where have all the bison gone?

[a_stuckenborg]

Trying the mini-quest for the merchant, he wants the pelt and horns of a bison, which he informs can be found on the steppes. Problem is, the map doesn't show any steppes, only Fields or Forests. Where should I go, relative to the starting town, to find bisonses? Thx!

[DeEpWiCkEd]

Great question. It seems bison are less likely to show up when this quest is active. Just have to keep wandering around the areas with no trees (closer to mannshire than osbrook)

[Beholder]

Bisons spawn in Mannshire steppes.

[funkmonster7]

Originally posted by DeEpWiCkEd:

Great question. It seems bison are less likely to show up when this quest is active. Just have to keep wandering around the areas with no trees (closer to mannshire than osbrook)

Nah it's just luck.

Originally posted by a_stuckenborg:

Trying the mini-quest for the merchant, he wants the pelt and horns of a bison, which he informs can be found on the steppes. Problem is, the map doesn't show any steppes, only Fields or Forests. Where should I go, relative to the starting town, to find bisonses? Thx!

Best thing to do is just save in the Mannshire inn, head to the west plain and look for Bisons. If you searched the whole map and found none, just reload save and do it again.

Bisons are frickin' hard to kill if you're a melee character, so if you don't want to use the above strategy (which is actually just cheesing because enemies can't enter town, so you'll just skip between map borders to escape, rest up and kill the Bisons that way), just don't bother with the quest and keep adventuring until you happen across the Bisons around Mannshire. With proper equipment and levels, you can kill Bisons easily. They'll appear in the steppes sooner or later, the question is whether you can kill them or not because you'll aggro all 3-4 of them the moment you hit one of them. They're deadlier than bears in that regard.

Another strategy is lure them into bandits, but only if they spawn in the same area. It probably doesn't do you much good because it'll be a 3-way battle and bandits get murdered by Bisons relatively quickly. But you only need one Bison pelt and horns so you can get one killed, pick up the loot and run for your life. Not really advised though, because if you cross maps with 2 Bisons hot on your tail, they'll spawn right next to you when you cross maps.

[a_stuckenborg]

thx!