Quetzal not spawning? The Island

[Cosmo]

Alright so I'm playing singleplayer on the island and have seen only one Quetzal flying over the south spawning area when i first started but after getting a base up and running i cant find one.

I've been looking for the past two days and cant find a single one, not around red obelisk or green, I've flown over every part of the map about a dozen times.

I have S+ and spawned in a bunch of the dino scanners to see if there's any, in the dino list Quetzal is listed twice for some reason and looking at the squares on the map still doesn't have any?

Any suggestions should be nice.

[KippenKaasBaas]

First of all it's important to know that Quetzals are very rare. Especially on the Island. So it's not necessarily weird that you've found only one so far.

Also the S+ scanner only works properly if hibernation is tuned off. So I would recommend that.

[Cosmo]

How do i turn hibernation off?

Also i know a Quetz is rare but there should be at least one on the island at nay given time

[KippenKaasBaas]

Originally posted by kraken168:

How do i turn hibernation off?

Also i know a Quetz is rare but there should be at least one on the island at nay given time

Go to Ark in your Steam library and put this in your launch options: -preventhibernation
This CAN have an effect on performance.

[retsam1]

Originally posted by kraken168:

How do i turn hibernation off?

Also i know a Quetz is rare but there should be at least one on the island at nay given time

The longer you run your single player iteration, be it with or without having hibernation off, the distribution of dinos can change. You can thus alternatively(and I recommend once a week if hibernation is off) do a destroywilddinos command to help reset the distributions of the dinos on the island map. I suspect after you've done that you should eventually see a quetz or two around the green or red obelisks though not always.

[Cosmo]

thanks for the help fellas

[Cosmo]

it now working, thanks or all your guys help

[Geek_Loco]

Another option is to add the mod Simple Spawners from the workshop and set it to spawn the number of Quetzals and Tek Quetzals you'd like on the map, set it globally, and see how it goes. We used Simple Spawners to add both of them and Griffins to the Hope map.

[vikijel]

singleplayer is way more buggy than playing on server (especially stuff about spawning dinos)

so i would recommend finding a server to play on (there is lot of good unofficial free servers to play on, lot of pve servers where people are nice and help each other)

[DarkFaceGlow]

I had this issue on Valguero. Looked for over a week, then finally found one when not looking. He was flying pretty low. I think at one point I did a command to kill all dinos to get a respawn. Not sure if that’s what did it. Just keep looking. It’s rewarding when you finally find one.

[KippenKaasBaas]

They do fly surprisingly low.
When you're on a mountain you can find them stuck sometimes.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2217974764