animal Wilderness spawn.

[Skorm]

Can someone explain me how does this works ?
is there a limit of animals area/region/ supergrind ?
How often do animals spawn?
is it based on area/region/ supergrind ?
when a animal dies another in the same area/region/supergrind or its time based ?
day night affects animal spawn ?

as much info related to this subject would be Nice

[Dataslycer]

This is what I believe happens and don't quote me on this.

Every interval the map generates a new bunch of object which includes animals and foragables. This will not occur in the vicinity if there is a player object nearby so don't expect something to suddenly disappear. The animal generation will not occur on personal claims either but it will occur on village claim if the personal claim is absent. Any animal corpses does not seem to have an affect on this as I seen animal generated along corpses as well.

[Rudimental]

This will not occur in the vicinity if there is a player object nearby so don't expect something to suddenly disappear.

Nearby will have to mean 'within visible range, i.e. range in which you still see the animal's portrait while in combat. I've had plenty of situations where I've been hunting, say a bear, and it ran off when wounded and then just completely disappeared when combat dropped and it was ? - e.g. the area was a dead-end with nowhere for it to go so I definitely didn't just lose it.

[exewu]

Animals spawn when the player gets next to them though, you can easily test this by venturing in abandoned territory and observing deer herds. They will always start as a close knit group and then, the second you see them, they will spread into all directions.

[DigDog]

Animals spawn when the player gets next to them though, you can easily test this by venturing in abandoned territory and observing deer herds. They will always start as a close knit group and then, the second you see them, they will spread into all directions.

Yes, but that mustn't mean they spawn randomly. Maybe a localmap or whatever has a set of animals that can spawn and will spawn as soon as someone gets near. But after all these animals are gone nothing will spawn until the next tick or whatever, even if you leave the map and return to it.

[exewu]

Oh yes I agree with that. I was just saying that local wildlife doesn't actually spawn until you get near to it, so wildlife doesn't roam around the countryside.

[Dataslycer]

Oh yes I agree with that. I was just saying that local wildlife doesn't actually spawn until you get near to it, so wildlife doesn't roam around the countryside.

Ah right, I believe you are right on that count. That would be why foxes sometimes appear next to chicken flocks instead of a dead of chicken corpses. Makes sense, otherwise lag would be unbearable.

[Granger]

This will not occur in the vicinity if there is a player object nearby so don't expect something to suddenly disappear.

Nearby will have to mean 'within visible range, i.e. range in which you still see the animal's portrait while in combat. I've had plenty of situations where I've been hunting, say a bear, and it ran off when wounded and then just completely disappeared when combat dropped and it was ? - e.g. the area was a dead-end with nowhere for it to go so I definitely didn't just lose it.

This should be changed. An animal which just ended combat should not despawn for some minutes.

[sabinati]

all i know is that day/night effects rat and possibly toad spawns

[burgingham]

It used to have an effect on foxes too (almost no spawns at night, not sure if that is still true) and I always had the feeling on bears as well, but couldn't really confirm the latter.