Azrael's Mods

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Spawn Tuner

Spawns on a dial

Server-side. Change zombie and animal spawn rates, max zombies alive, the blood moon count and wandering hordes from the console while the game runs, no restart. Presets and day-by-day ramps. Players do not install this mod.

Download spawn-tuner-1.1.0.zip

Spawn Tuner preview

Commands

Server console commands. Settings: DayDensity, NightDensity, AnimalDayDensity, AnimalNightDensity (none, default or 1 to 100); DayRespawn, NightRespawn, AnimalDayRespawn, AnimalNightRespawn (default, veryslow, slow, normal, fast, veryfast); BloodMoonCount, MaxZombies, MaxAnimals; HordeFrequency and HordeSize (percent, 100 is vanilla).

Server: consoleAlso: spawntuner

spawns
Every setting, now and the world's value.Admin
spawns <setting> <value>
Change one, apply it now, save it to spawns.txt.Admin
spawns <setting> world
Back to the world's own value.Admin
spawns ramp <setting> +1 every 7 [max 6]
Raise (or lower) a setting as the game days pass.Admin
spawns ramp <setting> off
Stop ramping it.Admin
spawns save <name>
Save every change as a preset.Admin
spawns load <name>
Switch to a preset. Replaces every change.Admin
spawns presets
List the presets.Admin
spawns refresh
Restart respawn timers in loaded areas so changes show now.Admin
spawns reload
Re-read spawns.txt.Admin

Build your spawns.txt

Pick your settings and download a ready spawns.txt, no file editing. 14 settings, each with a short explanation.

Build your spawns.txt

Unticked settings stay at the world's own value. Percent: 100% is vanilla, 200% is double, 0% turns it off.

none, default, or a number (the game's range is 1 to 5)

none, default, or a number (the game's range is 1 to 5)

none, default, or a number (the game's range is 1 to 5)

none, default, or a number (the game's range is 1 to 5)

Zombies per player at a blood moon (the game offers 4 to 64)

Most zombies / animals alive in the whole world at once (game default 64 / 50)

Wandering hordes: how often they come and how many zombies are in each, as a percentage of vanilla (vanilla: one every 12 to 24 game hours)

e.g. +1 every 7 days max 8

Goes in Mods/AzraelSpawnTuner/spawns.txt. Put it in the mod folder, then type spawns reload and spawns refresh in the server console.

What's new

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v1.1.0Current

  • wandering hordes (HordeFrequency, HordeSize), presets (spawns save/load/presets, ships chill and hard), ramps by game day (spawns ramp), and spawns shows zombies/animals alive and the next wandering horde.
Older versions (v1.0.0)

v1.0.0

  • first version.

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