Good deer location?

[4Y-01 | R. Wolfe]

Has anyone found a good location to hunt deer? I know they aren't as common as say hornets since the stew is the best food in the game currently but I used to see them all the time now all of a sudden that I have all the mats to make the stew in excess I can't find a damn deer any where. In fact I spent a whole day(07:00-20:00) running around and found 1 pig all day o.O

[Horth]

I see lots of deer at night in "Deirsville". I thought the town name was a pun on the name Deers Ville since I see so many there at night. However, getting to them with all the zombies is tough, so I play with zombie running turned off (walk only).

For some reason, even a fully repaired sniper rifle head shot does not down a deer, so I use a shotgun for almost everything. With alpha 6 out within a dya or so, I wonder if gun damage gets altered.

Is there a way to see Deer / Zombie HPs and how much damage each gun does?

[gnorf73]

Most of the deer i see are in the middle west part of the map.

[Gibbonici]

My group has built our base at the Scenic Overlook. Deer keep dying in our spike trenches so we've got more food than we can practically store ;)

[4Y-01 | R. Wolfe]

Originally posted by Horth:

I see lots of deer at night in "Deirsville". I thought the town name was a pun on the name Deers Ville since I see so many there at night. However, getting to them with all the zombies is tough, so I play with zombie running turned off (walk only).

For some reason, even a fully repaired sniper rifle head shot does not down a deer, so I use a shotgun for almost everything. With alpha 6 out within a dya or so, I wonder if gun damage gets altered.

Is there a way to see Deer / Zombie HPs and how much damage each gun does?

According to the wiki

Number of shots required to kill a stag:

9mm pistol: 4 shots
Shotgun: 1 shot
10mm submachine gun: 2 shots
Crossbow: 4 Bolts
Aiming at the head has no effect.

But now I don't know how accurate that is because normal it takes me more then one shotgun blast to take down a deer. But I was told by a friend he read on the 7DTD offical forums that weapon damage is modified by how broken your weapon is. So a fully repaired shotgun does way more damage then one that is about to break.


And thanks for all the spots guys I will have to check them out and setup a hunting camp

[MUNK]

I build fort in the big lake, and they always grassing there.
But from what i can read i this tread, they appear everywhere?

[Sword]

Deer are pretty prevalent in a lot of places. I made an island castle in the middle of spillway lake. I can see deer from my roof. They are all around the lake. I've also found a lot of deer spawn near one of the big hills close to the gravetown spawn. One thing I noticed is deer seem more common at certain times of the day. I tend to find the most deer between 12pm and 2pm game time, but I can usually keep hunting them up until about 4pm.

[BING CHILLING]

You find a lot of them going to the lakes to drink. My base is in the middle of the lake and i get around 10-15 deers in one (45 min) day.