Rare creatures trick!

[PaceyLionheart]

I just found a super helpful reddit post where a person found a trick to spawn rare creatures that are bound to a specific biom. Basically you need to fly around and search for an area where the creature would spawn in, cave, lake, ocean etc. then you quickly land your ship (at this point no creature is loaded in the world) go in that cave very fast and wait down there. The creatures should then spawn with an increased probability. Here is the link: https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/comments/nz79sw/underground_animals/

[Barmy Nimrod]

I have noticed this in my searches for the rare creatures. But the area needs to be right. Just any cave or body of water isn't good enough. Something else I do that can help them spawn. is drop a save beacon, save and reload. Once loaded move around some and do a little scanning or mining.

for the underground critters, I have found that large caves where some of the cave minerals, flora and other stuff exists outside the cave. You can usually find them near POIs. They sometimes even spawn a little further out on the regular terrain, especially the crab and blob critters.

For the underwater critters, I find the most successful places are lakes with deep areas. Here again I drop a save beacon by the waters edge save and reload and jump right into the water.

The ones I hate are the rare flying. I have the best luck with those sitting on a TP and reloading.

[PaceyLionheart]

Thank you! i hope we can get everyones collection full with this. This was such a bummer for me, when I searched hours and hours on a planet and my sense of collecting kept me pinned on the planet, instead of exploring new stuff.

[PaceyLionheart]

Also I found some weird worm like things (not the big sandworms), that are really tough to scan. They say that they are ground creatures in the tab, but they are digging through the ground and only pop up from the surface by inches sometimes. So be quick to catch them with the scanner at this exact moment and hold down the button until the scan is over.

[Cesar]

I will give this a try. I usually give up on the rare cave critters if there is more than one. The problem is caves aren't that common and the critter you need is not common so you have two rares and the probability of success multiplies

[Krash Megiddo]

Originally posted by Cesar:

I will give this a try. I usually give up on the rare cave critters if there is more than one. The problem is caves aren't that common and the critter you need is not common so you have two rares and the probability of success multiplies

Don't you mean "probability of failure multiplies"?
Or maybe its "probability of success divides"?

[Wizard of Woz]

Originally posted by PaceyLionheart:

I just found a super helpful reddit post where a person found a trick to spawn rare creatures that are bound to a specific biom. Basically you need to fly around and search for an area where the creature would spawn in, cave, lake, ocean etc. then you quickly land your ship (at this point no creature is loaded in the world) go in that cave very fast and wait down there. The creatures should then spawn with an increased probability. Here is the link: https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/comments/nz79sw/underground_animals/

So the tip is to go find the animal and scan it.....

[Hungry_Eye]

Me = rare flying critter.

I was walking around... scanning for new discoveries... started harvesting some minerals and = ZAP = there they were, emerging from the rocks. A whole flock of them.

Since then, they appeared all over the place on that planet.