DarkSide NPC Utilities

Human NPCs for 7 Days to Die. Hire companions who fight beside you, run into bandits who shoot back, earn standing with factions, and talk through the game's own dialog. Then build your own NPCs with a few lines of XML.

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Companions

Hire survivors with Dukes. They follow, hold a spot or guard it, use any weapon you hand them, and never hurt you. Read more

Real gunfights

NPCs keep their distance, aim, fire at each gun's real rate, reload, and run out of ammo. The dead come to the noise. Read more

Factions and standing

Every player has their own standing with every faction. Kill their people and they will shoot on sight. Read more

Dialog

NPCs talk through the vanilla dialog window, with hooks for hiring, orders, gear and standing checks. Read more

Voiced

Greetings, orders, combat call-outs, reloads, kills and idle chatter. Bring your own voices with plain sounds.xml. Read more

Built for modders

No other mods needed. New NPCs are plain entity classes. Any Mixamo-rigged character gets human animations and weapon holds for free. Read more

Requirements

7 Days to Die V3.4 with EAC off. Install DSD_NPCUtilities in the game's Mods folder on the server and on every client. No other mods are required.