Where are the carcasses?

[Nasir]

Literally, I cannot find them, using my scent view, following the purple things, still not found.

Are they invisible or am I doing something wrong?

[Kaija]

Carcasses are much harder to find now. They float on the wind and aren't always around. If you hang out in an area with multiple prey animals nearby, you might eventually find some carcass scents.
Here's a brief guide to the scents:
Shapes:
Round/Diamond Shapes: Living Animal
Three Wavy Lines: Scent Marking
Mark With Lines: Carcass
As for the colors, I think I have them pretty well memorized.
Elk - Pink (normal shade is a cow elk, darker shade is a bull/spike elk, and very light pink is a calf, though you'll only see the last one when very close to a herd).
Mule Deer - Purple. This is probably the scent you were following. Provided you have enough health, doe mule deer aren't too hard to hunt, so if you're new to hunting, this is a decent place to begin, but they're fast.
Hare - Cream.
Yellow - Wolf. Read the label that comes with it to see if it's a dispersal (after you get to that quest) or a hostile stranger wolf from a pack.
Blue - Grizzly Bear. Type changes with color, but that doesn't really matter because it's dangerous no matter what.
Dark Green - Cougar.
Light Green - Fox or Coyote (still trying to tell the difference between the two, but the label will tell you which one).
And that's about it. The labels will help more than this will, to be honest, but this will hopefully give you a small boost for scent view.
Back to your main questions, the purple dots were likely a mule deer. I noticed you said you were following them, but going toward them will lead you to the source of the scent. Anyway, carcasses aren't always available, but sometimes you'll find them.
Hope this helped. Enjoy the game! :)

[Nasir]

Originally posted by Kaija:

Carcasses are much harder to find now. They float on the wind and aren't always around. If you hang out in an area with multiple prey animals nearby, you might eventually find some carcass scents.
Here's a brief guide to the scents:
Shapes:
Round/Diamond Shapes: Living Animal
Three Wavy Lines: Scent Marking
Mark With Lines: Carcass
As for the colors, I think I have them pretty well memorized.
Elk - Pink (normal shade is a cow elk, darker shade is a bull/spike elk, and very light pink is a calf, though you'll only see the last one when very close to a herd).
Mule Deer - Purple. This is probably the scent you were following. Provided you have enough health, doe mule deer aren't too hard to hunt, so if you're new to hunting, this is a decent place to begin, but they're fast.
Hare - Cream.
Yellow - Wolf. Read the label that comes with it to see if it's a dispersal (after you get to that quest) or a hostile stranger wolf from a pack.
Blue - Grizzly Bear. Type changes with color, but that doesn't really matter because it's dangerous no matter what.
Dark Green - Cougar.
Light Green - Fox or Coyote (still trying to tell the difference between the two, but the label will tell you which one).
And that's about it. The labels will help more than this will, to be honest, but this will hopefully give you a small boost for scent view.
Back to your main questions, the purple dots were likely a mule deer. I noticed you said you were following them, but going toward them will lead you to the source of the scent. Anyway, carcasses aren't always available, but sometimes you'll find them.
Hope this helped. Enjoy the game! :)

Thanks for the tip, but still no sign of them.

[Kaija]

Originally posted by nasirfoxx:

Originally posted by Kaija:

Carcasses are much harder to find now. They float on the wind and aren't always around. If you hang out in an area with multiple prey animals nearby, you might eventually find some carcass scents.
Here's a brief guide to the scents:
Shapes:
Round/Diamond Shapes: Living Animal
Three Wavy Lines: Scent Marking
Mark With Lines: Carcass
As for the colors, I think I have them pretty well memorized.
Elk - Pink (normal shade is a cow elk, darker shade is a bull/spike elk, and very light pink is a calf, though you'll only see the last one when very close to a herd).
Mule Deer - Purple. This is probably the scent you were following. Provided you have enough health, doe mule deer aren't too hard to hunt, so if you're new to hunting, this is a decent place to begin, but they're fast.
Hare - Cream.
Yellow - Wolf. Read the label that comes with it to see if it's a dispersal (after you get to that quest) or a hostile stranger wolf from a pack.
Blue - Grizzly Bear. Type changes with color, but that doesn't really matter because it's dangerous no matter what.
Dark Green - Cougar.
Light Green - Fox or Coyote (still trying to tell the difference between the two, but the label will tell you which one).
And that's about it. The labels will help more than this will, to be honest, but this will hopefully give you a small boost for scent view.
Back to your main questions, the purple dots were likely a mule deer. I noticed you said you were following them, but going toward them will lead you to the source of the scent. Anyway, carcasses aren't always available, but sometimes you'll find them.
Hope this helped. Enjoy the game! :)

Thanks for the tip, but still no sign of them.

They won't always be there. Carcasses probably appear less than half as often as living animal scents do. It's primarily a matter of luck.

[Loach]

For reference, the floating smells for carcasses looks like this:
https://prnt.sc/pqvdnk

And on the ground, in scent view, they tend to look like this:
https://prnt.sc/pqvhk0

They do not give off plumes of smoke smells like in the old game, so you have to be a bit more patient to find them. If you follow a trail and cannot find a carcass at all even then, it can mean one of two things:

1. Another predator (stranger wolf, cougar, bear, coyote etc) ate the rest of the carcass and the smells are from when it had food/before it despawned. (this happens)

2. A bug in the game is making it harder to track carcasses. ie: carcass is not glowing the color like in the 2nd picture of the elk on the ground, making it harder to find in the monochrome scent view.

But they are more uncommon. There are no designated 'spots' for carcasses, and it's all on luck with the wind direction carrying any carcass scents to your wolf's nose. You have be pretty patient to find them.

[Nasir]

Originally posted by Loach:

For reference, the floating smells for carcasses looks like this:
https://prnt.sc/pqvdnk

And on the ground, in scent view, they tend to look like this:
https://prnt.sc/pqvhk0

They do not give off plumes of smoke smells like in the old game, so you have to be a bit more patient to find them. If you follow a trail and cannot find a carcass at all even then, it can mean one of two things:

1. Another predator (stranger wolf, cougar, bear, coyote etc) ate the rest of the carcass and the smells are from when it had food/before it despawned. (this happens)

2. A bug in the game is making it harder to track carcasses. ie: carcass is not glowing the color like in the 2nd picture of the elk on the ground, making it harder to find in the monochrome scent view.

But they are more uncommon. There are no designated 'spots' for carcasses, and it's all on luck with the wind direction carrying any carcass scents to your wolf's nose. You have be pretty patient to find them.

I was following those and didn't see the carcass.

[Kaija]

Originally posted by nasirfoxx:

Originally posted by Loach:

For reference, the floating smells for carcasses looks like this:
https://prnt.sc/pqvdnk

And on the ground, in scent view, they tend to look like this:
https://prnt.sc/pqvhk0

They do not give off plumes of smoke smells like in the old game, so you have to be a bit more patient to find them. If you follow a trail and cannot find a carcass at all even then, it can mean one of two things:

1. Another predator (stranger wolf, cougar, bear, coyote etc) ate the rest of the carcass and the smells are from when it had food/before it despawned. (this happens)

2. A bug in the game is making it harder to track carcasses. ie: carcass is not glowing the color like in the 2nd picture of the elk on the ground, making it harder to find in the monochrome scent view.

But they are more uncommon. There are no designated 'spots' for carcasses, and it's all on luck with the wind direction carrying any carcass scents to your wolf's nose. You have be pretty patient to find them.

I was following those and didn't see the carcass.

How far did you follow them? Did they eventually stop? If so, you may have passed it and not seen it - I've done that several times.

[Nasir]

Originally posted by Kaija:

Originally posted by nasirfoxx:

I was following those and didn't see the carcass.

How far did you follow them? Did they eventually stop? If so, you may have passed it and not seen it - I've done that several times.

They didn't stop but I stopped, It was just too long to follow.

[Kaija]

Originally posted by nasirfoxx:

Originally posted by Kaija:

How far did you follow them? Did they eventually stop? If so, you may have passed it and not seen it - I've done that several times.

They didn't stop but I stopped, It was just too long to follow.

They probably were further along. The scents last for a fairly long time.

[Nasir]

Originally posted by Kaija:

Originally posted by nasirfoxx:

They didn't stop but I stopped, It was just too long to follow.

They probably were further along. The scents last for a fairly long time.

Oh okay, I managed to find a carcass, but I have another problem, which I will submit in another forum.

[metalmustang5]

Isn't cougar scent the one with the purple trail?

[LupineKitsune]

Originally posted by metalmustang5:

Isn't cougar scent the one with the purple trail?

That's the colour in 2.7. In Anniversary Edition, they changed cougar scent to a really dark green. The purple trail now belongs to the Mule Deer.

[The Moonlight Wolf]

Sometimes, when the carcass scent dots are everywhere, that means the carcass just despawned. Found that one out the hard way! So, try not to follow a large cluster of carcass dots, and stick to the single scents!

[Kaija]

Originally posted by The Moonlight Wolf:

Sometimes, when the carcass scent dots are everywhere, that means the carcass just despawned. Found that one out the hard way! So, try not to follow a large cluster of carcass dots, and stick to the single scents!

That's an interesting discovery! Though I've seen large scent clusters emanating from some prey I may have just caught, so it might not always qualify. I haven't always had luck following huge groups of scent, though, so you may be right.