Hunting Wild Animals

Animals live in the jungle. The rule is simple: the farther from Vankli, the higher the level and the stronger the animal. Above an animal's name you can see its level, a health bar (red) and a danger icon: yellow ⚠ — medium danger, red ⚠ — dangerous animal.

Near town: rats, coyotes, gazelles, monkeys. About a kilometer out: small boars and warthogs. Farther away: large boars, cobras, leopards, pumas, bears (from 3–5 km).

Animal table

Health and damage below are base values; the real ones depend on the animal's level (see below).

A detailed list with speeds is in the Bestiary.

How an animal scales with level

• Health = base × (1 + 0.018 × (level − 1))
• Damage = base × (1 + 0.012 × (level − 1))
• XP = base × (1 + 0.05 × (level − 1))
• Loot amount = base × (1 + 0.015 × (level − 1))

Examples: a Lv. 60 bear has about 1,320 HP / 94 damage; at Lv. 95 — about 1,720 HP / 117 damage.

Temperament and traits

• Rat, goose — don't attack, they run away.
• Coyote — runs away, but strikes back if you hit it; the whole pack comes to help.
• Monkey, macaque — attack you.
• Gazelle — runs away, snaps back if you hit it.
• Deer — peaceful, runs away; gives meat and hide.
• Small and large boars, warthog — attack and ram you with a charge. The warthog is weaker than the large boar.
• Cobra — an ambusher, doesn't chase you; its bite is venomous: the venom drains your health and is cured with medicinal corn.
• Leopards (white and regular), puma — fast predators.
• Bear — the most dangerous animal on land (640 base HP, 55 damage).
• Crocodile — lives in rivers (not yet spawned in the alpha).
• Vulture — a flying bird that dives at you. Found only on the Land of the Rotten.

Skinning

1. Kill the animal, walk up to the carcass and press F.
2. You need a knife in your hand (hunting knife); every carcass wears down the knife.
3. For big game (bear, large boar, leopards, puma, crocodile) you need a hunter license (Lv. 9, reputation 5, 900 ASD).
4. You get meat, leather and fiber (fiber only from big animals). Fiber is needed for clothing and rope.

Combat

• Headshots deal more damage.
• Silver weapons hit predators ×1.5.
• Until an animal is dead, no single hit can take off more than half its health: you can't kill it in one hit.
• A player kills an animal of the same level in about 9–11 hits, while the animal kills the player in 3–5 hits — don't take on higher-level animals without armor (there's no armor yet) and medicine.

Respawn

After death, an animal comes back in 45 minutes to 4 hours at a new random spot (no closer than 150 m to players and out of sight). The more active players in a species' ring, the more animals there are (up to ×10 on regular rings, up to ×16 on Lv. 55+ rings). The overall limit is 850 animals per server.

Hunting for jobs

The job board pays for killing large boars (7 = 95 ASD) and warthogs (5 = 85 ASD): you need a hunter license.

Where animals live

The farther from Vankli, the more dangerous the animal and the higher its level. Distance is measured from the Vankli settlement.