Impossible to find that last fauna

[Henry Swanson]

Rare, always active, underground. I've literally visited hundreds of caves, scanned everything, let friends join my game to help me look for it, no luck. I've visited other planets and was easily able to find all the underground creatures there, but not on my home planet. I walk slowly, I scan all around me, I backtrack, I scan again and again to no avail. I've tried letting the planet respawn everything multiple times by leaving and coming back, I've visited the other side of the planet, east, west, north, south, I just can't find it. I've got 80+ hours in the game and at least 50 of those were spent looking for this creature.

Now, I have a theory that might explain this. Please bear with me. Sometimes I can find these plant matter things underground (they have a leaf icon on the scanner) that contain some wiggling worms or slime or something like that. These things spawn underground, and sometimes they spawn deeper (lower) than the deepest (lowest) possible level on a planet. I can never reach them because of that - I'm on the deepest possible level, the planet doesn't allow me to go any deeper by mining. Is it possible that this unfindable creature has a spawn setting that lets it spawn too deep into the planet? Deeper than the deepest level I can reach? I mean, this is exactly what's happening with some of those plant things I talked about earlier. I can see them on the scanner, but they're simply impossible to reach. Any thoughts? Ideas?

[Mr. Bufferlow]

I have come to the conclusion that some critters may fall through the mesh of the world...usually cave or underwater critters. They exist, but are below the level we can explore.

I usually just give up once it gets a little old...there are so many worlds to explore to waste time on one with no results.

Some points that do help:

Some critters only spawn at specific times in certain locations...so day or nite and/or special locations around the planet.

The large predator fish will only spawn in deep water environments and even then they may only show up at certain times of the day or night.

Traveling a large distance, at least a quarter way around the planet seems to be helpful in tracking down those hard to find critters.

At the end of the day, it is like finding some of the nice S class freighters...the RNG may not be in your favor.

[Henry Swanson]

I appreciate your reply, Mr. Bufferlow! I just can't give up, this is my home planet and I want to have everything scanned.

[Henry Swanson]

Yeah, tell me about it!

[+VLFBERHT+]

They have done a pretty good job over the years at fine tuning, finding individual fauna "types" into a better challenge.

They added the ability to read get attributes of each fauna to make it easier to know, how many "exactly" are left on the planet to discover, found during day or night cycle, locations North or South proximal-equator and whether caves, land, sea or air, and of course if it's "Rare".

I think the finding of "the last Rare creature" is by design. Otherwise you would simply land anywhere on the planet, sit and spin to spawn all the animals in one spot in a couple minutes, like on the shore of an ocean, then jump in and scan all the fish, "Done".

i have scanner range maxed-out and the only animals iv'e seen clipping through the surface, are land based animals that get stuck below the perceived bedrock level. Move to another area a short distance away, find and scan ok. But that's not to say they might not do one of those infinity falls.

Again, i think [most of the time] it's just a random game engine "spawn difficulty/rarity" algorithm glitch/bug... but for me, it's a little fishy :)

*I posted over at the Gameplay Discussion MB... this.

One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish, Common Fish... Wut?! ...that's not how that goes

Hands down, the most rare fish on ANY planet...

Common Fish / Always Active

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0IQCLQDfKw

[NOT penis man gaming]

most likley a sand worm

[Gabriel]

Originally posted by Cinnamon_Bananas:

most likley a sand worm

They don't count as "fauna" and, although they have the little red dot, they can't be scanned.

These underground fauna can be a nightmare to find. I only do so by luck. If a planet have these, I give up on trying to find them all.

[taniwhat]

If you want to get the achievements, oddball worlds typically only have one type of fauna and it's easier to search for those worlds than it is to search for 15 different animal types.

[Henry Swanson]

I appreciate your replies, people! Thanks!

Originally posted by lllMetalManlll:

I've messed with creature spawn modding and found if you just increase the spawn rate by a tiny amount then you have no problems with finding that last one.
I've sent a few bug reports over the years about this and i'm sure they are well aware of it by now, but nothing has been done.

Yeah, it MIGHT be a spawn rate issue. Whatever the issue, it's no fun like this to me. It's getting really annoying.

Originally posted by pwalt:

If you want to get the achievements, oddball worlds typically only have one type of fauna and it's easier to search for those worlds than it is to search for 15 different animal types.

Thanks, but it's not about the achievements. It's about me wanting to have everything scanned on my home planet.

Originally posted by +VLFBERHT+:

I think the finding of "the last Rare creature" is by design. Otherwise you would simply land anywhere on the planet, sit and spin to spawn all the animals in one spot in a couple minutes, like on the shore of an ocean, then jump in and scan all the fish, "Done".

It MIGHT be by design, but I have visited two other planets and was able to find ALL the fauna, including those rare underground creatures, just fine. Took me about an hour or so (per planet).

[Henry Swanson]

I HAVE FOUND IT! After 60+ hours, I finally got what I was looking for. It wasn't even underground! Well, maybe, sorta, kinda. It was one of those grouped worm things that come out of the ground, but don't live underground.

[Knottypine]

Originally posted by Henry Swanson:

Rare, always active, underground. I've literally visited hundreds of caves, scanned everything,

You think that's hard to find? Try finding the last fauna on a planet... the elusive Common/underwater/always active. It's the rarest thing in the game if you don't scan for underwater fauna first before anything else. I've literally stumbled upon more unknown graves by random chance than I have finding this 'Common' creature that has eluded me on several planets, and several hours of searching.

[Henry Swanson]

After 60+ hours of looking for it, yeah, I think it was kinda hard to find!

[Gabriel]

Congrats, OP. That's some impressive commitment. I'd probably just give up after 2h.

Originally posted by Knottypine:

Originally posted by Henry Swanson:

Rare, always active, underground. I've literally visited hundreds of caves, scanned everything,

You think that's hard to find? Try finding the last fauna on a planet... the elusive Common/underwater/always active. It's the rarest thing in the game if you don't scan for underwater fauna first before anything else. I've literally stumbled upon more unknown graves by random chance than I have finding this 'Common' creature that has eluded me on several planets, and several hours of searching.

lol. This happened to me very recently. Didn't know it was a thing, thought it was just some amusing isolated bug. Last animal to complete the list and receive 600 nanites... underwater, common, always active, how hard could it be? Oh, boy, I had no idea...

Never found the damn thing.

[ErnurWolf]

you will find it . just be patience , some critters only come out at night or when storms are in action . toss some pellets around as you explore , they will find you .

[Henry Swanson]

Originally posted by Gabriel:

Congrats, OP. That's some impressive commitment. I'd probably just give up after 2h.

Thanks! I've got way, way more in-game hours now, and I never found another creature that was that hard to find.

[4925G]

Found this thread while
searching for my own impossible-underground-uncommon, and whaddaya know, it was the eyestalks. I found it once I stopped looking in caves. Thanks!