ss14-npc-ai

name	ss14-npc-ai
description	NPC and AI guidance for SS14 Shine 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.