Overview
My Guide goes over the basics of how to get the most out of your Single-player experience in SCUM. And though it’s scattered about the web and what not, I have made this guide as a quick reference for any of those shy towards leaving Steam in search of more settings, loot configs, zombies settings, etc… If you want more settings for your world and want to play around a bit with SCUM and see it’s true potential shine in Single-player this is YOUR guide.
Introduction
Hello! And welcome to my SCUM guide.
In this guide I will be going over how to get the absolute MOST out of your Single-player experience while playing SCUM.
This includes Zombie spawn rate, how many zombies, loot drops, loot percentage, Sentry (mech) settings, etc… All can easily be configured. By the end of this guide you’ll know how!
Warning Acknowledgement… You know the thing.
I should start off by stating that in the very unlikely event that your computer becomes damaged, or you experience any sort of issues after doing this that it is entirely your own fault and I am NOT liable for anything of the sort, you doing this acknowledge that.
Now then, let’s get started…
The First half.
First and foremost you’ll need to do a bit of file browsing, and some of the files you’re going to be looking for are “invisible” How do we fix that you ask? Very easily. Just follow these next steps… If you’ve done this before just skip to step 8.
1) Open up file explorer on you’re desktop
2) Navigate to “View” in the upper left corner of the file explorer window
3) Once in the “View” tab go over to “Options” at the far right hand side and click it
4) Once in the “Options” window click the “View” tab
5) Once in the view tab, find “Hidden files and folders” in your “Advanced settings:”
6) Select “Show hidden files, folders, and drives”
7) And you’re done with the first half, ezpz right?
Second bit…
Now that we’ve hacked into the mainframe, these next few steps will lead you to single-player godliness. Now is also a good time to pour yourself some Scotch, or Whiskey… Or a Brandie… Hell whatever you drink.
8) With File explorer open navigate to your (C:) drive
9) With your (C:) drive open, click on “Users”
10) Click on YOUR username
11) Now navigate to “AppData” (if you did steps 1 – 7 correctly, you’ll see it *It’ll be transparent looking*)
12) Click “Local”
13) Now find your “SCUM” Folder
14) Click “Saved”
15) Click “Config”
16) Click “WindowsNoEditor”
17) Now you’ll want to right-click “ServerSettings.ini” Once right-clicked open it with notepad (Be aware it IS recommended to open it with a text editor, in my case I use ATOM. Honestly though Notepad should do the exact same thing.)
The actual settings file
18) Once you’re in the file it should look like this:
[SCUM]
MaxAllowedAnimalsInWorld=40
MaxAllowedBirdsInworld=15
MaxAllowedZombiesInWorld=64
MaxAllowedWildPawnsInWorld=64
MaxAllowedExteriorPawnsInWorld=64
MaxAllowedInteriorPawnsInWorld=64
MaxAllowedSentriesInWorld=-1
MaxAllowedVehiclesInWorld=64
ExteriorPawnAmountModifier=1.0
InteriorPawnAmountModifier=1.0
WildPawnAmountModifier=1.0
ExteriorPawnSpawningCheckTimeInSeconds=0.0
InteriorPawnSpawningCheckTimeInSeconds=0.0
WildPawnSpawningCheckTimeInSeconds=300.0
ExteriorPawnSpawningProbability=50.0
InteriorPawnSpawningProbability=50.0
ExteriorSpawnerGroupCooldownTime=1800.0
InteriorSpawnerGroupCooldownTime=900.0
StartTimeOfTheDay=8.0
TimeOfTheDaySpeed=1.0
DarknessIntensityMultiplier=1.0
AllowSectorRespawn=1
AllowShelterRespawn=1
AllowSquadmateRespawn=1
[SCUM.RespawnSettings]
RandomLocationPrice=25
SectorLocationPrice=50
ShelterLocationPrice=75
SquadLocationPrice=100
RandomInitialTime=0
SectorInitialTime=0
ShelterInitialTime=0
SquadInitialTime=0
RandomCooldownTime=0
SectorCooldownTime=0
ShelterCooldownTime=0
SquadCooldownTime=0
RandomCooldownResetMultiplier=0
SectorCooldownResetMultiplier=0
ShelterCooldownResetMultiplier=0
SquadCooldownResetMultiplier=0
[SCUM.ItemSpawning]
SpawnerProbabilityMultiplier=1
ExamineSpawnerProbabilityMultiplier=1
ExamineSpawnerExpirationTimeMultiplier=1
SpawnerGroupsExpirationTimeInMinutesMultiplier=1
[SCUM.WorldEvents]
TimeBetweenEventsMin=30
TimeBetweenEventsMax=240
CargoDropFallDelay=60
CargoDropFallDuration=60
CargoDropSelfDestructTime=60
[SCUM.Sentries]
SentryDamageMultiplier=1
[SCUM.Zombies]
ZombieDamageMultiplier=1
[SCUM.BaseBuilding]
UseMapBasedBuildingRestriction=1
[SCUM.Vehicles]
FuelDrainFromEngineMultiplier=1
BatteryDrainFromEngineMultiplier=1
BatteryDrainFromDevicesMultiplier=1
BatteryDrainFromInactivityMultiplier=1
BatteryChargeWithAlternatorMultiplier=1
BatteryChargeWithDynamoMultiplier=1
Or somewhere along those lines, if not, and you are MISSING some of these lines don’t worry, continue reading…
Some more info on settings
19.) The lines above are ALL the settings for your Single-player experience, and all can be tweaked to your liking. If you are MISSING some of these lines, your .ini may not be updated.
20.) If your .ini isn’t updated simply delete the “ServerSettings.ini” file and startup your SCUM game, upon startup a new .ini file will be generated.
And that’s it! I will go through some of these settings so you’re not completely lost.
If you want more zombies don’t worry about adjusting the “MaxAllowedZombiesInWorld=64” instead I recommend adjusting these three:
ExteriorPawnAmountModifier=1.0
InteriorPawnAmountModifier=1.0
WildPawnAmountModifier=1.0
These three are spawn modifiers for zombies.
Exterior = outside
Interior = inside
Wild = Wilderness
Be careful adjusting these values too high as you will get ganked once zombies begin to spawn again. I probably wouldn’t go as high as 5.0…
For Loot tweak these:
[SCUM.ItemSpawning]
SpawnerProbabilityMultiplier=3
ExamineSpawnerProbabilityMultiplier=3
ExamineSpawnerExpirationTimeMultiplier=1
SpawnerGroupsExpirationTimeInMinutesMultiplier=1
Originally posted by Bunny [SCUM Developer:] “Animals and puppets won’t spawn immediately across the whole map even if you put in higher numbers, that’s because we have to go easy on the performance costs … so they will actually spawn once you’re in a certain radius near the spawn marker.
MaxAllowedZombiesInWorld=64 – Maximum possible number of all puppets in the game
MaxAllowedWildPawnsInWorld=64 – Puppets spawning in the wilderness, away from POI’s, etc.
MaxAllowedExteriorPawnsInWorld=64 – Puppets that spawn around POI’s, in city streets,
in / outside of bunkers.MaxAllowedInteriorPawnsInWorld=64 – Puppets that spawn inside of buildings.
These lines will determine the maximum amount of puppets in the game at any time but they will not increase the amount spawned in a single area. So it’s not that much useful for SP.
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ExteriorPawnAmountModifier=1.0
InteriorPawnAmountModifier=1.0
WildPawnAmountModifier=1.0
Increasing these values will affect how much puppets can spawn in an area. So if for instance, you encounter 5 puppets in front of a bunker, increasing the ExteriorPawn value to 2.0 will net you 10 puppets instead.
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ExteriorPawnSpawningCheckTimeInSeconds=0.0
Sets the how often in seconds can a new puppet be spawned in the exterior around the player if available
InteriorPawnSpawningCheckTimeInSeconds=0.0
Sets the how often in seconds can a new puppet be spawned in the interior around the player if available
WildPawnSpawningCheckTimeInSeconds=600.0
Sets the how often in seconds can a new puppet be spawned in the wilderness around the player if available
ExteriorPawnSpawningProbability=30.0
Determines the probability to spawn exterior puppet in percentages
InteriorPawnSpawningProbability=10.0
Determines the probability to spawn interior puppet in percentages
I have nothing to add to this paragraph, since the recent showcase explained it pretty good. These lines should be pretty obvious now 🙂
In any case, play around with the values a bit and find that which fits you best.”
Finishing up
That’s basically it to this guide, remember you CAN add more then just the settings in the .ini file there are more tweaks you can easily make.
Keep in mind I also DIDN’T show EVERY value that can be tweaked, MUCH more is easily configurable in a moments time, just adjust values and play from there.
For example I remove the map & crosshairs in SP just because I love the challenge, which these can be done by adding these under the [SCUM] lines with:
AllowMapScreen=0
AllowCrosshair=0
These setting at “0” value disable these features.
And remember if you edit out of hand and the game keeps crashing, delete the .ini file and start fresh on a newly generated .ini file. I’ve had to do it before because I tweaked too many settings which was resulting in immediate crashing.
- Remember delete .ini file,
- Restart game,
- load into save file if you can (it may crash again),
- close game again,
- restart game,
- New file should be generated and available for use.
Cheers all.
I hope this guide helps some of you who are like me and want more out of their Single-player SCUM experience gain what they’re looking for.
If you have any questions, feel free to post HERE or on my profile I will assist if I can.
Also, if you want more there’s loads of this type of stuff posted on reddit and other forums by other die-hard SCUM lovers, be sure to check out some of that stuff too.
Happy puppet hunting!
References:
SCUM Steam discussion regarding settings
SCUM Steam discussion regarding zombie spawning
SCUM Steam discussion for zombie population, greatly explained by Bunny one of the developers
There are much more threads / web pages filled with this type of info. You just have to look!
Hope this helps!