Animal hide

[Stormkiller]

Playing in solo and having a very hard time finding hide. Is there a trick to it similar to using a hatchet on a tree instead of a pick yields more wood? If so, what do I use on the dead animal to yield more hide?

[No Ragrets]

Aha im subscribibng to this one lol lets hope someone has an answer .. 80 hides? ive been to 45 before but 80 just for a stupid parasaur one and not even possible getting the 110 hides for a raptor...

[Kilogaust]

Axe, although it isn't a dramatic increase. I never seem to get hide with a pick.

[Jmee]

I've tried both and haven't noticed a difference, really, but I keep seeing people say go with the axe so I tend to just default to using the hatchet on bodies.

[Bonkeybee]

Kilogaust is correct. Axe for hide, Pick for meat.

[Skurcey]

but the pickaxe yield more tatch while the hatchet yield more wood so i dunno

[Lost Dream(lilcan)]

axe for hide pick for meat, tho not much difference with stone tools, you see a bigger one when using metal

[Stormkiller]

Thanks for the replies so far peeps. We'll keep this going until we get a definitive answer. :)

[☢☣Red»Klayton☣☢]

good to know :D

[WastingSanity]

Axe for more hide, turtles and the first creature mount can yield a lot of hide. I have also noticed if you start to tame a Dilo but run out of meat (give it a nice stack of meat) before you can tame it completely. (meter was half way) There seems to be the chance of additional hides. When I killed one it yielded 9 hide.

[No Ragrets]

I have never bested a turtle in combat.. had one follow me for 10 minutes across the map when i stopped to rest i got crafting things then all of a sudden from behind.. boom im a turtle snack..
those things are brutal lol

[TheRightHand]

Hatchet is the way to go for skinning animals ;)

- The Right Hand.

[Bonkeybee]

Originally posted by TheRightHand:

Hatchet is the way to go for skinning animals ;)

- The Right Hand.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O8gTIr4lys

[No Ragrets]

Well that solves that haha =p

[WastingSanity]

Originally posted by Master Scrotis:

I have never bested a turtle in combat.. had one follow me for 10 minutes across the map when i stopped to rest i got crafting things then all of a sudden from behind.. boom im a turtle snack..
those things are brutal lol

I used a sling shot on the turtle and went for head shots. Takes about 10+ shots to down it. Hatchet the rest of the life away and get them hides! It was also level 2. Those things are nothing to mess with in melee.

[No Ragrets]

Originally posted by WastingSanity:

Those things are nothing to mess with in melee.

Thats the truth i have never made a slingshot.. probably wont either i have my bow which required the slingshot to make but again never actually made one. im waiting for the tranq arrows as ive found a few randomly on corpses and stuff so they have to be makable =p Not trying to make excuses just further the challenge for myself i guess =/