Tavern PATRON Myths Busted - How RECRUITMENT Really Works | Conan Exiles

[@Pixelcave]

Related Guides: 🟡Tavern Guide - All you need to know: kzbin.info/www/bejne/e5XUdpeqo9Z5bq8 🟡All Recruitable Named T4 Patrons: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fZbEe4CiqrqAq5o

[@Orwrath2010]

Ok you've given us a couple of explanations on the thralls to get and a more in depth guide on what happens with the tavern system but I have an NPC that showed up and taught me something now how many other NPCs can show up and teach us stuff the name of the NPC was Xil the Wanderer.

[@Pixelcave]

@@Orwrath2010 Xil the Wanderer is related to The Sacred Hunt event that released with Chapter 4 of Age of War, so it's not something we could have included at that time. This guide is also about recruitment, and Xil can't be recruited. It's more like he's an NPC like Isscar the Sellsword, which is something we explained in our full Tavern Guide - the possibility of Funcom adding more NPCs with different functions. There's definitely a lot of potential for more!

[@CrymsonNite]

The worst part about the bar is how many patrons get stuck at random places in my base, and trapped on door frames

[@michealboscott1615]

My tavern has been open 3 days. I have a minimum of 6 patrons all the time. Most open for hires are entertainers, who now work in the bar as dancers. But low level archers, fighters and a few prowlers are frequent. No tier 4 for hire yet. But it's quite a popular place. Fun idea. If other players use my bar or hire from my bar, the money should go to the house. I lost two level 20 thralls and the construction costs were high, to put this bar on the map.

[@Pixelcave]

Hm, that's actually an interesting idea regarding the Gold going to the owner of the Tavern. 🤔 Nice to hear your Tavern is popular and you see a good variety of thralls arriving. The T4 will come sooner or later, I'm sure!

[@zrugel]

Ahhhhhh, this is very good information. that you, Pixelcave.

[@GrymmsPlace]

Always excellent analysis and feedback. A 'Must' Go-to for any serious players. I did notice two weird, not-bad things. I suddenly noticed that I got one or two thralls wandering into my actual base and sitting down on empty seating I had here and there. And then I found one in a base I have in a different region to the main base, which was odd. All were T1 thralls, but it was funny seeing thralls wander through the base. None of these appeared hireable or threatening. I do have mods, though none affect thralls. :)

[@Pixelcave]

Hm, that's odd indeed. If you don't have a Bar Counter, you shouldn't see them turning up (radius is around 6 foundations in each direction, so it could affect different floors). But yeah, who knows, it could be a mod - and as long as it's not causing issues, it's indeed funny to see some random visitors! 😄 Thanks for the positive feedback, really good to hear you enjoy our content!

[@paollopiettrobrunoro9979]

Thank YOU Pixel team!! You guys are absolutely awesome!!

[@sesimie]

All the best for 2024 Pixelcave. I always look forward to your excellent style and delivery.

[@Pixelcave]

Thank you, same to you! And thanks for all the support over the years!

[@aresgalamatis7022]

@7:00 Releasing again an incomplete "feature", with neither patch notes for it nor server settings to easily fix.

[@bradiklongsword335]

Awesome video of info thank you

[@Pixelcave]

Thank you!

[@retromegabitsegadude]

Excellent video! Thank you for these great details.

[@Pixelcave]

Thank you!

[@thorsforge2905]

I don't know if you covered it in your other video on making a tavern, but the bar has a 6 tile radius for seating. Seats further away than 6 tiles from the bar won't fill.

[@Pixelcave]

Yes, we covered it in our Tavern Guide. In this video, we wanted to focus on the big questions surrounding Recruitable Patrons.

[@erjoh305]

This is definitely awesome content Thank you. All you lurkers need to subscribe and give this guy the credit. So what wasn't covered is how many NPC's spawn in because you could waste space building a large tavern that seats 20 but if your are only getting 10 patrons on any given time point, you are wasting space.

[@Pixelcave]

Thank you (from both of us)! 😊 Well, the bar counter and 1 large extra table with benches should be enough if you want to keep it at the minimum. But I'd say 15-20 (give or take) is what a Bar Counter would sustain on average with the random arrivals/departures.

[@einBaerTiger]

Thxs a lot for your research and the info in your video. 👍You're the best 👍 Cheers 🍻

[@Pixelcave]

Thank you! 🍺

[@xyAKMxy]

Hi Pixelcave, I hope I didn't miss this answer from the video itself, but how do the patrons (both hireable and not) behave in case of an aggressive creature to walk in or in case of a purge walking through the area of the tavern? Do they fight the hostiles?

[@Pixelcave]

I believe they are neutral and won't do anything, but we can do another check next time we're in game. Maybe someone else here can confirm as well?

[@gcgamer]

I got lucky being able to hire prowlers which is not capturable normally. I have been away on siptah official but when I returned, there was Lisa long bow there hirable for 500 gold coins. Which was nice since she doesnt spawn on that map to begin with. Very informative video thanks.

[@Pixelcave]

Nice catch, congratz on Lissa! And thank you!

[@jadecat4321]

I must be lucky then. I've gotten 4 T4 thralls 2 archers 1 T4 fighter Mbaku or something like that and 1 delincia snowhunter

[@Pixelcave]

Oh, that's indeed pretty lucky - you must have a pretty popular Tavern! 😄

[@ahawkone8850]

I know this is an older video now and there have been a couple patches... But I built my first tavern a couple days ago and I got a T4 thrall to hire. Her name was just Captain. But she cost 500g, and started with a pretty respectable amount of base HP.

[@Pixelcave]

That's great! It still requires a bit of luck to get T4s, so that's nice. I believe they will add hireable Crafters and Bearers as Patrons with Age of Heroes, but haven't had the time to fully test it yet in the Beta.

[@ahawkone8850]

@@Pixelcave Thanks for the reply! Hey while I have you here... My brother and I took the named thrall I mentioned above into the Well of Skelos last night, and she got mobbed and killed by a bunch of of dudes... Now, the reason we took her was because of the DBNO system and we assumed she'd be safe enough. But instead of going down, she just died... I'm assuming this is possibly because the DBNO didn't apply to Tavern Thralls, but I'm not certain. Do you or your community know anything about DBNO not working for Tavern thralls? I'm going to try and test it some more tonight when I get home from work.

[@Pixelcave]

@@ahawkone8850 Oh no, that's super annoying! No, Tavern Thralls should be the same as any other Followers. The Tavern is simply an alternative way of recruiting thralls, same as buying them from traders during events, or with the Age of Heroes, freeing them from Prisoner Cages. So the DBNO system should have kicked in. I'd say it must be a bug. Might be worth reporting this one on the official forums so the devs can look into it - and maybe others see it and have similar experiences, or suggestions what could have happened.

[@ahawkone8850]

@@Pixelcave Hmmm that's unfortunate. I will post it to their forums later if I remember to do it. Thanks for the insight though!

[@labels707]

not true when i added a 2nd bar tender my numbers tribled i have 25 chairs and i have a over flow if thralls standing usually 20 to 35 at any given time so wierd

[@patrickmace5340]

I mean I felt the tavern system should have been a thing a long time ago. Especially given you unlock the ability to build it as of level 20. I wasn't too impressed at all with what it brings. Generally level 1 or 2. Rarely see a 3. And when I see a named it's never recruitable.

[@Wulfgrym]

My buddy was so excited to set up his tavern to recruit thralls. I started on the server waaaaaay after him and have boxes of T4 thralls in almost every catagory. I’ve got 1 bladesmith, 1 tempersmith and am only missing an edgesmith. Beyond that, I’m flush with every other T4 type. I’ve only been on about 2-3 weeks. He’ll go weeks without seeing a T4 at his tavern. It’s a neat idea, especially for those that are squeamish about riding into a village, massacring everyone, knocking out a woman, dragging her along the ground for miles, breaking her mind and then making her dance for you topless, AND THEN, forcing her to die in your defence….lol😂 It shouldn’t be a quick and easy method of acquiring T4’s, but it should be better than it is.

[@D_an_D]

Only warrior (archer, bearer, dancer, fighter) thralls can be recruited from taverns. So maybe your smithes are from the regular method, or ...

[@Wulfgrym]

All of mine are from the regular method. My point is he started way before me and I have tons of thralls doing it the old fashioned way and he doesn’t have many using the tavern.

[@topknotcub8745]

ive hired a teir four dancer form my tavern jsut took a long ass time

[@Pixelcave]

Well, better late than never - congratz. Take good care of that dancer, who knows when you see one again.

[@SackRingDice]

I got a Janos and a Markos in the same week

[@Pixelcave]

That's not bad I'd say, maybe your bar keeper is selling the good stuff to attract the right customers. 😀

[@SackRingDice]

@@Pixelcaveblue meth from breaking bad

[@Pixelcave]

That explains 😂

[@TomLinkens]

Isle of Siptah has been better rng for hiring named fighters. An Accursed Berseker, two Lians, Vais The Wayfaerer, and Mei The Blade were named fighters I found and chose to recruit.

[@Pixelcave]

That are some great finds, congratz!

[@jev4778]

Built tavern yesterday and already a named thrall, but can't recruit.

[@Pixelcave]

Yeah, that's the cruel part, seeing all the unrecruitable Named ones. The chances for them to be recruitable are just very slim, but you'll get some eventually.

[@hypshyps7427]

most weird thing happened, went to count recruitable thralls and there she was - 1st named t4 thrall. and indeed, indeed in total there s 3 of them.

[@Pixelcave]

Oh nice, who did you get?

[@hypshyps7427]

@@Pixelcave Captain's Bodyguard Undina

[@hypshyps7427]

Captain's Bodyguard Undina

[@RaZeyLWindBladE]

So.... i have 10 seating. System will reserve seating for the 3 recruitable. Basically i just need to use 7 of my own thralls to take the seat and basically 'force' the system to add the recruitables. 🤔

[@Pixelcave]

I'm not sure it will keep seats for all 3 open if your seating is very limited, maybe you'll get just 1 and 2 visitors, as you are kind of preventing a normal flow of Patrons coming and leaving. But it would be interesting to see if it works. Let us know your findings!

[@D_exiled_1Arisen]

I hate how much I still enjoy playing this title. I am wondering if anyone knows about altars in pve. I don't see God beams in pve. I can't find a named priest for zath, set, mitra, and ymir to see if it works. 🇦🇬✊🏾🇵🇷

[@Pixelcave]

Altar Beams have been removed with Age of Sorcery, Chapter 3 (around a year ago). If you need help with named thralls, we did cover some priests in our named location guides (playlist here: kzbin.info/aero/PL-lGiHRbXVRt3EIWbxrT2YNWY71qCq1uJ ).

[@MichaelSmith-dr8tw]

So multiple taverns across the map means 3 spread out across the map. 1 tavern means 3 at one spot….

[@kukipett]

Oh my god that feature is bugged in an awfull way as usual when Funcom tries to implement something. Well the idea was good but it's just horrible. Most of the NPCs who come to your bar either are stuck walking against a wall for ever, or standing in the door and you have to make a door elsewhere as you cannot interact with them. Then if they manage to reach a bench they just stay there without doing anything and you cannot talk or make them move or even kill them. They are just a pain in the ass, i can recruit 3 of them as it's supposed to be but for the other it's just an annoyance as they cannot find their path as usual thralls. I have currently 5 or 6 of them kissing the walls outside of my bar, i had to make another door as one decided to stay in the middle of it. I got two named thralls but i could never interact with them, even as my firts customer was Imiu the dancer !! Good luck to have a named thrall but bugged to the bone as i could not interact with her, she is gone now and Frigga showed up but i cannot interact at all. Well there is a lot of work left if Funcom ever decide to patch it one day!

[@BertMerlin57]

There need be more anims so they not judt sit look boored

[@Pixelcave]

Let's hope we'll see some tweaks over time to get a livelier Tavern!

[@sicwitit216]

Was excited for tavern but not now

[@RedStar-wx4xf]

A two percent chance of appearing in a tavern is more than the chance of appearing in most settlements, where it is only one percent.

[@jacksteelog1796]

Sorry, not-so-fun-gaming has been screwing up Conan since alpha.