Not bad.
I’m still waiting for the undead mask, the machine mask and a third one. I have got red, green, blue and gold.
The two times I had luck in Hagaboda, there was no lynx at all in or around the town.
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I had a couple of goes at Hagaboda yesterday. Every time I go I have inactive gnomes and have never found an active one. On both occasions, for the first time, I found one with a pink outline and the interact banner but nothing happened. does this mean I’m getting closer to an active gnome?
Keep trying, they will work eventually. Alternatively invite another player. As soon as they approach the gnomes they’ll start working for you. Usually.
Although, then you might hit the bug where you take damage trying to loot them. Just keep trying.
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Yep. Go out and make more mischief.
Had another two runs, one two days ago in the house by the church that gave me several masks but mostly duplicates. At least the yellow one dropped, too, so it’s 6/7 masks so far for me.
Yesterday the activated Gnome was in one of the brown houses NW of Hagaboda, 4 masks but all duplicates, sadly no gold/silver mask…
This is, where I often find gnomes.
At the orange circle often I find the first one.
Gnome in the kitche, door locked.
The green circle is my favorite one. Gnome in the kitchen, doors locked, but with the help of a tactical shield I’m able to reach the roof and to enter through the door of the balcony.
At the blue circle I often have a gnome in each house. About the half of them in general is still enterable. Gnomes in the hallway.
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On a sidenote…
If you find an activated Gnome never get distracted and leave it alone, it might vanish… 
I found an active Gnome, got distracted by some Lynxes strolling around on the outside, left the house to get rid of them, returned… and… 
So better don’t do this… 
Well damn. They are evolving… 
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You on PS5 and this is working now ?
Shield is a great tip 
Yes.
But I’m not sure if I’m glad or sad about that, as the game now is in a state where it is very often very unstable.
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My gnomes finally activated over a couple of days and I got 4 masks(the basic colours) and many duplicates but now I only seem to “bugged” gnomes. A couple I have found that spawn invisible ticks. The sounds are still there but nothing at all visible, another has the outline but nothing else and yet another that has the outline and the interact button that doesn’t work.
Do other people have these other variations?
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Yes, I noticed this too.
The invisible gnome ticks often became visible after turning away or leaving the room.
Sometimes they just are below the ground. Then they either glitch through the floor or appear outside of the houses.
The last days sometimes there where multiple gnomes in one. By trying to activate “the gnome” a horde of tick gnomes (all gnomes activated by one action) spawned and immediatly killed me.
And yesterday me and my friend had a couple of lynx around who activated the gnomes in the houses by using their grenades. It was a hard battle against the lynx AND the gnomes.
That what some people would want… Hard fights. 
I’m not the only one then. I haven’t had the multiple tick spawn but remember now that I had a gnome spawn a single tick that I couldn’t kill and it didn’t self detonate either.
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Yeah I get your point, I had the bug where I took damage from the ticks, anyhow let’s hope it’s resolved 
I had outline was unable to activate, only way could do it was to invite multiplayer, I haven’t invested much time since in this though !
If there is one thing, just one thing I hope the Devs manage to sort in any future update is to give the same gnome access to solo players as is currently enjoyed by coop players. After many days, weeks, months I have finally got some gnomes to activate and these then disappear and seemingly not to return.
This leaves the remainder in their kitchens and hallways mocking me. I can see them, I can also see semla in most of the kitchens but I am stuck outside looking through windows or half open doors.
Why do they mock me so? I can almost hear them sniggering.
I know I can go multiplayer but I just don’t want to risk messing up what little of my game still works.
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Hmm… I can’t confirm that anymore. 
As a fellow solo player, the Gnomes work most of the time for me, approx 2/3rd of all tries. At least in Hagboda.
But it requires quite a bit of working towards that goal, like destroying (nearly) everything that comes in your way and running around between the possible spawn locations, looking if they spawned in, if they’re active and of course if they are accessible at all… ;-/
At least I’m able to reproduce the spawning process fairly reliable. It’s just the activation in a proper location, that seems to be pure rng.
But I had one occasion when I spotted an active Gnome behind a half closed door - or better said I activated it by shooting at it… - that I got a second activation at another Gnome in the neighboring house…
In short (or so…):
I tried to get a radio inside the house and got stuck in a hedge during that try…
Fast travelled to Hagaboda safehouse to run back… yeah… well… not so easy to get out when both doors are not responding…
Fast travelled to Alby Church then and all the way back to the brown houses…
“My” Gnome was gone by that time, but the one in the house to the right became active and was easily accessible through an open entrance door.