PROGRESS HAS SLOWED TO A C R A W L

So the last major quest (I think?) before the hub wants you to track down 3 major opponents, one from each of the 3 biomes. I think you can either peacefully offer it nice things or kill it

But to offer it nice things requires a side quest, one for each and it is a pain. Then you get a recipe and need to craft the extremely specific item to offer the being. 3 recipes, 3 otherwise useless items

The hard part though, is finding the creatures

Hoooooooooly potatoes

On the one hand, because realms are generated through rng and there are more or less infinite combos and alterations you can do to them, no two realms are alike

But on the other hand, there's no way to know from a guide where the hell to find anything

There are some strats like "tends to chill near trees" or "IS a tree that looks a little off..."

But it seems to primarily be a lot of wandering and a lot of spyglass searching and a lot of

I would really prefer if they appeared on the map like fabled creatures do with a little icon that constantly wanders around. You can track them with a spell to make it easier

But I can see this being a massive bottle neck for more casual players

IN FACT

ONLY 6% OF STEAM PLAYERS HAVE REACHED THE HUB

SIX

I hope the hub can be more easily reachable in future updates or have some way for people just starting to gain access to it even though the whole point of the plot to start is about getting to this hub

The hub is meant to team up for end-game vaults or dungeons

So technically you don't need it until you have the gs to do vaults and you naturally won't have that until you get to the hub

I am excluding the hub's name because it's a spoiler LOL

But it would be nice to have sooooome alternative to community while you are working on the main quest to get to the hub

Anyway, I have managed to complete one of the 3 quests needed for the hub main quest but it was literally sheer accident

I wasn't looking for the thing because I didn't realize it was a creature I even needed to be looking for

And I was in a cavern, turned around and big scary is staring at me

So I attack

But since then, when trying to find the other 2 I have had no luck in my efforts