Following the guide here, I've been patching my newest mod so that pets do not spawn on ships. Pets have two important things; an anchor point and the item they anchor to. In this case, every pet anchors to their specific player races' tech stations. Here are the Cat and Human examples: Cat: Code: { "type" : "petcat", "categories" : [ "petcat" ], "parts" : [ "body" ], "animation" : "petcat.animation", "dropPools" : [ ], "baseParameters" : { "persistent" : true, "damageTeamType" : "ghostly", "scripts" : [ "/monsters/pets/groundPet.lua", "/scripts/pathing.lua", "/scripts/stateMachine.lua", "/scripts/util.lua", "/scripts/vec2.lua", "/monsters/pets/idleState.lua", "/monsters/pets/wanderState.lua", "/monsters/pets/petBehavior.lua", "/monsters/pets/actions/followAction.lua", "/monsters/pets/actions/inspectAction.lua", "/monsters/pets/actions/eatAction.lua", "/monsters/pets/actions/sleepAction.lua", "/monsters/pets/actions/begAction.lua", "/monsters/pets/actions/pounceAction.lua", "/monsters/pets/actions/starvingAction.lua" ], "petBehavior" : "petBehavior", "anchorName" : "humantechstation", "petResources" : { "sleepy" : 10, "hunger" : 60, "playful" : 10, "curiosity" : 60 }, "petResourceDeltas" : { "sleepy" : 1, "hunger" : 0.5, "playful" : 1, "curiosity" : 1 }, "actionParams" : { "hungerStarvingLevel" : 80, "beg" : { "minScore" : 50, "cooldown" : 5, "distance" : 3, "emoteCooldown" : 2 }, "follow" : { "minScore" : 35, "cooldown" : 5, "curiosityDelta" : -5, "boredTime" : 3 }, "inspect" : { "minScore" : 20, "cooldown" : 2 }, "eat" : { "minScore" : 0, "minHunger" : 40, "cooldown" : 0, "distance" : 2 }, "play" : { "minScore" : 20, "cooldown" : 2 }, "sleep" : { "minScore" : 50, "minSleepy" : 75, "cooldown" : 10 }, "starving" : { "minScore" : 60, "cooldown" : 3 } }, "pathing" : { "canOpenDoors" : false }, "metaBoundBox" : [-1.625, -2.375, 1.75, 2.0], "scale" : 1.0, "querySurroundingsCooldown" : 1, "wander" : { "wanderTime" : [5, 10], "changeDirectionTime" : [5, 10], "changeDirectionWait" : [1, 3] }, "pounce" : { "maxRange" : 10, "minRange" : 5 }, "idle" : { "idleTime" : [4, 8], "standTime" : 2 }, "movementSettings" : { "collisionPoly" : [ [-0.75, -1], [0.75, -1], [0.75, 0.5], [-0.75, 0.5] ], "mass" : 1.0, "walkSpeed" : 4, "runSpeed" : 14, "flySpeed" : 15, "airForce" : 50.0 }, "bodyMaterialKind" : "organic", "knockoutTime" : 0, "knockoutEffect" : "blink", "deathParticles" : "deathPoof", "touchDamage" : { "poly" : [ [-1.625, -2.375], [1.75, -2.375], [1.75, 2.0], [-1.625, 2.0] ], "damage" : 15, "teamType" : "enemy", "damageSourceKind" : "lash", "statusEffects" : [ ] }, "dropPools" : [ "potreasure" ], "statusSettings" : { "statusProperties" : { "targetMaterialKind" : "organic" }, "appliesEnvironmentStatusEffects" : false, "minimumLiquidStatusEffectPercentage" : 0.1, "primaryScriptSources" : [ "/stats/monster_primary.lua" ], "primaryScriptDelta" : 0, "stats" : { "maxHealth" : { "baseValue" : 72 }, "protection" : { "baseValue" : 1.0 }, "healthRegen" : { "baseValue" : 0.0 } }, "resources" : { "health" : { "maxStat" : "maxHealth", "deltaStat" : "healthRegen", "defaultPercentage" : 100 }, "sleepy" : { "maxValue" : 100, "defaultPercentage" : 10 }, "hunger" : { "maxValue" : 100, "defaultPercentage" : 10 }, "playful" : { "maxValue" : 100, "defaultPercentage" : 10 }, "curiosity" : { "maxValue" : 100, "defaultPercentage" : 10 } } }, "mouthOffset" : [0, 0], "feetOffset" : [0, -8] } } Human Tech Station: Code: { "objectName" : "humantechstation", "tags" : ["human"], "printable" : false, "rarity" : "Common", "interactAction" : "OpenAiInterface", "category" : "decorative", "lightColor" : [61, 88, 102], "lightPosition" : [-1, 0], "description" : "This tech station allows me to communicate with S.A.I.L and enable tech!", "shortdescription" : "Tech Station", "race" : "human", "apexDescription" : "A tech station. I can enable tech and talk to S.A.I.L through this.", "avianDescription" : "I can use this station to enable tech and talk to S.A.I.L.", "floranDescription" : "Floran use thisss for magiccc and talk to sshhip S.A.I.L!", "glitchDescription" : "Informative. This tech station allows me to choose tech and talk to S.A.I.L.", "humanDescription" : "A tech station. Allows me to communicate with S.A.I.L and enable tech!", "hylotlDescription" : "This tech station enables tech and allows me to communicate with S.A.I.L.", "inventoryIcon" : "humantechstationicon.png", "orientations" : [ { "imageLayers" : [ { "image" : "humantechstation.png:<color>.<frame>", "fullbright" : true }, { "image" : "humantechstationlit.png:<color>.<frame>" } ], "imagePosition" : [-16, -8], "frames" : 8, "animationCycle" : 1.0, "spaceScan" : 0.1, "anchors" : [ "background" ] } ], "scripts" : [ "/objects/spawner/shipPetSpawner.lua" ], "scriptDelta" : 20, "shipPetType" : "petcat", "spawnOffset" : [12, -1] } As we can see, the pet spawns with the tech station. Now, following the basic patching guide, I went to remove one line from each of these files. "anchorName" : "humantechstation", from the cat, and "shipPetType" : "petcat", from the tech station. If I understood the guide correctly, this is what I should have for both .patch files; monsters/pets/cat/petcat.monstertype.patch Code: [ {"op":"remove","path":"/baseParameters/anchorName"} ] objects/ship/humantechstation/humantechstation.object.patch Code: [ {"op":"remove","path":"/shipPetType"} ] Unfortunately, doing this does not stop the cat from spawning. I tried this with each pet and tech station, and oddly enough it causes the cat to spawn for each race. I'm at a loss now as to what I should do. I've removed the spawning lines from both files, so it shouldn't be spawning at all. Most of my mods don't use patching, so I can't say I'm experienced in it, but a simple remove command should have done the trick. Any ideas on what I should do?
