@Racial Ghoul No, they don't replace any blocks.

Will they replace the contracts and store kiosks in NPC ships like the ones in MES?

Oooooh and maybe also consume oxygen?

Hey AE, would you be willing to make a variant of this mod that consumes food at the same rate as the player? I think it would be really immersive with the new food mechanic, and give a player more reason to farm.

Awesome. It will be much cooler if we had a admin variant of npc trader, that works like simple store from this mod: https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3243498681&searchtext=admin+store

Neat, thanks for the link!

@AMD Radeon™ 386 There is a mod that does exactly this, I use it all the time: Engineer Turret Soldiers .

Perhaps a strange idea, but do you know if it would be feasible to make a dummy using a turret as the base (as you did with the economy blocks), so it could actually shoot? I'm not all that familiar with SE modding so I don't know if that would be possible, but if it is that could add some more immersion alongside the static NPC dummies.

For those interested, it's easy to make a GPT chat script to change the NPC dialog boxes regularly; this will add immersion.

Sweet, a scene really isn't right when it's completely empty. Thanks!

Sounds Great ! thank for your fast response.

@homadsen I know about the offset dummies issue. I'll see what I can do to improve it, but for now it's a limitation.

I am planning to add more dummies hopefully this year. I'm definitely adding some with tools and components as well as dummies using new blocks.

love this mod ! gives so much live to my base.. but I got problems with welding some off the dummys, the offset ones. And that a big pian because t they are some of the best ones :-(
anyone else got that problem ?
allso can i please have a welder, a grinder and a miner dummy. And some others like ones that maybe have other tools in the hand.
Need some Technicians, Engineers and Machinists would be so cool.

@Rat I could make separate dummies in other suits, say, a miner dummy wearing a mining skin. But I can't add skins to all dummies.

Can you apply custom suits or anything like the way you can to the player? (aka can you add skins?) I love your mod it is very good for making lively scenes.

v. 0.6.3 - small tweaks to naming and block category.

@Davidsdoinit I'm planning on adding those, yes.

@Sarekh You're right! I love seeing people use the dummies!

any chance of npcs on the new benches

your NPCs have appeared in some of the Prototech trailers :-D

@andrew.wimmer0 I'll look into it. There's quite a few new blocks I probably should add the dummies to.

Any chance you will make some dummies sitting at the new console blocks? Or at least some offset versions of the sitting dummies with the chair textures removed so we can emulate them sitting at consoles?

@Æ
Hmm, okay. It gives the option to use text, images, or scripts, so I thought that was the intent for the screen.

@Lt.Fenix It's not supposed to be. The block is just a text panel shaped like an engineer. It relies on the ability to show a text window that only LCD panels have. I'm not sure it can work if there are several screens on an LCD block.

The LCD screen on the block "Dummy NPC Control Seat" doesn't seem to be functional.

This needs to be made Vanilla

you might want to look into the new Animation engine framework when you get time they seem to have gotten a decent handle on making things move in game

@Spartan-089 Sorry, the mod is very much on the backburner currently because of work and life in general. I'd love to eventually add more stuff to it, though, once I have the time and motivation.

Also don't bother paying, I won't take it anyway, plus I'm in Russia, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@Æ Any chance of updating this with some dlc blocks? If its a matter a time I wouldnt mind commissioning this as the new signals pack has some really good blocks

@Shortstock I know, that's the dream. But afaik it's practically impossible to properly animate complex blocks like engineers with the current SE system. It's fine for more mechanical blocks, like turrets, gyroscopes or landing gear, but too rigid for organics.

I have zero modding expertise but I think it would increase the immersion if you could have animated NCPs. I know that might not be possible but imagine how much life it would add if the NPCs periodically performed random player animations.

yay~

v. 0.6.2 - Fixed airtightness on bed dummies.

@Takamiki Oops, I must've broken it at some point! It's fixed now internally, but I'll need some time to publish the update. Thanks for letting me know!

noticed the bed NPCs are completely non-airtight, even though the normal bed block is suppose to be airtight on 3 faces (bottom, back, and top) can this be fixed?

amazing mod! id love to work with you on developing potentially some more models! I have a buddy who can assist, dm!

Leaving another thank you here after using this mod again in my lateat scenario - this adds soooo much to my worlds! It simply is brilliant <3

It would be nice to be able to add that when you talk to certain dummy NPCs, they give you certain items. This way it could be used as a quest system or something similar.

v.0.6.1 - added conveyor ports to large grid store dummies. They can now be conveyored up from all sides except for the front.

that would be awesome! even if its an addition that just spawns unlimited reasources for traders. theirs a similar mod that does that via blocks, that would be an awesome addition! really good for server hubs!!!

@SiL I intentionally set up the trader dummies without conveyor ports so that you needed to interact with them more often. I can change that, but I currently don't have access to my mod files for the time being, so it'll take some time.

looking to use these in my servers main trading hub. it looks like that the contracts have invisible connectors but the traders do not. is there any way to either add them or am I missing something, id like to enable trade through this mod but need a way to do it without having to sit there and empty the inventory of the model, any suggestions?

@gnafabry I haven't noticed any compatibility issues on my end.

Have you tried loading a world with just my mod to confirm that it's the one causing crashes?

If yes, then maybe the mod files got corrupted when you subscribed to it. Try unsubscribing, deleting all the remaining mod files in Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\244850\2289675817, then resubscribing.

HI,
Could you check if possible the compatibility with the new update please?
because when I insert the mod it doesn't let me enter the game or it crashes 1 minute later

Any future plans with the new decor blocks? Positions? Though they are "lifeless" it still brings "life" to my single player survival games alongside AIEnabled

Je vais essayer cela 👍

FR: @didier07.09.68: le mod fonctionne très bien, il faudrait que tu testes avec un monde vide et uniquement avec ce mod chargé pour vérifier que cela fonctionne au cas où il y aurait des incompatibilités avec d'autres mods.

EN: @didier07.09.68: this mod works very well, you should try to create an empty world and add only this mod to check there's no compatibility issues with other mods.

@didier07.09.68 Have you subsribed to the mod and added it to your world?

The dummies should appear in the G menu, but there was a bug in SE that prevented the game from showing some blocks if you had too many modded blocks. In case it's that bug again, there is a collection called "AE decoratives" that has all the dummies there, or you can just use search.

Je n'en est aucunes idées, il n'apparait pas dans mon onglet .. 😥

@didier07.09.68 Can you elaborate? Works just fine on my end.

Ne fonctionne pas