Originally posted by sarteck:

Originally posted by i have 2024 vision fear me:

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.

Yeah, luckily i had picked up my portal as i was planning on moving it further up before they had spawned. There was a large rock close by, and i went just behind it on higher ground to set up a quick small farm for flax and barley, i was maybe a workbench's range away from the original area when they spawned, and i only knew they spawned as i heard my boat getting destroyed. Originally i thought it was a fuling maybe as i could easily deal with that, 2 loxes i could not.

I have build the portal on top of the rock after i killed them, but considering the size of the plains biome i was at, which is probably the biggest i have been in, still am exploring it, their spawn location was right where i docked.