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The Wolves & Bears are not spawning like they should be, they've vanished!

Issue Key

DZG-377

State

Need more info

Access

Public

Group

DayZ

Project

Stable Feedback

Creator

brunnen_d

Created

Aug 19, 2026

Views

71

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Platform

PC Steam

What happened?

To be clear, I have a private LAN server and the wolves & bears have always spawned on my LAN server, but for some reason, they've suddenly stopped spawning.

I don't have any kind of typos, formatting errors, logic errors or syntax errors in any of my server files, such as my events.xml or types.xml and I have absolutely no weird mods on my server that would possible cause this issue.

In fact, all of my .xml files are perfectly balanced.

All of the other animal spawns on my server are spawning perfectly, just as they normally would on any official server. But the predator spawns, such as the wolf & bear spawns are totally non existent.

Thinking that this issue might be designated only to my LAN server, I decided to visit a few of my favorite community servers. The exact same problem appears to be happening on the community servers as well, and I would presume it is probably happening on the official servers.

Where did the wolves & bears disappear to?

Also, as I understood, there was supposed to be a hot-patch recently, to fix the TENT issue that we are having. Apparently it hasn't been fixed because the tents keep rubber-banding out of place when I try to place them.

I cannot possibly be the only one who has noticed this?

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Where did it happen?

Community

Is it modded?

No

Expected result

Activity

    8 days ago

  • brunnen_d
    created issue8 days ago
  • l909
    Moderator
    commented
    8 days ago

    Hello.
    If you revert the server to completely vanilla values and clear the server storage, do you still experience the issue?

  • l909
    changed state to
    NEED MORE INFO
    8 days ago
  • brunnen_dreplied to a comment
    8 days ago

    Yes, I've already done that, doesn't work. I've recently (as mentioned before) visited a few of my favorite community servers as well and have noticed the same thing.

    I suppose I could try one more time, perhaps do a full server wipe again, but I doubt this will fix it as I've already done that.

    But I do thank you very much for answering!

  • l909
    Moderator
    commented
    8 days ago

    can you also check on one of the official servers and provide the coordinates where they are supposed to spawn and do not?

  • This comment has been removed.
    8 days ago
  • brunnen_dreplied to a comment
    8 days ago

    Easily done, I can give you the names of the areas such as Tisy. Tisy is like Wolf-Central. Any time I've gone to Tisy I see wolves. But now they appear to be absent.

    I went into a community server and went to Tisy on the Chernarus map for a full 35 minutes, no wolves. That is very unusual, as I've played DayZ for over 4 years. Any time I go to Tisy, at least 90% of the time I see wolves, but not recently.

    I would log into an official server and go to Tisy, but that would take me too long to do and I could always get killed before I get any chance of going there.

    Every time I go to Zelenogorsk, I at least hear wolves howling in the distance, but recently there has been nothing.

    Another wolf hot spot is Kozlovka, just southeast from Zelenogorsk. About 50% of the time wolves spawn there. I camped out there just recently and saw no wolves.

    On my LAN server, I have been teleporting like crazy here and there all over the northern area of the Chernarus map and have seen nothing.

    Here is a link to the interactive map if you want to see the wolf spawns: https://dayz.xam.nu/#6146.25;5600.63;4

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Issue Key

DZG-377

State

Need more info

Access

Public

Group

DayZ

Project

Stable Feedback

Creator

brunnen_d

Created

Aug 19, 2026

Views

71

Attachments

No attachments