Ghost Leviathan not spawning

[Sage the Mage]

My husband was playing last night and started a new creative world so we could show my little brother some of the aggressive creatures. We went to show him the Ghost Leviathans over Crater's Edge, and nothing spawned. We didn't entirely remember the specifics of how they acted, so we thought maybe it took a little bit for the first one to spawn, even though I'd thought that one was fairly quick or instant (and later found I was right,) then we thought maybe we were too close to the surface, then I thought maybe we'd somehow avoided them "long enough" or something and decided to abandon that. After looking into it I've found I definitely should've had 3 on us, and I can't even find any mentions of anyone else having this issue anywhere.

[Thax]

I don't think it's an issue. In creative mode, the creatures don't respond to you like they do during normal gameplay, especially aggressive ones, so ghost leviathans not spawning near the crater's edge in creative is probably a feature, rather than a bug.

[Sage the Mage]

Originally posted by Alex:

I don't think it's an issue. In creative mode, the creatures don't respond to you like they do during normal gameplay, especially aggressive ones, so ghost leviathans not spawning near the crater's edge in creative is probably a feature, rather than a bug.

No, I'm pretty sure it was a bug or a glitch. The first time we came across the Ghostieboys was in creative, when my husband looked up and saw them chasing him when he was way down in Crater's Edge seeing how far down he could go. We actually avoid that area like the plague when not in creative, so I don't think we've seen what they're like outside of creative firsthand. The weekend after this we had all my brothers and tried again and it worked just fine too, so I'm not sure what was up. As a side note, we have the PS4 version, so idk if that's any different creature-action-wise than the PC version, but I've never noticed creatures acting different or less aggressive in creative, though I suppose I could be oblivious to it.