| name | ss14-npc-ai |
| description | NPC and AI guidance for SS14 SS14-ART-CORE work, including blackboards, tasks, planning, pathfinding, collision avoidance, updates, behavior reuse, and data-driven NPC prototypes. |
SS14 NPC AI
Rules
- Reuse existing NPC systems, tasks, blackboard keys, and pathfinding services.
- Keep behavior data-driven through prototypes/components.
- Avoid one-off AI branches for specific prototype IDs.
- Do not add broad per-tick scans when event or task scheduling can work.
- Validate combat/interaction authority on the server.
- Localize player-facing feedback.
Design
NPC behavior should be composable: sensing, planning, movement, action, and feedback should be separable enough that future NPCs can reuse them.
Bundled References
references/blackboard-task-planning.md: blackboards, tasks, planning, reusable behavior slices, and data-driven NPCs.references/pathfinding-updates.md: pathfinding, collision avoidance, update scheduling, and performance checks.
Sources
Read space-station-14/core-tech/npcs.md through ss14-wizden-docs.
