Trader help

[Cattastrafy]

Heya homies, could use some help.

....can't find treasure hunter trader. Prob up to 12 or so traders and not one or the luxury trader either.

So I'd love EVERY TIP to finding any and all traders in an attempt to find em easier. Like every single stupid small and large thing you know of you make my life easier.

What I (kinda?) know already -confirmation appreciated though:

They kinda seem to spawn along the same line going from east to west, where the north and south coord stay roughly the same. Spread apart by 600 to 1000 meters usually. After looking for awhile I might find 3 or so traders along this line but then run dry after, unless I'm just blind. Does this continue indefinitely?

They don't seem to spawn in super mountainous areas with spiky terrain, and large watered areas. Forests are no problem which makes it hard to find if it's in there unless by somewhat random chance.

Looking at night...is best? Cause they glow from a good distance and look obvious. Would love to know if there's a range on when the glow shows up or disappears. Be cool to know if I could see the glow from literal miles or not (probably a limit).

Using translocators can be useful to search more unique area, have no had much luck here though. Lots of chilly terrain where my trannies take me

Thanks for any info, I'll take it all! Or if the treasure hunter is unique in any way that's really the only guy I REALLY care about at the end of the day finding, so if he's different or overall just more rare as intended I'd love to know.

[idiomcritter]

4 hours ago, Cattastrafy said:

They kinda seem to spawn along the same line going from east to west, where the north and south coord stay roughly the same. Spread apart by 600 to 1000 meters usually. After looking for awhile I might find 3 or so traders along this line but then run dry after, unless I'm just blind. Does this continue indefinitely?

the traders also seem to occur diagonally, when looking at the map, a diagonal pattern will appear (north south) separated roughly by 500 blocks +/-

[Cattastrafy]

The ol, "bitch and ye shall receive" in video games happened, I found him! Still want to compile all info I can on the subject!

[Zane Mordien]

The treasure hunter trader can be annoying. On my first playthrough the nearest one I could find was 2k to the south. I always find 10 building material or furniture traders which are pretty darn worthless. I don't even differentiate between them on the map when I'm marking them. Poop brown I colour them and I never look back. At least on my current map I got decently lucky and I have found 4-5 art traders. Gives me a place to sell all the gems I get from panning bony soil.