Yes, this is the intended means to complete.
What this bug report is about is that most of the spirits are NOT present on many servers. They get stuck inside of trees or below ground, simply aren’t spawned, or become non-interactible objects on the map, so as the week goes by the heart becomes nearly impossible to complete.
The world event in the area does spawn spiders, but that event also often gets stuck and cannot proceed.
While that may be true, the OP’s bug report clearly stated that the spiders and fiends were not spawning not that the spirits were not spawning.
“Problem description:
Task is not working, there are no ghostly spiders and shadow fiends.
Loggers are already dead on the ground or hanging in trees, because of this players are unable to complete this “heart task”.”
This may be bugged, but I think it is working as intended. Here us how to complete it.
1. Talk to a displaced spirit, they are down around the house.
2. Follow them to their body, you will be attacked by spirit spiders and such
3. Rez the body when the spirit rejoins with it.
4. repeat about 3 times and you are done.
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