Sea serpents movement bit annoying
Sea Serpents are starting to annoy me. I am starting to hunt and kill them. I lure to shore line. Then get annoyed when I have run from one side to another. I am landing hits. the other side it goes to were there is nothing at. I cannot melee the head but hit the body.
I was doing iron run by ship, encountered 2 sea serpents with no food buffs, go back and can find only 1. The second one has strange spawning. During the day it is gone and night it is there half the time. At times I see it while other times try to hunt it but cannot find it even at night. I seen it rainy and clam nights but waited almost all night but never found it.
Can someone explain this one. Night time, had one spawn. Went to shore, fighting annoying grey dwarves...mid fight with serpent, pulled a troll to me. Iron mace did little damage so I died. As I died, serpent did it scream to the troll. When I got back to my marker. Knife the troll to death (few staggers). After that fight. I searched the water but could not find the serpent loot. Did the troll kill it or did it despawn?
I was doing iron run by ship, encountered 2 sea serpents with no food buffs, go back and can find only 1. The second one has strange spawning. During the day it is gone and night it is there half the time. At times I see it while other times try to hunt it but cannot find it even at night. I seen it rainy and clam nights but waited almost all night but never found it.
Can someone explain this one. Night time, had one spawn. Went to shore, fighting annoying grey dwarves...mid fight with serpent, pulled a troll to me. Iron mace did little damage so I died. As I died, serpent did it scream to the troll. When I got back to my marker. Knife the troll to death (few staggers). After that fight. I searched the water but could not find the serpent loot. Did the troll kill it or did it despawn?
9:13 pm, January 27, 2022
SilverSpeedy replied to Sea serpents movement bit annoying January 28, 2022 @ 1:40:44 pm PST
I wonder if you have ores or bars on your ship, if that increase the spawns too. By value or weight in the ship. I carry enough stuff for work bench, portal, and now stone cutter in my long boat. That is how I found 2 them at the same time. One was already spawned while second spawned up. I was hauling around 100 iron ore on a long boat full sail. Was not going to fight them. It was strange seeing 2 of them chasing me.
12:13 am, January 29, 2022
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PakaNoHida replied to Sea serpents movement bit annoying January 28, 2022 @ 12:24:10 pm PST
another example
**wolf may appear only at night, you cant find **durning a day.
I am not sure about this one.
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zverozvero replied to Sea serpents movement bit annoying January 28, 2022 @ 8:31:28 am PST
If wiki is accurate half serpents spawn outside of their aggro range and quite a few - outside of players view so every time you swim in rainy day you have better chance to leave one behind than get attacked. Saw such leftovers returning from mining trips with cargo.
6:13 pm, January 28, 2022
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lubieushy replied to Sea serpents movement bit annoying January 28, 2022 @ 6:58:51 am PST
Hmm. I have found a lot of serpents on a sunny day in completely still waters. If what you say is true, those are the ones that appeared in storms and stayed at the location for days until i come their way again.
You or your friend probably sailed there before during the storm and he was spawned, All mobs that spawned during the night disappear during the day if you go outside their drawing distance.
but if he was spawned in storm he dont despawn. Serpent may appear at the drawing boundary, you may not even be aware that he has appeared.
another example
**wolf may appear only at night, you cant find **durning a day.
3:13 pm, January 28, 2022
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Veseljko replied to Sea serpents movement bit annoying January 27, 2022 @ 11:08:43 pm PST
Hmm. I have found a lot of serpents on a sunny day in completely still waters. If what you say is true, those are the ones that appeared in storms and stayed at the location for days until i come their way again.
9:13 am, January 28, 2022
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TyresTyco replied to Sea serpents movement bit annoying January 27, 2022 @ 11:49:14 pm PST
Hmm. I have found a lot of serpents on a sunny day in completely still waters. If what you say is true, those are the ones that appeared in storms and stayed at the location for days until i come their way again.
The way this game works. It's totally possible that it is the case.
9:13 am, January 28, 2022
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lubieushy replied to Sea serpents movement bit annoying January 27, 2022 @ 5:14:47 pm PST
Serpents you find during the night or during the storm will despawn. The ones you find on a sunny day (this is rare) will not despawn.You can't find them in the daytime except during a storm. Only those found during the storm will not disappear. Those found at night will disappear during the day, unless there was a storm at night, but then you are unable to say whether it is born of the night or of the storm so you'd better kill him. The one you found during the day was the one who appeared in the storm. 5% chance for night spawn 5% for storm spawn if both 10%.
3:13 am, January 28, 2022
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PakaNoHida replied to Sea serpents movement bit annoying January 27, 2022 @ 1:20:16 pm PST
I stopped doing the kill it on land. I use a karve, and a bow, no more. My largest problem is getting back to the boat. ;)
12:13 am, January 28, 2022
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SilverSpeedy replied to Sea serpents movement bit annoying January 27, 2022 @ 1:35:54 pm PST
Abomination will win the fight. Saw it go against a troll with 75% hp, totally owned it while abomination was down to 50's % hp. Off topic...I watch a lox tear through a troll in seconds. Snipe a troll over lox head then sit back and watch the show...Serpents are bit harder since you have to drag them to shore and usually pull land monsters to you from the fighting.
The worst part is the serpents spawning far from land. Would be nice if part of body and head hang over the ship, so when you kill it, you get the loot and lost it all.
The worst part is the serpents spawning far from land. Would be nice if part of body and head hang over the ship, so when you kill it, you get the loot and lost it all.
12:13 am, January 28, 2022
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zverozvero replied to Sea serpents movement bit annoying January 27, 2022 @ 10:43:24 am PST
Sounds like despawn. Mobs that appear at night will vanish without a trace in the morning if you are 20 or so meters away.
For example - wolfs with stars will appear only at night. If you get one caged and feed it to tame you better sit right next to it stealthly for next 5 days till it tames or it'll puff into thin air. Then another 2 till it make a pup that wont count as night spawn.
For example - wolfs with stars will appear only at night. If you get one caged and feed it to tame you better sit right next to it stealthly for next 5 days till it tames or it'll puff into thin air. Then another 2 till it make a pup that wont count as night spawn.
9:13 pm, January 27, 2022
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Mharr replied to Sea serpents movement bit annoying January 27, 2022 @ 11:12:22 am PST
Serpents in general don't stick around AFAIK. If you find one in the same region on a different night that's just coincidence.
9:13 pm, January 27, 2022
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TyresTyco replied to Sea serpents movement bit annoying January 27, 2022 @ 11:26:19 am PST
Sea Serpents are the number one insulting things in the game. All the effort .. finding one with a hidden time limit unless you hunt them in a storm. Dragging it with the far to hard to use harpoon to shallow waters only because 2/3 of the drops it has sink instantly. Playing head or tail what happens sooner.. you arriving at a beach or your longboat breaking.
Really not worth the hassle. Even if the serpents are cool. Everything attached to the cool concept is just headache inducting. Might be nice on a 10 player server where 5 people help you dragging it while one dude focuses on sailing the boat. But solo or even duo.. it's beyond meh.
Really not worth the hassle. Even if the serpents are cool. Everything attached to the cool concept is just headache inducting. Might be nice on a 10 player server where 5 people help you dragging it while one dude focuses on sailing the boat. But solo or even duo.. it's beyond meh.
9:13 pm, January 27, 2022
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Veseljko replied to Sea serpents movement bit annoying January 27, 2022 @ 11:36:02 am PST
Serpents you find during the night or during the storm will despawn. The ones you find on a sunny day (this is rare) will not despawn.
Also, if you somehow manage to cage them, they will not despawn no matter when or where you found them. A friend and I have caged 3 of them, one found in a sunny day, one in a storm and one at night. We call all of them Steve and we feed them with boars for no particular reason :)
I guess workbenches around our custom made pool prevent them from despawning.
A tip for solo catching and killing a serpent on the land. Dig a hole and drag it in. It will keep him there while your stamina regenerates. Or use tamed wolves to do the dirty work for you. Set them to wait on shore and drag a serpent to them.
Also, if you somehow manage to cage them, they will not despawn no matter when or where you found them. A friend and I have caged 3 of them, one found in a sunny day, one in a storm and one at night. We call all of them Steve and we feed them with boars for no particular reason :)
I guess workbenches around our custom made pool prevent them from despawning.
A tip for solo catching and killing a serpent on the land. Dig a hole and drag it in. It will keep him there while your stamina regenerates. Or use tamed wolves to do the dirty work for you. Set them to wait on shore and drag a serpent to them.
9:13 pm, January 27, 2022
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Mharr replied to Sea serpents movement bit annoying January 27, 2022 @ 11:37:25 am PST
It's a weird setup. Harpoons were introduced as a mechanism for serpent hunting, but the harpoons were absurdly strong to make that possible which launched the Youtube Viking Space Program (which was great fun and did the game absolutely no harm at all) so the harpoons were toned down to realistic physics settings and now they're near-useless at the mythical beast hunting role they were introduced for.
Should just make serpents super crazy aggressive so if you shoot them one time they'll follow you onto land and try to drag you out to sea. Also now I wanna see a troll / serpent / abomination wrestlemania rumble.
Should just make serpents super crazy aggressive so if you shoot them one time they'll follow you onto land and try to drag you out to sea. Also now I wanna see a troll / serpent / abomination wrestlemania rumble.
9:13 pm, January 27, 2022
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zverozvero replied to Sea serpents movement bit annoying January 27, 2022 @ 11:59:35 am PST
Yep. If damaging them refreshed aggro timer and in general held it longer it would be more adequate than 'baiting' it with standing boat. Even that it can fail to attack for half minute straight and just swims away.
9:13 pm, January 27, 2022
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