Broad hunting authority

Hunting Guide: Bow, Animals & Hunting Tips

Hunting is a loop of permission, approach, resolution and submission. This guide owns Bow hunting, animal behavior and practical tactics; exact license prices, trap compatibility and Certificate reward records stay with their specialist authorities.

License → Bow or Trap → Hunting Certificate → Hunter Lodge materials. Chief Deliveries consume the resulting materials, not Certificates.

The hunting loop

What to do before, during and after a hunt

The broad sequence is stable; the detailed records live on the license and trap authorities.

Have the species license

Choose Bow or an appropriate Trap

Approach and resolve the hunt

Receive a Hunting Certificate

Submit at Hunter Lodge for materials

Progression handoff

Hunting opens through Shiroji's Helping progression. The exact multi-day sequence belongs to Helping Tickets; current license stock and prices belong to Hunting Licenses.

License versus Certificate

A Hunting License is permission/progression access. A Hunting Certificate is proof generated after a successful hunt. The repository does not establish license permanence or Certificate consumption semantics.

Bow hunting

Positioning beats invented damage math

Bow hunting is the broad guide's strongest unique section. Exact Bow damage, critical mechanics and per-species arrow counts remain unknown.

Flee-oriented targets

Squirrel, Rabbit, Weasel, Tanuki, Fox, Pheasant may flee when approached or attacked. Species do not automatically share identical AI, so use category guidance rather than an invented detection radius.

Approach slowly.
Shoot before detection when practical.
Use terrain to limit escape routes.
Keep line of sight.

Aggressive targets

Boar, Deer, Bear can become dangerous. Prioritize distance, attack animation timing, recovery windows and terrain instead of chasing a damage formula.

Do not stand in a charge path.
Create distance before firing.
Use recovery windows.
Lead Boar or Deer toward a Snare when appropriate.

Bow cost boundary

AppMedia describes Bow use as avoiding repeated Trap purchase cost once you have the weapon. That does not prove Bow hunting is free: arrow costs or requirements remain unresolved.

Bow-compatible targets are shared with the Hunting Traps matrix, but Bow tactics stay here.

Animal behavior

Species tactics without duplicating trap tables

Use the behavior summary for approach decisions, then open Hunting Traps for exact compatibility.

Boar

Boar can charge and are Bow-compatible. A Snare can support an active lead strategy; detailed placement belongs to Hunting Traps.

Deer

Deer can become dangerous when provoked. Maintain distance, avoid the charge path and use Bow or the documented Snare technique. Rule VI specifically requires the Deer Hunting License.

Open Rule VI guide

Bear

Bear damage is very high. Current guides use a Box Trap as a physical obstacle for a safer Bow angle; that is positioning, not evidence of normal Box Trap Bear capture.

Current normal species set: Squirrel, Rabbit, Weasel, Tanuki, Fox, Pheasant, Boar, Deer, Bear. Special large-animal Boss / 主 variants are modeled as certificate variants of Boar, Deer and Bear; they reuse material types, while exact spawn rules and reward quantities remain unresolved. Use Rare Deer for specialist research.

Bow versus Trap

Choose the method that fits the behavior

This is a high-level decision guide, not a second Trap database.

Bow

Active, ranged and behavior-driven. Best when you can preserve distance, line of sight and a recovery window.

Box Trap

The passive option with next-day behavior in the specialist data. Exact targets and bait support belong to Hunting Traps.

Snare Trap

An active lead technique for Boar and Deer. Do not assume Snare supports Hunting Bait; that remains unconfirmed.

Hunting Bait currently confirms Box Trap support only. Its exact probability, duration, target weighting and Snare support are unknown. Hunting Bait is not Fishing Chum.

Certificates and materials

Hunting Certificates resolve into material types

Hunting owns the certificate-to-material relationship; downstream pages own recipes, delivery requirements and processing.

Base species

Derived from the shared licensed wildlife registry.

Certificate records

Nine normal records plus three special large-animal variants.

Reward quantities

Unknown

Material types are reconciled; unsupported quantities remain null.

Squirrel Hunting Certificate

Small Game Meat; Small Animal Bone