Please make Message in a Bottle show up on the map

[Dingle]

They're increasingly precious, especially as a Wortox player that also wants bottles for Crabby Hermit. I hate having to keep my zoom out into the clouds so I feel like I'm not missing any.

I was also talking to a Wortox player that was having a lot easier time with bottles than I was. Then he told me it was because he uses a mod that zooms out the camera. Maybe have coast bottles spawn closer to the shore, so that players without a zoom out mod aren't at a disadvantage unless they use a mod?

[mima_]

i would love if they add this kind of attachment to boat 
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2381581155
its cute and works wonder for exploration too it would better if the bird also show which way where those bottle are 

[Dingle]

3 minutes ago, mima_ said:

i would love if they add this kind of attachment to boat 
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2381581155
its cute and works wonder for exploration too it would better if the bird also show which way where those bottle are 

I've seen this one before. I think I had mod conflicts with it though!

Also I was hoping for an earlier game solution. Right now the optimal way to play is really tedious: hugging the coast, constantly zooming out to the clouds, and having your eyes peeled.

[mima_]

5 minutes ago, Dingle said:

Also I was hoping for an earlier game solution.

yeah all u can do now basically just base near water XD and hoping it will spawn when u hang around base 

5 minutes ago, Dingle said:

I think I had mod conflicts with it though!

yeah its kinda have issue with lagging. but if klei can have it works on base game it would be sooo greatt

 

[Well-met]

putting a map icon on things that randomly spawn and despawn is a stupid idea.

Hunting them down is their entire purpose and thrill.

comparing yourself with others is the fastest to spoil your game experience, I recommend to try to avoid that. The overwhelming majority of dst players use cheating tools disguised as mods, but that doesn't mean everyone has to.

[Dingle]

17 minutes ago, mima_ said:

yeah all u can do now basically just base near water XD and hoping it will spawn when u hang around base 

yeah its kinda have issue with lagging. but if klei can have it works on base game it would be sooo greatt

 

Does that work if you base near a "river"? Or does it work way better near open ocean?

4 minutes ago, Well-met said:

putting a map icon on things that randomly spawn and despawn is a stupid idea.

Hunting them down is their entire purpose and thrill.

I am not thrilled by the message in a bottle spawn mechanics. Even before this beta I really hated how RNG they seem due to often spawning just out of view. I'd settle for them spawning closer to shore when they spawn "near the coast". Or maybe even just a temporary icon and arrow, like when you're near another player, but for message bottles.

[Well-met]

Use Polly to grab river items

[Dingle]

Just now, Well-met said:

Use Polly to grab river items

I was asking if basing near a river makes bottles less likely to spawn than a bigger ocean, in regards to their spawning mechanic.

[mima_]

Just now, Dingle said:

Does that work if you base near a "river"? Or does it work way better near open ocean?

i found basing near open ocean is way better than river.

i got bottle every once a while and if u have multiple people at base they can trigger bottle spawning so u can have multiple every once a while 

this is from wiki 

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A Message in a Bottle is also found in Don't Starve Together, introduced in Return of Them. They are found naturally in the Coastal Ocean, and can also spawn every 1 to 2 days 40m from the players in the Ocean. The spawning bottle will need 5m of clear space in the Ocean, and must be at least 35m from any flotsam. The spawning attempt will happen even if the player is on land, but the attempt will fail and retry every 60 seconds.

 

[Dingle]

5 minutes ago, mima_ said:

i found basing near open ocean is way better than river.

i got bottle every once a while and if u have multiple people at base they can trigger bottle spawning so u can have multiple every once a while 

this is from wiki 

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A Message in a Bottle is also found in Don't Starve Together, introduced in Return of Them. They are found naturally in the Coastal Ocean, and can also spawn every 1 to 2 days 40m from the players in the Ocean. The spawning bottle will need 5m of clear space in the Ocean, and must be at least 35m from any flotsam. The spawning attempt will happen even if the player is on land, but the attempt will fail and retry every 60 seconds.

 

Thanks, this is helpful. Seems like what's happening is that they spawn outside of my vision, and then I pass them by, constantly. Not sure what I can do about this, if anything.

[mima_]

5 minutes ago, Dingle said:

Thanks, this is helpful. Seems like what's happening is that they spawn outside of my vision, and then I pass them by, constantly. Not sure what I can do about this, if anything.

this is my lunar base. i spend alot of times in the kitchen area down there and most of time the bottle spawning not far from where my beefalo are rightnow.
maybe because its not too far nor too close to body of water .. the bottle never really spawn way too far from the edge of the island... 

[Dingle]

2 minutes ago, mima_ said:

this is my lunar base. i spend alot of times in the kitchen area down there and most of time the bottle spawning not far from where my beefalo are rightnow.
maybe because its not too far nor too close to body of water .. the bottle never really spawn way too far from the edge of the island... 

That's fun, there's so much water that I see why so many bottles would spawn.