Bug for Animal respawn?

[Mr.Five]

is it a bug or is it normal for animals to be so scarce?..i even change animal spawn in server setting to very high number..but still barely seeing any crow or any animal.tried the command of list spawned animal..but only 1 or 2 that spawn very far away from me.or is there a limit in serversetting before it disable animal spawning?

[CrankyOldMan]

seagulls and crows were removed from spawning due to an interaction with the planes I believe!
Animals take time to spawn in unlike puppets. You must be in the area of the spawn and it will trigger after some time.
Most animals when they detect you will run from you which is maybe why your not seeing them
Spawning by admin command goes beyond server setting or in addition too
you can set how many up to 10 and how far
#spawnanimal chicken 10 5000
that will spawn 10 chickens 5000 meters in front of you

[‡ Torro ‡]

I've noticed certain areas will spawn animals more than others. And or there are possibly exact spawn spots where they will spawn at. I know of like 3 near my base. One in particular I came upon one time and like 3 animals were spawned at the same spot, but were frozen there in idle.

[DarkBlueAgent]

I don't know guys. During 6 hours of singleplayer, I haven't seen a single animal. I mean nothing. Not even a bird. I've searched forests, beaches, villages, and country roads. Doesn't feel right. The game feels so empty and depressing.

[Jolie Rouge]

2 boars, 1 horse, 2 wolves, 1 rabbit, within 3 days.

[CrankyOldMan]

You wont if you are moving around especially in a vehicle you have to remain in an area
There's a reason for all those wooden towers in the fields those are hunting towers and they face the path of the animals

[Mr.Five]

Originally posted by CrankyOldMan:

You wont if you are moving around especially in a vehicle you have to remain in an area
There's a reason for all those wooden towers in the fields those are hunting towers and they face the path of the animals

yeah..thats what i did..i played this game before..so i remember where animals will likely to spawn..i spent few hours in prone position. on top of tower & on ground,nothing..when i do the Listspawnedanimals..one or two animals spawn very far like if i am at A3,some spawn at B0..which is weird ffor them to that spawn far.by the time i get there they already despawn

[Mr.Five]

Originally posted by Jolie Rouge:

2 boars, 1 horse, 2 wolves, 1 rabbit, within 3 days.

what is your serversetting for animal spawn?just wondering if putting it way too high cause it to break and fail to spawn

[Mr.Five]

Originally posted by DarkBlueAgent:

I don't know guys. During 6 hours of singleplayer, I haven't seen a single animal. I mean nothing. Not even a bird. I've searched forests, beaches, villages, and country roads. Doesn't feel right. The game feels so empty and depressing.

same..i dont want to just spawn animal with console..just looting around for food gets boring after some time.now im just hoarding Sardines as an option.i remember playing this game and just see crow land in the middle of the road..and staying at base & building for a long time and some donkeys,horse will sppawn nearby

[Jolie Rouge]

Originally posted by Mr.Five:

Originally posted by Jolie Rouge:

2 boars, 1 horse, 2 wolves, 1 rabbit, within 3 days.

what is your serversetting for animal spawn?just wondering if putting it way too high cause it to break and fail to spawn

Don't know, admin's on holiday, so I can't ask him. +1 donkey btw.

What did you change?

[marktkm]

Originally posted by Mr.Five:

i even change animal spawn in server setting to very high number.

If you mean you changed this variable...

MaxAllowedAnimalsInWorld

...this is just the max allowed to spawn map wide, but isn't directly related to how many you'll see in a particular area. The odds of a spawn point spawning an animal is only 25%, and as Cranky pointed out, they are programmed to move away from players they are aware of. The areas around the hunting towers are good spots, but not the only ones.

There's a cool down on the spawn points, so if you trigger one but nothing spawns (a 75% chance) you'll have to wait around until the cool down timer finishes and it'll run it's odds check again. I'm not sure what that timer is, but I 'think' it's a half hour or twenty minutes. I've had better luck slowly moving in a crouch walk across the map, as it triggers more spawn points (more dice rolls) than just waiting by one for the cool down timer to finish.

[CheeseKing]

Both animal and puppet spawns are changing as how many players are on the server at the moment, animals are definitely a lot rarer than puppets.