Changelog

1.5.3

• New icon and a rewritten mod page: a demo GIF at the top, a gameplay screenshot, a clearer monster list and integration table. No gameplay changes.

1.5.2

• Feiopar's trees are now on the lower floor only (and a touch taller). The upper level is a thin edge strip where trees lined up and the leopard dropped over the side to a lower floor; the roomy lower floor scatters them properly and there is no level below to fall through.

1.5.1

• Trees are no longer placed on ledge edges, which is what let Feiopar drop/leap over the side to a lower floor. A tree spot now requires solid navmesh at the tree's own height all the way around it (4 m ring), keeping the leopard's perch and drop on the same level.

1.5.0

• No per-monster cap by default. Each type's MaxSpawnCount now defaults high (40), so only GlobalCap limits the moon's population out of the box — set a lower MaxSpawnCount on a specific enemy if you want to cap that type. MinSpawnCount/MaxSpawnCount ranges widened to 40.
• Feiopar's trees now grow tall on the open upper floor. Trees are biased to the ship-landing level (no ceiling there), where they're scaled up to ~14 m for a proper forest look; any on a lower level stay ~8 m. More trees by default (14).
• Trees are scattered, not lined up, and never inside walls/props. Placement now spaces trees apart, rejects spots where the trunk would clip a wall or object, and keeps open floor around each so Feiopar's perch stays reachable.

1.4.5

• Feiopar now actually leaps onto trees. The real blocker (found in PumaAI.StartLeapToTree): before leaping it raycasts the tree's layer-25 collider upward and rejects the tree as "too short" unless it reaches ~14 m — our collider was only 4 m, so every tree was rejected and the leopard just ran in place underneath. The tree collider is now a tall thin capsule (16 m), which passes the check and sets the perch near the top; the visible tree is scaled to ~8 m so its top is near where the leopard sits.
• Trees are spread out (minimum spacing) instead of clustering in one spot.

1.4.4

• Dead trees stand upright. When reusing a real in-game tree mesh, the mesh's "up" axis is baked into the source object's transform (LC tree meshes are authored Z-up), so applying it with identity rotation laid it on its side. The mod now captures and applies the source's world rotation and scale, normalises height to ~5 m, and drops the tree so its base sits on the floor.
• Trees are placed in open spots. Feiopar's ambush perch is ~4 m from the tree, so a tree jammed against a wall put the perch behind it and the leopard pathed into a corner. Tree spots now require open navmesh around them (6 of 8 surrounding probes) so the perch is reachable.
• The idle-nudge is unchanged and does not affect Feiopar (it is exempt as an ambusher); it remains only a safety net for other enemies.

1.4.3

• Feiopar actually stalks now. The dead trees were split across two objects, so PumaAI's physics tree search never matched: it finds trees with OverlapSphere on layer 25 and needs that same collider's object to be tagged Tree and present in AllTreeNodes. Each tree is now a single vanilla-style object — tagged Tree, on layer 25, with a non-trigger collider — plus a canopy collider ~16 m up for the validation CheckSphere. Feiopar perches on a tree and pounces players that approach, instead of just wandering.
• Dead trees now use a real in-game tree mesh when one is loaded, else an improved procedural dead tree (trunk + angled branches) with the HDRP material.
• Cadaver Growths is documented as intentionally unsupported — it hard-requires a DunGen dungeon the Company building doesn't have (even BrutalCompanyMinus's Cadaver event can't bypass it). Use the Cadaver Bloom traps for a working cadaver on Gordion.

1.4.2

• Dead trees are visible now. The trunks were built from a Unity primitive, whose default Standard-shader material renders invisible under the game's HDRP pipeline. The mod now clones a real HDRP material from the scene and tints it, so Feiopar's trees show.
• Feiopar no longer gets yanked off its ambush. It stalks by perching motionless on a tree, but the idle-nudge treated that as "stuck" and moved it every 25 s, so it never hunted — it's now exempt from the nudge.
• Vain shrouds only grow when the Kidnapper Fox can actually spawn (enabled and in the pool). Previously an explicit VainShroudIterations or a leftover-enabled Fox grew weeds even when only, say, Cadaver Bloom was active — weeds are a Fox-only feature.
• Docile Locust Bees (Roaming Locust) disabled by default — not useful/visible indoors.

1.4.1

• AllowHarmlessCreatures (renamed from AllowDaytimeEnemies) now governs only the two genuinely harmless ambient creatures — Manticoil and the Roaming/Docile Locust swarm. Tulip Snake (which can grab players) is no longer swept up by it and always stays in the normal spawn pool.

1.4.0

Ambient swarms, a harmless-creature master switch, and working versions of the three previously-broken monsters — each traced to its exact cause in the game code.

• Ambient swarms enabled at low weight by default: Docile Locust Bees (harmless), Red Locust Bees and Butler Bees.
• [Balance] AllowHarmlessCreatures (default true): one switch to keep the building free of the harmless ambient creatures (Manticoil and the Roaming/Docile Locust swarm).
• Earth Leviathan (worm) now attacks. SandWormAI.StartEmergeAnimation only emerges where the surface is "natural" (a naturalSurfaceTags tag), and with no Terrain on the Company moon it cancelled every emerge and roamed under the floor forever. New [Balance] EarthLeviathanFloorEmerge adds the interior floor tag(s) to naturalSurfaceTags so it breaches up through the floor (restored on leave).
• Feiopar (leopard) now stalks. PumaAI hunts only from Tree-tagged objects and perches ~3 m above ground next to them (it does not climb a mesh). [Integration] FeioparDeadTrees grows visible dead-tree trunks on the navmesh, each with the canopy collider PumaAI validates, so it stalks and jumps between them. FeioparTreeCount controls how many.
• Cadaver Bloom now works without a dungeon. The Growth master hard-requires a DunGen dungeon (impossible in the Company building); the Bloom does not. [Integration] CadaverBloomTraps plants Blooms directly at random spots and bursts them when a player comes within CadaverBloomTriggerRange, so they act as standalone corpse traps. Cadaver Growths remains unsupported (needs a dungeon).
• Experimental monster fixes are host-side and off by default; enable per-enemy to test.

1.3.2

• Vain shrouds no longer grow in the same place every time. 1.3.1 spread them from the navmesh anchor, which is computed deterministically, so the Fox's nest always landed on the exact same spot. The origin is now a fresh random reachable point on the interior navmesh each landing (50/50 between floors, clear of where players stand when the ship lands). Since GenerateMold seeds its spread from that position, the shape of the patch changes too.
• New [Integration] VainShroudPatches (default 1, max 4) grows several separate overgrown areas, each at its own random spot.

1.3.1

• Vain shrouds are now grown directly, so Bush Wolf finally works. 1.3.0 seeded the level's moldSpreadIterations and relied on the vanilla level-load pipeline to generate the weeds — but in LethalLevelLoader modpacks that pipeline never runs on Gordion (neither our hooks nor the game's own mold logging appear at all). The mod now calls MoldSpreadManager.GenerateMold itself on landing. That call is self-contained: it places the mold props and then runs grassInstancer.BatchChildren() and GetBiggestWeedPatch(), which is exactly what BushWolfEnemy's GetWeeds() check reads, so the Fox survives instead of despawning.
• The LoadPlanetsMoldSpreadData hook from 1.3.0 is kept for setups where the vanilla path does work; the direct call is the fallback that makes it reliable here.
• Weed generation is host-side. The host decides whether the Fox lives, so it works — but other players may not see the weed props themselves.

1.3.0

• Vain shrouds now actually grow on Gordion, so the Kidnapper Fox (Bush Wolf) can hide and survive. Replaced the old RoundManager.LoadNewLevel hook (which LethalLevelLoader bypassed, so it never fired) with a postfix on StartOfRound.LoadPlanetsMoldSpreadData — the canonical, core save-load method where the game decides weed amounts, the same hook the FoxLover mod uses. The Company moon ships with canSpawnMold = false; the mod flips it on and seeds moldSpreadIterations, then the vanilla pipeline generates and network-syncs the weeds on landing. Controlled by [Integration] VainShroudIterations (0 = auto, grows weeds only when Bush Wolf is enabled). Set it and reload the save / fly fresh — weeds are decided at save load, not mid-round.
• Original implementation written from the decompiled game API; credit to ButteryStancakes' FoxLover (GPL) for demonstrating the hook. No FoxLover code is included.

1.2.1

• New icon: a red bestiary-scan look (dark red scanlines, vignette, corner viewfinder brackets, blood glow). No code changes — republished so the store page shows the new artwork.

1.2.0

• Per-enemy ToilHead settings for every turret-capable enemy. ToilHead can put a turret on three enemies — Coil-Head, Manticoil and Masked — and each has a regular and a Slayer (minigun) variant. Previously only Coil-Head and Manticoil shared a single chance and Masked could not be configured at all. The old [Integration] ToilHeadSpawnChance / ToilSlayerChance are replaced by a [ToilHead] section: CoilHeadTurretChance/CoilHeadSlayerChance, ManticoilTurretChance/ManticoilSlayerChance, MaskedTurretChance/MaskedSlayerChance. Masked support was added to the reflection bindings (SetToilMaskedOnServer / SetSlayerMaskedOnServer).

1.1.1

• Giant Kiwi enabled by default — confirmed working: it is nest-requiring and the mod already places its nest on the interior navmesh automatically (the 1.1.0 notes wrongly listed it as unconfirmed).
• Removed the stale Old Bird note ("cause not yet confirmed") — its instant-death was the missing nest, which automatic nest placement fixed; working enemies no longer log warning-level notes on every landing.

1.1.0

First stable release. Bundles every fix from the 1.0.x line and ships a curated default roster of enemies that work correctly inside the Company building.

• Enabled by default: all interior enemies plus Stingray and Tulip Snake, and the outdoor threats that path fine indoors — Baboon Hawk, Eyeless Dog, Forest Keeper and Old Bird (the Old Bird has its nest placed automatically and is locked to the upper floor).
• Disabled by default (they don't work correctly on Gordion yet, but remain in the config/code and on the experimental git branch): Feiopar, Cadaver Growths, Cadaver Bloom, Bush Wolf, Earth Leviathan, Giant Kiwi, Manticoil and the bees. The experimental FeioparFakeTrees also defaults off.
• Includes: enemy targeting fix (TreatEnemiesAsOutside), reachability-checked spawns with upper/lower floor balance, whitelist mode, per-mod foreign-enemy policy, automatic nest placement for nest-requiring enemies, the maintenance pass (AI re-apply, stranded-enemy rescue, idle-stalker nudge), auto-disable of types that keep dying instantly, and full spawnability logging.

1.0.12

• Diagnostic for the vain-shroud hook. RoundManager.LoadNewLevel is patched to grow weeds, but its log never appeared — the hook may be bypassed (LethalLevelLoader reworks level loading) or bail on the level check. The prefix now logs unconditionally at entry (planet, scene, levelID, isCompany) so the next landing shows exactly whether it fires and why weed generation is or isn't happening.

1.0.11

• No more spawn spam from enemies that can't survive here. Some enemies destroy themselves on spawn via Destroy() (not KillEnemy), so the counter never rose and they were re-spawned endlessly — most visibly Cadaver Growths (CadaverGrowthAI logs "Found no dungeon" and self-destructs). The mod now watches spawns and, after a type dies within a few seconds twice, disables it for the rest of the landing with a clear log line. Cadaver Growths and Cadaver Bloom are also disabled by default now.
• Idle-stalker nudge. An owned enemy that stands essentially still for ~25 s is re-pathed to a fresh reachable point — this unsticks Feiopar (which parks on a fake tree and stops) and any other stalled enemy. Ambush-by-design enemies (Bracken, Coil-Head, Barber, Jester, Ghost Girl, Cadaver Bloom) are exempt so they behave normally.
• Vain shroud diagnostics. The level-load weed setup now always logs the Bush Wolf enabled state, the configured and resolved iteration counts, and the level's current moldSpreadIterations, so a failed weed generation can be diagnosed from the log.

1.0.10

• Whitelist mode. New [Advanced] ExcludedEnemiesIsWhitelist (default false): flip it and the ExcludedEnemies list becomes an allow-list — only the listed types may spawn, everything else is excluded. Lasso and Red pill stay excluded regardless, and an empty list in whitelist mode logs a warning (nothing would spawn). It also feeds ForeignEnemies=RemoveExcluded, so whitelist + that policy strips any non-listed enemy other mods spawn, letting you pin the whole moon to a chosen set of enemies.

1.0.9

• Old Bird upper-floor lock. New [Balance] OldBirdUpperFloorOnly (default true): the Old Bird (RadMech) spawns only on the ship-landing level, ignoring UpperFloorSpawnShare. It is huge and the basement is cramped, so it fights far better upstairs.
• Feiopar (PumaAI) can stalk again — experimental. PumaAI only stalks from objects tagged Tree; the Company building has none, so ChooseTargetTree finds nothing and Feiopar never sets a destination (it just stands there). New [Integration] FeioparFakeTrees (default true) fabricates tree nodes on the interior navmesh, each with the overhead canopy collider (layer 25) that PumaAI.Start validates against, and clears PumaAI's static tree cache so it adopts them. It may perch oddly near the ceiling — set the flag to false if it looks broken.

1.0.8

• Corrected the nest attribution. The nest-requiring enemy in vanilla v81 is the Giant Kiwi (GiantKiwiAI, birdNestPrefab), not the Old Bird — the 1.0.7 notes were wrong. The nest feature is data-driven off the EnemyType flags, so it already served the correct enemy; only the documentation is fixed.
• Old Bird (RadMech) instant-death is still open. It does not use a nest, so 1.0.7 did not address it. Added an early-death diagnostic: when an enemy we spawned dies within 4 s, the log records its AI class and a stack trace naming whatever called KillEnemy, so the real cause can be identified from one landing instead of guessed.

1.0.7

• Nest-requiring enemies work now. EnemyAI.Start contains if (!foundNest && enemyType.requireNestObjectsToSpawn) { isEnemyDead = true; Destroy(gameObject); }, and Gordion places no nests during level generation, so such an enemy destroyed itself one frame after spawning. The mod now places the enemy's own nest prefab on the interior navmesh (properly network-spawned) before spawning it; the enemy finds it, teleports onto it via UseNestSpawnObject and lives inside the building. Nests are cleaned up when the ship leaves. (In v81 this is the Giant Kiwi — see 1.0.8; the 1.0.7 notes mis-named it the Old Bird.)
• If a nest cannot be placed, the enemy is skipped with a logged reason naming its AI class instead of being spawned into an instant self-destruct.

1.0.6

• Vain shrouds can now be grown on Gordion, which makes the Kidnapper Fox (Bush Wolf) playable instead of excluded. New [Integration] VainShroudIterations: the mod sets the level's own moldSpreadIterations before load, so weeds are generated and network-synced through the vanilla path (clients need no mod). 0 = automatic — weeds grow only when Bush Wolf is enabled. Bush Wolf is no longer force-excluded; it is simply skipped, with a logged explanation, if no weeds exist on the moon.
• Correct defaults for the v81 vanilla enemies that previously fell through to the "unknown, disabled" fallback: Feiopar (PumaAI), Cadaver Growths (CadaverGrowthAI), Cadaver Bloom (CadaverBloomAI), Stingray (StingrayAI) and GiantKiwi (GiantKiwiAI).
• Spawnability report in the log. Every landing now lists the resulting spawn pool and, for anything that will not spawn, the enemy name, its AI class and the concrete reason (no prefab, blacklisted, Enabled = false, SpawnWeight = 0, MaxSpawnCount = 0, or an unmet map requirement).
• Enabled enemies with known map caveats now log them: Bush Wolf's weed requirement, Cadaver Bloom being a dormant seed that only Cadaver Growths plants and wakes (enable Cadaver Growths instead of spawning Blooms directly), Feiopar's tree stalking, and Earth Leviathan's burrowing.

1.0.5

• Enemies can finally see, chase and kill you. EnemyAI.PlayerIsTargetable requires player.isInsideFactory != enemy.isOutside, and players inside the Company building are not flagged as being in a factory (there is no EntranceTeleport there). Enemies were being flagged as interior, so the check failed for every player — Masked walked up and calmly walked away, MeetsStandardPlayerCollisionConditions refused every kill, and many AIs had no valid target to path toward. Spawned enemies are now flagged as outdoor enemies ([Advanced] TreatEnemiesAsOutside, default true) while still being pointed at interior patrol nodes.
• Patrol nodes are now created twice per position, tagged AINode and OutsideAINode, so an AI that re-resolves its nodes lands inside the building either way instead of trekking to the outdoor node field.
• New maintenance pass ([Advanced] MaintenanceInterval, default 3 s): re-applies AI flags and node sets to spawned enemies, and teleports any enemy that ended up somewhere unreachable back onto the interior navmesh.
• The blacklist now applies to the whole moon: [Advanced] ForeignEnemies (default RemoveExcluded) despawns blacklisted enemy types even when another mod spawned them (vanilla spawn cycles, BrutalCompanyMinus, MoreEnemies), which is why blacklisted baboon hawks and worms could still appear. Ignore restores the old behaviour; RemoveNotEnabled also removes types with Enabled = false. Enemies in a kill animation are never removed.
• Bush Wolf (Kidnapper Fox) is now excluded automatically with a logged reason: BushWolfEnemy.Start() kills itself immediately when the map has no vain shrouds to hide in, and Gordion has none.

1.0.4

• No gameplay changes: version bump for Thunderstore (1.0.3 was already published there) with the website_url pointing to the GitHub repository.

1.0.3

• Manticoil is now disabled by default (it behaves erratically on Gordion); enable it in [Enemy.Manticoil] if you want it back — the ToilHead "Manti-Toil" integration still applies.
• Floor balance: new [Balance] UpperFloorSpawnShare (default 70) — percentage of spawns placed at the ship-landing level; the rest go to the basement. Previously the much larger basement floor dominated the area-weighted pick and acted as a funnel.
• Outdoor/indoor pools: new [Balance] OutsideEnemyShare (default 50) — each spawn first rolls whether to pick from outdoor enemy types (dogs, giants, baboon hawks, Old Birds...) or indoor ones, then runs the weighted random within that pool.
• Region filtering relaxed: all navmesh regions with a complete path to the main-hall anchor are now eligible (previously only the single largest region), so a legitimately connected upper floor can no longer be discarded wholesale.

1.0.2

• Reachability check: spawn points and patrol nodes are now validated with connected-region analysis plus NavMesh.CalculatePath to a main-hall anchor. Enemies can no longer spawn on roof patches, in pits or other one-way spots they cannot walk out of (fixes the vanilla "eliminated all possible nodes" AI error).
• Fixed ToilHead and StarlancerAIFix being reported as "not detected" even when installed: detection no longer relies on PluginInfo.Instance and falls back to scanning loaded assemblies.
• ToilHead integration bound to the exact ToilHead 1.9.1 API (Api.SetToilHeadOnServer / Api.SetMantiToilOnServer); added [Integration] ToilSlayerChance (default 0) for the minigun turret variant.
• StarlancerAIFix is intentionally no longer invoked manually: its EnemyAI.Start postfix runs automatically, and this mod's interior node assignment executes afterwards so it takes precedence on the surface-level Company moon.

1.0.1

• Landing detection rewritten from a Harmony hook on the doors-opening sequence to polling StartOfRound.shipHasLanded (LandingWatcher) — robust against other mods transpiling the landing coroutine; includes a 20 s fallback trigger.
• Explicit landing diagnostics in the log (planet, scene, host flag, company-moon flag), including a clear message when the session is not the host.

1.0.0

• Initial release: timer-driven weighted spawning of vanilla enemies inside the Company building on the NavMeshInCompanyRedux navmesh, with per-enemy Enabled/weight/min/max, global cap, RespawnOnLoad, debug logging, generated interior patrol nodes, and host-only network-authoritative spawning.