Sharks per Island

[WarHøg]

Greetings, i played on july/august 2020, then, I remember there was roughly two sharks on each island, varying a bit and if you waited long enough they would respawn.

Now, I just created a new save, as of feb 2021. On my starter island there were 4 sharks. Then, on the second island i visited, Ive killed two(including a great white) and now I see another tiger shark.

Has the number of sharks per island changed?

[dm19732787]

I've noticed that shark spans do seem to increase in number. At first I thought it had something to do with total game time played, including games no longer saved. Now I think it has more to do with total sharks killed. When I go to a new island now, I tend to encounter 3-5 sharks on everything that's not the starter island. But it's not limited to just sharks, it also seems to affect all aggressive creatures.

4 sharks, 3 giant hogs, 6 snakes all on one island are pretty common for me now. And separate but possibly still related, giant groupers seem to be everywhere. Think I've caught close to a thousand in fish traps, so when I go diving now, it's common to see 2 or 3 groupers on screen at all times.


A lot of hours, a lot of kills, a lot of fish traps. but the spawn numbers go back down to normal after each game update and have to be built back up again.

[QueenPixxa]

We were talking about this in a thread, a while ago. The number of sharks per island seems to be changed to a higher number. It is pretty normal for me, now, to find a least 5 sharks on every stock island, no matter how big the island is.
Yesterday I was very surprised to find a goblin together with a hammerhead swimming around my raft, very close to shore. Usually those don't come too close, just like the great whites.
dm1953856863, I never had more than the usual number of other nasties, Usually it's 2 giant hog, 2 snakes and 2 giant crabs on the big islands, and 1-2 giant crabs on the small islands.
Are you using some mod that can affect the number of aggressive animals?
Never found more than those I listed above.

[dm19732787]

No mods. But giant crabs do seem an exception. Once had 3 on an island, but almost always 2.

I also started running into the problem with goblin sharks near the islands. This just started within the last couple months. Once in a while I still get a landshark, usually after a storm and seems to fix itself within a game-day.

[WarHøg]

Played a bit more, and Im encountering 4 sharks every single island, combination of tigers and hammerheads with the occasional great white. Number of giant crabs, giant hogs and snakes is the same, 2, 1, 2 like before.

[QueenPixxa]

Originally posted by dm19732787:

No mods. But giant crabs do seem an exception. Once had 3 on an island, but almost always 2.

I also started running into the problem with goblin sharks near the islands. This just started within the last couple months. Once in a while I still get a landshark, usually after a storm and seems to fix itself within a game-day.

What do you mean with land shark? It sounds extremely scary lol
Maybe you mean those who get under the sand in the shallows and attack you from behind? Those are bad enough, I don't want to deal with another type of land shark!

[dm19732787]

Landshark is an old game term in Stranded Deep. It refers to when a shark goes through the hitbox of an island and actually swims through the island itself. Seeing portions of the shark on dry land affords an interesting position where you can melee a shark to death and it can't hurt you.

They are mostly annoying because of the things you have on island that are not built into a building. They can move things around and make a general mess of things. A minor annoyance.

[QueenPixxa]

Oh wow, it never happened to me yet! Thank you for explaining,

[SuperDave]

I've recently heard in other posts that as you travel from island to island, you pick up sharks that follow you along the way and you can often bring in more sharks that way, such as the Goblins, Marlins, Whale Sharks and Great Whites.

[dm19732787]

A shame the game let's us kill the Whale Sharks, since they are non aggressive. Even after you attack them, they still want to come back to you and be friendly.

.. but we can't attack the stingray .. something odd about that.

[QueenPixxa]

Originally posted by dm19732787:

A shame the game let's us kill the Whale Sharks, since they are non aggressive. Even after you attack them, they still want to come back to you and be friendly.
.. but we can't attack the stingray .. something odd about that.

I don't have anything against stingrays, since they don't pose a threat to us in the game. But the poor whale sharks... I know they are just pixels, but still there's something pathetic, sad, in the way they run away when they are speared once, and after a while come back... they should be invincible, just like turtles are.

[SuperDave]

and slower... it's too bazaar to see whale sharks swimming at the speeds they do.