why Dave doesn't spawn on render distance less than 384 blocks?

[Kocheryzh-ka]

My PC isnt of powerful variety so I play on fairly low render distance of 256 blocks. And I already survived a lot of temporal storms in different worlds and didn't see Dave at first I thought he spawns at random but more storms I got less sure I was. So I started to experiment and turns out he doesn't spawn on render distance less than 384 blocks which is very unfortunate for me.

Is there a way maybe to see big dude on lesser render distances? Couldn't find any mods or settings or commands in that regard

Edited Saturday at 11:54 AM by Kocheryzh-ka

[LadyWYT]

Welcome to the forums! I'm guessing the reason why Dave doesn't spawn at renders less than 384 is that Dave is very big, so moving him closer would probably break immersion. He'd need a more detailed model, which also doesn't really help in the performance department.

3 hours ago, Kocheryzh-ka said:

Is there a way maybe to see big dude on lesser render distances? Couldn't find any mods or settings or commands in that regard

I'm guessing Dave's render distance might be hard-coded into the game, so you would probably need to write a mod for it. To my knowledge, no one's made a mod like this, at least not yet.