Hunting Cabin

[lstefan]

Ok, so i placed a hunting cabin and assigned 3 people to it. So theres deer standing in the highlighted zone, but my hunters just randomly walk around and to nothing ? Its says 3/3 are working , so why arent theeyyyy ...

[Temper]

They are,the deer are meer eye-candy.

[Dawnmist]

The deer are not eye-candy. Each hunting cabin can only kill one deer every 2 months. If a hunter walks past a deer, there is a check for how long it has been since that cabin brought in food. If it has been less than 2 months, the hunter will ignore the deer. Otherwise, they will kill one.

Both hunters and deer wander around randomly - kills happen when their wanderings bring them together.

[Temper]

Originally posted by Dawnmist:

The deer are not eye-candy. Each hunting cabin can only kill one deer every 2 months. If a hunter walks past a deer, there is a check for how long it has been since that cabin brought in food. If it has been less than 2 months, the hunter will ignore the deer. Otherwise, they will kill one.

Both hunters and deer wander around randomly - kills happen when their wanderings bring them together.

Regardless if deer wander through the hunting lodge boundary marker or even if an animation was used to represent a kill,the fact is,a completely isloated hunting lodge that's never had a deer trod in its circle does produce venison and leather at a the same rates as one that has had deer nearby.Ergo I say eye-candy,as the only thing needed is a lodge,a area clear of buildings and 3 workers to staff the building.

I was afforded a chance to actually test this in my second tenure game in an area that was secluded by a ring of impassable mountain with not a deer ever touching the area.The lodge never failed to produce venison and leather.

=)

[Dawnmist]

I haven't gone as far as tenure yet so I'll accept your experience, though I do have established. My understanding was based on the analysis at Reddit http://www.reddit.com/r/Banished/comments/263pj2/notes_on_deer/ & my own observations of actually seeing the hunters wander into and kill deer as supporting evidence to that analysis.