How do I keep my butcher table materials up?

[Moist Cat]

My materials always just seem to be in the low part. How do I keep it up to like plentiful?

[Tyler Zeta]

donate carcases, body parts and skins, a carcas can be worth a lot, also every once in a while either order supplies or do a supply pickup mission.

[4kGamer]

- It's a 4 hour process to reach full capacity for delivery.
- Don't donate feathers you barely get credit.
- Whole perfect(3 Star) carcasses get you the biggest donation credit. Best carcasses are
perfect cougars.
- Do quick small local runs to quickly level and to avoid griefing. Distant runs open you to
griefers(but give you a bigger payout than local)
- Doing a resupply mission gets you xp as opposed to paying the $20.
- Buy wagon upgrades when they become available(bigger wagon bigger payout).
- You have to buy the medium wagon to get the large wagon. You can't skip the medium and
holdout for the large.

[Moist Cat]

Should I get bolt action rifle?

[4kGamer]

definitely especially to take down alligators.

[Mr.Softy]

Originally posted by psionics7:

Should I get bolt action rifle?

It is the best option until you unlock the Carcano or Rolling Block Rifle.

Also, when you do the "Trade Route" free roam event, you can get up to 18 units of goods for your trader business.
It's that event where everybody stands on a train, and you have to kill npc bandits.
Basically a moving shooting gallery.

[globefish23]

One of the trader uograded drastically increases the amount of materials you get from 3* carcasses.

[Rhonda]

Originally posted by Tyler Zeta:

also every once in a while either order supplies or do a supply pickup mission.

Do not pay for supplies. A supply-run not only gives XP and gets the production running again, but always grants a few materials as well (as if you were donating carcasses).
If u got bags to carry back to camp, each bag will reward you with 5 materials up to 20 when doing this mission with 4 people. When you get rewarded with a cart/waggon, it fills up your materials by 20.

So, don't skip or pay for supply runs!

[clif9710]

I've noticed lately that even though supplies are very low, the supply mission is grayed out so I can't do one. I let a day pass (RT) and still grayed out. I'd think you could do one right after another, which I would do if I could. I don't go the pay for supplies option so hunting is all that is available at the moment.

[Aike]

Originally posted by EchoTangoSuitcased:

....
- Whole perfect(3 Star) carcasses get you the biggest donation credit. Best carcasses are
perfect cougars.
....

Best carcasses are from panthers with 17.50, 16.88 from cougars.

[Rhonda]

Originally posted by clif9710:

I've noticed lately that even though supplies are very low, the supply mission is grayed out so I can't do one. I let a day pass (RT) and still grayed out. I'd think you could do one right after another, which I would do if I could. I don't go the pay for supplies option so hunting is all that is available at the moment.

Production supplies (the midle bar on the butcher table) don't show an amount, they are either there or not. You can only do supply runs if Cripps asks you to do them. But a supply run will also fill your materials stock (the upper bar on the butcher table) worth 5-20 materials depending on the mission.

[clif9710]

Originally posted by Rhonda:

Originally posted by clif9710:

I've noticed lately that even though supplies are very low, the supply mission is grayed out so I can't do one. I let a day pass (RT) and still grayed out. I'd think you could do one right after another, which I would do if I could. I don't go the pay for supplies option so hunting is all that is available at the moment.

Production supplies (the midle bar on the butcher table) don't show an amount, they are either there or not. You can only do supply runs if Cripps asks you to do them. But a supply run will also fill your materials stock (the upper bar on the butcher table) worth 5-20 materials depending on the mission.

I discovered yesterday that I need to wait until supplies are zip before the supply mission is allowed, though I'm not sure that's always the case.