The gnome loot is RNG. When I got the masks, we had a random chance to get the mask. But in those days we had more places to find gnomes. and still it took a lot of time.
trying to sort though all the button commands WITH each search 
did I search that gnome yet, sometimes you just have to pick up everything, just to sort though them all faster, 
, but I don’t wanna pick up ammo I don’t use lol
A short moment of happines I guess, what did I just found at the gnome?
Next milisecond I got kicked way far down the cliff by a Apocalypse Runner.
I had a radio near the ruins, teleported back up instant but the gnome and the loot I hadn’t taken was gone. 
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Wasn’t it the great Chinese War general who said: “In war you have to be on your toes and have eyes in the back of your head”. 
Been searching for any other possible spawn point without success. I had a house somewhere that always had 2 gnomes in the yard but it seems like they are gone.
Old reported Gnome(-tick) locations isn’t spawning any gnomes or they are not a place anymore.
What I observed and learnd from the new gnome location is that resets with the loot a.k.a 4 hours?
It seems that we need to visit the place at night, and it needs to be machines present in close area for the nice loot. Machines I’ve had so far is all Apocalypse class and either its a Seeker, Seeker + Hunter or 3 Runners.
Without any machines near you will find the gnome and it will turn but the loot is just regular loot like 100 rounds 7.62 FMJ, 12 Rounds .50-cal AP or 1 (one) Advanced First Aid.
With Machines, that sometimes also trigger the Gnome-tick spawn before you reach the house when you hear it scream, you better run! It will selfdestruct and disappears quite quickly.
Made about 12+ something test and so far I have 2 gnome masks and a gnome-tick pod, my 1st pod I lost (see above) but got another later.
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Is there any way to download older versions of the game ? Or some way to duplicate the gnome pods ?
No. No way to do that.
Can update with some more observations done.
It’s not just the night, hit the place at late night for success and when it’s snow or at least very frosty in the grass.
Then the machines also, got a new combo of 2 Seekers + 5 Hunters, all APO class so the smell of burnt resistance meat mixed with napalmwas thick in the air.
Also had some trios of FNIX runners with only a slight frost, almost green grass.
Don’t bother! You’ll only get disappointment as reward.
So far 4 Gnome masks, one was a duplicate so if it was 7 it will take some time to collect them.
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Sometimes it spawns as a tick-gnome before I’m even close and start runing around the house. Like it’s triggerd by either the APO machines getting to close or the APO Hunter shoots their gas grenade to close(?) or the seekers alarm going on. Never seen the tick-gnome attack any of the machines.
Other times I’ve been standing over it without the gnome turning, then I just put a bullet into it and it spawn. Then another to make the scream to shut up.
I think I’ve only fired 3 different weapons when I’ve been there, the Möller PP, the COM10 and the Exp.Al76. I’m sure that I had the gnome-mask both from the MöllerPP and the Exp.Al76 kills, so I don’t belive weapon choice has a impact on what you get.
When I was there, I had to shoot at him each time.
Before that he didn’t do anything.
The last times I was there, I had none machines at all there, or just about three seekers. Runners we’re rare, If at all, hunters have never been there.
But I must admit that I just was there about 5 times.
How many different masks are there? Same number and the collectables?
7 masks.
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There are seven gnome masks.
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Went to the location for the first time today, and no gnome to be seen anywhere. I decided to shoot a rocket at the house (blowing up the tractor as well), and then the gnome spawned and attacked me. Shot it, and got a gnome pod.
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It should be at the back of the house, behind the wood shack next to a rock. Screenshots of the place are above.
Btw.
Yesterday it was sunny ingame, there was just an apoc seeker nearby and I just got an advanced first aid kit.
Nevertheless, IF no machines are nearby (or already have been destroyed), but the gnome is there, my companion still warns me, that an enemy is nearby.
By this I know that it’s there even before I reach that place.
the explosion must have radiused the distance and hitting the gnome next to the wood shed, also respawn rate of that gnome is like 4 hours somthing, 
so if your someone that needs all 7 gnome mask, it’s will take very very long time
A night visit to the woodshed is the best time it seems. Got another tick pod yesterday.
I received a tick pod so it is there.