hunting lodge

[Mazquerade]

Hey folks.
Just a quick question.
Does the hunters lodge actually needs some form of animalspawn in a nearby area from the building? Or do the hunters actually hunt even if there is not any spawn nearby? Also, does the distance affects the resources gathered?
To understand the context, I have a lodge rather far out of my village but I would like to try it inside, even though my village is a bit extensive and there are no animal spawns nearby anymore.

[Macdallan]

In my current game it doesn't seem to matter where it's situated, the workers collect whatever I ask them to collect. My village isn't very large but my hunting lodge is almost in the middle of my small settlement, doesn't seem to have had any effect on the workers.

[Ruffio]

If you got animals close by you an spot huners actually hunting, but that is the only change. They will magical work and produce whatver you set them to regardless.

[TheOriginalMark:-)]

What Ruffio said but you need to build far enough away from the spawn to not kill it. I think that's 50m but I don't actually remember.

[Mazquerade]

Thanks!

[Morri]

It's the same for all buildings: you can place them where-ever you want without having to have the necessary resource nearby. It doesn't affect their output. Your workers will even produce/gather while walking to their work place. The animation you see them do also doesn't matter.

The ONLY building where distance actually matters, is the farm shed for your farmers. This because they physically have to be on the fields to be able to do their job, and there the animation you see, will also affect what they produce. When the work day starts, they'll travel from where they are to the farm shed they work at, and from their to the nearest available field/orchard. So it's important to keep their home and shed close to the fields to limit the travel time.
But for all other workers it doesn't matter.

[Chaotic Muffins]

Just wondering if I can get some help, I've put a bow, arrows, 2 different knives and all my hunter does is help hold up the walls of the hunting lodge. He's a level 3 skilled hunter but apparently only at hunting the wicket

[Morri]

Originally posted by Chaotic Muffins:

Just wondering if I can get some help, I've put a bow, arrows, 2 different knives and all my hunter does is help hold up the walls of the hunting lodge. He's a level 3 skilled hunter but apparently only at hunting the wicket

Did you set the production % of what you want him to gather (meat, fur, leather, ...)? In that screen it also shows what he needs to collect it. (Bow and arrow is not needed, he'll only need knives).
As long as he produces the items you asked him to; it's all fine. Him standing around in the hut is only animation and doesn't mean he's not producing anything.
(You'll only see him doing the hunting animation when there's animals nearby, but this does not affect what he produces.)

[Nomercy^]

On my Oxbow village the hunters walk around in the herd of deer seemingly scaring them around in circles and randomly look like they are skinning invisible kills.