Roots of Pacha – How to Find Epics and Legendary Animals

A straightforward description of the requirements to find Epic and Legendary animals!

Guide to Find Epics and Legendary Animals

All credit goes to Rika!

To find Epics and Legendaries, there are two sets of conditions that must be met. One depends entirely on the player, the other on the game, but none on RNG nor herd size!

The information contained here was extracted directly from the game’s code.

Player Conditions

These are conditions that depend on the player:

For Epics

• Have tamed at least 4 different variants of the animal
• Have tamed at least 8 animals of that kind, regardless of variants

For Legendary

• Have tamed at least 6 different variants of the animal
• Have tamed at least 12 animals of that kind, regardless of variants

The total amount of animals tamed, it can be seen in the Animal section of the Discoveries tab.

In either case, you don’t need them all to be living with you! When you tame a new variant the game writes it down and doesn’t write it off if you release the animal, and that is what the algorithm checks for.

Careful: The animals show up on your discoveries tab if you have interacted with them by playing the flute at least once, but that is not the same as having tamed them! You need to actually have invited the variants at least once to your farm.

In the end, it is easier to tell if you have tamed each variant if they are on your farm and you probably need them anyways.

Up to you!

Game Conditions

If you meet all the player conditions, then you need to wait for the specific days, seasons, weather and years that they appear in. Legendary animals only spawn on the second year or later, for example. They spawn for a day only and will disappear the next day if you haven’t started attuning.

These conditions are set, and should not change unless the devs themselves change this in an update (let’s hope not!).

You don’t need to mass tame and release animals to “make room” in the herd! Special animals have a spot guaranteed in the herd if their conditions are met, so you can let sleeping Guanacos lie!

Extra info: The Golden Ostrich has a spawn date that is the same as one of the Festivals (4th of Fall), and because both happen in the same area, you can’t actually tame them on that day. (You can on the next day with my mod though!) I haven’t tested this with all the animals because that would require way more time than I actually have, but I imagine this could happen for others as well.

These conditions are as follows:

Bison

Golden Bison: Epic

Conditions:

• Days: 3, 17
• Seasons: Summer, Winter
• Weather: Any
• Years: Any

Chicle Bison: Epic

Conditions:

• Days: 10, 24
• Seasons: Spring, Fall
• Weather: Any
• Years: Any

Sky Cloud Bison: Legendary

Conditions:

• Days: 22
• Seasons: Summer, Winter
• Weather: Any
• Years: Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6 Or Later

Junglefowl

Golden Junglefowl: Epic

Conditions:

• Days: 6, 20
• Seasons: Spring, Fall
• Weather: Any
• Years: Any

Amethyst Junglefowl: Epic

Conditions:

• Days: 13, 27
• Seasons: Summer, Winter
• Weather: Any
• Years: Any

Grand Turquoise Junglefowl: Legendary

Conditions:

• Days: 10
• Seasons: Spring, Fall
• Weather: Any
• Years: Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6 Or Later

Ostrich

Golden Ostrich: Epic

Conditions:

• Days: 4, 18
• Seasons: Spring, Fall
• Weather: Any
• Years: Any

Sapphire Ostrich: Epic

Conditions:

• Days: 11, 25
• Seasons: Summer, Winter
• Weather: Any
• Years: Any

Rainbow Ostrich: Legendary

Conditions:

• Days: 14
• Seasons: Summer, Winter
• Weather: Any
• Years: Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6 Or Later

Ibex

Golden Ibex: Epic

Conditions:

• Days: 2, 16
• Seasons: Spring, Fall
• Weather: Any
• Years: Any

Shallow Waters Ibex: Epic

Conditions:

• Days: 9, 23
• Seasons: Summer, Winter
• Weather: Any
• Years: Any

Spider Ibex: Legendary

Conditions:

• Days: 26
• Seasons: Spring, Fall
• Weather: Any
• Years: Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6 Or Later

Wild Boar

Golden Boar: Epic

Conditions:

• Days: 1, 15
• Seasons: Summer, Winter
• Weather: Any
• Years: Any

Fiber Boar: Epic

Conditions:

• Days: 8, 22
• Seasons: Spring, Fall
• Weather: Any
• Years: Any

Fire Boar: Legendary

Conditions:

• Days: 6
• Seasons: Summer, Winter
• Weather: Any
• Years: Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6 Or Later

Steppe Horse

Golden Steppe Horse: Epic

Conditions:

• Days: 7, 21
• Seasons: Summer, Winter
• Weather: Any
• Years: Any

Cloudy Day Steppe Horse: Epic

Conditions:

• Days: 14, 28
• Seasons: Spring, Fall
• Weather: Any
• Years: Any

Starry Night Steppe Horse: Legendary

Conditions:

• Days: 18
• Seasons: Spring, Fall
• Weather: Any
• Years: Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6 Or Later

Guanaco

Golden Guanaco: Epic

Conditions:

• Days: 5, 19
• Seasons: Summer, Winter
• Weather: Any
• Years: Any

Fiery Guanaco: Epic

Conditions:

• Days: 12, 26
• Seasons: Spring, Fall
• Weather: Any
• Years: Any

Icy Guanaco: Legendary

Conditions:

• Days: 2
• Seasons: Spring, Fall
• Weather: Any
• Years: Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6 Or Later

Conclusion

That’s it! Pretty simple, huh? No need to mass tame or release, nor keep scouting areas everyday looking for a new spawn.

Like I said before, I haven’t tested this with all the animals, but the data comes from the game itself and I haven’t found any evidence that these conditions change at any time for any reason, they are hard-coded into the game.