In the beta version of the game, NPCs (characters) could move freely around the map? Some went to Grizzly Canyon, while others just strolled around, but in our version of the game, it seemed like none of that existed... or so everyone thought.

Recently, something that can hardly be called luck happened — while exploring the game files once again, I decided to change Ben's location to another, entered the game, and once again saw that absolutely nothing happened, and Ben was standing in his usual spot. I had thoughts like "well, this is all pointless," and then I realized that NPCs, damn it, are walking!

They have no animations (the exception being Ben, who has a walking animation since he constantly walks around the farm), they do not react to being splashed with milk, they completely ignore closed gates, they just walk, and the only way to stop them is to stand in front of them or place a bike, which they will probably just walk around. At night, the map is still empty, no one is walking. No one dances in the night barn, and the horse does not serve drinks to other animals.

What happened remains something that is very difficult for me to explain, so without further ado, I will just leave a video here that captures all of this, as well as a file that you can replace (make a backup!!!) in your version of the game to achieve the same result...