Hares and such....

[Marissa]

In The Netherlands we have saying "Hoe een koe een haas vangt... ("How a cow catches a hare...").

But I really would like to know how a viking catches a hare :-).

Yesterday I made my first steps into the Mistland. There is a small piece of Mistland connected a plain area. If I must believe my friend unusual friendly.... only hares there (and some wood of course.... yay, I can make my black metal pick axe :-)).

I have been trying to hunt the hares there with my bow.... with a doubtful success.

Any tricks for a viking who wants to catch a hare :-).

[Gal Kraft]

In your particular area, deathsquitos are great hare hunters. You can manipulate that for starters.

My tactic of choice for hare hunting are ooze bombs. Not sure Vikings had ooze bombs, but the game does.

Setting some stakes scattered in an area you frequent, such as when you setup a small mistlands crop farm, will occasionally yield some carnage.

Just remember, to spawn creatures, you have to run around because they won't spawn when staying in one place.

[thommix777]

Ooze bombs. Never go to mistlands without them. Easy hare kills.

[Cattastrafy]

Yeap, third the ooze bombs. Fire staff is way better when you can get it if you want to use an eitr food.

Spike traps at an area you frequent (your fungus farm, sap extractors) can Garner a few too with little effort.

[autumndragonfalling]

We like to place a farm on the border between the Plains and the Mistlands so we can farm zone specific crops in both areas. This also allows you to benefit from the animosity the creatures of the areas feel for each other that may lead to Hare deaths while you work on your farm.

An aoe weapon like Stagbreaker or the Iron Sledge can be more effective than other melee weapons for when they dart around your feet though you still have to be quick with your strikes.

The speed and lack of drop of crossbow type weapons can make them more useful for Hares once your Mistlands progress lets you craft them.

[adritheonly]

Tame lox REALLY dislike hares. Border plains/mistlands close to the coast is a good spot for a farm. So whilst you are tending your crops, the lox will get busy and at the end of the day, just pick up the corpses. Oozebombs and spikes also work.

[A New Player]

Knife + Tonic of Ratatosk

[Draconis]

Everything the others already mentioned.

So I'll just add one thing: An atgeir works quite good to hunt hares, due to it's range.

If you want to shoot them from a distance, you will have to set up quite a few wisp torches all over the place, so you can see them from further away. Or, if you are lucky, you might find a flat area that is free of mist already, with hares spawning there. In that case, this might be the place to hunt.

[SertanDoom]

If you use eitr- Deadraiser summoned skelets will hunt hares (archers are best). Also they are easier to shoot when they swim as they move a little slower.

[Zombits]

A good way is to just use magic with amber staff or frost . Or sneak a little and shoot em with crossbow.

Passive methods are infinite but around dvergr settlements they die all the time from spikes

[Gal Kraft]

OP just entered mistlands. Magic is not an option.

[SoCalMike91]

I saw it happen naturally just after a storm

Pufferfish do slay hares!
But to catch and line the fish up might be too much for the common viking..

[Landorf]

Use rocket launcher. I mean fireball shooting staff. In a Mistlands, this is answer to anything but Gjall...

[Gisbert]

Early Mistlands:

Originally posted by thommix777:

Ooze bombs.

This.

Originally posted by Draconis:

An atgeir works quite good to hunt hares, due to it's range.

This.

Mid Mistlands:

Originally posted by Cattastrafy:

Spike traps at an area you frequent (your fungus farm, sap extractors)

This.

Plus:
Often underestimated is to build your sap extractors or fungus farms in biome transitions from Mistlands to Plains.
Deathsquitos (or Plains mobs in general) are brutally good hare hunters.

Late Mistlands:

Originally posted by Zombits:

A good way is to just use magic
[...]
and shoot em with crossbow.

This.

Additional information:
If you are very good at it, you can also use spear/bow.
But even with very good reflexes, you have a lot of misses and it's more tedious than with anything else listed.
Still a possibility if you need to save resources.

Overall:
Ooze bombs are the best active hare hunting strategy by far.
You normally have an abundance of resources to craft them.
And since the latest update, you can craft them in stacks.
Even if you miss, you usually still hit somehow, due to the area damage and the duration over time effect.

[Draconis]

Hunting a hare with a spear (hey, that rhymes!) works perfectly up slopes, so if the hare is a bit higher up than you.

And after my last visit to the mistlands I can only recommend to bring a spear there anyway. It seems to be a pretty fast way to kill a Gjall (just stand beneath it (a bit more to the back part if possible) and throw the spear up into the weak spot, repeat as soon as the spear drops down)

[Marissa]

Thank you for all your suggestion.... I will try them all (and sorry, I can indeed not use magic yet).

As first I tried the Ooze Bombs (as they were mentioned so often) and wow.... those work very well :-).

Now I know how a viking catches a hare.... ;-).