Hunting, very confused.

[Unexpected]

Hi. I've been playing for about a week now, and I've been wanting to start learning how to hunt.

I'm wondering if I'm just stupid, but I can't get the hang of it.

I can catch rabbits, but nothing else.

I have a low quality bow, sling, and quiver.

I've read the combat guide and watched the ( I think ) only two hunting tutorials, one is hunting rabbits, and I did the same sort of thing as the other video of a guy trapping a boar, except he actually one shotted the boar after trapping it.




In this screenshot I had lured the fox into the fence thing, got in my boat and waited for it to to go passive or whatever, came back, put another post at the other end of the trap thing and charged my sling up, shot at it, it seemed to bust down the sign, then I retreated to my boat and gave up for the time being.

I have very low attributes.

How do I do this? do I need better gear and stats? I'm really stumped.

[DatOneGuy]

If the videos are old (W3, beginning of W4) chances are it was already fixed when animals were made more dangerous.

Best way IMO I did from early on, sling from boat then chase and keep punching, it'll take a while but bring some water to do it, you'll find that early on it isn't even worth it as you can take 3-5 hits to take out a running boar possibly depending on sling Q and when he ran, which will take a lot of stamina to keep up with. alternatively I believe most animals come back if once they run you cancel combat and wait for them to come back (takes forever)

Best way is to hit them once they twitch but I still haven't perfected the timing on this.

[Unexpected]

If the videos are old (W3, beginning of W4) chances are it was already fixed when animals were made more dangerous.

Best way IMO I did from early on, sling from boat then chase and keep punching, it'll take a while but bring some water to do it, you'll find that early on it isn't even worth it as you can take 3-5 hits to take out a running boar possibly depending on sling Q and when he ran, which will take a lot of stamina to keep up with. alternatively I believe most animals come back if once they run you cancel combat and wait for them to come back (takes forever)

Best way is to hit them once they twitch but I still haven't perfected the timing on this.

Thanks for the reply.

I'll be honest with you and say I don't understand much of that, as I've never killed anything yet.

I think I'll have a read of the wiki.

Is there a way to practice combat? like a training dummy or something? I don't know what it means when a creature "twitchs" and what not. And it seems like there is a fairly high price to pay if I attempt to try to kill something to learn and mess up.

[DatOneGuy]

Test UA: Get 10 UA, try ants.
Test Melee: Don't until you have metal for swords/decent stats really I guess.
Test ranged:
Get any regular combat skill like dash/etc just in order to start combat on a Boar/Fox
Get stones ready for shooting pew pew, then combat fox with your 'melee' move, punch, whatever man.
From boat target fox/boar and get ready to shoot, notice that if they're not 'on' you, every few seconds they twitch, that's them repositioning to try and 'get to you' again.
Keep testing this timing, if they run, they run. You can either chase them and punch them down (repeatedly punch) or leave them to run and move on to the next one to test on.

[Grable]

Ok

1. Make a signpost trap with 1 signpost space of entrance (like in the pic)
2. Aggro fox, lure it INSIDE the signpost trap (that is hugging the water like in the pic)
3. Quickly jump in boat and ride away till it deaggros (the pic and swords disappear)
4. Ride back after deaggro, fill in the entrance to trap with the last signpost, make sure the fox is left inside ofc
5. Walk to your boat, sail and shoot it from the middle of the water (from boat ofc)

This way it won't run off when it's low on HP and won't break any signposts since you're in a boat. It's very simple

[Unexpected]

Test UA: Get 10 UA, try ants.
Test Melee: Don't until you have metal for swords/decent stats really I guess.
Test ranged:
Get any regular combat skill like dash/etc just in order to start combat on a Boar/Fox
Get stones ready for shooting pew pew, then combat fox with your 'melee' move, punch, whatever man.
From boat target fox/boar and get ready to shoot, notice that if they're not 'on' you, every few seconds they twitch, that's them repositioning to try and 'get to you' again.
Keep testing this timing, if they run, they run. You can either chase them and punch them down (repeatedly punch) or leave them to run and move on to the next one to test on.

Appreciate the help a lot.

"Start combat"

Do you mean I have to use a skill like dash to initiate combat? throwing a stone doesn't do that?

So do I do it like this? use dash on fox to initiate combat, use punch on it and then get into my boat and sling stones at it?

When an animal runs, I use sprint and spam punch on them? can an animal stop running and attack me again?

Do I need good armor or anything for foxes?

[Unexpected]

Ok

1. Make a signpost trap with 1 signpost space of entrance (like in the pic)
2. Aggro fox, lure it INSIDE the signpost trap (that is hugging the water like in the pic)
3. Quickly jump in boat and ride away till it deaggros (the pic and swords disappear)
4. Ride back after deaggro, fill in the entrance to trap with signpost, make sure the fox is left inside ofc
5. Walk to your boat, sail and shoot it from the middle of the water (from boat ofc)

This way it won't run off when it's low on HP and won't break any signposts since you're in a boat. It's very simple

Thank you very much. This is nearly what I did a while ago, except slinged it from land which is what messed me up.

Does it take a lot of stones to kill a fox?

[DatOneGuy]

You can throw a stone to do it, I just usually prefer not to.

I also see you mentioned quiver, don't use a bow, use a sling.

When an animal runs, I use sprint and spam punch on them? can an animal stop running and attack me again?

No, even if a deer heals them (don't bother with animals near deer) they'll just stop in their tracks and look stupid, they won't run however,meaning you have to legitimately damage them at this point, which is a bitch with deer around healing 100s.

If you sling til they run you'll never get hit, so armor won't matter.

[Grable]

Ok

1. Make a signpost trap with 1 signpost space of entrance (like in the pic)
2. Aggro fox, lure it INSIDE the signpost trap (that is hugging the water like in the pic)
3. Quickly jump in boat and ride away till it deaggros (the pic and swords disappear)
4. Ride back after deaggro, fill in the entrance to trap with signpost, make sure the fox is left inside ofc
5. Walk to your boat, sail and shoot it from the middle of the water (from boat ofc)

This way it won't run off when it's low on HP and won't break any signposts since you're in a boat. It's very simple

Thank you very much. This is nearly what I did a while ago, except slinged it from land which is what messed me up.

Does it take a lot of stones to kill a fox?

You did everything right except for shooting it from land. Shoot from boat next time and you won't have problems Like I said, foxes break signposts.
Damage depends on the q of your sling. HP of fox is low so it should die fast.

This is the best way to do it, because UA/melee with fox you need about 40 and foxes run fast and youll end up chasing it for a long time for the last punch.

[Unexpected]

Happy to say that I understand it much better now.

Thank you both very much.

Off to find a fox!