How to find higher q bone

[karmov]

I've been reading about people having very high q bone saws. I've also been reading that the bone saw q is capped by bone q. I can only find q 10 bone at the moment so I'd appreciate it if someone could offer a pointer as to what I should be doing to try to find higher q bone.

[sabinati]

higher survival skill and level x boars, deer, or bears. boar bone q max is 80, deer is 100, and bear is 200 iirc.

[Quasic]

higher survival skill and level x boars, deer, or bears. boar bone q max is 80, deer is 100, and bear is 200 iirc.

Even at low survival, a level 10 bear can easily yield q110 bone, iirc.

[sabinati]

with 10 survival it would max out at 105... (bone Q + survival)/2


edit: and then of course making the saw depends on survival skill as well, ((4 * bone Q) + branch Q)/5 = saw Q, if survival < saw Q then (saw Q + survival)/2 = actual saw Q

[Avu]

Pretty sure the weight of bone is 5 not 4

[sabinati]

so, substitute 5 and 6 for 4 and 5, respectively. the point was more to show the importance of survival skill.

[Folly]

I've been given the impression that bone Q is not dependent on any skill, only the level and type of critter it comes from. Survival combined with blade quality is averaged against bone quality to determine what quality meat and skin you get?

[sabinati]

nope. an animal has an intrinsic q based on the type of animal and it's level, like i posted earlier it's 40 for fox, 80 for boar, 100 for deer and 200 for a bear at max (level X). for bones this animal q is averaged down to your survival skill. for skins and meat, the cutting tool is taken into account as well, but your survival skill also effects it in a similar way as with bone.

[karmov]

Thanks for all the replies.

I think killing a fox is within my reach. My survival is over 30, so I should be able to get some better bones than the bunnies give up.