Overhunting?

[3 Ducks In a Man Suit]

Is overhunting something I need to worry about, or should I just kill as many herds of animals as I can to stock up on meat for winter? If I kill all the animals on the map, does that impact their chance to respawn?

[grapplehoeker]

That depends on the biome you have chosen. All animals will spawn into the map and migrate inwards from the edges. how often that happens and the variety is dependent on the biome and the time of year.
If there is an abundance of meat out there, go get it, there'll always be more ;)

[TSense]

No, i never had the spawn rate of animals go down after hunting.

You do have to worry about keeping it fresh. Once you killed that animal it will rot away in 2 days unless you can keep it frozen non-stop, which can be hard when your powergrid dies down because the sun gets funny every 5 days.
But if you keep them running around, they will not rot, only leave once winter gets to hard. Wild animals will leave the map and never starve to death (unless you make them)

Protip: The Muffalo is the best animal there is.
Hunt or tame them, never let them leave your map

[Zalzany]

Yeah Muffallo if they show up are the best, dangours though early one a herd in revenge is more deadly then a heard of elk or husky manhunters. If you get them boomrats and lopes are freaking fun to tame though. When I do tribal now I tame them and set them on release the rats die real easy but they are like little homing missiles for pirate raiders who got better gear then you

[Soul Eating Bird]

Also, make sure you have a place to hide if you hunt any deer-like creature. Multiple times I've had an entire (big) herd of deer go nuts and down my hunter. I had to stop everything my pawns were doing and barricade them in the dining room until I could get the situation under control.

[kevinshow]

Animals will return or respawn, but as a side note, trees take a long time to return if you clear cut an area. So it's a good idea to just cut selectively if you want a nearby grove of trees to keep harvesting from.

[Not That Guy]

Originally posted by navorskatie:

Animals will return or respawn, but as a side note, trees take a long time to return if you clear cut an area. So it's a good idea to just cut selectively if you want a nearby grove of trees to keep harvesting from.

i find soon as i have people idle i plant trees, once planted destory anyhome area and the grow zone, leave them to grow till you need them

[ambi]

Nah. You can hunt them to extinction and they'll return. Spawn rate is affected by season and temperature.

[Ashardalon]

Originally posted by Not That Guy:

Originally posted by navorskatie:

Animals will return or respawn, but as a side note, trees take a long time to return if you clear cut an area. So it's a good idea to just cut selectively if you want a nearby grove of trees to keep harvesting from.

i find soon as i have people idle i plant trees, once planted destory anyhome area and the grow zone, leave them to grow till you need them

raiders will still burn trees even if they are not in a home or growing zone
so unless you can wall it off thats not really an option

[Delle(DK)]

if im not mistaken then no matter how many animals you kill, then you just have to wait 5-7 days, then all animals will have respawned again. ( use skip time feature ).

I actual never tried to just time warm and not kill any animals, maybe they reproduce and there will be much more animals.

[Ashardalon]

untamed animals dont breed

[Tyrant]

think of hunting as a ohshit reserve for when your food runs out but since your the predator you have to ensure that there are no other predators that compete with you.

sadly animals dont really migrate back in towards the centre but thats generally where you build anyways a method ive found to be decent is to send hunting parties out to the tiles next to your base on the worldmap and hunt there and bring the kill back home let them have a pack animal come along to carry the kill on and also restrict foodmaking so meat only goes into fine or better meals to conserve it.

however domestication is probably the best longterm option and the best animals ive found is the muffalo.
work in any climate gives lots of meat/wool/milk and act as pack animals.

but when it comes to defence animals.. chickens lots and lots of chickens


P.S later in game you might get hold of one of the artifact lances that makes animals go berserk.
if you have domesticated animals send them off map with 1 pawn trigger it and gun the animals down and be sure to have everyone butchering. the amount of meat you can get is insane.

[3 Ducks In a Man Suit]

Originally posted by Tyrant:

think of hunting as a ohshit reserve for when your food runs out but since your the predator you have to ensure that there are no other predators that compete with you.

sadly animals dont really migrate back in towards the centre but thats generally where you build anyways a method ive found to be decent is to send hunting parties out to the tiles next to your base on the worldmap and hunt there and bring the kill back home let them have a pack animal come along to carry the kill on and also restrict foodmaking so meat only goes into fine or better meals to conserve it.

however domestication is probably the best longterm option and the best animals ive found is the muffalo.
work in any climate gives lots of meat/wool/milk and act as pack animals.

but when it comes to defence animals.. chickens lots and lots of chickens


P.S later in game you might get hold of one of the artifact lances that makes animals go berserk.
if you have domesticated animals send them off map with 1 pawn trigger it and gun the animals down and be sure to have everyone butchering. the amount of meat you can get is insane.

Hunting, trading, and foraging are my primary food sources, in that order. I live in a tundra biome where the average low temperature in winter is -30 degrees Farenheit. I actually have coexisted with a Grizzly Bear for over a year of ingame time. It mainly kills rabbits, squirrels, unlucky Huskie puppies, and the occasional Spacer whos escape pod landed outside my walls just before the bear got hungry. He's the mayor and official mascot of my town, Grizzly Hollow.

I actually have a pack of +20 Huskies which I use as defense animals. 20 Huskies and 2 sniper rifles can completely slaughter a large Tribal raid with no casualties.

[Zalzany]

Yeah hunting was never an oh ♥♥♥♥ reserve. I mean its a staple for 90% of us. You need meat, it works unless you are in the desert more animials will always replace them at some point. In cold climates winter is mroe hard to hunt but still raising critters for meat just not an option early on as mufaloos eat a ♥♥♥♥ ton, and you get 10-20 days to grow them hay for rest of the year lol So you lucky to tame and keep one pair your first winter if your not using some heavy duty farming mods to speed up farming or got a huge feild set up for it. But you got make a call spend all day harvesting 200+ tiles of haygrass or building your base before freezing winter comes lol.

But tribal, or spacer never had issues minus ice shelf or extreme desert hunting. Even in the desert I can find somehting to hunt I jsut got keep eyes peeled more often for meat. Granted if you get a decent section of land that is not sand to farm you can grow year round and tame your meat. But I am Tundra or Boreal player at heart so to me hunting meat is the best way to get my meat. I mean pack of elk once you not scared of the revenge attacks is like 2 months of meat for your colony, and you don't even need a freezer for all but 25 days out of the game year so even as tribal I can pull it off while trying to research power and ac to make a freezer.

[kevinshow]

I used to just depend on hay but recently began trying kibble. I think I like the kibble option better since it doesn't need any kind of refrigeration. I hated seeing something like 1000+ hay be destroyed due to small fluctuations of temperatures above refrigeration levels.

Animals move away from the cell if it gets too cold but in the next spring, they should be back (if you're not playing in constantly cold biome). So hunt away!

I do have to say that when I was raising boars for meat and attack/haul functions, there were so many boars being born that I had plenty of meat and leather even without hunting the wild animals. However, that also hurts a bit since your ranged fighters don't get practice, so I would still suggest that they should go hunt now and then.