I'm having the complete opposite problem where I have global population on 3 POINT 5 and I've only found 1 swamp lurker after running around for 3 days

I really want to like this mod, but unfortunately they spawn far too often in great numbers. I took the journey to Burn's tower, and after using his bed I realized he had disappeared. Turns out he was in a ditch behind his house and still alive, but when he came to, the hounds immediately returned to finish him off. Also, there are problems with the hounds you recruit: they heal super slow in skel-repair beds and they cant enter buildings or go up stairs on their own they have to be carried. You did a great job modeling them, but I'm not sure how they do so much damage, they don't seem to have mouths.

When they check for contraband in the Shek, they find the "Venom of the Spider," which is a contraband item, but the problem is that none of the characters in my party have this venom in their inventory, and they find it in the "One Who Hides." The "Venom of the Spider" is only found in the corpse of this robot, and they somehow manage to find it.
P.s. I apologize for my English level, as I am from Russia and am using a translator.

M'Liege @Astener

I've found that a hound trader can spawn just about anywhere, from Crater and Hub all the way to the Black and Great Desert. I suppose they spawn, usually, somewhere "On the way" either to a settlement or a similar path, however when they spawn, they're always rather near to the player character to be noticed, so I suggest to just keep searching.

Good day for everyone. Is anyone know, in what biomes I can find hound trader?

I just added your mod to a patch to revive an old mod, the nexus empire, I hope you don't mind, your credits and link to the mod are respected.

Well, i nominate you for the mod that has ruined the most amount of runs ever in kenshi, i had to restart like 15 times if not more because the hounds either bled you, ate off a limb or just nuked your hp to -73

You can also find the hound repair kits in ancient labs, no need to blow 50k on one.

As for modding spawns, you need to understand how the Kenshi modding tool works. There are tutorials online and on the Discord.

@Sad Pirate

Did you purchase the device from the Iron Hound trader?

i have dialogs :
1 How about u work for us? eh boy?
2 Stupid mutt! gonna turn you into scrap
3 Leave
Nothing i can do to tame

Cannot tame iron hound

@trouter, how so? is that something I can find online?

For anyone struggling to get the Fog Stalker to spawn and also using the Mist Ghouls mod, the Mist Ghouls seem to replace all Obedience spawns (including the vanilla ones). I'd suggest making a local edit to this mod to have the Fog Stalker spawn in the actual Foglands.

@ Daemonic Spoder Good day !
Can you give permission to use your mod in my mod ?
thank you !

rust puppy! :3

Actually it seems if the kit is in your backpack, it can still work.

I may have had some coincidental conversation timing masquerading as a conflict.

@Z
A lil late but i was wondering the same recently.
You'll want the restore kit in your unit's main inventory when you go to talk to the hound in a cage or other prisoner device, *not* in your backpack. The dialogue option for the kit wouldn't show up with the kit in my pack.

With the restore kit in your inventory, "talk to" the hound (right-click hold for the selectable option) and chose the "let's get you fixed up" option.

If the talk option doesn't show, just wait a bit of time and try again.

The kit isn't "consumed" in the recruitment, so you only ever need one kit as long as it isn't misplaced or sold.

soooo am i supposed to put the kit in the things inventory? he's fixed up and in a cage. all i get is a one-time-only talk to option.

@Eadragonixius Best thing you can do is aimlessly wander around the central area of Obedience and around the ruin. They are a semi-rare spawn, they only spawn in singles. Obedience doesnt really have a lot of homeless spawns either, and if you have a mod that adds more homeless squads into the biomes' choosefrom list, then they will be competing for the spawn. Also in Obedience in vanilla, there are iron spider spawns, so with more things spawning, it will be a lower chance to get what you want. Just keep at it.

@Konstantinos XII is there a specific spot in Obedience? I’ve set up a outpost at the graveyard in Obedience and been sitting tight at the center looking for a Fog Stalker to run into view, and it’s been I’ve going at it for three whole days, should I be searching near the Shrieking Forest, Fog Islands, Okran’s Gulf, Floodlands, or just stay near the center of Obedience?

I've been scouring the entirety of Obedience in search of a Fog Stalker and I still haven't found one after three whole irl days, is there a certain spot that they're more common in? Does the mist ghouls mod affect their spawns at all?

Great mod, it really feels like vanilla content. Only problem is that "Rust Jackal" is spelled like "Rust Jackle." It should be "Jackal!"

ok im sorry i didnt know i have to click "lock"

it has to be some kind of animal cage or what? hound cant fit in to the prisoner cage

does hound have to be dead to turn him mine?

i cought the rusted hound. i found the thing that suposed to make them yours. i crafted cage. AND I CANT PUT HIM IN THE CAGE. what i have to do to make him mine?

I've not been able to find traders or restore kits, any help?

Hey thanks, turns out I had to full of an inventory to pick up the device initially when I paid the money so I didnt even know it was an item lmao, another 50k later and I got a full squad of cool iron dogs

Hi, can I take this mod and your other works for my build?)

i love this mod, it's been part of my list for ages. I was wondering if I could have permission to merge parts of this mod with one of my own mods?

You have to buy the device from the traveling iron hound merchant, then it should give you the extra dialog option when you cage them

I love this mod, Been using it for a while. Never was able to get the taming to work though. I don't know if Im just doing it wrong but putting them in a cage and repairing them doesn't do anything

@Dek4n

Fog Stalker - in Obedience

what a nice mod! whats the location of the "???" iron hound?

Holy shit they're so fucking loud when they stand still

They are so deadly lmao, the swamps are not as safe as they used to be!

@SlingMoney

Thanx! I'll check that out! BTW I found another type in Obedience called the 'Fog Stalker', perhaps that's one of the stalker units as well

0.5 global spawn rates & size but will still make these pups appear quite frequently, hung around a mender camp (MOD) after a slave start and had 3 squads of pooches piling up in the area in less than a day..nice loot buuuut kinda gamebreaking cause it can wipe out certain towns/farms/POIs...any advice ?

Wipe for weak party. You can't run, you can't hide - they see you from big distance. One of this thing destroyed my party three times in a hardcore no-load playthroughs.

I wanted to like this mod but the spawn rate is stupid high

-SPOILER WARNING-

@Konstantinos XII
I believe I found one of those in the Noble's Vacation Home... Maybe... His name is Ripper.

So far I have the Iron Hound, Rust Jackal, Swamp Lurker, Grid Prowler, and the Ash Warg.

Anyone have any idea where the final one is? Skeleton merchant said they were the 'Stalker Units'

I feel like the hound repair kit should also run out at some point after being used (say one kit can get you up to two or three dogs). because with an infinite repair kit you can create a dog army with not much effort. plus im running out of names for all my robot dogs.

Absolutely adore this mod, my robotic bounty hunter trekking accross the land with her faithful Iron hound is adorable. Sic em!

The Hounds I've seen are in the wildlife faction. wouldn't it make more sense to put them in the old machines faction or is there a reason for this separation?

The spawn rate of these anywhere they spawn is fucking insane. I've been having almost constant raid's of packs of 3-5. Please, make the spawn rate more reasonable.

I met these "Rust Jackle" hounds, which got in a fight with some starving bandits. I decided to join in, but I now regret that decision. But one issue is that they will eat the bandits, but they avoid eating the player characters. So I'm wondering if it's bug that they're eating at all?

Where can you find the guy who sells them? Do they ever stay in one area? Or are they constantly traveling?

Dogs that don't need to eat!? Sign me up!

These hounds also get butchered