Hunter Deaths

[Klindhh]

My hunters keep getting killed. What do I need to do to keep them alive?

[Dommain]

leather Armour and weapons

[Klindhh]

Hrm. Looking at my setup they should have had access to leather armor. How do I make my hunters buy/equip said leather armor?

[Honestly Games]

Hello! As long as they have it in their family inventory, they should equip it by themselves. If they don't have it, they should be generating market demand and attempt to purchase it as long as they can afford it.

[Klindhh]

I went ahead and granted the new family leather armor and swords. All of them show clothes, shoes and bows (some have capes too) in their inventory display. The armor and weapons were in the family storage but aren't anymore and they dont seem to have sold them. I gave them some more armor just to ensure they had some in family storage (they do).
They are still dying to the wildlife.

[Haend]

On my specific occasion they seem to die when they are unlucky and got attacked by a "horde" of either boars or wolves. This tends to happen when there are fewer hunters than the horde itself. Due to this I think the best way to go is to make the hunting ground smaller, therefore increasing the chance for the family to stay together when working. Another possible solution is to create a "killbox". Fence up the ground, create tiny pathways for the animals to get inside, and lay down traps there.

This also means the hunter families are in a much greater danger when they don't have enough members in the family, so might as well turn them into recruits or servants when they get too low.

[Nowei]

ive never seen a hunter wear anything higher than basic clothes even if you give it to them their have a set "equipment template" and no way to change it. they are best used as guards and then manually targeting the animals yourself

haend is right tho if they shoot a wolf and there are 5 other wolves around they alert and all attack at once, no way to avoid that behavior

[Klindhh]

Tried reducing the size of the hunting zone but sadly they are picking fights outside the zone and once again dying. Its strange. In my last game the hunter family lost one person in like five years. This game I cant keep the families alive.

[BackseatHike]

Having the exact same issue; I've lost two whole families in the span of like 4 years because they getting killed by wildlife. Almost considering making a dedicated graveyard for all my lost hunters . But seriously, I would love to know how to solve this issue. Granting them armor doesn't help because they don't equip it, nor do they actually request it (it would make sense for them to request leather armor at least), Does hiding spot work? I've tried putting up a few but it doesn't seem to make any difference. And I am not too keen on using traps, since they require steel rods.

[Haend]

I think hideout works as some sort of... buffer? I haven't seen it in action, but I noticed after some time they always disappear, so I assume it can get destroyed when someone uses it and animals attack it. Bows and crossbows help significantly as well, since they will attack from ranged until the animal closes in.

Note that if you don't produce steel rods yet you can always place them down. The hunters will place a buy order and there's higher chance for caravans to sell them next time they arrive to town, which the hunter family will just buy them on their own. As i mentioned before fencing also helps a lot on my save. It's kind of a band aid honestly, but until the devs patch them I think at least it helps a bit. I fenced off the whole hunting forest and leaves small gaps to enter them with bait in the middle.

[jenaburwell]

I too, lose a ton of hunters from just random animals. I am always having to replace the whole family. They have plenty of bows and crossbows, and even lots of hideouts, but when they die, it always seems to be way off the reservation, like they followed after one animal and got eaten by others.

I wish they would wear armor. That would also be a plus for the economy, and a reason to craft all that leather stuff, especially if you aren't kitting out a huge army.

[Nowei]

Not entirely sure them wearing armor would help

[jenaburwell]

Originally posted by Nowei:

Not entirely sure them wearing armor would help

Haha, if it doesn't, then I would love it if the "Give your villagers some Armor!" message didn't pop up every time a hunter gets himself eaten by a wolf :)

[Nowei]

Ya the warnings are a bit much. You think because the game is warning about something that you need to change something or do something only ones you need to care about are starving and out of money. Everything else is just bells and whistles trying to distract you