Killing a Cow

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kobnach
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Killing a Cow

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What does it take to kill a cow - in terms of stats, skills, tools. I'm tired of gaining nothing but int, and/or getting meat from my more advanced neighbours. But my attempts at cow killing are a bad joke - run out of stamina repeatedly, sometimes produce splashes of blood, and never yet kill one. I'm wielding a stone axe and using chop.
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Blaze
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Re: Killing a Cow

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You'll need to increase Melee skill to around 9 to be able to hit cows reliably.
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Re: Killing a Cow

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use the extra abilities. sidestep is particularly useful
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Peter
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Re: Killing a Cow

Post by Peter »

Seriously? 9!*100 points to kill a COW?
Surprise.
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Re: Killing a Cow

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yes, 4,500 points worth of melee skill on top of the investment to get the combat skills. It's not that expensive, just do something less bloodthirsty for a while before you start slaughtering the livestock

It'll probably come down when they eventually start implementing domesticated animals, because currently it considers killing a cow to be "hunting", maybe consider them wilderbeasts / buffalo instead of dairy cows
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Raephire
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Re: Killing a Cow

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Cows have around 45 -50 hit points aswell.
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Re: Killing a Cow

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Successfully killed 2 cows with only 6 points in melee, using chop and hand axe. Think I could have done it at 5.
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Re: Killing a Cow

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Took a while though?
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