Medieval Dynasty: Locations of Hireable NPCs in Oxbow

1. Spoiler alert!
Knowing this information may affect your gaming experience. If you want to keep the surprise, don’t read any further!

2. This article helped me
Part of the content comes from this post on Reddit: Oxbow special npc’s. I searched for them based on this fragmented information, and finally found some NPCs in the game.

3. Language barrier
I’m from Taiwan and English is not my native language (this game does not have Traditional Chinese, but Taiwanese people can understand 99% Simplified Chinese), and I used Google Translate to complete this article. So if you are user of Chinese language , I posted the original language of this article on my Blogger, you can read it without language barriers, the link is here:中世紀王朝 – 特別優秀的旅行者(河灣地限定)[evaandmaicy.blogspot.com]

4. For those who want to save time
If you’re too lazy to read what follows, here’s a map note where I’ve marked their spawning locations:
I put this image on Google Drive and you can download it here:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FJ7_fEh0NbZJ3XH5OmmGv3vQLN7Ey5tO/view

I discovered a game mechanism: the change of seasons is only used to determine whether these NPCs appear in specific locations, but the names and ages of NPCs are randomized when you approach their spawning location for the first time in that season. So when you are in offline mode, under this rule, as long as you keep loading the saveing, you can get the ideal NPC age to a certain extent.

Is this important? In some cases, yes:
1. You want to marry an excellent NPC.
2. Your villager is too old and you can’t find a suitable partner for him/her.
Their age range is 18 to 44 years old, which is wider than the typical travelers outside the village.

If you have a strong attachment to this matter, please refer to my process:
Step 1 :
Create asave before the end of the season (this is “save A”), then go to sleep to change seasons.

Step 2 :
When the next season starts, immediately create a save (this is “save B”).

Step 3 :
Start your Oxbow tour (preferably on a donkey or horse) and go to those locations to see if the NPC you want appears. If not, go back and load “save A” and repeat steps 2 and 3.

I must prepare you mentally: the probability of their appearance is very low, and you must be very patient. And when the NPC you want appears, it is confirmed that this current “save B” can spawning this NPC. At this time, you are already half successful.

Step 4 :
load “save B” again and go to the location where the NPC will spawning. Depending on your computer’s performance, you must create another save (this is “save C”) at least 100m or more away from the NPC.

Step 5 :
Approach the NPC, let the NPC spawning, go up and talk to him/her to confirm him/her age. If it is not the age range you expected, load “save C” and repeat step 5.

And those NPCs have fixed personalities. Or to be more precise, NPCs who are particularly good at a certain skill have fixed personalities, which I will reveal one by one in the following introduction. But if you’re too lazy to read on, here’s a simple table:

Here are the locations of the hireable NPCs I have found.
You can end up ending the conversation by choosing the wrong option, so I highly recommend using Quick save before talking to NPC.

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This is a male beggar with a Joker personality. Even if you say you have no money, he will still ask you for food or alcohol. Perhaps considering that Diplomacy will only come in handy in the later stages, he also has level 5 Survival, which allows him to work as a herbalist and fisherman.

You may find him at these locations:

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This is a male with a Rogue personality. You will see him leisurely whittling wood, and when you approach him to talk, he will blackmail you, saying that this is his old habit.

You may find him at these locations:

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This is a male with the Inventor personality who witnessed the brutality of the killing and escaped from the gang.

You may find him at these locations:

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I haven’t actually encountered any level 6 farming NPCs yet, and I’d really like to find them. The intel I’ve been able to gather so far is too limited, so I haven’t found the exact location yet.

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There are both male and female NPCs of this type. They appear along the main roads like all NPCs, but they do not camp, they just stand by the road.

The character I control is a female in Oxbow, so I only know that this type of male NPC has the Pragmatist personality, so I judged that the female personality is very likely to be Busy Bee.

You may find him at these locations:

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This is an old lady who is proficient in herbal medicine and anatomy. Because she was considered a witch, she was ostracized everywhere and finally wandered to Oxbow. She doesn’t appear on the roadside, I only find her in the ruins.

In this game, as long as the character is over 60 years old, there is a chance that he will die of old age every time the next season comes. Although she is infertile, this NPC is very helpful if your village is only in the early stages.

The first location is in an abandoned fishing hut on the island north of Oxbow; The second location is in the ruins at south of Klonica:

I saw people encountering drunks and farming level 6 women hunting moose, but I never encountered them, which is why I wrote the English version of this article, hoping someone here knows their exact location.

If you want to get involved in finding these hireable NPCs, here are a few tips:
1. The conditions for their appearance are not related to the season.
2. Seasonal change is a key. They will be updated every time the season changes.
3. The places where they appear are basically next to the main roads.
4. The same type of NPC has 2~3 possible spawning locations.
5. The probability of their appearance is very low. You may not see one even if you walk all over Oxbow.
6. If there are player buildings (including roads) at the place where they appear, they will not spawn.

And these explorations are dangerous:
1. All ruins and undeveloped mines have a chance to be occupied by bandits.
2. All caves have a chance to spawn 2~3 wolves.