are diseased leeches still in the game?

[Hominin]

i know they are supposed to be rare but i've been playing for quiet a while now, nearly up to alpha ascension, encountered, killed and got killed by many leeches and have run into pretty much every other rare creature yet i haven't seen a single diseases leech :/

- have they been taken out?
- if not:
- i play non-dedicated with friends, is this yet another bug ignored because it doesn't affect dedicated?
- any tips on how to find one?

it would have been nice to be afraid of catching diseases in the swamps instead of having to search this hard for it :/

[Vimpster]

There is a checkbox to disable diseases. Perhaps you have that toggled without realizing it. My guess is that would prevent diseased leeches from spawning.

[Hominin]

Originally posted by Vimpster:

There is a checkbox to disable diseases. Perhaps you have that toggled without realizing it. My guess is that would prevent diseased leeches from spawning.

thanks for the troubleshooting suggestion. just checked, diseases are enabled.

[HIDDEN]

Originally posted by Hominin:

Originally posted by Vimpster:

There is a checkbox to disable diseases. Perhaps you have that toggled without realizing it. My guess is that would prevent diseased leeches from spawning.

thanks for the troubleshooting suggestion. just checked, diseases are enabled.

How did you solve it?

[Hominin]

Originally posted by HIDDEN:

How did you solve it?

It turns out they were spawning, just extremely rare. Easiest place to get one is in the Swamp Cave due to the massive number of them that live there which helps the odds of finding a diseased one but they're rare there too so might not get one first go (not an easy cave either, bring gas masks, campfires to remove leeches and a mount to get through swarms of insects).

Good luck :)

[HIDDEN]

Originally posted by Hominin:

Originally posted by HIDDEN:

How did you solve it?

It turns out they were spawning, just extremely rare. Easiest place to get one is in the Swamp Cave due to the massive number of them that live there which helps the odds of finding a diseased one but they're rare there too so might not get one first go (not an easy cave either, bring gas masks, campfires to remove leeches and a mount to get through swarms of insects).

Good luck :)

Thank you