I have a question, how do you spawn townies in the main hood (mentioned earlier in this post: /post/101066595201/that-awkward-moment-when-you-forget-to-spawn) . I started a new empty neighborhood and I’m slowly filing it and building community lots, but there aren’t much townies passing by/visiting my freshly built lots and I’m kind of bummed by it. Nobody likes playing with and empty town.

Hey anon! I get asked about townie creation a lot, so today I spent some time doing a bit of a write-up on how to generate custom townies in the neighborhood. I see you’ve already got your empty templates installed, so feel free to skip ahead to the part about townie creation. 

Basically, if you don’t care about creating each individual townie yourself (down to the last detail), you can force your game to batch-create townies (assuming you have the notownieregen mod installed and your game hasn’t already spawned some) by following option B outlined in my small “tutorial.” Of course, you’re free to spawn even more townies if you want some more, but keep in mind this will create many additional character files in your game. 

Unfortunately, I’m unaware of anything that will force them to pass by or visit community lots more frequently. : (I don’t think it matters how many townies are actually in the hood.) But hopefully this helps you create townies if that’s what you’re looking for. 🙂