Custom: Trapper Homestead deer/rabbits not respawning

[reginaphalange]

(I do not have the setting "animal pop decreases over time" turned on.)

I may just be impatient, but I've been in the game 200+ days and I see deer and rabbits everywhere but around Trapper Homestead. I left ML to stay two weeks in CH, stayed a while at the Camp Office back in ML, and still no deer. And the bear near Trapper Homestead, which I killed months ago, has still not respawned. I'm wondering if the timer is just reallllly slow. I unpacked the game files and tried to interpret the coding but I'm not sure which spawn area is dedicated to near the TH. 

I have read around online that if you kill all the animals in one patch that it takes quite a bit longer for them to show up again. I picked the TH deer off very slowly only maybe a few weeks ago taking down the last one. At no time did I see their numbers increase (a respawn). Add onto this actually, I haven't seen The One Deer in front of the Camp Office in months, since the only time I killed it very early in game.

Not sure what's up. Maybe those particular patches don't respawn? Just wondering. 

[hozz1235]

I have noticed that "most" of my runs, there are deer and rabbits around Trappers.  But, there are also a few runs where I've seen none, as you're describing.  I tack it up to RNG and no "guaranteed" spawns <could be wrong>.