Boars are renewable?

[Autismus Maximus]

I notice hunting areas become ever scarcer as they get hunted. Is there no other way of acquiring boars or meat in a renewable matter, aside from trading?

[Wantoomany]

The seem to be renewable, but only if left deep in the forests. If you cut back trees you will remove their ability to spawn. I have a patch of them I've been hunting for ages with and they have not depopulated. But I'm also intentionally not doing any logging or berry gathering nearby.

[Tontonfongus]

Originally posted by Wantoomany:

The seem to be renewable, but only if left deep in the forests. If you cut back trees you will remove their ability to spawn. I have a patch of them I've been hunting for ages with and they have not depopulated. But I'm also intentionally not doing any logging or berry gathering nearby.

I've done multiple games where I've tried to have a sustaineble boar forest. I don't do anything with it and yet all the Boars are gone. One or two appear every now and then but it's not near enough to keep the hunting camp running.

[Lateralus]

Originally posted by Tontonfongus:

Originally posted by Wantoomany:

The seem to be renewable, but only if left deep in the forests. If you cut back trees you will remove their ability to spawn. I have a patch of them I've been hunting for ages with and they have not depopulated. But I'm also intentionally not doing any logging or berry gathering nearby.

I've done multiple games where I've tried to have a sustaineble boar forest. I don't do anything with it and yet all the Boars are gone. One or two appear every now and then but it's not near enough to keep the hunting camp running.

Maybe this is intentional game design to encourage us to developed agriculture and become less reliant on hunting and gathering?

[Dregora]

Originally posted by Lateralus:

Originally posted by Tontonfongus:

I've done multiple games where I've tried to have a sustaineble boar forest. I don't do anything with it and yet all the Boars are gone. One or two appear every now and then but it's not near enough to keep the hunting camp running.

Maybe this is intentional game design to encourage us to developed agriculture and become less reliant on hunting and gathering?

I would assume not, considering meat is the first refined source you get, it would be quite the bad choice.

That being said, i've used the same patch of big forest to hunt. Just make sure there are like 20+ boar spots in a forest and they'll renew easily. I never run out.

[Final Cipher]

I think boars require other living boars nearby in order to replenish. I've also seen them migrate slowly over time away from hunting zones, but they seem unable to leave a deep forest, so you may need to control a large area to really trap them (even if just temporarily seizing an area, deforesting it, and abandoning it), and be careful with not getting anywhere close to them when logging. And don't overhunt.