PW's Epic Population Files with Fallow Great One

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Features:

• []-Fallow, Black Bear, and Moose Great Ones have each of their possible colors somewhere on one of the maps with NO duplicates. There is only one of each!

  []-In the case where there were not enough maps for there to be only one color per map, two great ones of the same species were added to the 'largest' feeling maps or those with a higher population. I. E. Hirschfelden has a wider area of fallow to spawn in than Te Awaroa. 

  []-While there are a portion (around 6-10 if not flying fowl/rabbits) diamonds for each species on all maps, there are a FEW max diamonds often with a rare coat color. It would take finding them across the maps to get a max in most colors, which is unlikely unless you're specifically targeting them with the technique pinned in the comments section to find any need zone.

  []-There is at least one max great one in every species, and maybe even a minimum great one somewhere. Guess you'll see!

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You know what would be the greatest thing ever? If your best friend could like..just make a map for you and surprise you with it so you could have fun playing it. Break the rules, add anything you want.

Well I'm not your best friend, but I did make some truly fun and surprising map populations to hunt down. And if nothing has changed, they work on multiplayer! So you can host, and shock your real friends. :) You can also delete these population files any time without affecting your save at all, the game will just generate new ones.

This is NOT a "diamond party" or even a "rare fur party". I naturally spawned the maps using my Epic Spawns mod (so all species have 3-9ish diamonds average), then did a little tweaking to add some truly crown jewels for your trophy lodge among the kings, an emperor to be had.

Each species on a map, has a 'boss' among them. Sometimes more than one if they come in many colors.

Flying fowl have a bit of a bump with more color variety in males so your odds of encountering one go up. But to find a max diamond with any sort of rare coat is very special and still rather unlikely, although now possible! Rare colors were scattered into a lot of other non-avian species, but not a bucket.

Despite the guarantee of trophies in every species on every map, it's still a hunt. I had a harder time than I would have expected despite the count, just looking for neat diamonds to use as screenshots. LOL

And lastly, a technical disclaimer: It is possible for whitetail/red deer GO's to spawn in another color, I've seen pictures. I'm not able to spawn them outside of their 'normal' colors. However ALL the colors for the other great ones are included!

Installation

Put these in your COTW save folder and overwrite if asked.

If no longer desired, simply delete them, launch the game, and it will gen new population files.

The location of the save folder is:

Documents\Avalanche Studios\COTW\Saves\long-string-of-numbers-here

For example mine is:

C:\Users\Phoenix\Documents\Avalanche Studios\COTW\Saves\76561198236005778

Compatibility

Works with all mods, APC, and Population Scanner. Have at it fam!