The X noticed you and ran away! (Island Sanctuary)

[Skivvy]

It's just RNG at play unfortunately. RNG stacked atop additional RNG.

Somehow an alligator evaded my capture attempt four times in a row and then on the fifth I caught him.

It's entirely cosmetic so I guess they just want some options to be rare even if that means locking them being artificial scarcity.

It's not entirely cosmetic. The normal version of an animal will give you their common item first with a chance of a rare item as well. The HQ variety will give you the rare item first with a chance of the common item. This is assuming your animals are happy and are going to give you a drop. I'm not certain if unhappy animals will *always* give you something.

But I agree with this thread entirely. The RNG on top of already needing to have an exact time, weather, or combination of both is a bit annoying. This was my goobbue attempt this morning. I've seen worse from other people as well:


For anyone who may not yet have it, https://www.lalachievements.com/islands/ will at least take the guess-work out of "Is this spawn up right now?". You can also filter it to show only the ones you want, so that's handy.