I love this game and I miss the wolves and bears.

[NightElf]

I'm wondering what happened to wolves and bears in the game. The world seems a little more empty without them.

[JDaremo Fireheart]

They are in the snow biome

[Amins]

Seems they're extremely rare or maybe even non-existent in the pine forest now. Go to the snow biome and you'll find plenty. And of course the wasteland is still crawling with rotten bears.

[^..^ FOX]

I had a pack of six wolves in desert earlier tonight.

[DerFinneAT]

Originally posted by JDaremo Fireheart:

They are in the snow biome

Another fallout of the unimagentive biome-tiering system.

For some reason TFP puts much effort into making 7d2d more and more mediocre on their race to the finishing line.

I am OK, that they pursue their vision.

But at the same time, I am a bit disappointed, as I would have liked a less gamey-approach to many, many of the later mechanics and mechanics-changes.

[God Bless The Dead]

Try leaving the grassy biome

[CRCGamer]

Up in the mountains of the forest biome I've occasionally had run ins with entire packs of wolves. But its rare, about on par with the the odds of getting the all zombie dog horde spawn. The regular bears however are pretty much snow biome only at this point short of POI specifically spawning them.

[Teratus]

Originally posted by ^..^ FOX:

I had a pack of six wolves in desert earlier tonight.

I've had that in the forest biome as well.. some were direwolves.

Not a fun thing to turn around and see running full speed at you xD

[Brew]

I have a house I've been using as a primary base in the navezgane pine forest. I get zombie dogs and glowy-eyed wolf packs there. I'm not too far from burned forest biome, and I saw a zombie bear on the adjacent street once (which is still pine forest!). They don't seem "extremely rare" to me.

I read that flaming barrels attract zombies, so I put three of them across the street just to see what would happen. Didn't seem to do much... but maybe that's one reason why more of these creatures are passing by...?

Definitely more bears and mountain lions in snow biome; more zombie bears and dogs in burned forest and wastelands from what I've seen (and zombie birds too!). I've only just taken first steps into desert, but I saw lots of coyotes there.

So I've seen lots of animals. I also think animals are more common at dawn/dusk and at night.

[NightElf]

Thanks everyone. I guess I just haven’t been seeing them.

[Demios]

Yes they removed the big bad animals from starter biomes to give peoples who are news a chance! Getting F-'ed over by a wolf day one was not really fair is my guess XD

They are replaced with snakes instead btw

[SylenThunder]

Originally posted by Demios:

Yes they removed the big bad animals from starter biomes to give peoples who are news a chance! Getting F-'ed over by a wolf day one was not really fair is my guess XD

They are replaced with snakes instead btw

The snakes only spawn at night unless they are tied to a POI spawn. Wolves and the Alpha will spawn at night as well in the forest biome.

[Kara]

The animal packs are actual "day hordes" if some of you didn't know. It happens on certain days but I forget which exactly. It's kind of silly to catch a small army of not-zombies running to your general location.

The animal spawn rates can be changed in the xml files per biome, so that's nice.

[SylenThunder]

Originally posted by Kara:

The animal packs are actual "day hordes" if some of you didn't know. It happens on certain days but I forget which exactly. It's kind of silly to catch a small army of not-zombies running to your general location.

The animal spawn rates can be changed in the xml files per biome, so that's nice.

Dogs horde is on a day 5 cycle. Other animal hordes are just part of the wandering horde randomness. I recall getting sacked by a vulture horde on Day 1 a few versions ago.

[Alucard †]

I just encountered a wolf in my last session. It was in one of the houses in the Desert of all places.

Not a dog , not a coyote it was a big wolf it was chilling near a bed and nearly gave me a heart attack.

[NightElf]

thanks for all the thoughts, very helpful. And some good suggestions.