How do I create random enemy spawning?

For my survival game, I want to create a system to spawn enemies / AI on the map in random areas. I do not however, want them to spawn in water or on screen to make it seem believable. All water is a seperate sprite / sprites. So I am wondering if it would be possible to make them spawn every couple seconds randomly anywhere on land and away from the player.

This may not be the most ideal way to do it, but it should work. Have a small, invisible "spawner" object (just a sprite). Every few seconds, set its position randomly within whatever range you're looking to use (set position X: random(player.X-1000, player.X+1000) and so on). Then, check if it is overlapping a water sprite or water sprite family. If it is, immediately reposition it. Then, right after, if the object isn't overlapping water, call a function or event to spawn an enemy at that location.

Thank you very much, I will try this!

This may not be the most ideal way to do it, but it should work. Have a small, invisible "spawner" object (just a sprite). Every few seconds, set its position randomly within whatever range you're looking to use (set position X: random(player.X-1000, player.X+1000) and so on). Then, check if it is overlapping a water sprite or water sprite family. If it is, immediately reposition it. Then, right after, if the object isn't overlapping water, call a function or event to spawn an enemy at that location.

Would it be possible to instead have the invisible spawner set position every few seconds to a random place ANYWHERE on the map each time instead of a set distance away from the player all the time? And if so, how? It's kind of essential for my game because I plan to have a somewhat living environment where creatures will interact with eachother around the world.

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