Talon Quest "Fashion Trend" possibile bugfix

For the Talon quest 'Fashion Trend" that you can take on a Talon farm, this mission does possibly not work because there is a syntax error or in the playfield.static file or in the PDA.yaml file. Here the extracts of the code that show that the references do not corrispond:

Playfield: GS_Akua
File: playfield_static yaml

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- SpawnAt: [TemperateStarterTribalTower,TemperateStarterRuinsTribal]
Radius: 200
RadiusRandom: 50
RateMultiplyerCenter: 1.0
RateMultiplyerEdge: 1.0
Color: "1.0, 0.0, 0.5, 0.9"
Entities:
- Names: [RaptorHerd]
Biomes: [Any]
Amount: 60 # was 40
Period: Always
DelayMinMax: [-1, -1]
- Names: [RaptorsNight] >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>PROBLEM ENTRY
Biomes: [Any]
Amount: 60 # was 40
Period: Night
DelayMinMax: [-1, -1]
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File: PDA.yaml

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- ChapterTitle: pda_aO0uumW
Category: SoloMission
NoSkip: false
Activatable: Never
Visibility: Never
PlayerLevel: 1
CompletedMessage: ''
ChapterActivation:
- Check: InventoryOpened
Names:
- RaptorNight >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>PROBLEM ENTRY
NoSkip: 'true'
PopupActivatesChapter: 'true'
NotifyMessage: norm;20|pda_0Gmma4i
Tasks:
...

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It must be checked wether this is true and corrected accordingly:
It must be in BOTH files or RaptorsNight or RaptorNight, but not different syntaxes in both files

I hope this helps!
Greetings

 

The entry 'RaptorsNight' is used successfully in the same playfield_static file, so it must be the pda.yaml file which needs correction with the substitution of
RaptorNight > RaptorsNight

in the line above, after which the mission should work correctly.
Currently testing it in my 'Alternative Game Start' scenario.

 

The playfield entries do not use the NPC name, so the PDA and playfield entries will almost never match up and it doesn't have to.
The playfield do not reference the NPC name for spawning NPCs. It uses a separate entry.

 

Thanks ravien_ff, that's good to know and I expected an answer like this. By adapting my custom scenario I have now a new problem that maybe you can clarifiy: I want to add a Decoration entry in the playfield_dynamic.yaml file but it crashes the game right at a new game start. This is what I have added in a custom GS_Akua file that has a different terrain and biomes:

- Name: Harvestables1
Density: 1
Snow: 0
spawn:
Min: 0
Max: 0.5
BushPower: 0.7
Noise: 1,0.1,2,0.5
scale:
Power: 1.2
Noise: 1,0.1,2,0.5
Hue: 0,0,0.001
BendPower: 1
GrassPower: 1
Contrast: 1
Saturation: 1

The above exists in the default GS_Akua.
In the same file I have then modified my 'Swamp' biome as follows, with 1 added entry only (orange color):

- [ ChineseBanyan, 0.14, Tree_V|Bp=0.30|Sp=1.00|Snow=0.00|Bri=0.98|Sat=0.40|Bend=0.70|Hue=330.00, 1.50 ]
- [ ChineseBanyan, 0.01, Empty, 1.50 ]
- [ DeadTree02b, 0.001, Free_V, 1.50 ]
- [ DeadTree02a, 0.001, Free_V, 1.50 ]
- [ DeadTree01, 0.01, BigPlant_V|Bp=0.00|Sp=1.00|Snow=0.00|Bri=1.07|Sat=0.20|Bend=1.00|Hue=50.00, 1.50 ]
- [ SkeletonWhaleFull, 0.005, Tree_V|Bp=0.30|Sp=1.00|Snow=0.00|Bri=1.00|Sat=1.00|Bend=1.00|Hue=0.00, 1.50 ]
- [ AkuaBush1, 0.04, Free_V|Bp=0.00|Sp=1.00|Snow=0.00|Bri=1.00|Sat=0.40|Bend=1.00|Hue=320.00, 1.50 ]
- [ ElderberryBushGreen, 0.0015, Free_V, 1.50 ]

- [ DimpleDome, 0.0015, Plant, 2.50 ]
- [ CobraLeavesPlant, 0.001, Plant, 2.50 ]
- [ CattailWinter, 0.01, Harvestables1, 2.20 ]
- [ MushroomTallGreen01, 0.002, Free_V, 1.50 ]
- [ ClusterShroom, 0.0015, Free, 2.50 ]
- [ CornDogBush, 0.001, Plant, 2.50 ]

- [ RockResourceIron, 0.001, Free, 2.50 ]
- [ RockResourceCopper, 0.001, Free, 2.50 ]
- [ RockResourceSilicon, 0.0001, Free, 3.00 ]

What is wrong here?
The purpose was to make spawn the famous 'Grain' in the Swamp biome (which is CattailWinter in the blocksconfig.ecf file) so to make the Talon mission 'Wild Grains' possible to play in my custom scenario.
Thanks for your feedback!

 

Sorry I would not know. If you comment out the cattailwinter entry does it still crash?
If that fixes it, then you know the problem is with the entry in the biome.

 

If I take the new entries out it doesn't crash. However these entries are strictly identical to what is in the default GS_Akua, also correctly aligned in the file.

Is it at all possible to add decorations in the file? I will try to replace an entry instead of adding it.

 

If it's causing a crash then you likely broke the syntax used somehow.

 

Thank you, I check this out by adding entries piece after piece, so I get a more precise result about where the error is.

 

Solved!
Re-adding the entries from scratch didn't crash anymore, so it must have been a syntax error of some kind, missaligned entries or so...
Also the procedure works well to spawn certain plants in the biomes which are not default.

Concerning the topic question, the related mission works well, no bug like I have suspected.