Farming Feathers

[Plinko]

All I need to do to be well off is to craft arrows for my bow, however I lack feathers.

I do understand that they come from crows above bodies but I always find 0-2 feathers per body..

Is there a more efficient way to find feathers?

[IFIYGD]

Not really. Best source is to harvest near dead human corpses, if you know where they are in your game, check them every 3-5 in game days. At least that is what works for me, that and harvesting any and all broken arrows for the arrowheads and feathers.You don;t need a hundred arrows, If I have 12 good arrows, I find I need to make new bows much sooner than I need to make new arrows, and I hunt almost excluseively with arrows these days, really only needing the rifle when I am around the QGS in Costal Highway, just because there are so many wolves that gang bang you together on a regular basis. >.<

[cT917]

Not really

The feathers will always be by the corpses

You only find 0-2 because the crows haven't been there long. If you spend a few months hanging around a region and never collect the feathers you'll walk past a spot and see over a dozen from one spawn

If you travel more you'll find more spawns each region has at least a half dozen. Explore every day and you could easily get a few dozen by the time you're done

The bow is more of a "late game" feature for me (unless it's interloper then it's a priority)

[Plinko]

Thank you both so much lol.

I'm currently trying to move from Quonset gas station to the lighthouse in desolation point. I've been to the Riken to make 44 arrowheads(lol) but i couldn't get the feathers for the arrows. I'm probably just rushing the game too much.

Im only on day 20 but I have 3 pieces of animal hide clothing, 3 bows, 2 rifles, and much more. Then again, I'm only on voyager

Once i get at least 3 arrows, Im going to start travelling much more

[estcst]

I agree with the above. You don't need a ton of arrows. I normally keep it around 10.


The way I got a ton of feathers on my 200 day badge was that I was camping out at the camp office. There was a corpse by the large rock at the lake's edge and I just let them build up. At one point I decided to harvest them and end up with over 40 feathers in one area.

[PowerOn]

You can easily get feathers for 10 arrows in CH, but in DP is need luck for 1 or 2 arrows. :))

[Chegg]

Has anyone else noticed that there is a distinct lack of feathers and hatchets in desolation point?

[Jaspo]

Originally posted by Dank Vader:

Has anyone else noticed that there is a distinct lack of feathers and hatchets in desolation point?

Yes, this is intentional I think.

[ghowriter]

too bad we can't shoot and harvest the crows!

Wouldnt matter if we could: we'd only get 1-3 feathers and an ounce of meat based on the math they use for harvesting

[Plinko]

Lol it'd be amazing if we could find crow nests in trees we could shoot down, near fallen trees, or rare spawns on the ground near trees. In these nests, we would find several feathers and/or a dead crow that we could harvest

[ajb1978]

In my experience, the crow feathers that spawn are more than adequate. In particularly long runs I have been able to craft enough arrowheads and gather enough feathers to advance my Archery skill to level 5 without firing a single arrow from the bow. Just be patient, outlast the game, and gather feathers. :)

Edit: I used the rifle to stay alive while I gathered saplings, crafted arrow shafts, and gathered feathers. I make a single mad blacksmithing mission to one of the forges, and craft 125 arrowheads. Then I simply craft arrow after arrow, using that to boost my skill. 125 is the exact amount needed to reach level 5, and this is a sure-fire way to max your skill.

[darklight]

Originally posted by ajb1978:

In my experience, the crow feathers that spawn are more than adequate. In particularly long runs I have been able to craft enough arrowheads and gather enough feathers to advance my Archery skill to level 5 without firing a single arrow from the bow. Just be patient, outlast the game, and gather feathers. :)

Edit: I used the rifle to stay alive while I gathered saplings, crafted arrow shafts, and gathered feathers. I make a single mad blacksmithing mission to one of the forges, and craft 125 arrowheads. Then I simply craft arrow after arrow, using that to boost my skill. 125 is the exact amount needed to reach level 5, and this is a sure-fire way to max your skill.

That's amazing, I had no idea you could do that. But each arrowhead took you 1 hour to forge so 125 took you 125 hours I'm so impressed! How much fuel did you need?

[Lucid]

I've thought about crafting a bunch of arrows to boost archery before actually trying to hunt, but nice to know the numbers. The most I've done is about 20 arrows. It's the first level that is the most frustrating for me,and I never try to min/max durability because I get bored of a sandbox before everything runs dry.

[Alcator]

Originally posted by -Plinko:

All I need to do to be well off is to craft arrows for my bow, however I lack feathers.

Is there a more efficient way to find feathers?

A common newbie mistake is that they harvest PRE-PLACED deer carcasses. Don't do that! If a carcass is in the open, it WILL stay there indefinitely unless you touch it, and it will attract crows (unlike carcasses of deer that get killed during the course of the game). So, if you sacrifice the skin, guts, and 1-2 kilograms of meat, you get infinite feather spawn.
Once you touch the pre-placed, "ravaged carcass" (such as at Katie's Secluded Corner in Desolation Point), you won't get any more feathers from it once it despawns.

Human corpses last indefinitely, so at least you have that.

[PowerOn]

I have two gameplay now in DP, in one are a dead corpse in Riken and one under bride, in Riken the crow's don't drop feathers, in the one under bride 2 or 3 a week.

In the other game no corpses near Riken, are a deer in wolf area in ice in from Church - a bit risk for collect feathers and a corpse in Katie's, so I made a expedition to CH to gather feathers, there is easy pick dozens. :))

Advantage that in DP is easy hunt deer's in front Riken.

[AAAARGH!]

I just picked up 24 feathers at once from a corpse I'd forgotten to visit for a while.