a fat alligator  

Monster

Minimum Level: 9
Maximum Level: 10
Expansion: Original
NPC Added: 0000-00-00 00:00:00
NPC Last Updated: 2019-05-04 22:14:20

Known Habitats:
  Innothule Swamp
Quests:
  Crude Stein

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Spawn cycle for a fat alligator
# Feb 20 2021 at 2:17 AM Rating: Excellent
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I am looking for "Alligator Skin" to learn Pottery recipes for my recipe book just for completion, so I have been looking for "a fat alligator" who can drop this rarely.

I found at least one spawn cycle for "a fat alligator" in Innothule Swamp. The zone map name is "innothuleb" when typing /who while in the zone.

8 second respawn cycle, 4 mob types:

  • a fat alligator
  • a bull alligator
  • a fungus spore
  • a froglok forager

To start the cycle, I found that the cycle mobs will eventually path north/south from the POK book, and sometimes will pause just past the first tree south of the little peninsula that the POK book is on. So I hang around that tree and get any of the mobs that spawn above, until I see another mob spawn on the cycle roughly 8 seconds later.

I have seen them spawn all over the northern part of the zone past the POK book but I have never let them roam around to see if there is one single set roaming path. Also I don't know for sure if there's another cycle maybe with different placeholders, but at least this is one I found. The longest streak I had was 4 x "a fat alligator" spawn in a row back-to-back in the cycle, but it's still quite rare in general.

There are lots of NPCs in the zone fighting each other so sometimes it messes up timing for your tracking. Using a ranger with long distance tracking and enabing the auto-track checkbox, plus hitting the tracking button slightly after 8 seconds of you defeating the previous mob, can help to narrow it down and avoid getting confused with an NPC-slain respawn not on the cycle.

Thanks for the comment from Sythik just below this one for some clues as to where to find it, and other comments by people on the quest pages that use "Alligator Skin"

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Rondor


Edited, Feb 20th 2021 3:19am by RondorNorador
NPC Info
# Apr 29 2020 at 12:41 PM Rating: Good
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509 posts
Finally looted the Alligator Skin today!
Killed him 30 times on Povar without dropping the skin.
Jonathan Caraker's comment states that it can be acquired on progression servers. So, I tried on Selo and got it on the third kill.
I spent a long time looking for this fat alligator. I just left the tracking window open and stood next to the POK book and the Bashers and whatnot would steadily kill mobs in the zone and occasionally the alligator would show up. Make sure to not aggro the Bashers or slayers just stay invisible. If you kill them or if they stand there all day hitting you, they aren't clearing through the other mobs. There were a come of stretches of 4 or 5 days that I never saw it spawn. I would, sometimes, kill all the bull alligators or swamp alligators in the zone but really I don't think it made any difference, it is not that I saw it sooner after doing so. There were a couple of times that I got consecutive spawns. I killed the fat alligator, checked track, and it was right back up almost instantly. Even three in a row once. That always seemed interesting.
drops
# Jan 15 2006 at 8:46 PM Rating: Decent
26 posts
Also drops Large Patchwork Tunic.
Slim fast 'Gator?
# Jul 05 2002 at 10:30 AM Rating: Decent
Names are deciveing (sp?). Looks rather slim for a fat alligator, really =)
The quest arm
# Dec 10 2001 at 1:34 PM Rating: Default
I've dropped him a dozen or so times now and never Norks arm. Am I wasting my time trying?
Diet
# Nov 20 2001 at 5:17 PM Rating: Default
The fat gators must have gone on a diet because they arn't fat anymore.
the arm
# Oct 26 2001 at 1:23 PM Rating: Default
i'v killed the fat alligator 2 in two days, and only got "an orge arm" not norks. anyone know what this is for?
RE: the arm
# Jul 08 2002 at 8:25 PM Rating: Decent
The ogre arm is Nork's arm. It just doesn't say that, but try it, it is.
Why Skins?
# Sep 28 2001 at 10:44 PM Rating: Default
what is so special w/ these skins? just curios cause you all are paying money for something i have no clue what is so thx for any info.


Thouxe palles
RE: Why Skins?
# May 25 2002 at 4:11 PM Rating: Default
The skins are for a Halfling only Quest for "Leatherfoot Raider Skullcap". I hunted for it two weeks before I finally got one. People will pay in excess of 100 plat for them.
RE: Why Skins?
# May 25 2002 at 4:11 PM Rating: Default
The skins are for a Halfling only Quest for "Leatherfoot Raider Skullcap". I hunted for it two weeks before I finally got one. People will pay in excess of 100 plat for them.
RE: Why Skins?
# May 25 2002 at 4:11 PM Rating: Decent
The skins are for a Halfling only Quest for "Leatherfoot Raider Skullcap". I hunted for it two weeks before I finally got one. People will pay in excess of 100 plat for them.
Fat Alligators
# Aug 31 2001 at 8:10 AM Rating: Default
I seem to have noticed a pattern in Innothule. Swamp Alligators seem to spawn in pairs by the tower. kill enough of them and a Bull will spawn. Kill the Bull and there's a chance that the fattie will spawn. Camped the swamp for 2 days and only saw 1 Fat Alligator, although he didn't drop the severed arm for the Crude Stein quest, just some patchwork boots. Does anyone else have any info? Am I doing something wrong, or am I perhaps not high enough to get the arm? Thank for any info!

Mykiil, Erudite Enchanter of the 14th Circle
E'ci Server.
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
# Aug 07 2001 at 12:46 PM Rating: Default
any1 paying for the skins on seventh hammer server?
skin?
# Jul 09 2001 at 10:27 PM Rating: Default
what is so special about the alligator skin?
Alligator Skin
# Jun 28 2001 at 7:56 AM Rating: Default
Alligator Skins drop off Bull Alligators. Paying 120pp for this on Rodcet Knife. Contact Leafrat in-game, or contact me at leafrat@hotmail.com
Iuewen lvl 17 magi HI
# Jun 20 2001 at 10:30 PM Rating: Default
can i do this quest i am a High Elf plz respond at jesse108@hotmail.com ok good gaming bye!!!
err......
# May 01 2001 at 8:35 PM Rating: Default
Has anyone besides me noticed he's not fat?
RE: err......
# May 24 2001 at 10:07 PM Rating: Default
Your right...Actually it looks kinda skinny.
100pp per skin
# Oct 28 2000 at 2:30 PM Rating: Default
I'll pay 100pp per alligator skin in the Saryrn Server ...
Plz e-mail to sarbor@mail.com if you have the skin and need the 100pp :)
Thank you.
Where is . . .
# Aug 01 2000 at 8:43 AM Rating: Decent
Dat Fat Allie, He hangs out in NE of de swamp. He got bull alligator friends, so watch you **** or dey scratch it for you!
Where
# Jul 04 2000 at 4:05 AM Rating: Default
Where does he usely hang out?
Patchwork
# Jun 28 2000 at 2:41 AM Rating: Decent
He also sometimes drops some patchwork armor. i've gotten a tunic, 2 pair of boots and a skullcap. the arm seems to be rare or just random
Lorks Arm
# Jun 06 2000 at 2:35 PM Rating: Decent
This is the aligator you can get Lorks Severed Arm from, and on rare occassion, an aligator skin (Leatherfoot Raiders Quest)
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