Every NPC gets a day: a home, a job, a schedule and somewhere to be at 3am - Township.js
Every NPC gets a day: a home, a job, a schedule and somewhere to be at 3am（Author:Core Systems Asset Factory） - Township.js
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An NPC standing on a tile is not a town. Township gives every NPC a day to spend. Each one gets a home, a job, a schedule and somewhere to be at every hour, including overnight shifts and festival days. They walk there, use doors on the way, and hold an idle pose once they arrive. A visual routine debugger shows where everyone is meant to be against where they actually are, so a schedule that fights the map becomes visible instead of mysterious. Redistribution is prohibited so no file is attached. This entry is a link and an introduction. ...
Plugin desc :
An NPC standing on a tile is not a town. Township gives every NPC a day to spend. Each one gets a home, a job, a schedule and somewhere to be at every hour, including overnight shifts and festival days. They walk there, use doors on the way, and hold an idle pose once they arrive. A visual routine debugger shows where everyone is meant to be against where they actually are, so a schedule that fights the map becomes visible instead of mysterious. Redistribution is prohibited so no file is attached. This entry is a link and an introduction. ...
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・Copyright: Retained
・Commercial Use: Allowed
・Modification: Allowed
・Redistribution: Prohibited (This does not apply to works made using the material.)
・Details: See Download Page / In-plugin documentation
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Township — a living town, not a list of waypoints
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WHY THE OVERNIGHT CASE WORKS
Most routine plugins store a schedule as spans: "work from 08:00 to 17:00".
That representation breaks the moment a shift crosses midnight, because
`now >= start && now < end` is false for EVERY minute when start is 22:00
and end is 07:00 — so no entry is active, the NPC has no destination, and
it disappears.
Township stores no end times at all. A schedule is a ring of transition
points, and the active entry is simply the last one at or before now,
wrapping to the end of the day. An overnight shift is not a special case;
it is the ordinary case. The broken state cannot be represented.
Because of that, where an NPC is depends only on the time — never on
accumulated state. So NPCs are always correct after a map transfer, talking
to one cannot corrupt its movement, and the routine board can scrub to any
time and show you the truth.
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SETTING UP A TOWN
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1. PLACES. Drop an event where you want an NPC to stand and put this in its
note box:
The event needs no pages and no graphic — it is a marker.
2. DOORS. Mark where NPCs enter and leave a map:
3. NPCs. Give the event that represents a townsperson:
...and define the "baker" actor and their schedule in a town definition
plugin. TownshipDemo_Millbrook.js is a complete worked example — copy it
and edit it.
4. Open the routine board with the OpenBoard plugin command to see every
NPC's day, scrub time, and jump the world to any hour.
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COMPATIBILITY
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Township uses GRID movement, the same as RPG Maker's own events. It is not
compatible with pixel-movement or action-battle plugins that replace event
movement wholesale. It is stated here rather than discovered later.
Every core method is patched by prototype extension with the original saved
and called, so other plugins that patch the same methods keep working.
If you already own a day/night plugin, set "Clock source" to "variables" and
point Township at the variables it writes. Township will follow your clock
instead of running its own.
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TERMS
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Free for use in commercial and non-commercial RPG Maker MZ projects.
Credit "CSAF" appreciated but not required. Do not redistribute or resell
the plugin itself. See LICENSE.txt.
An NPC standing on a tile is not a town. Township gives every NPC a day to spend.
Each one gets a home, a job, a schedule and somewhere to be at every hour, including overnight shifts and festival days. They walk there, use doors on the way, and hold an idle pose once they arrive.
A visual routine debugger shows where everyone is meant to be against where they actually are, so a schedule that fights the map becomes visible instead of mysterious.
Redistribution is prohibited so no file is attached. This entry is a link and an introduction.
Disclosure. This plugin is AI authored. Code and artwork are AI generated and every storefront listing says so.
