Missing sea serpent

[Oberon]

Hello guys. I can´t find any sea serpent. I traveled ocean biomes for 4 hours through day, night, storms and nothing... not a single sea serpent. I remember, when i played Valheim for the first time, I was scared of the ocean, because every time i traveled from island to island I met 1 or 2 serpents. Now? nothing... It annoys me because serpent meat is a rich source of vitamins and proteins. Thanks for your answers.

[Happy]

Keep looking. Make sure your map comes up as ''Ocean'' and you should come across one eventually, keep looking.

Also recommend sailing at half mast, as paddling is too slow to cover any ground in a reasonable amount of time, and full sail is too fast you might sail right past a Serpent and never know it was even there.

[Gromarch]

Originally posted by Oberon:

Hello guys. I can´t find any sea serpent. I traveled ocean biomes for 4 hours through day, night, storms and nothing... not a single sea serpent. I remember, when i played Valheim for the first time, I was scared of the ocean, because every time i traveled from island to island I met 1 or 2 serpents. Now? nothing... It annoys me because serpent meat is a rich source of vitamins and proteins. Thanks for your answers.

AFAIK, they only spawn at night and in thunderstorms.
Happy hunting.

[NimrodClover]

Just so you don't feel bad, I've played for over 2000 hours and just yesterday saw and heard my first sea serpent ever! It was at night, in a storm, in the middle of a thin strip of ocean, and in a karve to boot. I only saw it for a second or two, tried to turn toward it as it was some ways away and it was gone. From what I have read about the spawn settings this was one of the more rare triggers and I may have been very close to the edge of the "ocean biome" I have read that if you have your camera turned downward too much (looking at the boat and not the horizon) the serpent will not spawn, even if it would have otherwise.

[Gromarch]

Originally posted by NimrodClover:

Just so you don't feel bad, I've played for over 2000 hours and just yesterday saw and heard my first sea serpent ever! It was at night, in a storm, in the middle of a thin strip of ocean, ....

I have similar playtime and have had more serpents than i cared to count. If you sail in oceans at night or in thunderstorms, you should have plenty over time.

[Humpenstilzchen]

Originally posted by Gromarch:

Originally posted by Oberon:

Hello guys. I can´t find any sea serpent. I traveled ocean biomes for 4 hours through day, night, storms and nothing... not a single sea serpent. I remember, when i played Valheim for the first time, I was scared of the ocean, because every time i traveled from island to island I met 1 or 2 serpents. Now? nothing... It annoys me because serpent meat is a rich source of vitamins and proteins. Thanks for your answers.

AFAIK, they only spawn at night and in thunderstorms.
Happy hunting.

Nope they can also spawn in daytime without any storm. I have this weird luck to constantly run into them be it day, night or stormy doesn´t matter. I do believe though that chances are higher during stormy weather but idk I can´t even sail five minutes without seeing one so maybe it´s just my luck.

[Gromarch]

Originally posted by Humpenstilzchen:

Originally posted by Gromarch:

AFAIK, they only spawn at night and in thunderstorms.
Happy hunting.

Nope they can also spawn in daytime without any storm. I have this weird luck to constantly run into them be it day, night or stormy doesn´t matter. I do believe though that chances are higher during stormy weather but idk I can´t even sail five minutes without seeing one so maybe it´s just my luck.

They might hav been spawning during rain or storm, since only those spawning at night despawns.

Unless they've ninja-patched it in, or there's a bug, serpents dont spawn in daytime without rain or storm.

[Veseljko]

Be sure to look behind you cos they can spawn behind you too. And if you are sailing at full speed, it is easy to miss them.
I usually find a bigger ocean biome and then sail around in circles. Valheim world is split in 64x64 meters zones, and every time you enter a new zone, the game calculates spawn chances. Spawn rate for serpents is one of the lowest, so make sure that you change zones frequently.

[Humpenstilzchen]

Originally posted by Gromarch:

serpents dont spawn in daytime without rain or storm.

Idk man my game is 100% vanilla no mods and in my game they do spawn in daytime when the sun shines.
I thought this is normal and I always wonder why people tell others that they only spawn during night time and during storms.

From my understanding chances are much higher during nights and storms but that´s about it.

[Gromarch]

Originally posted by Humpenstilzchen:

Originally posted by Gromarch:

serpents dont spawn in daytime without rain or storm.

Idk man my game is 100% vanilla no mods and in my game they do spawn in daytime when the sun shines.
I thought this is normal and I always wonder why people tell others that they only spawn during night time and during storms.

From my understanding chances are much higher during nights and storms but that´s about it.

See posts above :) According to the wiki, they still only spawn at night and during rain/storm, which besides from experience, might be where people are getting it from.

[Zathabar]

Originally posted by Humpenstilzchen:

Unless they've ninja-patched it in, or there's a bug, serpents dont spawn in daytime without rain or storm.

They always have spawned day or night rain or clear for me.

Got my first one about 100 hours in first voyage of my shiny first ever Karve Following couple of game days went out and Killed two others in the same spot and made a shield outta them - very handy to get that so early I can tell you!

The last one (Spawned In the day) last week sometime (1200 hours in) just before I entered my home waters near my main base. I ignored it and it gave up before I entered port.

I guess RNG is RNG

[Gromarch]

Fun fact; since I joined in on this 3 hours ago, I killed 3 serpents. 1 in a storm and 2 at night.
If you hunt for them, I've never felt them hard to find.

[Mjarr]

Originally posted by Humpenstilzchen:

Idk man my game is 100% vanilla no mods and in my game they do spawn in daytime when the sun shines.
I thought this is normal and I always wonder why people tell others that they only spawn during night time and during storms.

From my understanding chances are much higher during nights and storms but that´s about it.

It's because you spawned one in storm without seeing it, aggroing it or even realising it even spawned and daytime spawns won't despawn just because you left the area, even if you return there hours and hours later.

[Maelstrom]

You need to be full ocean biome (look at your minimap) at night or during a storm. Their spawners have a reset time shorter than an in-game day so what I do is just find a good route with nice, big oceans (not snaking between two close-ish shores where other biomes intermingle a lot), sail until the sun comes up, break the boat down, portal back, do it again the next day. Usually find 1-2 serpents (more if there's a storm), sometimes more, sometimes none.

[TΞSTOSTΞROWNLOL]

I can top all of your stories.

I once had a sea serpent chase me right to the edge of the shore of the meadows, right at launch. I was butt naked and on a raft.

Pants were $hat on that day.

[Ensign Toby]

Butt Nekkid = No Pants. You're Golden (Brown). :P
However, I'm not getting on that raft until you rinse it off first.