Animals aren't showing up to need zones?

[Tcapitol]

I can't figure what im doing wrong. I place my tents 200+ meters away, show up 30 mins beforehand, set my treestands high and out of view, dont make any sound, continuously watch my scent cone, and wait the full need zone times, yet nothing ever shows up. Is this a bug or am I missing something?

[Sokurah]

Animals are not always in the need zones. And its always a timespan. They might show up any time basically. Or not for no real reason.

They might be in another zone nearby. Its not like they are there always exactly in the time period it says. They dont spawn in and out from 6 -10 or so.

I never really used much tents or treestands tbh.

Just start at the nearest hut and walk towards the need area. run up to lets say 200 meters. Then go slow and see if something is there.

Or keep moving around in the gereral area of the need zones. Just slow walking until you hear a warning or mating call, or until you find tracks. Follow them, see how old droppings are and stuff like that.

If you just go for tent and huntingstand, you might wait a long time.

But maybe others can say more about that because, i didnt really used it that much. I hunt relatively effective without them, most of the time :D

[DarkFalz]

You're starting a little too early for one thing. For my moose grind on Medved. the moose drink time is 12:00 - 16:00. Even so, I will start my runs at around 13:30 or 14:00. A lot of animals show up to their zones very late and this can be especially true with moose so starting around 2 hours into drink time gives them plenty of time to show up.

Still, I do sometimes get moose that are stubborn and still won't show up. In that case, I'll head back to my tent and do the 1 minute trick. This is literally just setting the time ahead by 1 minute and most of time, it will force the animals into their zone. You still might need to do it several times before they show up though.

[Nekronos]

Originally posted by DarkFalz:

You're starting a little too early for one thing. For my moose grind on Medved. the moose drink time is 12:00 - 16:00. Even so, I will start my runs at around 13:30 or 14:00. A lot of animals show up to their zones very late and this can be especially true with moose so starting around 2 hours into drink time gives them plenty of time to show up.

Still, I do sometimes get moose that are stubborn and still won't show up. In that case, I'll head back to my tent and do the 1 minute trick. This is literally just setting the time ahead by 1 minute and most of time, it will force the animals into their zone. You still might need to do it several times before they show up though.

the time ahead on your OS?

[DarkFalz]

Originally posted by Nekronos:

the time ahead on your OS?

No the in game time. When you rest at a tent or outpost, you can change the in game time to whatever you want.