Please let Bambuck respawn

[Lyras Silverclaw]

I can't find any in the dirt biome, i found two meadow areas so far, the rest is only mildew biomes, i had one bambuck and i didn't know they don't respawn and killed it. Thought i get wool and they will respawn.. so now i know they are not. Can you please enable respawn for them? Or give us some other way to get wool please.

[$trider]

Yes i second this. So annoying to have a fireball from nearly off screen kill them as im dragging them back to base.

[Nakos]

A: Build a Livestock Workbench and build a Cattle Transport Box ... just carry them in your inventory.

B: Create a new world, look around in the dirt biome right near the core. You should be able to find a Meadow Biome pretty quickly. Grab a few of whatever you need in Transport boxes and bring them back to your primary world.

Shouldn't take more than 5 to 10 minutes.

[IonDrako]

Originally posted by Nakos:

A: Build a Livestock Workbench and build a Cattle Transport Box ... just carry them in your inventory.

B: Create a new world, look around in the dirt biome right near the core. You should be able to find a Meadow Biome pretty quickly. Grab a few of whatever you need in Transport boxes and bring them back to your primary world.

Shouldn't take more than 5 to 10 minutes.

I mean sure those are work arounds but it really is a problem that shouldn't require work arounds. It's extremely odd that the neutral mobs that you get resources from are some of the only mobs that can be fully wiped out of a world and don't respawn. They could add very small amounts of floor tiles that spawn them (would be better that way then naturally respawning in the medow biome)

[Lyras Silverclaw]

Originally posted by IonDrako:

Originally posted by Nakos:

A: Build a Livestock Workbench and build a Cattle Transport Box ... just carry them in your inventory.

B: Create a new world, look around in the dirt biome right near the core. You should be able to find a Meadow Biome pretty quickly. Grab a few of whatever you need in Transport boxes and bring them back to your primary world.

Shouldn't take more than 5 to 10 minutes.

I mean sure those are work arounds but it really is a problem that shouldn't require work arounds. It's extremely odd that the neutral mobs that you get resources from are some of the only mobs that can be fully wiped out of a world and don't respawn. They could add very small amounts of floor tiles that spawn them (would be better that way then naturally respawning in the medow biome)

That is a really great idea!

[Nakos]

Originally posted by IonDrako:

I mean sure those are work arounds but it really is a problem that shouldn't require work arounds. It's extremely odd that the neutral mobs that you get resources from are some of the only mobs that can be fully wiped out of a world and don't respawn. They could add very small amounts of floor tiles that spawn them (would be better that way then naturally respawning in the medow biome)

Well, sure. I agree that it's weird that they're the one mob type that doesn't respawn despite their relative importance in the crafting cycle. And a spawning tile that was rare and had a slow spawn rate would probably work (although it might need some code to check ambient population levels prior to spawning a new one, and I don't know if that kind of code is already a part of the process).


But ... my point is that there is a pretty quick solution utilizing existing stuff already in the game. Yeah, it's a work-around, but it's not a particularly demanding one.




Or ... maybe once you've killed Glurch, you could just buy an egg that would spawn a Bambuck or a Moolin from the Statue. (Or one of the other first three bosses).

Or maybe the eggs could be something that the Bearded Merchant sells. They could be rare and expensive, and his supply could be limited, but they'd exist as a replacement mechanism (because once you've got one or two, you fairly rapidly have a lot MORE than just one or two (provided you're feeding them of course)).

[Patches]

They don't respawn in areas you've already discovered, but since the outer biomes are almost infinite (not completely, but so massive they feel that way), you can find more Bambucks by venturing out further.

The Azeos Wilderness is the place to explore. :)
The meadows will randomly generate in unexplored areas of that biome, complete with Bambucks and/or Moolins in them. :)

I suppose the idea is that if you accidentally kill one or it gets killed en route to base, you have to work to find a new one and make sure you go prepared with a Cattle Box. :)

[Lyras Silverclaw]

I have an very old main map, so i have NO meadow near my base (the core) i explored so many hours/days in azeos wilderness and only find massive and many of mildew biomes, i had only TWO! meadow biome with only ONE Bambuck which i as i didnt knew it better, killed. I did the new world thing and there are many changes to my old world i think. But i will stay on my old map regardless.

[Patches]

Originally posted by Lyras Silverclaw:

I have an very old main map, so i have NO meadow near my base (the core) i explored so many hours/days in azeos wilderness and only find massive and many of mildew biomes, i had only TWO! meadow biome with only ONE Bambuck which i as i didnt knew it better, killed. I did the new world thing and there are many changes to my old world i think. But i will stay on my old map regardless.

I hear you. I had about 250-300 hours on my BETA world before the meadow update, so had to search pretty far into the wilderness to find Bambucks. I brought 6 of them home manually by switching between food in my hand and a weapon to kill enemies, while building a walled path all the way back to my base (as they hadn't yet added the lead or the cattlebox at that point). Took me about 3 irl hours to get them back to my base. It was pretty painful but I made the journey with my partner and we worked together. We laughed and joked on the way back and called those Bambucks every name under the sun...and by the time we arrived back to base with them... they all had ridiculous names that still remind us of that shared journey whenever we see them. ^_^

I still use my original world. Any new content added (like the spawn tiles that don't exist in old worlds) just gets brought in from a new world and I merge it together. :) I hadn't brought a single one of my cattle in from another world, though, and I have about 12 of each type (you really don't need more than that and now they can breed whereas they couldn't when I went out to get them).