Only a colonist assigned to Hunt with a ranged weapon can hunt. In the image below, the marksman skill is the one that relates to hunting. When you mouse-over a job, you will see a popup menu showing that colonists level of the relevant skill. Now, find the Hunt job which is third from the left. By default, every colonist is allowed to do every job.

Here you will see a list of your colonists and the jobs they are assigned to. To assign one of your settlers to hunt open up the Jobs menu at the top of the screen. Whilst it’s good to have a lot of all-rounders, separating jobs throughout your colony can insure many projects are going on at the same time. If you have a lot of colonists it’s always better to have them play to their strengths. For example, if you have set a settler to both construction and hunt but you have a lot of building projects going on, they may not find the time to hunt. Also keep in mind that if there are any other more important jobs they will do them first. In order to hunt animals, one of your settlers will have to be assigned to the job. All of this is great for marking animals to be hunted, but how do we ask someone to hunt them? Through the Jobs menu! You can also just click on animals separately to select them. You can include animals only on the current layer or ones that may be on other layers. See the image below.Īs seen in the image above there are some extra options on the left. It is the image that looks like an animal paw print with a bow and arrow over it. You will now see some buttons on the bottom right of the screen. If you have something selected such as a wall piece or character, unselect them by pressing the ESC key. Your pawns will typically eat pemmican in batches of up to 20 units. One batch crafts 16 pemmican, each with 0.05 nutrition each. Hopefully, you have a cook who can now begin production using vegetables and meat sourced from around the map. To do this, we start by having nothing selected. Next, construct a stove or campfire, and add the make pemmican bill. This is great when you have a medium-large amount of animals you want to hunt. Now, as long as one of your settlers is assigned to the hunt job they will hunt down the animal when it becomes a priority task.Īs aforementioned you can choose the Hunt action to paint a whole selection of animals to hunt. You can read more about this method below. This options is better if you are planning on hunting multiple animals for their meat. By selecting a creature, you can see their stats and set them to be huntedĪnother way to start a hunting job is to select the hunt option and then choose animals to be hunted.

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