How many time need for animals to respawn?

[jaguar]

It seems to me that I am playing only in those time when all animals already killed around my region
How many time need for animals to respawn, 3h...12h etc?

[TeckXKnight]

~5-15 minutes if you're offline, off-screen, or indoors.

[jaguar]

~5-15 minutes if you're offline, off-screen, or indoors.

really?

I noticed that animals respawn in whole world at the same time, and not related with specific account...
but I can't figure out how often.

[TeckXKnight]

When you're not on-screen, the game unloads an area. Once you re-enter the area it reloads the area with new spawns, such as foragables and animals. You can also despawn foragables and animals like this.

[kilamaos]

A friend told me that the perfect Time to hunt bear is after the game crashed. Maybe because no one is online during that time, like it's said above.

[Sevenless]

In theory that wouldn't make sense to me. When you enter an area where no one is, it loads fresh forageable/animals. As long as you're hunting in areas where no one else is, there shouldn't be a difference. However rivers are used by quite a few people, and spawns probably don't always have time to despawn. Not to mention bears are the first to go.

I think it's more a product of less people being online the moment you're trying to hunt. Especially for populated areas.

[Jackwolf]

Make note that an area doesn't immediately unload when it goes off of your screen, but takes some time. So if that animal / foragable just slipped out of your sight for a split second you still have hope.

[Krugz]

On a semi-related note:

Am I the only one to notice that lakes never have animals near the shore? It's very rare compared to rivers. That might just be a perception based on the fact that there is way more river than there is lake..

Makes me wonder if I just get unlucky near lakes, maybe higher populations tend to be around lakes, or maybe some places have better spawn rates than others..

[Jackwolf]

All three.