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Coming soon (hit the track button for nexus to notify you of upload) - Increased rare coat spawns + the diamonds/GO odds.

For those of you waiting on ACE, this is part of it and had to be done first. It took forever because values that worked before just didn't and each individual species requires trial and error. Truly awful experience.

Visual discrepancy note:

As of writing on 6/26 while springbok and bison show as '0' diamonds in population scanner / APC, if you actually look at their stats (or shoot the diamonds in game!!) you will see bison/springbok DO have diamonds. Mod authors are still updating their data after changes!

Compatibility:

Version that DOES increase rare coat odds: Compatible with Population Scanner but the rare coats will appear in game and not on population scanner. Probably not compatible with APC. Otherwise same as non-rare-coat version in all other compatibility regards.

Features:

-You don't have to work as hard to respawn a new diamond.

-650m Spawn/Despawn Distance, 500m for flying fowl like ducks. Note that this seems to be enabled on some maps and not others, this applies to all mods that edit spawn distance not just this one.

-Higher average number of diamonds in each species, roughly 10% of total population.

-Diamond count is carefully balanced per individual species so that flying fowl, rabbits, and hard to find predators can be found as a diamond without a gallon of coffee or 400 charted need zones.

-The bobwhite quail vanilla-game bug is fixed! For some reason, the base game doesn't spawn diamond quail males. At all. The wiki says it can spawn females at level 2 but that does not appear to be possible either. Sooo I fixed it. (If they fixed it in Emerald Coast, correct me, but they did so silently if so.)

-Increased odds of Great Ones spawning. However, you will have the BEST CHANCES by following the existing GO grind strategy. Please scroll down to the bottom of the page for Pure Winter's strategy guide!

Here is an example of getting a FRESH MAP (Te Awaroa) to spawn a red deer great one by killing literally any red deer I found in every difficulty. It took 56, which includes some females. Only two were diamond:

Note the other GO species are MUCH harder to get to spawn!

I may re-tweak this mod after I've had way more time to test different settings.

Installation:

You NEED to delete your population files and then launch the game! They are located in:

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

Delete all 'animal_population' files, and delete the 'slots' folder IF you have one. Completely safe! Will NOT affect your save, only your animal populations!

A text file is included in the download, covering all three COTW PC platforms, but it's like any other COTW mod, just put in dropzone and make sure you have the custom launch properties pasted.

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Great One Strategy Guide:

Confirmed by patch notes: Great Ones CANNOT currently