New Hearthling Spawn Problems

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Summary:
I’ve had Hearthlings spawn in places where it was impossible for them to get to the settlement. Generally on the tops of mountains or rock outcroppings

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Build a settlement up to population 12+
  2. Observe spawn locations of new Hearthlings
    3)Hey! That Hearthling is on top of a mountain!

Expected Results:
I expect Hearthlings to spawn in at a location where they can reach my settlement on their own power.
Actual Results:
Usually after my population exceeds 12 I have random new Hearthlings spawn in at locations where they cannot reach the settlement and if I don’t notice this they starve and die. My 17th Hearthling is the most frequent one to have this problem.
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Version Number and Mods in use:
No mods.
Stonehearth 0.14.0(release 524) x64 build
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That happens quite often to me too, usually when I select pitfire location near the mountains. After a while my area looks like a level of good old lode runner :smiley:

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hey there @djreptile, welcome to the discourse :smile:

thanks for the report, this has been a problem for quite awhile now and has been reported multiple times.

i seem to recall hearing that it will be changed so that the game checks to see if the spawn point is path-able to your town, but i could just be going crazy…

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As far as I know this should be true for monster spawns too and they got stuck pretty often :smiley:

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Thanks for the report. The spawning code is fixed in Alpha 15. A15 is reasonably stable if you want to hop over to the steam latest branch.

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