Is there really no food in this game?

[Kathrynerius]

Wanted to check it out, but the entire front page is just "don't play, you'll just starve to death no food spawns even as an herbivore and the dev won't fix it after years."

[Redshire]

At times the spawns are quite unreliable for some reason which can be frustrating. It might be fine for hours, but after logging in another day you might face an empty map with nothing spawning in anymore and you just die. If you have a mobile species it might be less of a problem I guess. If you have a croc in a pond without a river connected to it, you are screwed.

[Khanivore]

A few things

Herbivores and Omnivores have ample food, just learn the game mechanics and your gold

As for Carnivores

There is AI, I record my sessions, and the AI indeed do spawn, but sparingly, and even if near in the jungle you wont see them, you have to listen out, but if its raining then good luck, AI will also run from you even if you are some distance away and you would never know, you can sneak up to AI if your crouching and quite, but running in spooks them, in short they are there, but very hard to catch

The game is a hardcore survival rougelike, you will die by design, and your body is food for others, so expect hardship

There are about 7000 people playing as I write this, many do find food and survive, many just take on the challenge until they die, they don't post in forums, people that tend to post most are ones with a complaint, so you will see those most commonly, this is in all aspects of life, people that are happy/content don't tend to talk about it much, but if we have a bad experience we tell everyone, and as humans we tend to listen to others bad experiences so we can avoid them, it's an evolutionary thing for survival, and part of our DNA/nature

If you actually want to play the game, being a Carnivore is the 'hard' mode of the game, if you are just starting out, learn the map and basics by playing as a Herbivore or Omnivore like Gallimimus, you wont starve at least, but get to experience much of the game, its a good intro actually, and will better prepare you for playing as a Carnivore

Saying all this, in my opinion AI needs a lot more work for many reasons that I cant be bothered to list, the game is in development

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UflYIupXgrU&t=1s&ab_channel=Kouga

[Kathrynerius]

Originally posted by Redshire:

At times the spawns are quite unreliable for some reason which can be frustrating. It might be fine for hours, but after logging in another day you might face an empty map with nothing spawning in anymore and you just die. If you have a mobile species it might be less of a problem I guess. If you have a croc in a pond without a river connected to it, you are screwed.

I gave the game a go, and so far have starved to death in 30 minutes, haha. There were zero anything anywhere to eat, and traveled probably a few miles. The only thing I saw a Trex but as a baby raptor I couldn't eat that, lol.

[Khanivore]

Originally posted by Kathrynerius:

Originally posted by Redshire:

At times the spawns are quite unreliable for some reason which can be frustrating. It might be fine for hours, but after logging in another day you might face an empty map with nothing spawning in anymore and you just die. If you have a mobile species it might be less of a problem I guess. If you have a croc in a pond without a river connected to it, you are screwed.

I gave the game a go, and so far have starved to death in 30 minutes, haha. There were zero anything anywhere to eat, and traveled probably a few miles. The only thing I saw a Trex but as a baby raptor I couldn't eat that, lol.

You are in 'Legacy', the old discontinued version of the game, when mentioning The Isle most now assume your talking about 'Evrima' the current version of the game

For official Evrima servers

Right click the Isle in Steam > Properties > Betas > Select Evrima public

[Kathrynerius]

Originally posted by Khanivore:

Originally posted by Kathrynerius:

I gave the game a go, and so far have starved to death in 30 minutes, haha. There were zero anything anywhere to eat, and traveled probably a few miles. The only thing I saw a Trex but as a baby raptor I couldn't eat that, lol.

You are in 'Legacy', the old discontinued version of the game, when mentioning The Isle most now assume your talking about 'Evrima' the current version of the game

For official Evrima servers

Right click the Isle in Steam > Properties > Betas > Select Evrima public

Originally posted by Khanivore:

Originally posted by Kathrynerius:

I gave the game a go, and so far have starved to death in 30 minutes, haha. There were zero anything anywhere to eat, and traveled probably a few miles. The only thing I saw a Trex but as a baby raptor I couldn't eat that, lol.

You are in 'Legacy', the old discontinued version of the game, when mentioning The Isle most now assume your talking about 'Evrima' the current version of the game

For official Evrima servers

Right click the Isle in Steam > Properties > Betas > Select Evrima public

Put a couple hours into Evirma and so far have starved to death 3 times, haha. Have yet to find any food, or any other players. On official US east, the the 120 players.

[Khanivore]

Originally posted by Kathrynerius:

Originally posted by Khanivore:

You are in 'Legacy', the old discontinued version of the game, when mentioning The Isle most now assume your talking about 'Evrima' the current version of the game

For official Evrima servers

Right click the Isle in Steam > Properties > Betas > Select Evrima public

Originally posted by Khanivore:

You are in 'Legacy', the old discontinued version of the game, when mentioning The Isle most now assume your talking about 'Evrima' the current version of the game

For official Evrima servers

Right click the Isle in Steam > Properties > Betas > Select Evrima public

Put a couple hours into Evirma and so far have starved to death 3 times, haha. Have yet to find any food, or any other players. On official US east, the the 120 players.

Understandable, but many do survive, there is food, anyway try Galli just for fun, see how you go ;)

watch this it will help
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UflYIupXgrU&t=1s&ab_channel=Kouga

[Redshire]

So far I found out that there also is some kind of NPC spawn limit in place to keep the server performance in check.

If you are in a remote area where NPCs like fish was spawning the previous day while the server population was low you might not see any spawns the next day when the population is high because the NPC limit is reached and all available spawns are used up in other regions.

If you can't leave the remote area in time your only option is to log out and wait until the server population is low again and the previously spawned NPCs have despawned. After that the NPCs will basically spawn in immediately again.

[thekane0f1990]

they've been better today than the past few days, assuming because of the patch. Side note, i havent played in wuite a while, when i use my senses, a blip like the migration paths and havens showup thats 2 eye balls....... can someone tell me what this is please?

[Powerferret]

The 2 eyeballs are patrol zones. Mini migration zones that spawn plants.

[Sonofbop]

by design it seems dondi wants everyone to run everywhere constantly just to find something which u will it wont be fun but u will then u must rest for like 10 min then die to a few dibbles or ceras probably cera the isle is a deathmatch game rn

[TheHairz]

Originally posted by Kathrynerius:

Wanted to check it out, but the entire front page is just "don't play, you'll just starve to death no food spawns even as an herbivore and the dev won't fix it after years."

My first croc started in swamp...there was literally NOTHING in it at all. Died of starvation. The swamp is huge and should be teeming with stuff to eat. Nope guess again.

[Kathrynerius]

Originally posted by Khanivore:

Originally posted by Kathrynerius:

Put a couple hours into Evirma and so far have starved to death 3 times, haha. Have yet to find any food, or any other players. On official US east, the the 120 players.

Understandable, but many do survive, there is food, anyway try Galli just for fun, see how you go ;)

watch this it will help
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UflYIupXgrU&t=1s&ab_channel=Kouga

I actually just watched this, haha. I finally found food in the form of a pile of corpses from baby players. They all seemed to drown themselves in the same pond.

[Kathrynerius]

Originally posted by Sonofbop:

by design it seems dondi wants everyone to run everywhere constantly just to find something which u will it wont be fun but u will then u must rest for like 10 min then die to a few dibbles or ceras probably cera the isle is a deathmatch game rn

The resting is REALLY killing it for me. I can fly for about 30-60 seconds, and then I have to lay down for 5-10 minutes. Not walk, but find a bush to lay in and alt tab and watch Youtube for a while.

[InsaneChaosRealm]

Originally posted by Kathrynerius:

Originally posted by Sonofbop:

by design it seems dondi wants everyone to run everywhere constantly just to find something which u will it wont be fun but u will then u must rest for like 10 min then die to a few dibbles or ceras probably cera the isle is a deathmatch game rn

The resting is REALLY killing it for me. I can fly for about 30-60 seconds, and then I have to lay down for 5-10 minutes. Not walk, but find a bush to lay in and alt tab and watch Youtube for a while.

Conserve stamina whenever you can. Sniffing really helps. Ptera can fish as well by skimming the water while flying over fish pools and holding right click, it's a great source of food. Also, a reminder that you can use flight momentum to your advantage, going down speeds you up(without stamina usage) and going up slows you down with significant stamina usage.