Nice set ! 
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I think it’s easier MP and you can share the spoils, but I wouldn’t have known without this method being posted I was looking in wrong area before !
Thanks for that but have read your post before and did exactly as suggested, shoot, go check, shoot some more, but nothing. I don’t think there could have been anything left to shoot.
The only difference I had was that I did nothing to spawn them, they were just there when I loaded the game and fast travelled there.
You also could do gas-tank explosions near but not to close to the gnomes. And firework boxes if you have some. It it even possible to get active gnomes without shooting up town, but I found that even more random then make a hell of a racket.
Ok ta. I’ll give it all a go.
Hey, I managed to spawn the gnomes 6 times in a row by myself, of my 8 attempts. I did the same exact thing each time.
I’ll do a video if need be, but this should work 80% of the time.
Bring about 30 rockets, spawn to thar church in the forest region called kyrkholjden, north of ostervik. Bow up a few houses, including the brown house and the gnome spawn house, coords 1180, -120. There’s that warehouse full of gas tanks by the shore, blow that up because it looks cool.
So you finished part 1! Part 2: fast travel to the safe house south of the church, nyhamnen. Walk north, blow up some cars and houses as you get to haga. Be sure to keep heading north till you get a slightly above ostervik; there’s that warehouse I like to blow up. Looks sick. Part 2 complete.
Part 3: ? ? ? ?
Part 4: now that you’ve blown up a good amount, head east ish, down haga, alongside the docks, blow up cars. Once you are south of the church (first spawn we did part 1) there should be some cars and junction boxes that can’t be destroyed. At this point go the the gnome house, blow a few more stuff to be sure.
If it doesn’t spawn, fast travel back down south, check the houses by haga, blow some more stuff up and repeat.
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lol, so i made the video.
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But was that gnome active?
nope! until someone joins my game, then it becomes active, either for myself only or the other player in game. the 3rd time i reset my game to do this run, i had an active gnome. if you are going to do this, make sure you have a friend just in case or you’ll drive yourself mad.
*i’ve heard console players can just reload the game and the gnome will remain there and be active. this has never worked for me on steam.
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Thanks, but I already have all masks. I thought you would make a video, where you show a reliable way how to get active gnomes. That’s what people want to know who play solo.
I got it. 
Ok, it is possible on ps5.
Took me a while, but worked.
First fought some time at ring fort and lilla hammarnäs, then went to alby church and visited every marked house. On the way I destroyed everything. After a few houses I saw flickering backpacks… They changed colours very fast.
I found 5 houses with gnomes, some doors were locked, some where open. It took me another while until I was able to interact with a gnome, but nothing happens.
Again after a while I was able to interact with one, again nothing happened but this time I saw purple lines around him every time I tried to select him.
And again after some time, one gnome disappeared meanwhile and the doors opened, I was able to interact with one which finaly spawned a gnome tick.
I got just the blue mask… But hey, it worked.
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That’s cool. Are you going for all masks? 
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We’ll see. Took me a good amount of time…
oh my bad, i’ll take the video down.
You didn’t needed to take it down. The video was a good effort.
Spawning inactive gnomes was the last month the easy part. To get them interactive, was always the tricky bit, especially on solo, and nobody seems to know a reliable method, because when and how a gnomes becomes interactive is not reliable.
I found a reasonable reliable method, but many times it just did not work, because you never do exactly the same thing. I then just shut down to menu, and tried it again. Within a ~week I had my masks.
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This is starting to become a bit of a pain now. Hagaboda used to be one of my go to places for loot. Now every time I go there inactive gnomes are all over the place. I try for a while to get them active but get fed up and give up. Looting is now pointless trying because doors and boxes are mostly closed. Hagaboda ruined and now Salthamn will probably be the same.
If the gnomes are going to stay in the game please make it slightly easier for solo players, everything seems to be geared for MP at the moment.
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For me it’s just the other way round, no Gnomes in Hagaboda and mostly no machines, except some Ticks… (that possibly failed to become a Gnome ? 
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Went to Salthamn yesterday but no Gnomes and only about 5 Runners. Shot up the whole place but…
I guess it’s no Gnome masks for me then…
ive frantically searched for users on their discord to join my game to unbrick the gnomes.
I’m interested in setting up a gnome kill team, if not to help join the search, to at least have someone around to invite to a game so the gnomes activate.
my discord name on the gen z discord is norz; i play on steam.
*i will only gnome hunt if we wear different masks. we flex drip.
Patience, if solo run back and forth between the brown houses NW and the grey house next to Alby church and eventually you’ll find one that is active. Happy hunting.
Edit: clearify