"A thief in the night" side quest - bug?

[Käthe Janeway]

Hi people,

i have a problem with said side quest.
i caught/rescued all the nifflers in that area before accepting the quest. when i go there now to catch one niffler like the quest says, the area is just empty.
i tried changing day/nighttime, saved and reloaded.
Dont the animals respawn? or under which conditions do they respawn?

pls help, because like this i cant complete the quest ;(

[Decorus]

He's hiding in the area took me forever to find him. Usually you can find him above the area, but you need to be quick he teleports:)

[katzenkrimis]

He's there.

If you look on your minimap it shows the circle within which he'll be.

If it takes too long for you to find him, he will disappear, then reappear.

I finally caught him above the den. He was sitting up on the rocks overlooking his treasure hoard.

[Käthe Janeway]

I tried revelio all over the place, there is not a single animal in that area. also no sounds which could indicate a niffler warping or so.

[Colbymx17j]

Originally posted by Käthe Janeway:

I tried revelio all over the place, there is not a single animal in that area. also no sounds which could indicate a niffler warping or so.

I ran into this same problem. I went just went and found another quest to do and circled back to this after closing my game to force the den to reload which worked. Take the Floo port to the west of the den back and then make sure to use the wait feature to make it night time then walk over to the den, he should be there.

[Cahyle]

I tried the above, but it didn't work.
However, I did other quests and came back to the location *without* tracking the quest and it worked.
It's worth noting that before doing so, I had caught a couple of Nifflers from elsewhere (with the intention of releasing them at the location to see if that worked), so they were in my inventory at the time. It worked!

[Käthe Janeway]

I also succeeded finally.
Did some mainquests in the meantime.
came back now -without- tracking the quest and at night.
this time the little dude popped out of the rock at the top.
i also had to collect the jewellery again (after catching niffler).
but no other nifflers in that area.

[Shadea]

After the weather changed to winter i went back and he was above the gold area. Like 2 meters from the edge. Took a screenshot if that can help anyone.
https://imgur.com/a/NAUVa3V

[Toasty Marshmallow]

I, too, had previously caught the nifflers in the area and couldn't reveal any. I tried going away, coming back and waiting for nightfall with no luck, so I followed Cahyle's idea of coming back with nifflers in my bag, and that did the trick! For the record, I still had the quest tracked when it worked.