Do Animals Spawn?

[SaimeraGames]

i always see random animals visiting my colony when i can't see them in the map, am i correct?

[HunterSilver]

I'm afraid I don't entirely understand your question so I'll answer to the best of my ability.

Yes animals spawn. While I don't know the exact details or mechanisms at play for animal spawns, from my observations the game seems to have X number of animal groups it wants on your map at any given time. Animals seem to have a temperature, safety, and map-type preference. For example I've notice muffalo tend to spawn on maps when temperatures are generally colder and nothing will spawn on a map that is suffering toxic fallout.

This also means that new animals will not spawn if you do not kill, tame, or otherwise remove wild animals currently on your map.

[flu007]

Originally posted by HunterSilver:

I'm afraid I don't entirely understand your question so I'll answer to the best of my ability.

Yes animals spawn. While I don't know the exact details or mechanisms at play for animal spawns, from my observations the game seems to have X number of animal groups it wants on your map at any given time. Animals seem to have a temperature, safety, and map-type preference. For example I've notice muffalo tend to spawn on maps when temperatures are generally colder and nothing will spawn on a map that is suffering toxic fallout.

This also means that new animals will not spawn if you do not kill, tame, or otherwise remove wild animals currently on your map.

When you leave them alone long enough, occasionally animals will move off the map on their own, but it can take quite a while. But yes, generally, removing them yourself is the way to get new groups to appear. And groups is a key word there - if you want new animals to appear on the map, better to remove entire herds of animals rather than cull a few from each herd.

Not quite sure about the OP's question either, but the Wildlife tab will show you all the wild animals on your map, and you can click on them there to locate them.
I think there are fog of war type mods to remove that ability, though.

[Rattler]

If by map you mean a minimap Mod, you have settings where you need to enable wild animals. They are either in the minimap or the Mod settings.