Although you can technically avoid the mechanist enemies spawning by avoiding the initial fight, you really have to be careful about getting to close to that intersection, especially in survival when you have to walk everywhere. If the area loads in and the fight starts, rust devils will start spawning. In my game I didn't even notice that I'd triggered the fight. Just started seeing rust devils one day well before I wanted to.
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Although you can technically avoid the mechanist enemies spawning by avoiding the initial fight, you really have to be careful about getting to close to that intersection, especially in survival when you have to walk everywhere. If the area loads in and the fight starts, rust devils will start spawning. In my game I didn't even notice that I'd triggered the fight. Just started seeing rust devils one day well before I wanted to.