can you overhunt animals?

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[joefitts63]

Kind of depends on the game settings. There is a respawn delay; the longer it is, the more likely you are to find nothing to hunt. The various difficulties have different settings and you can choose the setting in a custom game.

[MadBone12]

Originally posted by ICountFrom0:

Are the in world rabbits and the trapped rabbits still separate respawn pools?

Yes, I believe so. As far as I can tell, using traps does not affect visible rabbits and your traps also don't catch less over time, even if placed day after day (that being said, I have never used traps for more than 3 days - maybe if you do, you will start catching less and less).

[marejov83]

I usually have interloper animals settings. And I do kill everything I see (sometimes spare deer and I don't care about rabbits, I don't fish), never go past bear or moos.. That's a must kill, and wolfs because I can't be bothered avoiding them. Never had an issue with overhunting, even on 500+ days runs.

[MadBone12]

Originally posted by Tekel1959:

Yes, with the settings low enough, you can hit days of "no joy" with both fishing and snares.

Good to know. I usually use the highest settings for the rabbits so probably less of a concern for me.

[konstantinoskountousias]

yes you can and oversnare rabbits as well... but they will spawn back after some days depending of the difficulty you play in. for example the bear needs 50 days in loper to spawn again after killed

[yippeekiay]

Certainly can't seem to in my game. I kill almost everything I see even though I have gained a ridiculous amount of meat & fish (nearly 2,000 Kg of each so far in my first playthrough lol), along with a silly amount of spare hides & guts that I can't really use up.
More things possible to craft is my problem.
If we could only tan hides to make leather for repairing, that would be a decent addition along with some other items.
Currently have far too many rabbit, deer & wolf hides and their respective guts. 600+ guts & counting sat doing nothing currently ;D

[yippeekiay]

Originally posted by Tekel1959:

What I call an embarrassment of riches, and why I mostly play with spawns low or off now.

yup, now 709 guts. I just went on a killing spree. 5 deer, a couple of wolves & a Bear were all in my line of sight as the same time in Coastal Highway - had to be done although the Bear shook me about a little first hahaha.