Wolves MIA

[thelebk]

Wolves seem to be the rarest spawn in the game. In three years of playing I think I have only seen a single wolf. I decided to look at an online guide for wolf spawn locations. Went to several. NO WOLVES. Are there special conditions which cause wolves to spawn? Do they only spawn at night?

[Goldi_Toplitz]

Wolves aren't that rare, actually, but they do move around and may follow a rabbit or deer to hunt it.

Besides that a lot of maps online are outdated. But you can ask the hunters in NPC villages to mark wolf spawns on your in-game map for some coins.

[thelebk]

Hmmm only seen one wolf the entire game so that makes it rare to me. I dont recall a dialog option to buy animal locations but will look again. I suspect however I will see a Jabberwocky in MD before I see another wolf. :)

[Goldi_Toplitz]

It is really rare to see only one. Either you are lucky or very unlucky, depending on how you look at it.

Gizela in Lesnica can help you. And the other one, I think, is in Tutki.

[Zhorge]

Originally posted by thelebk:

Wolves seem to be the rarest spawn in the game. In three years of playing I think I have only seen a single wolf. I decided to look at an online guide for wolf spawn locations. Went to several. NO WOLVES. Are there special conditions which cause wolves to spawn? Do they only spawn at night?

You're just not going to where they are! There are wolves:

SE of Sambor's House.
N of Jezrirca going right at the splits the path between Denica & Gostovia as you travel north.
Halfway between Denica & Lesnica as the crow flies.
One-third the way up from Lesnica to Rolnica
One the Road to Hornica north of the town between the two streams.
In the foothills near the big pond SE of Denica.
On the RH side of the road heading south out of Denica at the intersection that gives you the option of heading to Lesnica.

Except for the Hornica road I've shot wolves in all these places. The only I haven't shot wolves on the road to Hornica is because I haven't gone there yet because I'm not quite ready for a horse.

EDIT:

Just did the Vengence! quest for my son, Albrecht. Killed two wolves on the path to Hornica. As I was processing them, got attacked by three more.

Believe me, wolves, once you start moving around the map, become an annoyance. An annoyance that can be fatal if you're not ready for them or are already on low health.

[invivo4u]

Ride your horse everywhere...when you pass an animal spawn it will appear on your map. Follow an imaginary grid: ride E, hit the boundary, ride back W to the boundary, edging a bit N or S, etc. The same for N and S.

[carpdirector]

A couple things I've noticed:

Wolves are in heavily wooded areas, particularly spruce forest. You can often (but not always) find Wisent nearby.
It seems that wolves spawn at dusk and there are only a handful in each location.
In my experience, while fighting one wolf, don't be surprised when 1-2 more join in.
A neat trick is to be in a wolf location and look for a rabbit nearby. You probably won't have to wait very long for a wolf to appear hunting the rabbit, giving you a perfect shot while the wolf is distracted.

[invivo4u]

Very astute!

[fkronyak]

On my way to Hornica to complete the main story line, I was attacked by 3 at the same time. Scared the bejeezus outta me, but with them right on top of me, it was easy to get 3 good headshots with my bow. They did a bit of damage to me, but I made it to Hornica alright.

[intorpere]

Do animals spawn outside their hunting nodes? Once you kill all the wolves in a node, the node disappears. I don't know if they respawn, once the node is gone?

I keep getting wolf hunting quests. King wants me to kill 19 of them now, and I'm afraid I'll hunt them to extinction before I get there.

[Morri]

All animals respawn at the start of a new season, so unless a meteor strikes don't worry about extinction. :-)

[Erutor]

How interesting - I set up (my first ever) village by the south-west-central lake, and encounter wolves every time I run back to the starter town, and on the way up to Sambor's house (in the wooded area between the to routes leading north). I actually was frustrated that I encounter (aka am eaten by) wolves so frequently.

Best experience with wolves so far is I was running home one night and came upon two wolves killing a moose. I waited until they were engaged, then killed both wolves and came home loaded with meat, having stolen the prey and butchered the predators. I felt very accomplished in a "The Long Dark" sort of way. :)

[thelebk]

Originally posted by nl_toplitz:

It is really rare to see only one. Either you are lucky or very unlucky, depending on how you look at it.

Gizela in Lesnica can help you. And the other one, I think, is in Tutki.

I have interacted int he past with both Gizella and Rajmund (Tutki) and I do not recall any animal location maps in their wares. I also do not recall any dialogue options to buy animal locations but I did not aggressively pursue their dialog trees. Will engage again.

[Wizard of Woz]

Originally posted by thelebk:

Originally posted by nl_toplitz:

It is really rare to see only one. Either you are lucky or very unlucky, depending on how you look at it.

Gizela in Lesnica can help you. And the other one, I think, is in Tutki.

I have interacted int he past with both Gizella and Rajmund (Tutki) and I do not recall any animal location maps in their wares. I also do not recall any dialogue options to buy animal locations but I did not aggressively pursue their dialog trees. Will engage again.

You do know you can go to the map and change the icon filter to animal spawn locations, right? Go to where the wolf icons are, and you find wolves. It isn't rocket science.

[thelebk]

How do you change icon filters?

[Morri]

Originally posted by thelebk:

I have interacted int he past with both Gizella and Rajmund (Tutki) and I do not recall any animal location maps in their wares. I also do not recall any dialogue options to buy animal locations but I did not aggressively pursue their dialog trees. Will engage again.

It's a dialog option. They'll mark all spawn points of a specific animal on your map for you. The price depends on what animal it is.

And yes, like wizard said; you can swap trough the filters on the map so you see all the animal spawn points you have discovered already.
For me, I always run into more wolves than i want, so I don't find them particularly rare.
Hell, I wish we could give our villagers a nickname like we can name our animals or fields; cause then I would name my Racimir "the Wolfslayer" because of how many he has killed by now. :-)