Underground fauna not spawning

[Zaburo]

I'm gonna have a mental breakdown due to this i swear. How do you get it to spawn??? Please, any tips? I tried in any damn cave across multiple cardinal points on the planet, i went in any underground fissure i've seen, underground water, near buildings that have caves, i used food bait, i even tried to make an artificial underground area and the damn thing does not spawns. Is not even rare fauna ffs. I'm at the point of unninstalling.

[Foxglovez]

Most the time what you have done works, especially finding minor settlements and dig sites as they usually have caves and the little stinkers are bouncing around out front within the first few minutes or after reloading. Sometimes ya just gotta walk away, know when to fold 'em and not make yourself nuts over it. It's just one planet and there are many. Sometimes you will also walk quite a ways away in the direction the cave takes but above it and there below you the red dot appear and you have to dig down to it. Doesn't happen often.

[hakped]

I've had many a experience with common fauna never spawning.
Just move on to the next planet if it takes more than 30 minutes

[Eightball]

There is a method to fauna spawning and it becomes especially important when chasing those last elusive 'rare' spawns, especially underground.

Make sure you have scanned every mineral/plant that can spawn in the caves (which will often mean relocating to the other side of the planet (so for example scan caves in the N then move S and scan caves there, you will usually find one or two new mineral/plant in the caves).

Also, the cave has to be cave-like in that a cave that bottoms out in what is essentially above ground landscape will not spawn cave fauna.

If you find a cave that spawns creatures you have already scanned there is much lower probability of it also spawning the rare. It can, but in my experience unless the cave system is really large it is faster to move on to a new cave.

And as someone else has mentioned if you travel around (especially in very mountainous areas) and can find POIs that, when the game placed them, cut into a nearby cave exposing it, you can often have luck with spawns there.

But spawns in general, above ground, underwater and in caves are gated by the number and types of other things that have already been scanned. One of the reasons that during expeditions you can often find everything already spawned because so many players have been scanning everything.

[Kelzid]

Messaggio originale di Eightball:

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And as someone else has mentioned if you travel around (especially in very mountainous areas) and can find POIs that, when the game placed them, cut into a nearby cave exposing it, you can often have luck with spawns there.
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One added benefit of this technique is many times they will then spawn just outside the cave and you don't even need to go spelunking. Sometimes it helps to check the northern hemisphere and the southern hemisphere even if that isn't mentioned in the description since the terrain/minerals can have some variety in different regions.

I always recommend going for the underground stuff first since I believe there may be some planets that just don't have enough terrain variety to ever spawn some creatures, then you don't need to bother with all the other creatures.

[Geldric™]

Messaggio originale di Zaburo:

I<snip> i used food bait, i even tried to make an artificial underground area and the damn thing does not spawns....

First, neither of those things help, so um stop doing them.
Second when looking for underground fauna, before you start looking set your multi-tool to Terrain Manipulator and DO NOT switch it... ever

Post a screenshot with the glyphs (and galaxy) and I'll find your missing critter

Once I do I will let you know where I found it... but wait there's more.. I'll also let you locate, scan and upload it so the entire planet is 100% yours.

[Foxglovez]

If I am feeling particularly obsessive I will also find a few exosuit pods, those also tend to have caves near. Otherwise call on Geldric, our very own "Critterbuster" (hum Ghostbusters).

[Zaburo]

Messaggio originale di Geldric™:

Messaggio originale di Zaburo:

I<snip> i used food bait, i even tried to make an artificial underground area and the damn thing does not spawns....

First, neither of those things help, so um stop doing them.
Second when looking for underground fauna, before you start looking set your multi-tool to Terrain Manipulator and DO NOT switch it... ever

Post a screenshot with the glyphs (and galaxy) and I'll find your missing critter

Once I do I will let you know where I found it... but wait there's more.. I'll also let you locate, scan and upload it so the entire planet is 100% yours.

Woah, thx! I'll keep in mind next time. I found it today. It was a stupid rock like animal. It spawned near an outpost just outside a cave entrance.

[Geldric™]

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[Foxglovez]

And we knew him when,,,

[Cockadoodledoo]

Unless im really lucky and find undergrounds at first biome I just move on. Save your sanity, skip that ♥♥♥♥.

[Xenomorph]

There's something broken with underground spawns. No point in trying this or that or whatever, they can spawn after 5 thousand years and it will still be random, but still broken if not fixed.
Also, there are no "special" interactions to make them spawn. Either they do or they don't. We don't need to be IN a cave for them to spawn, it's all based on proximity, cave critters having the lowest. Procgen is bugged in some planets with low terrain (no room for caves) and cave creature spawns. There is definitely some condition that is not met.

[Geldric™]

So you're saying that a planet can be broken (in its procedural generation), thus making one or more fauna incapable of spawning... I mean sure, that's your theory..

My limited experience has not been that and I've always found all the fauna.

[Xenomorph]

Messaggio originale di Geldric™:

So you're saying that a planet can be broken (in its procedural generation), thus making one or more fauna incapable of spawning... I mean sure, that's your theory..

My limited experience has not been that and I've always found all the fauna.

Here's your challenge. This is the planet, in Elkupalos. Good luck!
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3207054222

[Jaiim]

I just don't bother scanning on any planets that have underground creatures; it's a waste of time. You could fully scan several planets in the time it takes to futilely search caves for rare underground spawns. If you built your base there and you're OCD about getting everything scanned, I can only sympathize and wish you luck.

In my experience, the only convenient way to get underground fauna to spawn regularly is to get lucky and find one of those rare places where a large chunk of underground terrain spills out onto the surface. I could probably count the number of times I actually found critters in caves on one hand, but I've had plenty of times accidentally scanning them on the surface because of this situation.

[Nostromo]

As it happens, I've been doing a lot of species-scanning over the past week. Received the "Galapagos achievement / Encyclopedia Journey Milestone" (discovered all species on 10 planets) recently (Mar 25); doing two or three planets a day in the very recent past.

IOW - this bug must not be ubiquitous, as I have not yet had to skip a planet due to some creature never spawning (and I don't use any mods - plain vanilla game here).

For that proverbial "rare underground" creature - yes, sometimes I do have to move around the planet a bit - and go "exploring" into the underground (sometimes taking my Nomad in with me), before one "pops" - but it's never taken more than maybe 10-minutes to find that final one.

It does have me wondering if there are other factors affecting it (such as some mod or setting, etc.).

Anyways - it isn't happening to everyone (thankfully). Hope it gets sorted soon.