Consistent Blood Moon Farming - What Worked For Me

[Oku]

I'm going to preface this with the fact that nobody truly knows exactly what the spawn system is for Blood Moons on Yaesha is yet, there's a lot of conflicting information out there so it's very possible that the exact timer and conditions are part of the randomization on each world generation, and so two people can have wildly different results.

That said, I've had a very similar experience to a current highly-rated Reddit post -

Blood Moons appear to spawn on a timer that behaves as a binary switch: "Can Spawn" and "Impossible To Spawn", where the "Can Spawn" window has approximately a 20% chance of spawning a Blood Moon upon entering one of the Yaesha overworld areas from Ward 13, where it will remain active until a Blood Moon spawns, at which point the Blood Moon will remain active for 20-30 minutes in that overworld area or until you activate a Checkpoint and leave Yaesha. The Blood Moon will technically remain indefinitely unless you refresh the area but since you're there to farm Blood Essences, there's no real reason to leave it active. Once the Blood Moon despawns, an "Impossible To Spawn" window will activate and will remain active for approximately 30 minutes of not being in Yaesha, so warping back to Ward 13 and AFKing for 30 minutes or doing something on another world will work.

Using the above observations, I have managed a 100% spawn rate of a Blood Moon within 5 re-entries in to Yaesha after waiting out the 30 minutes, at which point Blood Moons have stayed for anywhere from 20 to 30 minutes, and I can run around, farm the purple essence sprites, enter a yellow fog gate dungeon, then immediately leave to re-spawn the sprites, and do it again continuously until the event ends and my next refresh via a dungeon will set the world back to normal, at which point I warp back to Ward 13, wait 30 minutes, and do it again.

If you're looking to farm up essence to buy out the altar, this method has worked consistently for me and it is worth trying.

Remember though, it's very possible that the conditions and timers are part of the world generation. There are people who claim a moon spawns for them every 10-20 minutes, and others who have claimed they got one spawn in an entire playthrough. So it very well might be different for you, all I know is the above method has worked consistently for me on my roll of the campaign, so if this doesn't work for you, or you can get a moon to spawn even more frequently, it's very likely it's all tied to the world generation and so you'll have to identify your specific conditions.

Hope this helps, lots of folks are trying to figure this ♥♥♥♥ out.

[RyouDeeLuLu]

i guess i got lucky, just went in and out till the blood moon appeared.
am sure I must just triggered the timer to start, haven't thoroughly tested it yet.

[axs041]

If you guys have been getting the claimed results with that method you must have the devils own luck. I've never seen a Blood Moon in less than 30 transitions.

[Xaelon]

I can more or less confirm the OP's findings that the moon's spawn window turns off for hours after activating. The first time I got a moon the game just decided that the floor door in the cathedral wouldn't open. I tried to get it to spawn again but gave up after zoning in and out another 10 times or so.

I came back during the evening at least one day later and I was able to get the moon to show up again after zoning in and out a few times.

Originally posted by AlexSR:

If you guys have been getting the claimed results with that method you must have the devils own luck. I've never seen a Blood Moon in less than 30 transitions.

I too had horrible luck getting the Moon to show up.

I never had it show up a single time during normal play. I got it the first time because I zoned in and out of the cathedral a bunch of times. The weather opening secret doors is a cool concept but the idea is so badly executed. They really should have included some kind of secret way to force the moon to spawn.

There was a rumor flying around for a bit that killing the Doe would force a permanent Blood Moon. Which isn't honestly a bad idea. Maybe they could have given us another seed to plant in the Ward which gives you a fruit that forces a Blood Moon when eaten.

I had a really good time playing this game but this is easily the worst mechanic in the whole game. If it only gated a few fluff items it would be one thing but it blocks access to maybe the most unique ring in the entire game AND an archetype. They need to tweak it somehow. You should get at least a single Blood Moon each time you visit Yaesha.

[Neyreyan_Youtube]

well, this is mostly nonsense:) simply not true, the blood moon always apears when you enter the second map of yaesha.
The blood moon only happens on the second map of yaesha and thats where you can farm them.
It does require you to enter a yellow door or die(might happen naturally as well) to trigger it but it's a cooldown timer, it happens every 90 minutes.
And you can farm it by running in a straight line to the closest yellow door, enter and come back

[Oku]

Originally posted by Neyreyan_Youtube:

well, this is mostly nonsense:) simply not true, the blood moon always apears when you enter the second map of yaesha.
The blood moon only happens on the second map of yaesha and thats where you can farm them.
It does require you to enter a yellow door or die(might happen naturally as well) to trigger it but it's a cooldown timer, it happens every 90 minutes.
And you can farm it by running in a straight line to the closest yellow door, enter and come back

People like you are insufferable lmfao

Everything I posted in my OP was after hours of testing within my own roll of the campaign. The time is not 90 minutes for me, it's 30 minutes. It doesn't show up in the second map, it shows up in any overworld map on Yaesha.

If you have a different experience then instead of telling me that the actual experience I actually had and tested myself and confirmed it actually works that way in my roll of the campaign is "nonsense:)" and "simply not true", explain your conditions for your roll and we can get a better idea of how the system works, because as I already said - Multiple People Have Already Reported Different Conditions For Triggering A Blood Moon.

[Neyreyan_Youtube]

Originally posted by Oku:

Originally posted by Neyreyan_Youtube:

well, this is mostly nonsense:) simply not true, the blood moon always apears when you enter the second map of yaesha.
The blood moon only happens on the second map of yaesha and thats where you can farm them.
It does require you to enter a yellow door or die(might happen naturally as well) to trigger it but it's a cooldown timer, it happens every 90 minutes.
And you can farm it by running in a straight line to the closest yellow door, enter and come back

People like you are insufferable lmfao

Everything I posted in my OP was after hours of testing within my own roll of the campaign. The time is not 90 minutes for me, it's 30 minutes. It doesn't show up in the second map, it shows up in any overworld map on Yaesha.

If you have a different experience then instead of telling me that the actual experience I actually had and tested myself and confirmed it actually works that way in my roll of the campaign is "nonsense:)" and "simply not true", explain your conditions for your roll and we can get a better idea of how the system works, because as I already said - Multiple People Have Already Reported Different Conditions For Triggering A Blood Moon.

when you say "any" overworld map on yaesha, does that mean it can spawn in the first map of yaesha on any dungeon? because it doesnt happen like that since the first trigger for the blood moon is so to go to the second map of yaesha wich is always faster than waiting anyway.
And even so, the wisps don't spawn on any overworld map or spawn in too little quantity like having a map with 3 wisps is not worth it.
I previously thought the limit for farming was about 15 wisps but then i tried more and i got about 22 so its definetly not worth farming them anywhere except the big map. you need 65 in total but i guess it can good for scrap farming as well.
how did you get a blood moon every 30 minutes? they might have changed it in a shadow patch but i just stood in the same spot and waited for the blood moon to happen, it happened normally, when i died or when i went through a yellow door but never faster than 90 minutes.

Yeah, experience may vary but giving people false information just wastes a lot of time for them, especially since people and "streamers" said that it's randomised between 15-50 minutes wich is stupid.
you might as well farm wisps on adventure on easiest difficulty just by going to the second map in that case since it will always be faster

[Oku]

Originally posted by Neyreyan_Youtube:

Originally posted by Oku:

People like you are insufferable lmfao

Everything I posted in my OP was after hours of testing within my own roll of the campaign. The time is not 90 minutes for me, it's 30 minutes. It doesn't show up in the second map, it shows up in any overworld map on Yaesha.

If you have a different experience then instead of telling me that the actual experience I actually had and tested myself and confirmed it actually works that way in my roll of the campaign is "nonsense:)" and "simply not true", explain your conditions for your roll and we can get a better idea of how the system works, because as I already said - Multiple People Have Already Reported Different Conditions For Triggering A Blood Moon.

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I'm not giving them false information.

I'm giving them the information that is true for my roll of the campaign.

What part of "different people are reporting different conditions for consistent spawning" do you not understand?

[Haggis]

On my first play through I basically never saw any blood moons. Later on I found that if I was in a dungeon that needed a bloodmoon for a puzzle, teleporting to one of the open areas usually resulted in a blood moon and it would carry over if I teleported baxck to the dungeon, and it happened pretty much always if I did teleported back and forth twice.

Many of the blood moons during adventure mode had 0 wisps, some had 4, and one had the usual amount. On campaign there were usually ~8 wisps, maybe more, I didn't really count. It seems like if you are farming wisps its better to do it in campaign.

I did not bother messing with clocks, though I can confirm that altering the computer clock did work for speeding up the transition of the N'erud to Alepsis Taura, so if the blood moon is linked to clocks it wouldn't be strange to find that you manipulate it by changing the time/date on your computer's clock.

[Yal]

From what I've seen it looks like it's basically a day/night cycle, but it only updates when you change areas. If you are in an area where you can see the sky, you can see a weird red eclipse thing a little while before the Blood Moon starts. If it's a regular boring day/night, it's still ages 'til the next blood moon and you gotta wait a while.

(overall the best way I've found to spot blood moons is warping to the map with the altar whenever I'm done doing something elsewhere, then seeing if the area's got funky purple light or not, and if there's purple light, drop everything and go on a wisp-slaying rampage)