PersistentRaids

Raid/event monsters keep hunting and get longer sight. Open-world creatures (boars, greydwarves, etc.) stay vanilla.

Far-despawn can still be blocked for enemies. Raid mobs keep hunting after the HUD ends. Custom Raids owns when the next raid starts. Monster cap 220.

Do not enable Expand World Events Multiple events. Leave AllowMultipleRaids = false.

Install on server and all clients.

Commands: persistraid clear | event | stop | cap | boss <prefab>

Changelog

1.0.6

• ALL raid/event creatures forced to fight every AI tick (block flee, keep hunt). Every raid, every shy prefab.

1.0.5

• Timers: leave per-raid Custom Raids Duration / PauseIfNoPlayerInArea alone by default. Optional OverrideRaidDurations is off.
• Raid AI: force hunt + alert, clear shy flee flags so Greylings fight instead of milling.

1.0.4

• Persistence is raid-only now. Never-despawn / ZDO.Persistent apply only to raid/event creatures (and bosses).
• Open-world wildlife culls like vanilla, so it no longer piles up around bases (fixes base-area FPS).

1.0.3

• Fix: 1.0.1 lied that a player was always inside the raid circle and could report a stashed event as “current”. Custom Raids then skipped every new raid.
• AllowMultipleRaids now defaults false. persistraid stop clears a stuck current event.

1.0.2

• Long-range sight, forced hunt, and never-lose-aggro apply only to RandomEvent / raid creatures.
• Open-world mobs keep vanilla view range and aggro.
• Night despawn skip is raid-only.
• World bosses no longer inherit raid hunt from NeverDespawnBosses.

1.0.1

• Initial release.

Config Values

[Despawn]

Block far-despawn and mark ZDOs persistent for RAID/event creatures only. Open-world wildlife culls like vanilla so it does not pile up around bases. Setting type: Boolean Default value: true NeverDespawnMonsters = true

Bosses persist / skip far-despawn. Hunt range is still raid-only. Setting type: Boolean Default value: true NeverDespawnBosses = true

Event creatures keep hunting after the raid timer ends. Setting type: Boolean Default value: true EventMonstersSurviveRaidEnd = true

Ignore despawn-in-day on night-spawned event creatures. Setting type: Boolean Default value: true NeverDespawnNightMonsters = true

[Filters]

Comma prefab names. Empty = all enemies. Setting type: String Default value: CreatureWhitelist =

Comma prefab names to ignore. Setting type: String Default value: CreatureBlacklist =

[General]

Master switch. Setting type: Boolean Default value: true Enabled = true

[Logging]

Log blocked despawns and extra raids. Setting type: Boolean Default value: false EnableDebugLogging = false

Log when the monster cap is hit. Setting type: Boolean Default value: true LogCapEvents = true

[MultipleRaids]

Leave false. Custom Raids will not start a new raid while any event is still current. Setting type: Boolean Default value: false AllowMultipleRaids = false

OFF by default. When on, keeps the raid timer (and spawn checks) running with nobody in the circle. Leave off so each raid's PauseIfNoPlayerInArea and Duration work as configured. Setting type: Boolean Default value: false ContinueSpawningWithoutPlayers = false

Unused (kept so old configs still load). Setting type: Single Default value: 600 SpawnWithoutPlayersDuration = 600

OFF by default. When on, replaces every random-event Duration with OverrideDurationSeconds. Leave off to use each Custom Raids Duration. Setting type: Boolean Default value: false OverrideRaidDurations = false

Only used when OverrideRaidDurations is on. Seconds. Setting type: Single Default value: 60 OverrideDurationSeconds = 60

[RaidChase]

Only RandomEvent/raid creatures keep hunt/aggro. Open-world mobs stay vanilla. Setting type: Boolean Default value: true EnablePersistentChase = true

Multiplies view/alert/chase range for raid creatures only. 1 = vanilla. Setting type: Single Default value: 3 ChaseRangeMultiplier = 3

Absolute chase cap in meters. 0 = multiplier only. Setting type: Single Default value: 200 MaxChaseDistance = 200

[Safety]

Hard cap on living non-player characters. Setting type: Boolean Default value: true EnableMonsterCap = true

Global living monster cap. Setting type: Int32 Default value: 220 MaxActiveMonsters = 220

0 = stop persisting new ones. 1 = despawn oldest. 2 = despawn furthest from any player. Setting type: Int32 Default value: 1 CapBehavior = 1

When no players are online, never-despawn rules are off so the server can unload. Setting type: Boolean Default value: true OnlyApplyWhilePlayersOnline = true

Minutes between cap sweeps. 0 = only on spawn. Setting type: Single Default value: 15 AutoCleanupInterval = 15

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Changelog

1.0.6

• ALL raid/event creatures are forced to fight: block flee, block hunt-clear, re-assert hunt+alert every AI tick. Applies to every raid (Greyling, Boar, Neck, Greydwarf, etc.), not only on spawn.

1.0.5

• Raid timers: ContinueSpawningWithoutPlayers now defaults off, so each Custom Raids Duration and PauseIfNoPlayerInArea apply as written. PersistentRaids no longer forces the event clock by default.
• New optional OverrideRaidDurations + OverrideDurationSeconds (both unused unless you turn the override on). Leave off to keep per-raid durations.
• Raid creature AI: event mobs force hunt + alerted, and clear shy flee flags (fleeIfNotAlerted, unreachable flee, low-health flee). Fixes Greylings milling around instead of fighting.

1.0.4

• Persistence is now raid-only. Never-despawn and ZDO.Persistent apply only to raid/event creatures (and bosses via NeverDespawnBosses).
• Open-world wildlife (boars, necks, greylings, etc.) culls like vanilla again, so it no longer accumulates around bases. Fixes base-area FPS drops caused by permanent wildlife.
• Raid mobs get persistence when the event flag is set (SetEventCreature), not blindly on Awake.

1.0.3

• Fix: 1.0.1 treated every event-area check as “a player is here” and could expose a stashed raid as the current event. Custom Raids refuses to start a new raid while GetCurrentRandomEvent() is set, so raids stopped appearing.
• AllowMultipleRaids defaults to false. Custom Raids owns raid start; this mod persists raid creatures.
• persistraid stop clears a stuck current/stashed random event.

1.0.2

• Long-range sight, forced hunt, and never-lose-aggro apply only to RandomEvent / raid creatures (SetEventCreature).
• Open-world mobs (boars, greydwarves, and other non-raid spawns) keep vanilla view range and aggro.
• Night despawn skip is raid-only.
• World bosses no longer inherit raid hunt from NeverDespawnBosses (far-despawn persist is unchanged).

1.0.1

• Initial release: raid chase, far-despawn block, extra events, spawn-without-players, monster cap 220.