by Cookie » Fri Feb 19, 2010 5:55 pm
Unfortunately the only way to know for sure is to get into aggro with them. When you are in aggro a picture of the animal pops up and it has a Roman numeral from I to X appear.
If you have a boat you can always heave a stone at the animal to test and if it seems rather likely to be tougher than you want to tackle, sail away.
The more hearth fires in the area the lower the level of the animals. Villages decrease animal level even further. A heavily populated area will have level I animals. The deep and trackless woods where no man has set food will have level X.
Bears never occur below level IV (4)
Mouflon and Aurochs are always without level. They only come in one combat strength. Rabbits and chickens are the same except they never fight back.
Noobies are supposed to spawn randomly somewhere the animals are either levl IX (9) or X (10).
Roman numeral sequence is I,II,III, IV,V,VI,VII,VIII,IX,X in case that is helpful.