Hunting
Hunting
Hunting is a gathering skill in which you track and kill wild game across the world's Biomes. Unlike other gathering skills, hunting is a combat activity: each kill deals damage to you, so tougher quarry demands better equipment and a stock of cooked food to keep your health up. See Creatures for the beasts of the world and Taming for capturing and raising them instead of hunting them.
Every hunt yields Raw Meat — the primary source of meat for Cooking — along with chances at Hide and Bone, staple materials for Crafting and Smithing. Grassland prey can also drop a rare Grassland Trophy.
How to progress
Each kill grants Hunting experience and raises your Hunting level, unlocking larger and more dangerous animals that give more XP and more materials but hit harder. The Power value below reflects how much punishment an animal deals per kill — bring armour from Smithing/Crafting and healing food from Cooking before taking on high-power prey.
Most game lives only in a specific biome reached via Expeditions; you must be there to hunt it. Animals with no biome listed roam the starting grasslands.
Actions
| Quarry | Level | Interval (s) | Power | Biome | Outputs | XP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hunt Compsognathus | 1 | 4.0 | 3 | — | Raw Meat; Bone (25%) | 6 |
| Hunt Titanis | 6 | 4.5 | 4 | — | Raw Meat; Hide (30%); Bone (30%); Grassland Trophy (0.5%) | 9 |
| Hunt Gallimimus | 12 | 5.0 | 6 | — | Raw Meat ×2; Hide (40%); Bone (30%) | 14 |
| Hunt Pachycephalosaurus | 25 | 6.0 | 10 | — | Raw Meat ×2; Hide (60%); Bone ×2 (50%); Grassland Trophy (1%) | 26 |
| Hunt Wild Raptor | 40 | 7.5 | 16 | — | Raw Meat ×3; Hide ×2 (80%); Bone ×2 (60%); Grassland Trophy (2%) | 46 |
| Hunt Kentrosaurus | 45 | 8.0 | 19 | Redwood Wilds | Raw Meat ×3; Hide ×2 (70%); Bone ×2 (60%) | 54 |
| Hunt Daeodon | 50 | 8.5 | 22 | Redwood Wilds | Raw Meat ×3; Hide ×2 (70%); Bone ×2 (50%) | 62 |
| Hunt Deinosuchus | 55 | 9.0 | 26 | Murkwater Swamp | Raw Meat ×4; Hide ×3 (70%); Bone ×2 (60%) | 70 |
| Hunt Cave Crocodile | 60 | 9.5 | 30 | Cavern Depths | Raw Meat ×4; Hide ×3 (70%); Bone ×3 (60%) | 80 |
| Hunt Arthropleura | 63 | 9.8 | 33 | Cavern Depths | Raw Meat ×4; Hide ×3 (60%); Bone ×3 (70%) | 86 |
| Hunt Utahraptor | 66 | 10.0 | 36 | Scorched Badlands | Raw Meat ×4; Hide ×3 (80%); Bone ×3 (60%) | 92 |
| Hunt Xiphactinus | 68 | 10.2 | 38 | Coral Shallows | Raw Meat ×5; Hide ×3 (60%); Bone ×3 (70%) | 96 |
| Hunt Woolly Bison | 70 | 10.5 | 40 | Frozen Wastes | Raw Meat ×5; Hide ×3 (80%); Bone ×3 (60%) | 100 |
| Hunt Cave Hyena | 74 | 11.0 | 44 | Frozen Wastes | Raw Meat ×5; Hide ×4 (70%); Bone ×3 (70%) | 110 |
| Hunt Acrocanthosaurus | 78 | 11.4 | 50 | Ashen Peaks | Raw Meat ×6; Hide ×4 (80%); Bone ×4 (60%) | 122 |
| Hunt Teratornis | 82 | 11.8 | 58 | Skyreach Plateau | Raw Meat ×6; Hide ×4 (70%); Bone ×4 (70%) | 132 |
| Hunt Vale Stalker | 85 | 12.0 | 55 | Sundered Vale | Raw Meat ×6; Hide ×4 (80%); Bone ×4 (70%); Grassland Trophy (5%) | 140 |
| Hunt Purussaurus | 92 | 13.0 | 68 | Sundered Vale | Raw Meat ×7; Hide ×5 (80%); Bone ×5 (70%) | 170 |
Percentages show the chance of that drop; unmarked items are produced every time. Intervals are base times before speed bonuses. Higher Power means more damage taken per kill.