can i kill a fox?

[yolanda]

i've got a q16 sling, 15 con, 15 unarmed combat and 20 mm

[yolanda]

it ran away from me :[

[ImAwesome]

try fencing it in first

[yolanda]

okay thanks. i tried to prevent it from running by creating unfinished fires but it just broke through

[BruThoL]

Get near a river, and setup a trap.
Means, you need to put signposts to trap an area, and let only one tile free, for the animal to be able to come in (hint : using ctrl + g in ender's client help with this).

Then pull your animal. get aggro'ed (from far with your sling), then run in this trap.
It will follow you, and get in too.

Now get into your boat, and go near the tile without signpost, but keep being unreachable by the animal you are trapping.

Then wait for the animal to "twitch" (i call that "minimove") every few second any animal check if it can reach you or not, doing so, it does a little movement.
Just after that minimove, go and signpost the entrance of the trap, and go back into your boat.

Here you go, your animal is trapped so it won't be able to flee

[MagicManICT]

okay thanks. i tried to prevent it from running by creating unfinished fires but it just broke through

I'm not sure if any information like that is still floating around, but if it is, it was changed when animal aggressiveness was changed (release of w4 in Jan '11). Just saying "fence it in" is never quite enough information anymore. Mouflon and Aurochsen won't break anything, fox will break signs, boar and up will break anything with a soak of less than a certain number. (could be anything that has a soak can't be broken by animals, could be less than 5--a hearth fire--or more. I've not extensively tested it but know none of them can break any of the houses.)

What Bruthol describes works with some practice. The downside is if the animal is only trapped with signposts, there's a chance they'll decide to break through the signs to get out. Once you get the twitch trick down, you should be able to hunt without even blocking them in.

[ApocalypsePlease]

could be less than 5--a hearth fire--or more.

More than 5, I've seen a bear break a hearth fire before, unsure about boars.

[yolanda]

wait, so mouflon and aurochsen won't break signs/fences but boars/deer/bears will? i don't understand why mouflon and aurochsen don't follow suit but i ain't complaining

and thank you everyone for your input

[MagicManICT]

wait, so mouflon and aurochsen won't break signs/fences but boars/deer/bears will? i don't understand why mouflon and aurochsen don't follow suit but i ain't complaining

and thank you everyone for your input

Taming. If there's a reason, that is it.

[ApocalypsePlease]

wait, so mouflon and aurochsen won't break signs/fences but boars/deer/bears will? i don't understand why mouflon and aurochsen don't follow suit but i ain't complaining

and thank you everyone for your input

They also spawn in large herds, aggro as herds, have an undefined level, can have 4 leafed clovers used on them to produce something and can be domesticated (which asides from pigs) is unique to them.