Question about sea serpents

I'm in the early-ish game (Black Forest biome) and decided to use my Karve to map the coastline of the starting island, because it's massive. So far I've been at it for 6 game-days, and have about 2/3 done.

My question is, could I end up running into sea serpents even this close to the very starting island, if I venture into the Ocean biome while doing this?
So far I've mostly stuck close to the coast (so not in Ocean biome), but passing an area of the Swamp I ventured farther out when I saw a ton of these black slug-like things and some green oozing blob things swimming out to get me.

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Jaggid Edje replied to Question about sea serpents February 6, 2023 @ 5:31:10 am PST

Originally posted by knighttemplar1960:
Originally posted by Servant of Seraph:
They DO NOT spawn near the starting island. Theres a video on YT that goes into detail about this and shows the perimeter at which they start spawning. Research it 😎😇
Actually they can. The OP had a huge start island 2/3rds the way around it in 6 days of sailing. If you are more than 500 meters from the starting stones and you enter ocean or sail at night near the shore a sea serpent can spawn.

Yep! I was going to reply to him saying the same thing...because I ended up running into a serpent just yesterday, right outside the river inlet to my base (on that Starting island).
I was sailing against the wind to go check out the island right next door when I saw it chasing me down, but fortunately I was able to turn around and get the wind to my back to get away.

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Originally posted by Servant of Seraph:
They DO NOT spawn near the starting island. Theres a video on YT that goes into detail about this and shows the perimeter at which they start spawning. Research it 😎😇

I had one spawn in a literal lake so close to spawn it was visible from the shoreline inside the meadows ring that exists around spawn. There was like a patch of ocean in the middle and it spawned in it.

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rexpiscator replied to Question about sea serpents February 6, 2023 @ 6:33:48 am PST

I had a large lake like body of water in the middle of my starting island[large enough to be labeled 'Ocean'], as they say at sea, 'There be monsters'...wrecked me but good yards from shore, was almost there...

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Servant of Seraph replied to Question about sea serpents February 5, 2023 @ 11:02:16 pm PST

They DO NOT spawn near the starting island. Theres a video on YT that goes into detail about this and shows the perimeter at which they start spawning. Research it 😎😇

9:13 am, February 6, 2023

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Originally posted by Servant of Seraph:
They DO NOT spawn near the starting island. Theres a video on YT that goes into detail about this and shows the perimeter at which they start spawning. Research it 😎😇

Actually they can. The OP had a huge start island 2/3rds the way around it in 6 days of sailing. If you are more than 500 meters from the starting stones and you enter ocean or sail at night near the shore a sea serpent can spawn.

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Originally posted by knighttemplar1960:
Originally posted by Servant of Seraph:
They DO NOT spawn near the starting island. Theres a video on YT that goes into detail about this and shows the perimeter at which they start spawning. Research it 😎😇
Actually they can. The OP had a huge start island 2/3rds the way around it in 6 days of sailing. If you are more than 500 meters from the starting stones and you enter ocean or sail at night near the shore a sea serpent can spawn.

Interesting 🤔🤔🤔

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Faceplant8 replied to Question about sea serpents February 6, 2023 @ 12:09:10 am PST

In my first world, spawn was very close to the beach, and Elkthyr was just across a small body of water (you could easily see to the other side, but swimming was not really an option). The first sea serpent I saw was in that water, so they can/could be close to spawn.

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loppantorkel replied to Question about sea serpents February 4, 2023 @ 11:08:57 am PST

I think you can, but if you do, you should be able to get into shore before a sea serpent destroys your Karve. Best thing to do is to sail by day and have a reasonable exit plan - someplace reasonably close and safe to steer your boat toward, if you get surprised by a serpent.

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Hunter451 replied to Question about sea serpents February 4, 2023 @ 11:13:37 am PST

If the wind is at your back and you are at full sail you can outrun them.

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Originally posted by loppantorkel:
Best thing to do is to sail by day and have a reasonable exit plan - someplace reasonably close and safe to steer your boat toward, if you get surprised by a serpent.

Cool. Thank you!
That's how I've been doing things already, but I had no idea if it actually made a difference or not; I was just doing what made sense to me without any game knowledge. LOL

It has been kind of fun watching the shore line for a ruined structure of some kind each time the sun was approaching setting, so that I could make a quick camp to rest the night with just minimal additional construction.

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