NPC Spawner Devices Fails to Spawn NPCs

Summary

Within the past hour, NPC Spawner devices began experiencing severe server-wide delays and are now frequently failing to spawn NPCs entirely. This is a critical issue affecting multiple maps, including my roguelike, where players become completely stuck and cannot progress.

Please select what you are reporting on:

Creative

What Type of Bug are you experiencing?

Devices

Steps to Reproduce

Place down an NPC device
Spawn it through Verse

Expected Result

The NPCs should spawn correctly

Observed Result

The NPCs are not spawning anymore

Platform(s)

PC

Island Code

0243-3963-9174

Loaded into multiple roguelikes that all have this issue. This is urgent, please look into this!

Can confirm this is happening on other maps

Same here - no NPCs are spawning at all - any types (which use custom models and standard ones). In our game they are inactive on game start and are enabled and spawned when player enters a volume. At the same time the creatures are spawning without issues and few guards were spawned…
0564-0723-6518

I tested on xbox and PC - both in private and public with other players - broken everywhere
Just tested - they are also broken in UEFN in Test Session.

This is severely impacting two of my games. One is Farm Simulator and the other is Escape From Evil. NPCs are not spawning as reported by our discord community.

Also experiencing this in a Live Edit session. NPCs are failing to spawn

We’re investigating, thank you for flagging!

NPC Spawner Device Issue - Fix Live

  • We’ve deployed a fix for this issue. NPC Spawner Devices should now spawn NPCs as expected in new server sessions.
  • If you’re still experiencing the issue, please start a new session for the fix to take effect.

Thanks all!

This is still happening on Edit Session for me

My spawners also have all broke in UEFN, I have tried fully restarting, rolling back changes etc… and they seemed to have broke randomly a couple hours ago.

The NPC spawners on my map are still not working in Edit mode either. They have all stopped working. They work fine in published game now, but not in local session.

Same here - 8:40pm ET. In an edit session and NPC is failing to spawn.

Please know that this issue persist in edit mode. Thank you.

I found a workaround for the NPC spawning issue.

The NPCs will not spawn automatically when the game launches, but they can still be spawned manually by triggering the NPC Spawner’s Spawn function through the Event Binding (for example, from a Timer Device or Trigger Device). Temporary fix.

Seems to have just now started working in edit mode for my map.

hi @auz1111

There appears to be a fix just launched/patched. Does this work or is your problem new

NPC Sidekicks Appearing Invisible - Fix Live - NPC Spawner Device Issue - Fix Live v42.30 Known Issues and Pre-Release Updates - General / Issues and Bug Reporting - Epic Developer Community Forums

FORT-1167676’s status has changed to ‘Ready for QA’. A member of the QA department is investigating the issue.