harvesting animals

[Jerany]

I've killed about 6 dodos and 1 bird and cannot harvest them at all i can see them but its like they are not there?

[MrBishop077]

small creatures are hard to target sometimes. Are you on PC or console (no difference just curious).
First person, crouch or crawl back and forth over it till you see the drag icon. once you move it, the corpse should be above the mesh and then harvestable like normal. A pike has a small aoe to it so pointing at the corpse and attacking will also sometimes harvest it when you cant grab it.

Also small creatures are harder to farm from dino back (except bugs and compy's have no issues for some Good reason), Rex will farm those if it can step on it, and sometimes the carnivore will harvest it if standing over the corpse when you dismount (randomly it seems maybe food based .. /shrug)

hope some of that helps =)

[CaveMonkey]

Punch the dead carcass

[Auakopf]

For me the best option is harvesting with a pteranodon (should work with other birds, too, I assume). Works also for harvesting trilobites :)

[Jerany]

im on PC,
ive tried punching - thought maybe the hit box was out! nope punched. hit. piked, axed etc still cannot? ive been down on belly, knees and still cannot access the creature?? from over it to all around it. maybe ill have to wait till i have a meat eater, hopefully that will work. having trouble with trilobits also! but have looted 1 out 5 of them (using a pike about an inch away from what should be the hit box!

[MrBishop077]

maybe try a Dilo have it on follow. set Target range to the shortest setting and walk up to the corpse. try having it on wander it may eat the corpse if that does not work (and here is where it needs to be on follow and shortest targeting for sure..) and set it to aggressive. Take care there are not creatures you do not want to attack nearby or it may attack them.

Dont forget to set it back to neutral or your preferred setting.

Also are you having issues with larger dino's? or just the smaller ones? and you are in first person? the over the shoulder makes aiming hard for me

[Black Raven]

Trilobite are the worst for trying to harvest