How am I supposed to hunt deers and foxes?

[Andresteves]

I cant approach them, even with long range weapons. I have met them several times but even when moving slowly they spot me and the ? vanish.

[derp12332112]

They're basically impossible to hunt unless you get one stuck early game. By investing in PERCEPTION, you can eventually increase your Vision and Missile (Ranged weapon) range by +1 or more.

Most passive animals will flee on sight and have a 1-2 tile longer sight range than you, so they'll see you before you see them. Hunting in game, slightly similar to irl, takes a certain level of experience and skill.

Even then, you'll need a stronger weapon to bring them down with ranged;

Crossbows are good if you can angle yourself to stun them; Xbows have a chance to do Knockback (with 100% chance on critical), and knocking an entity into an object (a tree for example) will stun them, allowing you to fire off more shots.

Bows are good if you get higher Bleed Chances, where one or two well placed shots will bleed it out, granted its not near the border whereas they'll escape.

In the future, Stealth will be something added in that will make things such as Hunting much more approachable, but for now you'll need to cope with fighting Wolves and Boars.

[Andresteves]

Thanks man! You really helped me a lot.

[Owlie]

Go strafe around mountains. The pathfinding gets a bit quirky there and docile animals tend to get stuck there and ready for easy kill.
Ironically that is also how we used to hunt animal during stone age.

[Drewsko]

u have to get lucky and walk around a deep wood or mountain and hope the terrain blocks their vision so you *bump* into them. This can work both ways as u can also walk into a bear or a young troll and become the prey yourself!

[Voggi]

There is one skill in the survival tree that gives you +1 vision and lets you see animal tracks and see things outside of your vision...With this skill, some practice of understanding the visual cover mechanics and a LOT of patience you can sneak close to a deer or other animals that spook...A ranged weapon with the take aim skill is almost necessary... a cloak or shoes with the stat that reduces noise has seemed to help me too for some reason.

[Andresteves]

Thanks for the tip!

[AvivLobel]

i found a way to hunt them by reach the edge of the map , they will stuck on the edge and u can melee them, also map with a rock edge works too.