Where'd the radstags go...?

[BionicDance]

I d'know whether it's one of the mods I installed or the official DLC or what, but I haven't seen any radstags in about a week, and I play this game a lot.

I read on Google that there is a bug that makes them not spawn anymore, but I never saw anybody identify a cause or a solution.

Anybody know whassup?

[Zekiran]

If you have mods, that's the first place to look. Mutant Menagerie for instance might do things to the animal spawns. The normal dlc does not affect them in any way as far as I know.

Do you have any 'seasonal' mods installed? they might make them only come out during certain times of year but I don't use them so I can't say for certain.

[wtiger27]

Never seen that happen in any of my 3800+ hrs of playing the game. And I have all of the DLC's. I think it is a mod you are using. I use no mods.

[BionicDance]

Originally posted by Zekiran:

If you have mods, that's the first place to look. Mutant Menagerie for instance might do things to the animal spawns.

I actually deliberately didn't install that one because I didn't want a lot of what it did.
So I know it's not that.

The normal dlc does not affect them in any way as far as I know.

I agree that it shouldn't.
Not 100% sure it didn't.

Do you have any 'seasonal' mods installed?

Nope.
Closest thing I have to that is "True Storms".
I mean, okay, I have a bunch of "make the foliage more interesting!" mods, but nothing that gives FO4 seasons.

[Zekiran]

Originally posted by BionicDance:

Originally posted by Zekiran:

If you have mods, that's the first place to look. Mutant Menagerie for instance might do things to the animal spawns.

I actually deliberately didn't install that one because I didn't want a lot of what it did.
So I know it's not that.

The normal dlc does not affect them in any way as far as I know.

I agree that it shouldn't.
Not 100% sure it didn't.

Do you have any 'seasonal' mods installed?

Nope.
Closest thing I have to that is "True Storms".
I mean, okay, I have a bunch of "make the foliage more interesting!" mods, but nothing that gives FO4 seasons.

I've been running this game for more than 4 thousand hours with all the dlc, and regularly have to stop my settlers from shooting at radstags as they run by, so no it's definitely not the dlc.

It might just be very-bad-random-numbers, it could be literally anything because this game's code is such spaghetti.

[BionicDance]

I'm also getting way too many overlapping results on Google.

Apparently there is a radstag bug where falling asleep after eating grilled radstag will make the carry-weight buff permanent, so typing in "radstag bug" gets me walls of that.
Tried other search criteria to no avail besides this Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/fo76/comments/zgiqvx/where_have_the_radstag_herds_gone/

[SnowGolum13]

I would start at mods in the almost 400hrs i have in the game ive never had that bug and i only have 5 or 6 mods on with all the DLC's. Never had a shortage of rad stags no matter what ive done.

[BionicDance]

Originally posted by SnowGolum13:

I would start at mods in the almost 400hrs i have in the game ive never had that bug and i only have 5 or 6 mods on with all the DLC's. Never had a shortage of rad stags no matter what ive done.

If it's a mod, I think I might know the culprit, but I all kinds of forget the name of it...I have a lot of mods.

It was a wildlife overhaul, which I thought would be fine because the healthy radstags mod worked perfectly well...thankfully, Vortex lets you sort by install date...

Assuming, of course, that it's a mod problem at all, that is.

[steventirey]

Are you waiting enough time for the area to respawn before going back? If you don't wait long enough and go back too early, the timer resets when you go there and you will have to wait even longer. If you are playing in survival mode, the respawn timer is a lot longer than normal.

[BionicDance]

I'm starting to think something happened to delete radstags from the game entirely.
I had a bunch of grilled radstag in storage, among other things, and they're gone.

Originally posted by steventirey:

Are you waiting enough time for the area to respawn before going back?

Oh, yes.

At least a game week has passed without seeing any radstags.

[RabbitRidge]

Originally posted by BionicDance:

I'm starting to think something happened to delete radstags from the game entirely.

If you can't find them at either power pole around Abernathy Farm, likely eliminated.

[Zekiran]

Did you verify your game files yet, then? If something 'deleted' them, including your stored items, look into a mod that RENAMES things. Even a language file might be to blame for something as simple as "the game's code is english this mod is in french something went wrong".

[DouglasGrave]

Where did they come from?
Where did they go?
Where did they come from?
Radstag doe.

[Zekiran]

did you hear my exasperated sigh just now? did you?

because you should have, lol.

[BionicDance]

Originally posted by Zekiran:

Did you verify your game files yet, then?

Indeed.

If something 'deleted' them, including your stored items, look into a mod that RENAMES things.

Pretty sure I haven't used a mod that does that, but then I've been surprised before.
"When did I install that?" has been said more than once.

Even a language file might be to blame for something as simple as "the game's code is english this mod is in french something went wrong".

I've been pretty careful about that for a while--making sure that "English" is part of my search criteria on Nexus--but I wasn't always, and ended up with a few textures that were in Russian. (Ewps.)
I'm quite certain that radstags hadn't started disappearing until quite a bit after I started using that filter regularly, tho...

[BionicDance]

I can still force a radstag to spawn using console commands, so they're not completely gone from the game's infrastructure, but they're still not spawning on their own.

I looked over every mod, and the only thing I can imagine is that some of the foliage tweaks maybe covered over a spawn point? I d'know.