doing something wrong?

THis for some reason is not working for me... i double checked everything and did an import... Is this mod still active? Also how can i get it to work correctly if it is?

Just out of curiosity, how does this mod determine movement speed? I threw some men in the squad once and they ran at full speed on patrol. I pulled them back into the main squad when taking them on a mission, then when I added them back to the same patrol squad they only walk around now. It looks better, but they don't get the ahtletics experience they did running.

Can you make the patrol between 2 custom checkpoints set by the player instead of around the outpost!?

I think in my case it wasn't a rare bug, rather a mod conflict. I'm also subscribed to the mod by Luminaire that increases unit count to 256 and squad count to 20.
Most likely what happened was sort of a recursion, with your mod and that one having an "arms race" to increase the max squad count (I looked at the platoon file of my latest save for it, and the FCK showed that I have a whopping 1800 squads that were spawned by the conflict)
The game is still playable for me, and I'm not having any fatal crashes caused by it. Just a heads-up that this might be the cause of the conflict.

If anyone else is willing to test out it out, it would be good substantial evidence for it.
As for me, I'll run a game without the old conflicting mod and see if I run into the same issues.

Thanks, I figured that would've been the only way to fix it. Nice of you to add a temporary in-game fix to it. Hope you find the cause of this; it's a good concept in itself

Not recently but it is sadly enough indeed caused by the mod (you are the second person who reported this)

You got the infinite event spawn bug.
If you go to the squad menu you see that the event has created a lot more squads than it should have (each blue dot is a squad). Normally the mod limits you to 2 squads but extremely rarely this won’t trigger for some reason.

I made a ingame way to fix it for these cases. At the ruined holy nation outpost west of the Hub you find a unique skeleton. Kill him and the squad spawning event can no longer trigger

You will have to delete all these additional squads if you want these blue markers gone. My excuses for the inconvenience.

Interesting mod. Just dropping this here that for some reason, since subscription, I've been getting a heckuvalot of unit markers on the map scattered around my outpost. Has anyone else encountered this? Was it supposed to do that?

You can add all AI. But not all AI work for player characters and/or player buildings.

I have tried making a salves and slavers squad before I released this mod.

Making a squad that enslaves people was easy. Having the slaves follow there enslavers also worked quite well.

However having them recognize your outpost as a slave camp so the slaves stopped following your squads did not work. And having them recognize your farms and mines as legitimate work sites also did not work.

I might go back to it in the future but for now it got more issues than it us worth imho.

So this just occurred to me. If this mod adds 2 empty squads with special patrolling AI, could you do the same thing but give them the slave AI package instead?

After several tests I still did not encounter the 100+ squad bugs again. Either it is extremely rare or it can only spawn under specific conditions.

Eitherway it is a extremely annoying bug so I decided to add a ingame solution.

East of the Hub at the Ruined Holy Outpost I added a unique Skeleton NPC called: Broken Patrolbot. Murder or imprison him and the squads can no longer spawn.

I had the annoying endless squads bug in the past myself and thought I had it fixed. I’m quite occupied IRL currently but will try to fix it with a update tomorrow and/or add a trigger what allows you to deactivate the event from spawning any more.

A bit more stuff: No, i did not try an import, nor did I try to unsub/sub again.
Just wanted to let you know (OP) that something 'may' be a bit wrong somewhere.
(and yes, I want to use that mod. Can't really live without it now.. :) )

Worked ok during my last game, subscribed mid-game and without imort, tada! there it goes smoothly..
Now, on my new game, it just adds 100 squads. After I deleted 'some' (99) to keep one for my dog to be happy running all around, after some time, it just adds another batch of 100 squads, correctly numbered..
I just deleted the nameless_1500 squad now..
Mod is the last in the list. Also, started town in same spot than before. Took some time to build that mine tho..

Amazing.

You beautiful person.

No that is not what I meant. Vain is not the most popular building spot for a fresh start because of its aggressive wildlife and locals. So I guessed you might be doing a themed playthrough.

I'm just trying to figure out why this mod causes issues for you. Since you said that you are using other mods and are so far the only person with crashes I assume it's caused by two conflicting mods.

And I love to find out what ones so I can either fix it with a update or make mention of it in the mod description.

what you mean greenlanders cant be at vain?

At Vain? Are you perhaps using one of the hiver overhaul mods?

I know that several of them have unique campaign mechanics and might be able to fix the issue with a update.

i didnt even use an old save i staerted a whole new colony at vain

If your game is crashing, the go-to move is to import your game anyways.

Strange, since this small mod uses 100% ingame assets. The only thing I could think is that one of your other mod changes some of these assets and as a result is not compatible.

You would not happen to use paradise falls or some other mod that makes changes to AI?

and i know tis this mod because without it i worked just fine i could leave my game on for hours which i did to test the atomoty of it

so i have made a new save for this mod added it tomy mod list and a bit after i start my save my game crashes

Well for gate guards, I played around with (but didn't save/test) that you could add a guard node to the gate. You place the nodes, then you reposition them relative to the object. Seemed like it might be annoying to get just right but should work in theory. One could add multiple nodes, or just add one and tell other guards to bodyguard the first.

Those guard mod's furniture also have a guard "functionality" they added, which is really just an animation. But you'd probably add a functionality to the gates likewise.

I have tried to implement the guard gate AI and sadly failed. That guard furniture seems like the better option for now imho.

I also have tried the use turret AI but that one only works when they are less than 3 meters away from the turret -.-.

I also at first played with just adding squads with special AI but the issue I had with that was the hometown designation. They patrolled but when I moved them to a outpost they eventually moved back to there "hometown" so my goal with this was to make a way to set the hometown to the outpost.

A while back I played around with adding a squad to the player's faction with police(already had the AI tasks), but it just resulted in adding a squad to the player faction. They did patrol for a time, but I think after an import they didn't anymore? And I had to disable adding that, because each import you got them AGAIN.

I take it you figured out something a bit better.

As for the gate guards, there are a couple mods to add furniture that your guards can "use" to make them stay in a spot and affectively guard. Doesn't result in patrolling of course. Being able to natively guard the gate itself would be better of course.

It is completely made by combining in game AI and mechanics so it is actually quite simple and update proof.

this is a pretty ambitious project, will definately keep an eye on it.