Endless bandits at Seraph obs. point
The caravan’s event ends up the hill from the camp is why you hadn’t seen an event marker there. That event doesn’t seem to have any bearing on the bandit onslaught, though.
I’ve never seen an event involving those bandits, they’re always just permanently slaughtering the entire camp and anyone unlucky enough not to realize they don’t stop coming.
I reported this in the beta as a bug. It’s been around for ages and as far as I know, there isn’t a way to stop them from spawning so quickly.
It feels like it shouldn’t be happening and was maybe an event they removed and just forgot to remove the scripting for it, or it’s just a bug in the spawn rates. It may be worth posting it in the ‘mob respawn rate’ thread and see if you get a response.
Endless waves of bandits should make a decent farming spot at the very least.
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