No dig spots outside of desert

[TheStellasaur]

I've seen several other discussions about this, and supposedly it was fixed but I'm still having issues with it. Dig spots are only spawning in the desert biome under flowers. This didn't start happening until a little later in the game, but it's preventing me from getting archaeology items. Please patch this soon!

[Antifringe]

I've reported this one as well. It's a pretty serious bug. The artifacts are part of the gear progression, and not having access to them in the intended way breaks the chain. This bug has been around for a while, and I wish we'd get some kind of official acknowledgment about it.

I think what's happening is that desert tiles get some kind of crazy high weighing when dig spots are spawned. So the dig spots act normally until you unlock even a single desert tile, and then they all start appearing there. You might be able to circumvent it by paving over the desert with roads or something, but it'd make more sense just to fix it. It wasn't always like this and was probably just a typo made being one of the patches.

[Magna]

Same. Had to use shrines to get stuff in other areas.

[Tucutufelo]

Still bugged

[[Agent]Cyber BonBon™]

only way to get dig spots outside of desert is by using shrines and hope you get the right power from it in the bio your after.

[JJDeafGeek]

Yup. I noticed I was getting dig spots in the normal green area before unlocking desert then after I unlocked desert they completely stopped spawning outside of the desert. Have to spam dig with the robo shovel for an almost no chance of getting the drop or find a relatively empty island of the biome I want and build an shrine there and hope for the digger blessing the one that spawns like 40 dig spots around the shrine. Happens on both steam and switch. I noticed desert is super saturated with dig spots. Like 3-8 PER island….

I wonder if I should start a new save and focus on unlocking snow/fire/graveyard biomes without unlocking desert biome and see if the dig spots spawn then unlock desert and see if the dig spots stop spawning after desert unlock. If it does then it points to desert being the issue.

[JJDeafGeek]

Originally posted by JJDeafGeek (live @ twitch.tv/jjd:

Yup. I noticed I was getting dig spots in the normal green area before unlocking desert then after I unlocked desert they completely stopped spawning outside of the desert. Have to spam dig with the robo shovel for an almost no chance of getting the drop or find a relatively empty island of the biome I want and build an shrine there and hope for the digger blessing the one that spawns like 40 dig spots around the shrine. Happens on both steam and switch. I noticed desert is super saturated with dig spots. Like 3-8 PER island….

I wonder if I should start a new save and focus on unlocking snow/fire/graveyard biomes without unlocking desert biome and see if the dig spots spawn then unlock desert and see if the dig spots stop spawning after desert unlock. If it does then it points to desert being the issue.

I did create a new classic save on my switch (forager version 4.1.3 if it matters).

I bought Greenland islands in a 1 island radius around spawn (got the treehouse and wizard island and the fairy fountain and the big turnips and the rainbow island and the island with the 4 pillars that go from 1-4 and the tiny island with just a big chest on it) then worked my way west to the graveyard biome.

Got one with the gems tower puzzle. Right away there was 2 dig sites. I dig them and kept returning later to dig them and collect the nightshade flowers. In total I think I got 6 dig sites from that graveyard island. Then I worked my way south and got a fire biome island with the engineer and factory. There was one dig site right away. I kept coming back to collect the rocks and the dig sites and flowers. I think I got a total of 8 dig sites from the fire biome.

Then I worked my way north to get a snow island. I got the one with the iced over chest. Right away there was one dig site. I dug it. Then heres what’s interesting. Both the snow biome and the graveyard biome stopped getting dig sites. But the Greenland biome and the fire biome kept getting dig sites at this point I prob have collected 30 dig sites from the Greenland biome and like 15 dig sites from the fire biome and they’re still spawning. Grave yard and snow biome doesn’t get dig sites anymore.

I haven’t worked my way east to get a desert biome island yet. This was an interesting play though lacking the beetle item needed to upgrade my pick so I was still at slime pickaxe. There was another upgrade item that also needed the beetle item maybe it the big backpack?

[Enchantress]

since opening the desert, i don't have any dig spots anywhere. if i dig randomly in the desert i may get a gem here or there but even then it's waaayyy less than i dug up before and no rare artifacts at all. (using luck potion)
i also put a quarry down on a different island so not sure if that stopped the dig spots from spawning or it was the 3 desert islands i opened on the same day.

is my only hope for filling the museum, starting a new save and doing as u guys did above ^^ and not open anything to the East until the end??