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Ancient Grove

Rare night world event that spawns ancient trees and many more predators.

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What turns up at Ancient Grove.

PageSource
Cypress Found hereDev build Video: The Legend of California Dev Livestream (August) at 1:36:54 (opens in a new tab)
Joshua Wood Found hereDev build Video: The Legend of California Dev Livestream (July) at 1:45:13 (opens in a new tab)

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Patch history

3 versions

Every fact about Ancient Grove by game version, newest first.

VersionWhat we know
Dev build
  • World event with a big blue map area where legendary trees are common but many predators spawn.
  • PvE event that greatly increases predator spawns (bears, mountain lions, jaguars, wolves, dire wolves) near ancient trees.
  • Solo play is hard; you can burn through two Tier 2 axes in one event.
  • Bears now take cover behind trees, a new behavior.
  • A legendary overgrowth of Cypress trees can appear in the world. Unconfirmed
  • Night event that spawns many ancient trees, including ancient Joshua trees, and many more dangerous animals.
  • Brings mountain lions, jaguars, bears, wolves and dire wolves, which are far more likely to appear.
  • Chopping its trees makes noise that attracts nearby animals.
  • Orange map marker; makes more trees ancient and spawns more bears, jaguars and wolves.
Alpha 4
  • During Ancient Grove, predators like wolves, bears, jaguars, mountain lions and bobcats are much more common.
March alpha
  • A World Event meant to be on the rarer side.

Sources

6

Official posts, videos and game data this page is built from.

SourceDateUsed
Alpha Weekend Livestream - Jeff & Tim Play on Dread Rock (PvP server) (opens in a new tab) VideoSep 20, 20261
The Legend of California Dev Livestream (August) (opens in a new tab) VideoAug 15, 20264
The Legend of California Dev Livestream (July) (opens in a new tab) VideoJul 18, 20265
The Legend of California Dev Livestream (June) (opens in a new tab) VideoJun 6, 20261
Dev Update: Alpha Recap (opens in a new tab) Steam postApr 10, 20262
Jeff Kaplan + Tim Ford Play 10 MORE HOURS of The Legend of California (opens in a new tab) VideoMar 22, 20261

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