Can't Find Balboa Like Islands

[Saint Sinner Ain't Sinner]

Hi, for over 10+hours i have been looking for Balboba like islands. I have finished the story. Until i get to Balboa, i've met 2 islands that has Balboa like fauna. But after the mission is complete, even i got back to Balboa, no island on the map or random has ever been Balboa like, i mean; no bears no pine trees and honey etc. All i get is big animal islands or random small islands.
In order to solve the possible problem;
I set the radar/reciever back to and went back to Radio Tower, Vasagatan a couple times, Balboa 2 times. And still no island i encounter has Balboa like fauna.

Also is there anyway to trigger finding crashed ship small island for achievement? I've been looking with binoculars to every small island i see,if see no trace of the crashed ship, i skip.

[Saint Sinner Ain't Sinner]

Very well then, nobody has a clue..

[Anonymous Helper]

No idea about how Balboa like islands spawn beyond the obvious of having unlocked/visited Balboa Island itself unfortunately.

As for the rare Ship Wreck and Plane Crash small islands, their spawning is entirely random and likelihood of them spawning is very low. Some people find one or both during their first hour in game while others spend 100+ hours never seeing them. As far as I know, there is no official way to increase the changes of them showing up. You'll have to either look into modding scheme or find a save someone provided with the location already spawned.

[Saint Sinner Ain't Sinner]

Originally posted by Anonymous Helper:

No idea about how Balboa like islands spawn beyond the obvious of having unlocked/visited Balboa Island itself unfortunately.

Thank you, i somehow forced the game to create myself a timber island(i mean balboa fauna) going against the wind no matter what. I mean, even the closest islands on the Radar, to and beyond Balboa were animal islands. But i managed to end up finding mid-sized timber islands. And again, however, the first couple islands i found were bugged and had honey but bees and bears. I now can find mid-sized timber islands if but never the big ones.

Want to mention that, my first encounter to Balboa was also bugged. I didn't see single bee or bear including Mother Lode. But i could find 2 big timber islands before my first visit to Balboa.

So, long story short; I found out that some other players experienced "half" of the problems(bugs) i had. Empty Balboa is temporary if you tinker with the radar quiet a while. But .. meh.. whatever you get what i mean i guess. Thanks.

Originally posted by Anonymous Helper:

As for the rare Ship Wreck and Plane Crash small islands, their spawning is entirely random and likelihood of them spawning is very low. Some people find one or both during their first hour in game while others spend 100+ hours never seeing them. As far as I know, there is no official way to increase the changes of them showing up. You'll have to either look into modding scheme or find a save someone provided with the location already spawned.

I found the planewreck quiet easy but didn't sight shipwreck and i was cautious for that.

[Anonymous Helper]

Originally posted by Just as Sure as Rome is Falling:

I found the planewreck quiet easy but didn't sight shipwreck and i was cautious for that.

Lucky you, I haven't found either yet.

[迷途小书童]

Ship Wreck and Plane Crash small islands,100+ hours,not found....wtf....

[wsg.lj]

I dont think there are any islands that are like balboa island

[Envy_Rose]

Uh I found one
idk how to say where it is

Edit: my radar is saying it's one of the green dots

[Kambien]

Sorry to hear about your experience and odd bugs to you experienced. One thing you can do to get back to a "balboa like" island is to leave the range of balboa and let it respawn. Then, go back to balboa and it will have everything once again due to being respawned. Might help!

[Fury Fairy]

easy as pie, confirmed many times on my own, valid even BEFORE visiting Balboa: tune receiver on Balboa "frequency", it will show as blue dot in brackets. green dots are other BIG islands. Some of them will be "ordinary" ones, some - Balboa like. I had my bees and animal fully staffed prior actual Balboa + got a ton of Leather from Bears that respawn quickly on the islands and may be easily and safely killed by stacking them near water and hitting by spear / bow being in water. Hope that helps.

PS same method works for Caravan town like islands as well, another easy way to get bees and leather

[ULTRA]

Originally posted by Fury Fairy:

easy as pie, confirmed many times on my own, valid even BEFORE visiting Balboa: tune receiver on Balboa "frequency", it will show as blue dot in brackets. green dots are other BIG islands. Some of them will be "ordinary" ones, some - Balboa like. I had my bees and animal fully staffed prior actual Balboa + got a ton of Leather from Bears that respawn quickly on the islands and may be easily and safely killed by stacking them near water and hitting by spear / bow being in water. Hope that helps.

PS same method works for Caravan town like islands as well, another easy way to get bees and leather

Correct answer, for future ref

[Operator]

When i 1st played the game I was heading to balboa and I got stuck on 3 balboa type islands and it was so annoying because I only had a sail at the time and I had to destroy my raft for paddles just to get away from the islands.