island with bears and honey?

[Doc]

Hi there. i would like to know if my score is broken? after balboa island, i no longer find any bears or honey. I visited every island but I couldn't find anything. please help

[Natjur]

Are you going against the wind? Or with it?

The islands are random generatored and the 'map' is a ball that loops.

But it appears more small island spawn with the wind. (and normal medium)
but against the wind, you get the large bear\honey islands.

Random is random, but that how it works for me

[Doc]

yes most with the current but I will give it a try thanks for the tip so completely against the current yes?

[Natjur]

Originally posted by doc:

yes most with the current but I will give it a try thanks for the tip so completely against the current yes?

Yes if you need honey or go 90 degree to the current\wind to get a nice mix of all three (well that what I do)

But again, its random, but there appears to be some weighting to the random based on the current\wind.

[MYSCHUFF]

You can load planks into the motors directly if you run out of fuel. I notice the wind is always blowing away from the few large islands with honey. I've been just sailing following the wind for a while 20 hrs or so acheivment hunting and not seen these islands. Once i turn the radio on and use the motors I can head strait to them.

[Blynky]

... the land of bears and honey...

[Amedala]

I had same problem, Since I came back from the Big Bear Island in Chapter1, I haven’t met anther Little Bear Island either.

[Sr. Pimentel]

After Balboa I found an island with honey and bees, after that, never again. Now whenever I want a bee I go back to Balboa after a while, but depending on it only takes time to build a lot of bee houses. That sucks.

[Kerulon]

Originally posted by Sr. Pimentel:

After Balboa I found an island with honey and bees, after that, never again. Now whenever I want a bee I go back to Balboa after a while, but depending on it only takes time to build a lot of bee houses. That sucks.

The islands with bears and bees are called 'evergreen islands' and it is said they lay 'in the Balboa biome' (meaning *against the stream/wind* -> normally reachable only using the engine(s))

While one forums-user claimed to have also come across evergreen islands by just drifting *with* the wind/stream, those are normally the big islands you find against the stream (like Balboa).

Regards, Kerulon

[Symatrix Hill]

Same issue here : After Balboa i have never ever hit one single bear island no matter what if i sail with the wind or not and i have played more than 1000 hour.

I think they should pop up from time to time and those other rare island as well as the airplane and captains island.

I played more than 1000 hour and i have never hit captains island and the airplane i have only hit one time.

The devs need to change the mechanics where we are able to hit those small rare island and bear island from time to time if we sail with the wind.

[Kerulon]

4 Tug Boats (Radio & Captains Hat) and 1 Wrecked Plane island (Pilots Cap) here (lucky me)... ^^
It is said, that the rare islands only spawn, when you just 'drift' with the stream (no use of sail/engine).
My encouters with these islands *were* while my raft was just drifting....

But i drifted for a looong time while building up the raft (checking the front from time to time as not to bump into an island/derelict raft) and went for the rare farm animals on the standard big islands (got 2 of each of them (but no striped Llama yet)).

Regards, Kerulon
EDIT: formatting

[Symatrix Hill]

I always drift with the wind no matter what and i use my sail only when i spot a island but the case is after i place out my radar i have never ever hit those small island and after i was on balboa i have never ever hit any bear island so maybe the developers need to take a serious look at this mechanics and find out what is going on and change it a way we are able to hit those island with radar as well when we drift with the wind.

Something is definitely wrong here and that i can safely say after 1099 gaming hour.

[nasojjr]

It would seem from what people are saying, is that you would need to travel against the wind in order to find these "evergreen" islands. Which would mean using your engines constantly...just to get more bees to make more fuel to use to find more bees...etc. Seems incredibly self defeating.

I've recently come back to the game in preparation for Chapter 2 and since I hadn't completed chapter 1 on my marathon game (almost 500 days now) I figured I'd catch that one up. My daughter and I had started a new game to experience chapter 1 from the get go when it came out. But anyways, I just revisited Balboa a few times to get more bees and at 3 beehives, seems to be enough for me. I have a few hundred honeycomb now so should be ready. hehe

[Symatrix Hill]

Originally posted by nasojjr:

It would seem from what people are saying, is that you would need to travel against the wind in order to find these "evergreen" islands. Which would mean using your engines constantly...just to get more bees to make more fuel to use to find more bees...etc. Seems incredibly self defeating.

I've recently come back to the game in preparation for Chapter 2 and since I hadn't completed chapter 1 on my marathon game (almost 500 days now) I figured I'd catch that one up. My daughter and I had started a new game to experience chapter 1 from the get go when it came out. But anyways, I just revisited Balboa a few times to get more bees and at 3 beehives, seems to be enough for me. I have a few hundred honeycomb now so should be ready. hehe

Yes the only way to get honey and bear leather or armour is to travel to just Balboa several time if we need and that we all know and that is just so wrong mechanics who make non sense.

Yes Balboa is special with much bear and much honey + a lot of wood but let it be like this and with that it up to us if we feel we wanna take that trip again and not the game mechanics.

When i place out my radar from the very first time and drift with the wind i hit bear island almost all the time but after Balboa no more bear island and after the radar was placed out no more rare small island.

A lot of people complain about this mechanics and a lot of them doesn`t know what is going on and why we doesn`t hit any more bear island after Balboa and why do we not hit any of those rare small island as captain`s island and airplane after we have place out the radar and like this it wanna be forever to that stage the devs change the mechanics.

Again the developers need to fix this bad mechanics do you not agree ?

[Sigh-Phi-Guy]

i dont think you can just go "against the wind" to hit a bear island.
you have to actually set the radar for balboa 1st. i believe it gives you a much higher probability.
then head toward balboa and AS SOON as a new green dot pops up...it "should" be a "bear island".
its worked like 3 times in a row for me.

as for the tug and the plane.
i found 10ish of each in 650ish game days.

[Amedala]

Originally posted by Natjur:

Are you going against the wind? Or with it?

The islands are random generatored and the 'map' is a ball that loops.

But it appears more small island spawn with the wind. (and normal medium)
but against the wind, you get the large bear\honey islands.

Random is random, but that how it works for me

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I found the problem, try to use the number 2846 but don’t go to Balboa Island, go to other islands shown on the radar, if there are no other islands on your radar, try to go around, i already find one