Tavern visitors just swimming under water around my base

[malbsolisglez]

Basic Info:

Platform: Steam
Issue Type: Gameplay
Game Mode: Online Official
Server Type: Any
Map: Any
Server Name: Any
Mods: No

Bug Description:

Tavern visitors just keep swimming underwater around my base. Video evidence attached

Conan Exiles tavern visitors bug

Bug Reproduction:

Build a taver near/over water and wait for some time to start receiving visitors. Then just see them swimming around your base.

[kiesu]

New minigame! Fish the patrons out of your moats XD

Same here
Surely my base isnt so horrible that they all decided they’d rather drown than take a seat hah

[Kikigirl]

Was this happening prior to March 25, 2025 patch?

[kiesu]

Just a few odd ones floated about, but there was never armies of them like this.

I think the update " * Disabled tavern visitors teleporting when no path is available" did this. If they spawn in water, that is considered to be “no path”, since NPCs don’t know how to swim, and just stay there drowning.

Visitors are also spawning on random flat surfaces like ontop of my Vault and floverpots and just stare at my tavern from there longingly

[malbsolisglez]

No, it was not happening prior march 25 update

[jmk1999]

Can confirm on PS5. I found two underneath my base on siptah yesterday. I build port villages, so my bases are typically over water and use fence foundations for support. I popped off a ceiling tile on the floor and saw two there swimming in place in the water. I’m familiar with the sound as my thralls use to do this a lot when thralls would drop through the ground before. That’s why I checked.

[Jvl416]

I have the same bug periodically, playing solo on xbox. I saw this prior to the updates and it went away when I turned off Living Settlements. After turning Living Settlements back on, the bug returned. Probably realated to how Living Settlements interacts with the Tavern System, though that is just a guess on my part.

[Kurozu]

I’ve experienced this as well on PC, unmodded, with Living Settlements enabled. Not underwater as I don’t have bodies of water nearby, but my tavern patrons will consistently spawn in odd, inaccessible places e.g. below cliffs, on unconnected cliffs, or inside the terrain models.

Previously, I would sometimes find patrons at these locations, but they would teleport up to the tavern as soon as I traveled to it. After the March 25th patch, which removed this teleporting, the patrons are predictably stranded.