https://github.com/shadowhunter100/PZNS#readme

• UI Window for inspecting NPCs.
  
• UI Window for group management (currently it is all done via context menu).
  
• Main Menu Options or Sandbox Options (Debug Mode Toggle and key bindings).
  
• More NPC Actions
  
• More NPC Orders
  
• More NPC Jobs
  
• Preset Speech texts for NPCs (Low priority)
  
• UI Window for inventory transfers (mostly done, but needs more testing and polish).
  
• Resolving more issues as they become known... (too much unknown at this point).

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Please note that my help requests are unpaid and follows all TIS guidelines on modding.

I am also not taking any commissions at this moment.

But should a 3rd party commission for additional help to this project, I would welcome that.

https://discord.gg/SReMnbV4V7

Yeah, this is what I want to do next, everything else is meh. See details below.
If you're complaining about what I'm doing/not doing, stop.
Start doing something to help or ask constructive questions.

I am looking at making generating random neutral/friendly NPCs and spawning them in the game world next.
Personally, I don't want NPCs spawning in the middle of the woods, preferably at least in a campsite or restricted to buildings and/or rooms only (and not in any of the player group zones)... with user-selected frequency (Hourly, Daily) and defined phases..

For example, most NPCs spawn can/will spawn on day 1 say at 10%, by day 3, the spawn rate is reduced by half to <= 5%, and down to <= 1% by day 7. With a chance that some NPCs are already infected to match the PZ lore of the Knox virus. (70%, 35%, 5% respectively, as an example).

Once that is done, I can turn my attention towards figuring out how to handle damage dealing for hostile NPCs.
Funny enough, that by default, players cannot damage NPCs... So I decided to bring some code from SS/SSC over to experiment with. Hence any expectations of raiders and any interactions with hostiles NPCs are on hold until that can be sorted out.

If we are going for more complicated stuff... we'll see how I feel as time goes on..

Bahaha, I need a break from IS Time-base-actions and action queue, that shi* was incredibly complicated and tedious to work with.
For now NPCs can attack and wash themselves (albeit without moving to the water source first...). With a semi-working "Undertaker" Job to pile corpses at a set square (this needs more work, because currently it's set to 1 square rather than the entire selected zone).
If people want farmers, builders, and more complicated actions/jobs/orders... they can either do it themselves or commission another person to contribute to the framework.

UI code is pain, UI code is hell.
If there's anyone out there who knows how to work with TIS Window Panels and frames to create rows of in-group NPCs and columns for accessing inventory, health info, skills, etc., please consider helping me out.
Otherwise, the contextmenu based stuff is what this mod will be having for a while.

From what I can tell, the framework is mostly in place for managing NPCs... At least given what I know and can do on my own.
For now, I intend to focus on populating the game world via random spawning next.
Hopefully more than 10+ active NPCs can exist on the same screen without issues (or at least with less issues than SS/SSC).