Swamp and the Vendor

[Cream]

So I read that usually (I use that term loosely) the vendor is somewhere on the first landmass. Unfortunately, that is not the case for me. I have searched the entire thing and opened up the map for it. No vendor

However, interestingly enough.. I have swamp on my first landmass... about 2' of it. There is one part of the map where you go into the swamp along the water and it is about 2' of area. What is funny is because it is so small, is that all of the swamp creatures spawn in that one spot. So when I found it, there was like 30 leeches and 20 Draugrs.

[BGratz]

Read this
https://steamcommunity.com/app/892970/discussions/0/3105766250718433330/

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[Flare |UKCS|]

The trader is rarely in your 1st island unless its really large, usually the trader is in the 2nd island and always in the Dark Forest biome, he is easy to spot if you get close enough as the money bad icon shows up long before you see him.

[Ebyl]

I've never had a vendor on my initial island.

[BGratz]

Originally posted by Ebyl:

I've never had a vendor on my initial island.

arround 10% of the maps/seeds have them on the Startisland
(checked arround 200 Seeds)

[Ebyl]

I know it happens, but it has never happened to me.

[Frozztastic]

I have a Vendor and two bosses on my primary landmass. :D I got lucky.

[jonnin]

My main map has a 'river' of swamp (thru the plains!) that is about one good jump wide and about a 5 min walk long, connecting 2 blobs one which is just big enough to have a few enemy and the other which is gigantic. You get odd things at times. Multi biomes near each other is a warzone full of free loot. Leeches do astonishingly well against furbys.

Vendor on the first island is a nice to have. You will be sailing in a karve before you need it, though. As long as its on one of the next islands over, I am OK with it. The 2+ islands out is too far to find it before you need it.

[Frozztastic]

Originally posted by jonnin:

My main map has a 'river' of swamp (thru the plains!) that is about one good jump wide and about a 5 min walk long, connecting 2 blobs one which is just big enough to have a few enemy and the other which is gigantic. You get odd things at times.

Vendor on the first island is a nice to have. You will be sailing in a karve before you need it, though. As long as its on one of the next islands over, I am OK with it. The 2+ islands out is too far to find it before you need it.

It's funny...I bought all the vendor items long before I even thought about building a boat.

There are a lot of crypts near him on my map, made it very easy to get everything he had with a few thousand gold leftover. I stopped picking it up before I built the Karve. lol

[[PVP] Boss Prime]

It took me 1 month to find the Merchant.

[Frozztastic]

Originally posted by PVP Acreates:

It took me 1 month to find the Merchant.

That...sucks.

*hug*

[Gladi8er65]

It's RANDOM.... I have seen tons of world configurations using the world viewer program and seen maps ranging from ALL biomes, bosses and trader on same landmass as start, to having none on the starting island.

I have one map ( seed: Irongate ) where you start out on a very small, secluded island of meadows biome, which contains only the usual meadows resources, animals and greylings, and of course, the starting spawn area.

Eikthyr, the first boss, is on a different island and can't even be fought until you build a raft to cross the water (too far to swim) to get to him and then raft back across to place the trophy at the spawn place.

The only consistent thing I've noticed, in hundreds of maps, is that the trader is always farther away from spawn, than Eikthyr is..... Other than that it's RANDOM.