How long does it takes to respawn

[ArthoPleura]

Hello everyone.

I know goats spawns have been limited by the devs, and in my current world, i spawned near some. After reading a lot of comments about that, i felt so lucky ! But, for food and leather reasons, i had to kill one and i didn't saw any other after that. It's not too long ago, and i know they'll end up respawning, but, i have no idea how much time it could take ... anybody else do ? I would like to know in order to choose wether i rush domestication, metalworking and planks, or if i take my time and discover the mods i downloaded (not that i couldn't take my time anyway, but i would like to have a sustainable supply of food other than vegetable and especially of cheese which could whitstand winter not too late in the year) .

[TamTroll]

no idea personally, but what i did is set a self-imposed territory for myself.

Anything between the Eastern side of the mountain and the Ocean is "my Territory" and i shouldn't hunt the tameable animals because i might need them later.

Anything to the West of the mountains is "The Wilds" and is free-game all year round. So if i need Meat, Leather, or more commonly Fat, i go over there.


Personally I've found that Predators like Wolves and Bears provide a good source of leather and fat, and while you can't do much with their meat, it's still better then nothing. If you want a reliable meat food source though, i recommenced setting up near a small pond with Salmon in it, those things re-spawn daily, so it's an almost infinite supply.

[ArthoPleura]

I agree for wolves and bears, it's a good leather source. And for fishs, they don't spawn daily since i feel like my mods prevent them from spawning at all (no idea which one though) , or at least in my current world i didn't found any yet. But that's not that much of an issue since primitive survival + the fishing rod mod allow me to get some anyway.

Also, the area i'm in contain plenty of animals to hunt (even almost too much, i'm a bit tired of being harrassed by wolves, lions and mooses, and when i get rid of them a bear spawn in my fields) . I'm not worried about meat at all, i have so much some rot before i could eat it (would be great if i had that kind of spawn locations in my previous worlds ... )

The most important reason why i want goats is for milk (and cheese) . That's not really that i care about balancing my diet, it's more like i would like to try a lot of different meals the game allow us to get.

Thanks for telling me fishs respawn every days, i didn't knew that ^^

Also, small update for this topic : i found more goats further while looking for stones (building material) and i found a gound amount of grain (not to mention the every annoying animal invasion which while putting my nerves in some kind of a challenge, still give good amount of meat) , so i'm set for the incoming winter, and i'm not really that much in a hurry anymore.

Edited June 1, 2024 by ArthoPleura
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[LadyWYT]

It kinda depends. Sometimes you can play for hours without seeing more creatures spawn(at least, where you would expect them to spawn). Sometimes you can kill a couple and there's four more to replace them a few minutes later. I'm of the same general mindset as @TamTroll, in that I tend to forgo hunting certain animals that are near my base, and instead go hunting abroad where I don't really care if the local population gets temporarily wiped out.

One trick you can also try, at least in a singleplayer world, is exiting the world and re-entering. That should reset all the spawns and give you more animals to find.

[ArthoPleura]

Didn't knew that one ^^

I don't think it will work with my modded creatures, but since i don't have anything for goats, i guess if i whipe them all by accident, i'll know how to make them come back swiftly now

[LadyWYT]

17 minutes ago, ArthoPleura said:

I don't think it will work with my modded creatures

Depends on the modded creatures. If it's Fauna of the Stone Age types, the same rules should apply, as I have used those mods and done that with success.

[ArthoPleura]

Well, my creatures mods are indeed the fauna of the stone age series, in addition to the bug net series from hieronimus, so thanks for the precision, i can't wait to have this stupid steppe lion to spawn again !