If they see you or hear you, they will scream and call a mini-horde.įrom my experience with A20, they scream a maximum of three times at certain intervals, provided they have consistent detection of you, and then never again. They will then walk towards the chunk to investigate it. However, if you have a bunch of heat generating entities in one chunk (16 blocks x 16 blocks) then a Screamer may or may not spawn (sometimes they do, sometimes they don't, I'm not sure if it's a bug). Similarly, 1 forge, or 1 campfire won't spawn a Screamer constantly. Placing 1 torch isn't enough to spawn a Screamer constantly. The heat generated also decays overtime, but I don't recall at what rate. They do this per tick or per in-game hour at varying rates.

Torches, campfires, and any other heat generating entities that you placed has a rate at which it increases the heatmap. It needs to reach 100% in order for the game to spawn a Screamer. Press F8 twice if you want to see the heatmap. We don't know how it has changed in A20, but we'll assume it hasn't. I suppose just expect a lot of moving back and forth between all three. But if you want to, it's sure nice to have. Though I'm not sure about having three different ones: a resource drop-off base, crafting base, and also a horde base. It's fairly common practice to make two bases: a horde base, and a resource drop-off/crafting base. You're not gonna be spamming torches or forges, or smashing metal to increase the heatmap (this is how they spawn). If you wanna just hide loot, you don't need to worry about screamers. Is it even possible to make a secondry base JUST for hiding loot? What if i build wall around the said underground base and put heat sources outside of the wall? Will that stop the screamers or will they want to investigate ALL heat sources in the area?

Originally posted by Nemmy:I wanted to build a seperate underground base just to hide my loot but then i read about screamers

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