Specific tool for harvesting animals?

[PlebianRhapsody]

I know you get more stone by harvesting with a pickax than with a sword for example. So when it comes to dead animals, is there any tool that's better and going to get you more hide/meat/etc when you harvest dead animals?

[Aracanthus]

Hatchet/sword gets you more meat and hide. Pick gets you bones if I remember right.

[Nodork]

meat seems to be not affected by the tool you use - it seems to be totally random, hide and bones differ, just test it out.

[Psi-Wulf]

Daggers give nothing but hide... Iron Dagger gives 50+ hides per Hyena

[cattibria]

Ancient Kopesh gets everything. Quantities will very.

[Game On]

Use the knife for hides, axe for meat, pickaxe for bone. Who the hell uses a sword to dismember an animal?

[cattibria]

Originally posted by JJdancer:

Use the knife for hides, axe for meat, pickaxe for bone. Who the hell uses a sword to dismember an animal?

Ancient Kopesh gets all, no need to change tools... Even got a human skull using it.

[Fat-n-Slo]

Originally posted by snorkadork09:

Daggers give nothing but hide... Iron Dagger gives 50+ hides per Hyena

Game changer right here.

I played the first 50 hours without this basic knowledge. I was careful with how I use hide/leather because it was tough to get a lot.

Now it's overflowing, and there's no need to dismember every single carcass for a few scraps of hide.

Thank you.

Now if there was only a tool for stripping bark in bulk...

[Stank]

Originally posted by mangfish:

Now if there was only a tool for stripping bark in bulk...

^ This!

[cattibria]

Originally posted by Stank:

Originally posted by mangfish:

Now if there was only a tool for stripping bark in bulk...

^ This!

Agree... need tonnes of bark now.

[Leo Fern]

Originally posted by mangfish:

Originally posted by snorkadork09:

Daggers give nothing but hide... Iron Dagger gives 50+ hides per Hyena

Game changer right here.

I played the first 50 hours without this basic knowledge. I was careful with how I use hide/leather because it was tough to get a lot.

Now it's overflowing, and there's no need to dismember every single carcass for a few scraps of hide.

Thank you.

Now if there was only a tool for stripping bark in bulk...

The steel pickaxe give a decent amount of wood, bark and sticks.
Now, if there was only a tool for harvesting fibre...

[Bushwick Bilbo]

In Q&A week 4 Joel stated that the fiber harvesting tool will come out with the new biome. No promises, I'm sure, since we're merely halfway (or less) through EA. But that will certainly help a bunch.

[Barnes]

Originally posted by Aeonmoon:

The steel pickaxe give a decent amount of wood, bark and sticks.
Now, if there was only a tool for harvesting fibre...

You'd be surprised by how much more bark you can get while using the steel pick vs pickaxe. If you target specific trees, you'll get even more!

Try using your steel pickaxe on a dead "yellow-limbed" tree-plant near grassy areas. After two strikes apiece and 10-11 fibre per strike, you can easily farm fibre while farming bark as these dead trees respawn quickly.

[Sire Prickley]

Errmm why is this even active, 9 Feb @ 8:39pm I did see 2 posts locked for the reason of being too irrelevant because of an early date, but this one is ok? Intresting? can anyone explain why this one is relevant and the other 2 were not?

[Leo Fern]

Originally posted by kratos:

Originally posted by Aeonmoon:

The steel pickaxe give a decent amount of wood, bark and sticks.
Now, if there was only a tool for harvesting fibre...

You'd be surprised by how much more bark you can get while using the steel pick vs pickaxe. If you target specific trees, you'll get even more!

Try using your steel pickaxe on a dead "yellow-limbed" tree-plant near grassy areas. After two strikes apiece and 10-11 fibre per strike, you can easily farm fibre while farming bark as these dead trees respawn quickly.

Right, good thing to mention, it's just that the steel pick doesn't give much wood.

Alas, at my building location there aren't too many of the slim tree-plants that give a lot of fiber. When the developers implement some sort of sickle that harvest more fiber, there will be far less grind for those of us who live on sand and rocks. ;)