Question about dogs

[Hamstink]

I was looking forward to playing around with dog taming. However after starting a few different maps the flightless cobra ducks take out every dog I have been able to find. I understand dogs only come out in spring and summer but do any new ones eventually spawn again?

[Rogue]

I played in the desert region... found 1 single dog. But he died later since I did not have the dried meat to tame him. lol. I end up butchering his corpse for the meat.

[Narfle]

Im on a desert map and the dinos keep killing.. well everything really lol.

Dogs keep coming back tho, dont worry.

[Hamstink]

Originally posted by Narfle:

Im on a desert map and the dinos keep killing.. well everything really lol.

Dogs keep coming back tho, dont worry.

That's good to know. Thanks! Good luck with them dinos!

[wiz12268]

King-Money (random I happened to use) has 5 dogs on a hill north a ways from crash site. A few birds to their west not sure if close enough to kill them off.

Not a horrible map other than bug nest is quite a distance away. Havent played it yet but most plants are relatively close.

[Tempet]

So a question to all here:
Are they supposed to be on every map?
If so, I getting unlucky rolls then because I have started 5 maps and gone 1 year on each, yet I have not seen a single dog.
I would like to though. :(

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Originally posted by wiz12268:

King-Money (random I happened to use) has 5 dogs on a hill north a ways from crash site. A few birds to their west not sure if close enough to kill them off.

Not a horrible map other than bug nest is quite a distance away. Havent played it yet but most plants are relatively close.

Thanks for the recommendation! So far every map the birds have rushed them and killed them. 5 dogs is a pretty decent size group. I have only been seeing them 2 at a time.

[Hamstink]

Originally posted by Tempet:

So a question to all here:
Are they supposed to be on every map?
If so, I getting unlucky rolls then because I have started 5 maps and gone 1 year on each, yet I have not seen a single dog.
I would like to though. :(

I have played 5 different maps so far just to see. Currently on the 6th. I have seen dogs in all of them except the current one I'm on. But I would assume they would be on every one. They are a little hard to spot at first.

[wiz12268]

Originally posted by Hesky:

Originally posted by wiz12268:

King-Money (random I happened to use) has 5 dogs on a hill north a ways from crash site. A few birds to their west not sure if close enough to kill them off.

Not a horrible map other than bug nest is quite a distance away. Havent played it yet but most plants are relatively close.

Thanks for the recommendation! So far every map the birds have rushed them and killed them. 5 dogs is a pretty decent size group. I have only been seeing them 2 at a time.

taming birds is a PITA too. Tame one the others attack it. Basically have to kill all but one then tame it.

That maps there are drakkas that serve as buffer but if they all die birds will go after dogs. I just killed the birds off. that map is overloaded with them.

[Rogue]

Originally posted by Tempet:

So a question to all here:
Are they supposed to be on every map?
If so, I getting unlucky rolls then because I have started 5 maps and gone 1 year on each, yet I have not seen a single dog.
I would like to though. :(

They are tiny so you might miss seeing them , I generally drag a large window to select everything and see anything in the select items list that warrant my interest.

[Mini]

First of all they really hard to find. klick and drag a squar and look at the list on left side to see . I already got 6. They were in 3 groups, 2 males 4 females. 3 females are pregnant.
You dont need to feed them meat . If you have enough of course but if not, SLOP is easy. You can make slop in workbench from everything in food category. For meat get ulfen , feed them to get big and kill . But be sure to not kill an animal with bond with survivor , becaus they will get sad -20 and easy for meltdown.

[Hamstink]

Originally posted by wiz12268:

Originally posted by Hesky:

Thanks for the recommendation! So far every map the birds have rushed them and killed them. 5 dogs is a pretty decent size group. I have only been seeing them 2 at a time.

taming birds is a PITA too. Tame one the others attack it. Basically have to kill all but one then tame it.

That maps there are drakkas that serve as buffer but if they all die birds will go after dogs. I just killed the birds off. that map is overloaded with them.

All the maps I tested out today seem to be overloaded with the birds. I wonder if that was done intentionally with this update or maybe I'm just now noticing them because I'm looking for the dogs and finding them more dead than alive. The dogs being dead because of the birds. Either way, it's been a bit disheartening so far but I'll stick with my current map for now and see if more dogs spawn. Thanks again for all the info.

[Hamstink]

Originally posted by Rogue:

Originally posted by Tempet:

So a question to all here:
Are they supposed to be on every map?
If so, I getting unlucky rolls then because I have started 5 maps and gone 1 year on each, yet I have not seen a single dog.
I would like to though. :(

They are tiny so you might miss seeing them , I generally drag a large window to select everything and see anything in the select items list that warrant my interest.

There were quite a few moments today that I thought I found a dog and it only turned out to be a baby ulfen lol

[76561199056944839]

Originally posted by Tempet:

So a question to all here:
Are they supposed to be on every map?
If so, I getting unlucky rolls then because I have started 5 maps and gone 1 year on each, yet I have not seen a single dog.
I would like to though. :(

Hey Tempet! There are dogs on every map/seed, but it could be that some of them were killed before you were able to find them. They don't also spawn in from Day 1, so sometimes it takes a while for them to appear.

[wiz12268]

Originally posted by JensErik_Frontier:

Originally posted by Tempet:

So a question to all here:
Are they supposed to be on every map?
If so, I getting unlucky rolls then because I have started 5 maps and gone 1 year on each, yet I have not seen a single dog.
I would like to though. :(

Hey Tempet! There are dogs on every map/seed, but it could be that some of them were killed before you were able to find them. They don't also spawn in from Day 1, so sometimes it takes a while for them to appear.

I am not for making too many changes to make the game easier. But if they arent spawning relatively close to your camp/base and/or are halfway across the map taming them is impossible. Obviously not a 'necessity' but still from what I have seen compared to everything else theyre difficult to find and/or keep alive long enough to get them.

Maybe them not spawning day one answers that concern and they are spawning closer to things being added? But I havent played long enough yet to see if that is the case.

[wiz12268]

Dogs will spawn in the same spot you tame them from. I tamed all 5 and there is another one there. The birds on that map seem to have been wiped out. But IMO theyre the best defense animal on the forest map. Although theyre pretty aggressive so they will kill and hunt down a lot of things.

Still playing through to see what happens only on Day 29 or so of the first year just got into autumn.