any tips on killing deer?

[Lizara]

I've found a good area to farm deer but I the primitive bow is not enough to kill them in one shot and then they disappear into the foliage.
it's become rather frustrating as without hide to craft hide armor cannibals are just whooping my ass since cloth and duct tape for leaf and bone armor are mostly found in caves and around cannibal camps.
is there a trap type that also works on deer?
and with traps in general: do I have to somehow load the small animal trap for example with food as bait? haven't caught a single rabbit in an area that was swarming with them.

[JB2ALL]

Use the bone maker trap. I found that using that trap is easier to get deer when your trying to build and defend at the same time, but need food also. As far as catching rabbits, I mainly get squirrels and raccoons.

[Lizara]

Originally posted by Carter Rogue:

Use the bone maker trap. I found that using that trap is easier to get deer when your trying to build and defend at the same time, but need food also. As far as catching rabbits, I mainly get squirrels and raccoons.

I guess rabbits don't multiply in the hutch and don't give skin so they are pointless?

[JB2ALL]

I haven't used the hutch yet, even though I have been playing since the first ea release. I do plan on starting a YouTube series based on off grid homesteading in sons of the forest. Just waiting to figure my story line...lol. But I have seen videos where others have used it just fine. They haven't implemented the rabbit pelt yet. I sure hope they do.

[Lizara]

Originally posted by Carter Rogue:

They haven't implemented the rabbit pelt yet. I sure hope they do.

it's a full release. they're not adding the other pelts that we knew from the first game. the last update was 5 months ago and I'm sure it was purely technical.
not having smaller, easier to catch animals or just crocodiles to kill for skin like in the first is actually one of my gripes with this one considering how aggressive and plentiful cannibals are and how you now need tape for bone armor which is mostly found in caves, containers, cannibal camps and skin pouches.

[Ozzys_Dad]

Find the crossbow. It one shots deer. I'm not good with aiming with it though. I tend to lose more bolts than land them in a deer. lol

[wildguy]

I use the 9mm pistol or the golf cart but i don't hunt deer too often, usually get enough deer pelts from driving the cart and hitting them by accident. I have also built the large rabbit cage and the rabbits do breed but they are a waste of effort. if they run out of food they die off and i would keep forgetting to feed them. there's so much food sources in this game that they are kinda a moot point.

You should save your rope for bone armor early in the game , leaf armor and hide armor are pretty weak (if they use rope, not sure never made any). lots of rope that respawns in the game at abandoned camps and other locations, no need to fight any cannibals early on to get it. once you discover these areas rope is not a problem, tape is the problem early on. i usually have a full set of bone armor by day 3 or 4.

[Lizara]

Originally posted by wildguy:

tape is the problem early on.

that is what I am saying. iirc bone armor in the first was crafted with rope, bones and cloth. tape is too scarce of a resource to be used in armor which is essential to survive cannibal attacks unless your base is booby trapped to the tits like the house in home alone

[Real Mofo]

Shotgun Slug, makes even the Moose kneel down hehehehe

[wildguy]

Originally posted by Lizara:

Originally posted by wildguy:

tape is the problem early on.

that is what I am saying. iirc bone armor in the first was crafted with rope, bones and cloth. tape is too scarce of a resource to be used in armor which is essential to survive cannibal attacks unless your base is booby trapped to the tits like the house in home alone

I find tape only a problem early in the game. About 70% of all skin pouches contain tape and i end up in every game having to store tape on shelves i have so much. would be nice if batteries spawned occasionally in pouches.

[Lizara]

Originally posted by wildguy:

would be nice if batteries spawned occasionally in pouches.

they do. I keep finding coins, batteries and watches in pouches. that's how I was able to craft explosive arrows very early on to make the rebreather cave easier