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Hunting
May 23, 2026 at 08:23 PM
Corrected wikilink existence flags
Hunting in Windrose is the loop of killing wildlife for Meat, Rough Hide and body-part drops that feed Cooking, Alchemy, and armor crafting. It is not a separate skill or talent tree. A kill on a boar uses the same weapon and the same stats as a kill on a Pirate Sergeant and the same rules about Stamina and weapon scaling apply.
Animal | Biome | Drops |
|---|---|---|
Rough Hide (100% per kill), Boar Tusk, rare Boar Head trophy | ||
Later biomes | 5x Rough Hide per kill (farming guide) | |
Dodo (Coastal / Azure) | ||
Rough Hide, Wolf Fang, rare Wolf Head trophy | ||
Bezoar, rare Head of Mountain Goat Leader | ||
Crocodile Hide Piece, Crocodile Tail, rare Crocodile Head trophy | ||
Standard crocodile drops plus Tainted Bile | ||
Crab (small) | Coastal Jungle beaches |
Only Rough Hide (100% from boars and sows) and the Savage Boar 5-hide bonus are documented with hard drop numbers across sources. Other per-kill yields are variable and undocumented; treat as RNG within a loot table rather than a guaranteed count.
Two-handed swords or halberds are the community pick for Dodos, because sweeping attacks clear multiple birds per swing.
Melee weapons are preferred over firearms for most wildlife hunting, because Gunpowder is expensive and wildlife HP pools are low.
Blunderbusses are occasionally used against small Boar packs when a Dragonbreath Blunderbuss or Bone Shot load is on hand; this is a lateral choice, not an optimization.
Whistles are Legendary-rarity miscellaneous items that summon a short-duration pet. They do not substitute for direct combat but can distract hostile wildlife or add a temporary ally.
Boar Whistle summons a pet boar for a short window.
Mighty Boar Whistle summons a stronger pet boar. Same short-window framing; numerical advantages over the base whistle are not documented in public databases.
Crocodile Whistle documented as existing in the item database; summon effect and duration are not cleanly documented in public sources at this time.
Resting at a Bonfire or waiting a few in-game hours resets wildlife spawns on nearby routes.
Ancient Ruins on starter islands are high-density spawn points where Boars and Dodos share territory; these are the most efficient dual-farm spots in the early game.
Coastal beaches in the Coastal Jungle are the dense Crab Meat farm. Watch for giant variants that can be lethal to low-level characters per multiple community guides and Steam community warnings.
Rough Hide: crafts the Sailor Backpack (5 Rough Hide + 2 Copper Ingot) and early leather armor.
Crocodile Hide: crafts the Quartermaster Backpack.
Wolf Fang: used in Elixir of Precision and Elixir of Concentration.
Bezoar: Concentration-line elixir ingredient.
Boar Tusk / Dodo Eggs: feed Rare and Epic tier cooking recipes (see Cooking).
No talent or attribute specifically boosts hunting yield or wildlife aggro management. Weapon scaling (Strength for halberds and greatswords, Agility for sabers, Precision for bows) decides kill speed, same as against any other enemy type.
The standard starter-island Boar and Sow use a simple melee bite that can be out-traded with basic dodge-and-flank technique. The two later variants, Charging Boar and Savage Boar, do not. Both appear on islands outside the first Coastal Jungle loop and both require a specific counter to farm safely.
The Charging Boar locks onto a single target and accelerates into a straight-line charge. The hit at the end of the charge deals significant damage and knocks the target back, and the charge itself cannot be blocked with a shield or weapon guard. Attempting to dodge it laterally with a standard side roll is unreliable, because the boar often adjusts trajectory during the wind-up.
The counter is a timed jump. Press the jump input at the exact moment the boar closes into attack range; the boar passes underneath and commits to the full charge animation, leaving the player several seconds of recovery window to land two or three free hits on its flank before it turns around.
Keep the camera locked on the boar during the charge wind-up so the jump timing is readable.
Do not try to out-run the charge. The boar is faster than a sprinting character and will close the distance before stamina runs out.
A failed jump still costs only one hit; the charge does not chain. Re-open the fight from fresh spacing and try the jump again.
The Savage Boar does not charge. Once aggro is triggered, it plants and flails in a short radius, damaging everything inside that radius for the duration of the animation. Attempting to trade hits during the flail is a losing exchange because the flail reads as a continuous hitbox rather than a single telegraphed swing.
The counter is positional patience. Step backward out of the flail radius the instant the animation begins, wait for the flail to end, then close the gap for one or two hits before the next wind-up. The Savage Boar's flail windows are short enough that a disciplined back-step-then-punish loop kills one without taking any damage.
Never assume a stagger will interrupt the flail. The animation has heavy poise and a small hit will bounce off.
Use a reach weapon such as a Halberd or a two-handed Greatsword so the punish window lands from the edge of the flail radius rather than from melee-embrace distance.
Pack bandages. A single mistimed step into the flail can shave a quarter of the health bar before the back-off animation clears.
Both variants drop the same Rough Hide used by the starter armor crafts, so a single Charging or Savage Boar kill is worth several standard Boar kills in material return. The farm pays off for any player willing to learn the two tells.
