HOW DO I FIND MARTIAN PROBES?

[Calzone]

i found 3 of them 3 days in a row but only did one martain invasion (acidentially killed the other 2) now i need to to the invasion a few times to get stuff but i've been lookin for like 4 hours for a probe and can't find any! anyone know where and when they spawn? thanks, if you can tell me

[Landel1024]

look around your world for them they do not spawn in spasific biome

[MissRockyqo]

Anytime, anywhere, everywhere.

[ImTomis]

same man ineed help with this too

[ChaosFungus]

You just need to defeat the Golem (even before 1.3). Once you meet this criteria, it can spawn just about anywhere on the surface. If you find one, let it find you and let it escape to start the invasion.

[Durtle02]

I think as many probes show up as many times as you have killed the Golem. Not sure if this is true but it is what happened to me.

[Danté]

YOU WON'T FIND IT IF YOU USE CAPS. Sorry caps lock was on.

[Danté]

Now the real advice, I have been farming Moon Lord, and evrytime I do this (on expert atleast, also on normal but less) I find atleast 3 probes, and that means 3 invasions, sometimes even when the boss is gonna spawn (so freking annoying). so I suggest killing the Moon Lord. Praise Lord and Saviour Cuthulu for more Martians.

[Hinotori]

I could find them really easily... until I won invasion number 3 (didn't kill any), and then they stopped showing up. I've now run to both oceans AND back six times and am continuing to do so every so often.
wtf?

[Hinotori]

Originally posted by Durtle02:

I think as many probes show up as many times as you have killed the Golem. Not sure if this is true but it is what happened to me. :ftlrebel:

This is false, by the way. I had 1 golem kill = 3 probes
now have 5 golem kills = still no more

[Draktok]

I've killed golem 32 times and i've had like 7 invasions, the invasions are totally boring / ♥♥♥♥ easy, but nice for the UFO the first time, then , who cares, stop spawning them , jeez

[Aethryl]

I find the probes more often high up (in space). When I was building my world tree and reached space they would spawn consistently.

[Zumzu]

just go about regualr buisness above ground and one will eventually spawn, also how many times you kill golem doesnt help

[Zumzu]

Originally posted by ShadowShard:

I could find them really easily... until I won invasion number 3 (didn't kill any), and then they stopped showing up. I've now run to both oceans AND back six times and am continuing to do so every so often.
wtf?

btw you have to stand still for the best results, they could spawn and you could walk away and let them despawn

[I've been traumatized O__O]

Hello peeps. This has been my pain as well for 3 days - been looking to GTA the heck out of that martian saucer if I can, unfortunately I need a [Cosmic Car Key] for that D: .. anyways at first the probes spawn (after u bear plantera and golem) in the sky somewhere near the floating cloud islands. The following 2 - 3 probes also spawn in the sky so I assumed it basically always spawn in the sky. Then on 4th to 5th I couldn't find it anymore up there. I read from wiki it spawn randomly on 'surface' so I keep looking around and no. I can't find it anywhere. I've also read speculations that a probe spawn for every golem u beat, so I took out the altar and put it right next to my house to camp-spawn dat boss. I beat it a few times yet no probe appeared.

Out of curiosity (and because someone on reddit mentioned it) I tried using Solar Tablet to summon eclipse and it spawned! Not in the sky, but near the ground while I was wrestling with swamp things and frankenstein monsters. So I thought solar eclipse is the key. So I would make many tablets and summon it several times over. Also thanks to 1.3 update I have around 50 - 60 % chance of getting an eclipse naturally (sometimes coupled with blood moon even)

Right so after 7 - 8th probe they stop coming during eclipse. I do not know why, it's probably related to golem so during an eclipse I went to summon golem and beat it. Not long after a probe showed up. This method too doesn't last long. The next attempt does not spawn the probe. I also make sure to increase the chance of spawning using water candle and battle potion.

And... last night I summoned frost legion invasion a probe popped up! Since I already have an invasion it can't overlap and that one is wasted.

In summary over a dozen tries I can vaguely conclude that the martian probe spawning is affected by:
1) Spawn rate - during event with huge spawn rate it is more likely to get curious and check things out
2) Beating golem over and over? I had a friggin altar near my house so why not

I also noticed a peculiar pattern in the martian saucer spawn. Sometimes 2 appeared during an invasion, sometimes none at all. I even got a whooping 4 spawns in one event (sadly they drop multiple laser drills and still no mount).

The pattern for me is, when there's multiple saucer spawning per event, the next event will have no saucer. For some reason. :/

[Danté]

Originally posted by I've been traumatized O__O:

Hello peeps. This has been my pain as well for 3 days - been looking to GTA the heck out of that martian saucer if I can, unfortunately I need a [Cosmic Car Key] for that D: .. anyways at first the probes spawn (after u bear plantera and golem) in the sky somewhere near the floating cloud islands. The following 2 - 3 probes also spawn in the sky so I assumed it basically always spawn in the sky. Then on 4th to 5th I couldn't find it anymore up there. I read from wiki it spawn randomly on 'surface' so I keep looking around and no. I can't find it anywhere. I've also read speculations that a probe spawn for every golem u beat, so I took out the altar and put it right next to my house to camp-spawn dat boss. I beat it a few times yet no probe appeared.

Out of curiosity (and because someone on reddit mentioned it) I tried using Solar Tablet to summon eclipse and it spawned! Not in the sky, but near the ground while I was wrestling with swamp things and frankenstein monsters. So I thought solar eclipse is the key. So I would make many tablets and summon it several times over. Also thanks to 1.3 update I have around 50 - 60 % chance of getting an eclipse naturally (sometimes coupled with blood moon even)

Right so after 7 - 8th probe they stop coming during eclipse. I do not know why, it's probably related to golem so during an eclipse I went to summon golem and beat it. Not long after a probe showed up. This method too doesn't last long. The next attempt does not spawn the probe. I also make sure to increase the chance of spawning using water candle and battle potion.

And... last night I summoned frost legion invasion a probe popped up! Since I already have an invasion it can't overlap and that one is wasted.

In summary over a dozen tries I can vaguely conclude that the martian probe spawning is affected by:
1) Spawn rate - during event with huge spawn rate it is more likely to get curious and check things out
2) Beating golem over and over? I had a friggin altar near my house so why not

I also noticed a peculiar pattern in the martian saucer spawn. Sometimes 2 appeared during an invasion, sometimes none at all. I even got a whooping 4 spawns in one event (sadly they drop multiple laser drills and still no mount).

The pattern for me is, when there's multiple saucer spawning per event, the next event will have no saucer. For some reason. :/

they spawn where ever you are in single player, it looks like you just find them, but they spawn somewhere near you, and then you find them, but it seems that events like solar and lunar higher the chances, like if you do a lot of moon lord expert slaughtering, you probably know that evry lunar event makes atleast 3 probes spawn, I swear that evry time I did a lunar event, there were at least 2 probes on me, and 1 with someone else in the group, and this mostly ended up getting AT LEAST 2 invasions, and sometimes a third while, or just before Moon Lord, which always wipes us. This is really annoying, but can be usefull.