Empty Thrall camps in single player

[DmitriTheDemon]

I'm playing singleplayer coop and two different thrall camps I've visited don't have anything in them. I finally got to the point where I felt confident enough to go tryand grab some thralls and the only ones I found were two guys standing at a bonfire.

When I was passing these camps on my way up the river to build my base they were populated. I built a house just west of the tower of bats and fleshtearer and death's shadow are both empty.

[BlackDeathGER]

in SP if you are too fast they will not spawn.... sometimes i come across dafari camps and nobody is in there... after some minutes they load and even attack me ( standing on me)

[Kazmeister]

It takes a WHILE for them to spawn in. I built my base within a quick run of a larger camp. When I load my game it’s always empty and I have to basically wait one in-game day for them to spawn in.

[requiemfang]

Yeah common issue. They sometimes take a while to respawn the npc's in them. Just go off to other camps is what I always do.

[MisusedPower]

actually I got a simular issue but they arent spawning along with grass rocks etc.. and these are camps I had yet to get to..

[Solomon Hawk]

It's an "old" issue (believe it or not) because even I had been reporting the same thing several months ago.
It's particular to solo/SP mode.

NPCs are extremely slow loading and you will often find empty camps, but they will eventually spawn in. I saw this most obviously at Ruins of Al Meraya (across from Weeping Ruins).

Even certain NPCs that are commonly found in MP won't even spawn in SP regardless of what I tried.

[Fryskar]

Originally posted by Usher:

It's an "old" issue (believe it or not) because even I had been reporting the same thing several months ago.
It's particular to solo/SP mode.

NPCs are extremely slow loading and you will often find empty camps, but they will eventually spawn in. I saw this most obviously at Ruins of Al Meraya (across from Weeping Ruins).

Even certain NPCs that are commonly found in MP won't even spawn in SP regardless of what I tried.

I guess its something along the line as ark uses hibernation for things outside of your renderdistance.
I could feel it the most on entering dungeons, sometimes NPCs load in only after i ran past the first few groups.