does anyone know for certain if dino corpses take up spawns?

[DarkEternis]

I'm just curious if you need to eat corpses to get things to respawn or if the "slot" is free once the dino is dead. For instance if I lead gigas into lava to die on ragnarok, do I need to go down and eat the corpse or is it being dead enough?

[Seftak]

That's a good question but bodies disappear in a matter of minutes anyway.

[🦊 Hermit]

Never heard this asked before, interesting query. I don't know the answer for sure, but speaking from my own experience I'd make an educated guess at no, eating the corpses does not matter.

I say this because I've spent quite a while running round Carno Island in the NE of the Island map looking for alphas and levelling dinos. If you do that on a fast creature and don't eat the corpses, you can often see new spawns rushing towards the old bodies from your last circuit and eating them themselves. So new creatures have spawned for me in that situation, even though bodies are on the ground.

[margalus]

As Seftak stated, the corpses disappear hours before a replacement spawn would pop up.

[DarkEternis]

depends on your settings actually. Respawns are almost instant if you leave render, but my server settings make corpses last about 40 minutes, since it is tied to your corpse timer.

Your anecdote doesn't necessarily prove that the corpses don't take up spawns though, because some spawns are on different groups. For instance Gigas have their own spawn group and do not have placeholders, whereas carnos share a spawn with pteras, stegos, trikes, raptors, phiomias, titanomyrmas, Meganeura, doeds, pachys.... well you get the point. So if you eat a corpse of a dragonfly you could cause a carno to spawn in its place.

I've wondered this for a long time and my personal testing seems to lean towards corpses taking up spawns, but I was hoping someone might have some insight from modding or map creation, etc.

[Vesuvius]

I would say corpses are not part of the spawn count, as they immediately disappear from dino trackers.

[DarkEternis]

that is a good point. Some day I may have to hard test with titanosaurs and the s+ transmitter dino tracker. That'd likely be the best way to know for sure

[Seftak]

Originally posted by DarkEternis:

that is a good point. Some day I may have to hard test with titanosaurs and the s+ transmitter dino tracker. That'd likely be the best way to know for sure

Question here would be do the titano insta respawn somewhere else or does it take like a couple of hours??

[Tanya]

Originally posted by DarkEternis:

I'm just curious if you need to eat corpses to get things to respawn or if the "slot" is free once the dino is dead. For instance if I lead gigas into lava to die on ragnarok, do I need to go down and eat the corpse or is it being dead enough?

Tested this on Gigas and yes, they will respawn even if you don't eat the corpse. Used the Kill command on a giga and another spawned a min after the other one died, body still there.

[MrDestroyer97]

Originally posted by Seftak:

Originally posted by DarkEternis:

that is a good point. Some day I may have to hard test with titanosaurs and the s+ transmitter dino tracker. That'd likely be the best way to know for sure

Question here would be do the titano insta respawn somewhere else or does it take like a couple of hours??

In my experience, the titanosaur respawns very fast, id say within a few minutes. Only 1-2 per map at a time though. When I had a server on ragnarok if i killed one it would spawn on the opposite side of the map, where another spawn area was.