Locate Animals or Plants
2024 Rules
- Level & School
- 2nd-level divination
- Casting Time
- Action or Ritual
- Range
- Self
- Components
- V, S, M (fur from a bloodhound)
- Duration
- Instantaneous
- Classes
- Bard, Druid, Ranger
Describe or name a specific kind of Beast, Plant creature, or nonmagical plant. You learn the direction and distance to the closest creature or plant of that kind within 5 miles, if any are present.
2014 Rules
- Level & School
- 2nd-level divination
- Casting Time
- Action
- Range
- Self
- Components
- V, S, M (a bit of fur from a bloodhound)
- Duration
- Instantaneous
- Classes
- Bard, Druid, Ranger
Describe or name a specific kind of beast or plant. Concentrating on the voice of nature in your surroundings, you learn the direction and distance to the closest creature or plant of that kind within 5 miles, if any are present.
Locate Animals or Plants 5.5e 2024 vs. 5e 2014 edition differences
Locate Animals or Plants popularity
How popular is Locate Animals or Plants? It is a commonly found spell in the game, but is chosen less than other options when available. This spell may be situational for many spellbooks.
- Top 50% of all 5e spells
- Bottom 25% of all level 2 spells
- Bottom 25% picked level 2 Bard spell
- Bottom 10% picked level 2 Druid spell
- Bottom 10% picked level 2 Ranger spell
Spells similar to Locate Animals or Plants
Speak with Animals 1st-level divination
Although it enables conversation rather than locating, it’s thematically focused on animals and used by the same casters for wilderness interaction and reconnaissance.
Players prefer Speak with Animals over Locate Animals or Plants
Locate Object 2nd-level divination
This level and school match closely and it likewise pinpoints a nearby target by direction and proximity rather than providing direct interaction.
Players prefer Locate Object over Locate Animals or Plants
Beast Sense 2nd-level divination
It’s a touch divination tied specifically to beasts and used by similar classes, offering sensory information about animal targets rather than simply locating them.
Players prefer Beast Sense over Locate Animals or Plants
Commune with Nature 5th-level divination
A higher‑level spell that provides broad natural-world information, including locations of plants and animals, making it a bigger-scale version of the same idea.
Players prefer Commune with Nature over Locate Animals or Plants
Locate Creature 4th-level divination
It’s the closest mechanical analogue, giving direction (and for longer duration) to nearby living beings and sharing the same divination focus.
Players prefer Locate Animals or Plants over Locate Creature