Question about sea serpents

[Jaggid Edje]

I'm in the early-ish game (Black Forest biome) and decided to use my Karve to map the coastline of the starting island, because it's massive. So far I've been at it for 6 game-days, and have about 2/3 done.

My question is, could I end up running into sea serpents even this close to the very starting island, if I venture into the Ocean biome while doing this?
So far I've mostly stuck close to the coast (so not in Ocean biome), but passing an area of the Swamp I ventured farther out when I saw a ton of these black slug-like things and some green oozing blob things swimming out to get me.

[loppantorkel]

I think you can, but if you do, you should be able to get into shore before a sea serpent destroys your Karve. Best thing to do is to sail by day and have a reasonable exit plan - someplace reasonably close and safe to steer your boat toward, if you get surprised by a serpent.

[Hunter451]

If the wind is at your back and you are at full sail you can outrun them.

[Jaggid Edje]

Originally posted by loppantorkel:

Best thing to do is to sail by day and have a reasonable exit plan - someplace reasonably close and safe to steer your boat toward, if you get surprised by a serpent.

Cool. Thank you!
That's how I've been doing things already, but I had no idea if it actually made a difference or not; I was just doing what made sense to me without any game knowledge. LOL

It has been kind of fun watching the shore line for a ruined structure of some kind each time the sun was approaching setting, so that I could make a quick camp to rest the night with just minimal additional construction.

[Psalms]

They DO NOT spawn near the starting island. Theres a video on YT that goes into detail about this and shows the perimeter at which they start spawning. Research it 😎😇

[knighttemplar1960]

Originally posted by Servant of Seraph:

They DO NOT spawn near the starting island. Theres a video on YT that goes into detail about this and shows the perimeter at which they start spawning. Research it 😎😇

Actually they can. The OP had a huge start island 2/3rds the way around it in 6 days of sailing. If you are more than 500 meters from the starting stones and you enter ocean or sail at night near the shore a sea serpent can spawn.

[Psalms]

Originally posted by knighttemplar1960:

Originally posted by Servant of Seraph:

They DO NOT spawn near the starting island. Theres a video on YT that goes into detail about this and shows the perimeter at which they start spawning. Research it 😎😇

Actually they can. The OP had a huge start island 2/3rds the way around it in 6 days of sailing. If you are more than 500 meters from the starting stones and you enter ocean or sail at night near the shore a sea serpent can spawn.

Interesting 🤔🤔🤔

[Faceplant]

In my first world, spawn was very close to the beach, and Elkthyr was just across a small body of water (you could easily see to the other side, but swimming was not really an option). The first sea serpent I saw was in that water, so they can/could be close to spawn.

[Jaggid Edje]

Originally posted by knighttemplar1960:

Originally posted by Servant of Seraph:

They DO NOT spawn near the starting island. Theres a video on YT that goes into detail about this and shows the perimeter at which they start spawning. Research it 😎😇

Actually they can. The OP had a huge start island 2/3rds the way around it in 6 days of sailing. If you are more than 500 meters from the starting stones and you enter ocean or sail at night near the shore a sea serpent can spawn.

Yep! I was going to reply to him saying the same thing...because I ended up running into a serpent just yesterday, right outside the river inlet to my base (on that Starting island).
I was sailing against the wind to go check out the island right next door when I saw it chasing me down, but fortunately I was able to turn around and get the wind to my back to get away.

[Nascarman]

Originally posted by Servant of Seraph:

They DO NOT spawn near the starting island. Theres a video on YT that goes into detail about this and shows the perimeter at which they start spawning. Research it 😎😇

I had one spawn in a literal lake so close to spawn it was visible from the shoreline inside the meadows ring that exists around spawn. There was like a patch of ocean in the middle and it spawned in it.

[rexpiscator]

I had a large lake like body of water in the middle of my starting island[large enough to be labeled 'Ocean'], as they say at sea, 'There be monsters'...wrecked me but good yards from shore, was almost there...

[Reaverbait]

I also have had sea serpent's spawn barely out of sight of my base which is not that far from the original spawn. It was only a problem at night and during storms, otherwise I was comfortable sailing through the area.

Now that I have a longship, a Draugr bow and good arrows I actually like having a local sea serpent spawn, it keeps my stocks of Serpent Stew going. :)

[skOsH♥]

Originally posted by Jaggid Edje:

I'm in the early-ish game (Black Forest biome) and decided to use my Karve to map the coastline of the starting island, because it's massive. So far I've been at it for 6 game-days, and have about 2/3 done.

My question is, could I end up running into sea serpents even this close to the very starting island, if I venture into the Ocean biome while doing this?
So far I've mostly stuck close to the coast (so not in Ocean biome), but passing an area of the Swamp I ventured farther out when I saw a ton of these black slug-like things and some green oozing blob things swimming out to get me.

I was sailing along the coast with a raft, then I saw some land across a small body of ocean I wanted to get to

Before the "aaahhhh aaaahhhh" sound effect of me reaching the ocean biome for the first time on that character, a sea serpent flew out of the water directly underneath my raft and destroyed it in one hit

Sometimes you can sail for days without seeing any sea serpents

Luckily I haven't seen any 1* or 2* sea serpents lol