How do respawns work in this game?

[Viking Mana]

Are animals rerolled on resting or do you have to bag them to force a respawn? I've been camping out at a need zone that, at one point, had several animals present, but now only has one or two regular visitors, that appear to the be the same animals between visits (similar, if not identical scorees).

So... How do I repopulate an area? Is it a matter of time, or do I have to do it... Uh... "Manually"?

[p00se2]

any hunting pressure in this area ?

[Pinger]

repsawn is on death has a %chance of being a higher tier of animal after a time, so kill all low ranking white/silver males to get a %chance of them being gold/diamonds after they rsspawn, just its heavily rng weighted.

But no one knows exactly when or where the respawns happened, they could be from the herd you have reduced in number or a solitary animal if its a high tier gold, who generally do no stay in herds.

[MAGE]

They may respawn after death in same area but most of the time elsewhere in different herd or solo. By killing all males there id chance for them to respawn bigger but not always. Its best to kill no more then two per need zone or you may kill that zone. it will then move to different area as well.

[Viking Mana]

Originally posted by p00se2:

any hunting pressure in this area ?

Zero. Sometimes I bag whatever's there, and then head elsewhere to clear out the pressure and see whether something new shows up. But like I said, the first time I went there, there were loads of animals. Now there are 1-2 at a time.

[Ninjafroggie]

Originally posted by Viking Mana:

Originally posted by p00se2:

any hunting pressure in this area ?

Zero. Sometimes I bag whatever's there, and then head elsewhere to clear out the pressure and see whether something new shows up. But like I said, the first time I went there, there were loads of animals. Now there are 1-2 at a time.

well there's your problem right there. When you kill and harvest an animal, however long it takes to respawn (animal pop scanner has shown it can be anywhere from instant to hours later), the one thing you can count on is that it's not going to respawn where players *are* if possible, so it's going to join a different herd or go solo. It's pretty clear that there's only one group of animals using this particular need zone, which means all your respawns happened in herds that *aren't* using that zone, which means if you're ever going to see them, kill them, and get new males to spawn in the herd you've been watching, then you'll have to find new spots to hunt.

[CaptainNebulous]

Originally posted by Ninjafroggie:

Originally posted by Viking Mana:

Zero. Sometimes I bag whatever's there, and then head elsewhere to clear out the pressure and see whether something new shows up. But like I said, the first time I went there, there were loads of animals. Now there are 1-2 at a time.

well there's your problem right there. When you kill and harvest an animal, however long it takes to respawn (animal pop scanner has shown it can be anywhere from instant to hours later), the one thing you can count on is that it's not going to respawn where players *are* if possible, so it's going to join a different herd or go solo. It's pretty clear that there's only one group of animals using this particular need zone, which means all your respawns happened in herds that *aren't* using that zone, which means if you're ever going to see them, kill them, and get new males to spawn in the herd you've been watching, then you'll have to find new spots to hunt.

May be outdated info (I have not checked on this specifically lately) but as of last I knew, animals could take anywhere between 1 in-game minute and 6 in-game days to respawn. This only counts raw gameplay, not skipping hours/days via sleeping in the game.

Also you are correct in that while the respawn system did used to frequently respawn the same animals in the same places.... these days there is much more randomness to the respawns. The respawns are, however, generally always within 1 level of when they were last killed.

What seems to affect the number of/frequency of respawns the most is # of found need zones on your map and that you are killing enough for good respawns

[JeDagelijkseIntrovert]

From my personal experience, animals respawn in the same day, but I can't figure out if it is every 30 minutes in-game or a hour in-game.
However, the animal spawns will happen in every (sub-)region and will most likely not return to the same need zones.

The speculation comes from me mass killing grizzly bears and red foxes on Yukon, deliberately waited 7 days(not using resting) and no new animals were present.

So I decided to mass kill moose in Crowngold Wetlands and Teekon Forest and went to check every other region for them during the same day; While a few returned to the regions they were killed in, I found a significant amount of moose in Crimson Plain and Bankside Timberlands.
Its here that I assume its most likely to the discovered need zones influence the chance of an animal spawning within that region as I had a ton of moose need zones in Crimson Plain.

[Viking Mana]

Originally posted by Ninjafroggie:

Originally posted by Viking Mana:

Zero. Sometimes I bag whatever's there, and then head elsewhere to clear out the pressure and see whether something new shows up. But like I said, the first time I went there, there were loads of animals. Now there are 1-2 at a time.

well there's your problem right there. When you kill and harvest an animal, however long it takes to respawn (animal pop scanner has shown it can be anywhere from instant to hours later), the one thing you can count on is that it's not going to respawn where players *are* if possible, so it's going to join a different herd or go solo. It's pretty clear that there's only one group of animals using this particular need zone, which means all your respawns happened in herds that *aren't* using that zone, which means if you're ever going to see them, kill them, and get new males to spawn in the herd you've been watching, then you'll have to find new spots to hunt.

For the sake of clarity, I'm hunting Black Bear variants for the acievement, so I'm not looking to bump up rare males or anything. I'm just trying to make more Black Bears spawn in areas where I know where to find and bag them, to help make the apparently absurdly rare variants spawn. I've been told that females are actually more likely to be variants.

I'm bagged over a hundred at this point, and spottet another 100, if I had to guess. Not a single variant of any kind. My patience is wearing thin, and now they aren't visitng the need zone, even when I go and create hunting pressure in other areas. And I just want to know why that is and how I can make them spawn more consistently.

[Ninjafroggie]

Originally posted by Viking Mana:

I'm bagged over a hundred at this point, and spottet another 100, if I had to guess. Not a single variant of any kind. My patience is wearing thin, and now they aren't visitng the need zone, even when I go and create hunting pressure in other areas. And I just want to know why that is and how I can make them spawn more consistently.

Ah. Well, that's just down to pure RNG luck. Rare varient males may be more common than great ones, but not by much. Still, the only way you're going to find what you're looking for is to kill tons of male bears, which means you need to hunt them all over the map. If you stick to one area you'll never get more bears to look at

[Viking Mana]

Ah, but that's what I'm doing. Returning to the area in which I assumed they would eventually show up, although not bagging them apparently results in the same animals being present the next day. Then I thin them out and go about my day, removing the hunting pressure by looking in a number of different zones before returning, only to find anywhere from 0-2 bears present.

No variants of any kind, beyond the common ones. Someone told me females were more like to be variants though.

[bread]

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[Mai Dixie Normous]

Originally posted by remi:

i edge to this forum

oh great now you're gonna summon the forum locker
_ 19 Dec, 2021 @ 7:40am _
:edit: I was wrong