I like the game, but I can't find the fox or boars

[Sid1701d]

I am getting really annoyed with this game because its punishing me for being a bad hunter. I have to hunt to move on in the chapter story foxes or boars. Sorry I ain't hunting a boar with a spear and the foxes are too small to see through the brush. So I guess I will never progress past that chapter, so I would only be able to build 10 buildings and that is just stupid.

[Philtre]

Buy or make a bow and get some higher-level arrows. Invest a hunting skill point into the "tracker" skill to spot animals more easily. Fox and boars are easy. Now when you get to the quest that asks for a bear......

[Sid1701d]

So where do you buy the bow at?

[Philtre]

You can make the basic bow in the hunting lodge or smithy, if you've unlocked the recipe. I don't recall for certain which villages have vendors that sell them, but I think either Tutki or Rolnica has one. You ought to be able to ask NPCs about the location of different types of vendors, try that maybe?

[Kwalyz]

I was also in a state of frustration over this segment of the quest … no way was I going for a boar with wooden spears or stone arrows without healing potions … which was beyond my means at the time. And the foxes were scarce and even when I found the one or two near Gostovia just beyond the clay pits on the road up from the river they would flee from me.
Eventually I found the solution was to save the hunt until the winter season … this way they were visible easily before they spotted me and when they fled more easy to follow. I found I didn’t make them bleed enough that I could follow a blood trail … it would stop after two pools. But lack of forest undergrowth in winter helped immensely with the hunting quests.
(Now I don’t need to find foxes specifically I see them frequently but at the time I could only ever find those couple past the clay pits near the road heading up the hill.)

[Edmund Greyfox]

Early hunting can be tough. You need to stick to boars since everything else is hard to chase down, but it takes some practice to kill them with spears without taking a lot of damage. Luckily you only need two for the quest, and it's not like there is a rush to get it done.

By the time you get the next quest involving hunting you should have a bow, and that makes the whole thing much easier. Just remember to go for head shots, and follow the blood trails when they run away (you can actually sprint fast enough to catch up with them and finish them with an axe most of the time).

[Sid1701d]

I can get the Dear with the spear, my question is what story do you do first because I got both unigoth story and the alvin story.

Edit: I tried to look them up when I first started playing but I kept getting them from before it was released and the numbers not matching the requirements, so did they mix up the story a little bit after release.

[TheMole]

the post release story for Unigost is completely different to pre release. Alwin's story only changed slightly. But both have 18 years to complete

[bstangeby]

I never managed hunts with spears. Bow consume action while you are in aim mode. I just invest time to get enough cash and buy a wooden crossbow. Wooden bolts can make in hunter building. Or was it smithy?

[Capuzzi09]

Originally posted by bstangeby:

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Wooden bolts can make in hunter building. Or was it smithy?

Both, afaik.

[Sid1701d]

Well the only way I got the deer with a spear was hitting it and running after it waving a knife around stabbing it to death.

[Philtre]

Originally posted by Sid1701d:

Well the only way I got the deer with a spear was hitting it and running after it waving a knife around stabbing it to death.

Make a bunch of spears and throw them; sneak up on it whenever it stops running around to get a better shot. Early hunting with spears used to be much easier; the recent changes make the bow a big upgrade, but it's still doable with spears.

It doesn't matter which of the storylines you do first; they're independent and both have pretty long timers. The only questline you really need to follow is the Chapter quests, which raise your Dynasty rep and your build limit.