Obstacle spawn rate as a function of available space

The max u can have is 40 obstacles

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Originally Posted by KingColin

The max u can have is 40 obstacles

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Water is wet.

You, air, are stating the obvious and did not read a word of my OP.

The wiki lacks detailed info about this because unless SC comes out and gives exact detail, we simply don't know. I strongly suspect the space theory is correct tho.

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Originally Posted by KingColin

The max u can have is 40 obstacles

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You obviously didn't read the entire OP

The more space your base takes up, the less room things have to spawn, and the less that will spawn. I believe it tries to spawn one every eight hours, but if the space it's trying to occupy is taken up, it resets.

I've gone several days without getting spawns before, but my base has always been very well spread out, so I've had very little room for decorations to spawn. Right now, I'd say I get one every 32 hours on average.

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Originally Posted by dahimi

The wiki lacks detailed info about this because unless SC comes out and gives exact detail, we simply don't know. I strongly suspect the space theory is correct tho.

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Originally Posted by chrisnastybro

The more space your base takes up, the less room things have to spawn, and the less that will spawn. I believe it tries to spawn one every eight hours, but if the space it's trying to occupy is taken up, it resets.

I've gone several days without getting spawns before, but my base has always been very well spread out, so I've had very little room for decorations to spawn. Right now, I'd say I get one every 32 hours on average.

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I'll go on with my forced botany and try to make some sense out of it, but for now I'm obliged to believe the space theory, based on my own experience and several peoples' comments. Thanks for weighing in, keep an eye on your vegetation :D

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Originally Posted by Rastis

Now, I like my Clash garden to be aestethically pleasing, which for me means a nice forest of small (spruce type) trees around the perimeter of my base, at the very outskirts of the map square.

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I was trying to do the exact same thing. Two of my corners have decorations and flags, and two of my corners have open space (larger than 9x9).

I accumulated close to 20 spruce outside the perimeter of my base (outside the useable area), and the spawning rate slows to a crawl. I may get one a day or one in a couple of days, despite the fact that I have open space in two corners and perimeter is far from full.

Then one day, I decided to get rid of them... and now the spawning is back to normal.

I used to cover every square of the map, and obviously no trees etc spawned. Not good for getting gems. So I opened up just a few squares in each corner; after that, I got a few, but I'm pretty sure it was much less than 3 per day (on average, it varied a lot IIRC).

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Originally Posted by OJM

Yes, the spawn rate depends on available space. I made my base a while back so only a single small area was only free. Three days and nothing spawned there (or anywhere else for that matter). So I got the feeling, that the system is made so that if the spawned obstacle cannot appear, instead of randomizing a new spot, it just resets the timer and tries again after a while.

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This is exactly what happened to me. I used to have a base where I used walls spaced a few tiles apart to make it so that people couldn't spawn anywhere unless from the outer borders. But I left a small area (wide enough for several buildings) to the side for obstacle spawns. Nothing ever spawned on my base and I had to change my design.

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Originally Posted by dahimi

The wiki lacks detailed info about this because unless SC comes out and gives exact detail, we simply don't know. I strongly suspect the space theory is correct tho.

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The wiki won't know anything about this until SC admits to time lag and that it's a problem as well as stuff like this. I'm also suspecting that it is the theory of the space available