Bloodmoon hunt

[AndrewSav]

There are a lot of conflicting information about how blood moon spawns. It is very certain that there is a large random element. However the game save file has the following 4 values saved related to blood moon:

• CurrentChance
• LastTriggeredTime
• LastCheckTime
• ZoneLoadCount

Empirically, I'm observing the following:

• LastTriggeredTime has the PC date and time when you last loaded an area and BloodMoon spawned there. It may be used in the next random triggering algorithm, and it is certainly used to despawn the blood moon after certain time. The time it lasts is between 10 and 20 minutes.
• LastCheckTime periodically grows, but does not grow each time you enter an area
• Current chance is a number between 0 and 100. It increased in 5 increments. With time it is going up and up until the blood moon triggers and then it resets back to 10.

It is utterly unclear how exactly the algorithm work, but the rough idea is that as time goes the random chance of spawning the blood moon increases and the it spawns. and the chance is reset.

We can display these four parameters from save somewhere in UI so that the player can make more informed guesses of when the blood moon spawns next time, and may be even guess more concrete rules how this happens by observing the number.

As a side note, I tried to patch these numbers in save upping the CurrentChance to make it 100%, but I was not able to reliably trigger the blood moon, there is something else going on.

[razeedazee]

Is there any way to check for the wisps?

This was always a drama from the start but what was established is that if there were wisps flying around, you had the real bloodmoon and bloodmoon events would work.

If you had just the sky color but no wisps, in the areas like faithless thicket you had the fake bloodmoon.

I have no idea if they ever fixed this.

[AndrewSav]

Is there any way to check for the wisps?

Not that I'm aware of. Wisps seems to be always present in the save, bloodmoon or not, and the game just spawn them when there is a blood moon