Hunting

Hunting is the act of moving an expedition onto a tile occupied by an animal to trigger a hunting event. Animals that can be hunted include hares, musk deers, reindeers, wolverines, foxes, an elk, and stags (listed as deer in your items).

A hunting event can have many additional options that are added when specific weapons or other tools are carried during expeditions. This includes a bow with arrows, a rifle or pistol with ammunition, the harpoon, the hatchet, the knife (smaller game) as well as rope (used as a lasso on specific game). Every hunting event is somewhat dependent on luck, however hunting with guns or the bow has a significantly higher probability of success than other tools. When hunting hares or foxes, there is also an option to try hunting with a stone on the ground (no tools needed, expect a low chance of success).

Hunting with a bow or gun consumes the arrows or ammunition, regardless of whether a hunt is succesful or not. Hunting with other tools never consumes the tool, however, arrows and ammunition makes up a relatively small amount of resources. Arrows only take 1 action point and a small amount of resources to craft, and can sometimes be easily scavenged from the map. Ammuntion cannot be crafted, but can often be found in large amounts for free during expeditions and in game events. Reliably acquiring the food and building materials that prey offers is usually a better use of time than trying to protect an easily replaced ammo supply.

The best use of prey items from hunting is to have them skinned at a workshop that has the game flaying point upgrade built. This will yield valuable bones, pelts, fat and meat. To see more on efficiently skinning, as well as the yield quantities from various animals, be sure to look at the skinning and prey items chart.

The odds of a succesful hunt can be considerably lowered when using a character that has the incompetent character trait (higher difficulties). This can be mitigated partially if the tools for hunting are not placed on the incompetent character in question.

A special note about the elk, this prey always appears on day 15 a couple tiles northwest of the camp. You will have a relatevily high chance to hunt the elk succesfully if you do the following: Form an expedition with a gun and at least 2 ammuntion. Move onto the tile to the northwest. The proper event choices are move closer, shoot with gun. The elk will be hit and flee to another nearby tile, where you will need to repeat the process. After your second time shooting the elk, you should be awarded with the elk prey item and well as the trophy/achievement. Finding prey may become difficult during certain endgame scenarios.