update: 2 months later, and i still have this issue, still unable to figure out what the problem is

all i know is that it's something wrong on my end

final update: finally fixed it

it was the addons relating to the TARDIS addon (including Doors) conflicting

turns out
this wasn't the only addon not showing up in the spawnmenu because of the addon

i'm not sure what the TARDIS addon & other related addons have in their code that makes nextbots (not on any nextbot base) not show up in the spawnmenu

it's a little infuriating i went almost 3 months before figuring ts out though
eh, it's fine

lol wtf

Thanks for posting your solution, most people dont bother with doing that, really helps anyone who runs into problems like this

Originally posted by StrawWagen:

Thanks for posting your solution, most people dont bother with doing that, really helps anyone who runs into problems like this

I'm getting a lot of mod issues as well that do this "doesn't show up in spawn menu" the problem is, it doesn't show up in the console with any issues, nor the Lua errors or problems menu either

one of the mods that made it, atleast for me, unable to show up was;
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/workshop/filedetails/?id=3369249922

and since I got some more mods later, I NOW have to do the whole "disable, open map, disable, open map, disable, open map" thing JUST to figure out which mod it's not liking, again.

ahh, nope, nevermind I think? I think I just LITERALLY had too many addons Gmod was like "this one must go" for some reason... weird... I did a purge, and the ones I'm using rn, aren't making it disappear from the spawnmenu.

lmao
you can hit a lua file limit, its like 8k files or 4k or something