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2026.08.06
AdminBug reports 23Suggestions 4Exploits 0Fixed - he now stands on the street just left of the Henesys Maple TV, which is the spot in your screenshot.
Worth recording what was actually wrong, because it was not only this NPC. v83 gives 9000019 no home at all (Etc.wz NpcLocation is -1, and no map's life list mentions him anywhere) - he is a GM-summoned event NPC, so the Henesys copy is one we added deliberately and his position was DERIVED from the map's own footholds at runtime.
The derivation had a bug: it filtered candidates to the town's foot line, but nothing constrained them horizontally, and the tie-break was 'first by x' - which effectively means 'the map's far-LEFT edge'. Mr. Spot had the identical problem in Kerning City: he was standing 573px past the last townsperson, hard against the wall, 61px beyond the map-exit arrow. Both are fixed - candidates are now clipped to the strip the town's own NPCs actually occupy.
For this one that still left him at x=-315, on the far side of the Maple TV from where you asked, so his spot is now pinned explicitly at x=-650, y=274: the same foot line the Maple TV and the other townspeople stand on, and 156px clear of the nearest NPC.
On pinning generally - placements we invented may carry an explicit coordinate, but the table that repairs NPCs v83 left homeless still may not, because a hand-typed coordinate there would pass a guess off as authentic. There are tests for both rules now, plus one asserting an explicit spot still lands on a real foothold with the same clearance a derived one gets.
On the editor preview now; reaches the public build with the next publish.
Worth recording what was actually wrong, because it was not only this NPC. v83 gives 9000019 no home at all (Etc.wz NpcLocation is -1, and no map's life list mentions him anywhere) - he is a GM-summoned event NPC, so the Henesys copy is one we added deliberately and his position was DERIVED from the map's own footholds at runtime.
The derivation had a bug: it filtered candidates to the town's foot line, but nothing constrained them horizontally, and the tie-break was 'first by x' - which effectively means 'the map's far-LEFT edge'. Mr. Spot had the identical problem in Kerning City: he was standing 573px past the last townsperson, hard against the wall, 61px beyond the map-exit arrow. Both are fixed - candidates are now clipped to the strip the town's own NPCs actually occupy.
For this one that still left him at x=-315, on the far side of the Maple TV from where you asked, so his spot is now pinned explicitly at x=-650, y=274: the same foot line the Maple TV and the other townspeople stand on, and 156px clear of the nearest NPC.
On pinning generally - placements we invented may carry an explicit coordinate, but the table that repairs NPCs v83 left homeless still may not, because a hand-typed coordinate there would pass a guess off as authentic. There are tests for both rules now, plus one asserting an explicit spot still lands on a real foothold with the same clearance a derived one gets.
On the editor preview now; reaches the public build with the next publish.