Gacha Claus not spawning on The Island

[EthanKai]

When i first started playing they were everywhere, I did a few destroywilddinos trying to get the difficulty right and add classic flyers and to try and get Beavers to spawn.

Still no Beavers and now no Gacha Claus. On top of that, there are no Bears eitther.

I have tried culling out the areas where they were spawning, but it has made no difference.

Raptor Claus is always on cue and working fine.

[Bullwinkle]

Yeah, I noticed the same thing. I cleared the beach like 5 times, and no spawn. So I spawned one in, and he ignored my first drop of 10 mistletoe. Goodbye 10 misteltoe. Then he gave me some crappy boots for 10 coal (identical but lower quality then the ones on my feet) then he gave me a wreath in exchange for 10 more mistletoe. This doesn't smell right.

[EthanKai]

How do you summon a Gacha Claus?

[EthanKai]

I just found the command

[Bullwinkle]

The ones I summoned in didn't give crystals for mistletoe until after they had been given coal. The coal worked fine. The mistletoe worked fine after coal. Maybe they need a little time alone after spawning in before they work right or something.

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only put 1 peice of coal or 1 mistletoe in at a time. putting in 100's makes no difference to putting in 1 at a time. loot is still the same, just more of it !

[Bullwinkle]

Hmmm. Good to know. I thought a stack of ten was best, but don't really know.

[EthanKai]

i spawn in a Gacha Claus, 2 of them actually, they work fine with coal, but do nothing with the misletoe except eat it, so there is definitely a bug in there somewhere. I haven't tried the mistletoe 1 at the time, only in groups of ten.

[Bullwinkle]

I watched a 20 min YT vid on gachaclaus. She said at one point that they don't like other dinos near. She tried testing this by spawning in a bunch of dodos, but couldn't see any effect. Maybe they don't give good gifts if certain other dinos are near. I mean, it could be this. Try clearing out the whole area before spawning in the gacha, maybe.

[Bullwinkle]

I have a hypothesis. Could be totally wrong, but it goes like this:

The devs don't want the winter event to get out of hand, so they made gachaclaus to slow things down. Gachas have some internal energy source, call it Holiday Energy. They use this to transform coal or mistletoe into cool stuff. When gachaclaus first spawns, he has no energy. It builds up over time. So if you spawn one in and try to give it mistletoe immediately, you won't get anything. Gachaclaus also needs more energy to make the really cool stuff, so if you want ascendant stuff, you need to wait. If you feed him mistletoe rapid-fire one after another after another after another, you'll stop getting ascendant because his Holiday Energy doesn't get a chance to recharge. I'm also thinking making stuff from coal increases his energy level a little, so maybe feeding him a stack of 10 coal could actually help if his energy level is low. And when his Holiday Energy is maxed, then giving him more than one mistletoe might help. And if a cheater comes along and he makes way too many cool things too quickly, his transforming powers go into hibernation.

I'd love if someone did some more testing on this. I'm sure parts of it are wrong. I'm really surprised to see I can't find any methodical testing of this stuff.

[EthanKai]

I think their is a relationship between the coal and mistletoe. I tried using 1 mistletoe on the summoned Gacha Claus and nothing happened, after a few minutes i checked Gacha and it was still there, so i added 1 piece of coal. Then Gacha drop 2 crystals, one after the other, one being a mastercraft sniper rifle and then a christmas tree.
I kept feeding one mistletoe and one coal, but after the first attempt the best i'm getting is journeyman items, but it's not guaranteed . Sometimes i holiday items only, sometimes i get nothing. Sometime i get one or two drops, sometimes i get nothing. I'll keep testing.

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i watched youtube also, that is where i got the single item at a time, the video i saw he managed too do well with the ammount of drops x feeding, though the quality was not super good, and a lot of junk items for effort. his area where this all happened he was under attack all the time from raptors and compy's, and his argent was sitting right next to the gacha which was stuck in a bunch of small beach trees, was a random level 148 or something on his own server which was modded, so anything is possible from what i can see after reading everyone posts.

[Bullwinkle]

testing some of this out. It seems the gachaclaus grows crystals on his back. Once they are all gone, they need to grow back before he will give more crystals, so LOOK at his back. When he's down to 1 large crystal on his back, he will so metimes give nothing. Maybe it is a RNG, where he has 4 crystal nodes on his back, and he randomly launches one. If the node is empty, you get nothing. Still testing, but we should try to confirm. If he has 4 nodes and 1 is empty, you should (if I'm right) have a 75% chance of getting a crystal on the next try. Of course, the algorhythm might include retries, so who really knows yet.

One thing I can definitely confirm is that a level 8 Gachaclaus gave me a Mastercraft Assault Rifle in exchange for 1 mistletoe while he was touching my tamed Argent on Single Player, with a level 70 toon. So it would appear that 1 mistletoe is enough for great stuff and it is OK if one (maybe more) tamed dino is very close by. At least in SP at level 70.

Still needing to use console to summon the claus in, as he doesn't seem to spawn, no matter how clean I keep the beaches. Kill everything in sight and parasaurs spawn, but no claus.