Originally posted by i have 2024 vision fear me:

Originally posted by sarteck:

Lox herds (and most enemy groups in general) tend to spawn in the same spots. If you had to clear out a spot before, it's likely they will respawn without some kind of prevention (player base items like workbenches or campfires). In other words, if you had to clear out the coast, plan on re-clearing it, so it's probably best to not park near where something has previously spawned.

That's the thing, there is no indication or way of knowing they are going to spawn there. Lox spawn after everything else for a reason i'm unaware of. And quite frankly, every time i land on a coast to set up a portal, loxes always seem to spawn nearby. Maybe i'm just good at unintentionally predicting where they spawn, but it is something that is genuinely frustrating.

I have noticed that Lox do tend to "surprise spawn," or it at least seems that way. If they do so, that's when it's best to move your boat, heh.

What one of my friends and I tend to do is look for one of those large boulders as close to shoreline as we can, and set our portal up on top of it, along with a few chests. We more or less beach our boat, in case it does get destroyed (so we can be sure to grab the nails). We put all the black metal in the chests and carry everything else through the portal, and rinse/repeat while we're raiding the area. When all is said and done, we rebuild our boat if we have to, load it with all our Black metal, and continue sailing until we find another continent (or another spot on the same continent).

Honestly, the boat has only been destroyed once or twice using that method. If it's stuck, we just have to push it out, and repair it if needs be. Both times it was actually fulings that destroyed the boat; even the nearby lox didn't bother to come after it, due to their low aggro range.