🦌︴great-ones

[tardy stream]

No problem!

[warm flax]

I was think about doing moose on rev. Medveds map gives me a headache

[acoustic cedar]

I wanted to grind moose on Rev but my respawns started being weird, so went back to medved and set up Rev for whitetail

[warm flax]

Whitetails to complicated for me to see what’s rare and what’s not or what’s diamond and what’s not

[acoustic cedar]

The rares are really simple- albino, mela and piebald are rare and easy to identify, and normally lvl 3 for diamond and occasionally really big 2s

[green onyx]

Yo how many diamonds should i stack in my Wt grind?

[pliant oak]

half my map is now level 2s

[crude spindle]

Look at all these 5’s were all getting

Surely that means great ones coming

Surely

[terse wyvern]

Fr I just got 2 dimes

And I think I have a mela female too

Unfortunately the one female I accidentally shot too

[agile zenith]

Can the great ones be found in multiplayer

[terse wyvern]

Yeah

[agile zenith]

Thank you

[terse wyvern]

👍

[crude spindle]

Extremely unlikely

[agile zenith]

@crude spindle i know there super rare just hoping that me and the girlfriend can play this game together and still spot on

[terse wyvern]

Yeah that's fine, but if your mp hopping it's pretty rare

Grinding together should still be as good as single player Grinding

[agile zenith]

Me and my girlfriend usually just grind 1 map and that we host private so its just me and her

[crude spindle]

That’s cute

Yeah you guys should be fine

[winter osprey]

So does heard management speed up the grind or does it hurt it?

Cause it feels like less deer slows down every thing

[terse wyvern]

It's not confirmed whether it slows it or not

[winter osprey]

I mean if I can't shoot level 2 it should be slower right?

[terse wyvern]

In my experience hunting less zones actually increased my daily average by alot

I hunt my best zones, and ignore solos and zones that I don't like

[acoustic cedar]

Not shooting my lvl 2s for fallow seemed to make things faster in general too

[crude spindle]

Same

[south iris]

well it also brings diamonds more often

[winter osprey]

I mean I got 4 diamonds and 4 piebalds so I'm happy with it

[winter osprey]

I'm also 500 kills in

[iron cloud]

What great one should I go for? Already have 5 Red deer and want to take a break from fallow

[clever lake]

Bear because the great ones look awesome

[iron cloud]

I'll consider

[clever lake]

moose have too many drink zones, whitetail racks look kind of generic sometimes

[terse wyvern]

Damn 2 melas in one day

Finally got myself a gold

[terse wyvern]

And an albino today has been great for rares

[sick cypress]

i think not even 200 kills tbh

[pliant oak]

diamond number 16

[sick cypress]

nice

is nobody doing fallow on EC ?

[gritty tendon]

doesn't seem like it

[pliant oak]

🤣

he was a big boy too

big estimate on a 4

[plain raptor]

Oof ron

[sick cypress]

You have to let him go sir

I think its better to save the 5s. I got a GO below 200 kills from doing it

could have been as low as 100

Small sample size though

[pliant oak]

gos we think are random

some people might get one in one kill

but avg is normally 1500 - 2000 ish

saving 5s at the start does help get little levels

i have nearly 40 level 2s now and thats about half the pop of males

so 5s spawn quick now

so no need to stack em

[green onyx]

Yo how many diamonds should i stack in my Wt grind?

[pliant oak]

number 17 big 4

[pliant oak]

if you just starting i normally do 5 - 9 until i know the lower levels are numerous

then i kill them. you can do what you want

you basically want half your pop lower levels

[green onyx]

Ok i have about 12 on the map... so i guess i shot them soon

[somber elbow]

Holy shit!! Got drop tine rack great one, big piebald and diamond in the same zone.

[pliant oak]

yeah i would kill them

also hi my name is my name is.............

🥳

[crude spindle]

That’s a huddle

[pliant oak]

hes spawned

[crude spindle]

HEYYY CONGRATS RON

Finally

[pliant oak]

yeah

pretty boy

last kill was the massive diamond 4

closed game and then spotted him so wondering if he spawned off that

Fallow 17 diamonds 8 troll.1 bodged diamond for one great one fallow

[somber elbow]

I know right! I can’t believe it. Been wanting the drop tine rack.

[tame lark]

Animals do respawn

[crude spindle]

Oh…

Yeah I don’t think that would be good

We already worry about crashing and losing harvests

Imagine if you had to drive it around

[somber turret]

Some it is

Rn a rare crash is whenever you investigate into a call warning/mating/feeding

[crude spindle]

It’s not really a matter of hardware my friend

My PC is better than an X and I have to be super careful about not putting too much strain on the game sometimes

Especially with the call glitch

[pliant oak]

i found this fellow

😁

[north nova]

Heyyy!

Nice find Ron

[pliant oak]

or should i say fallow

one of the furs i like too

[daring kindle]

W. How many kills

[crude spindle]

Dude that or with silver is my favorite

[pliant oak]

about 700 all collected. Fallow 17 diamonds 8 troll.1 bodged diamond 1 great one fallow.

[crude spindle]

Upturned Irish elk too

Was that herd managed Ron?

[pliant oak]

i also think i worked out hm and what happens

[crude spindle]

Oh?

[pliant oak]

but that will be ina video tomorrow

yeah herd managed

[daring kindle]

I’m to the point where hm should kick in for me

I wanna get it crazy though

[pliant oak]

for fallow and most species you want about half your map as small levels

fallows its about 40 level 2s

i noticed about 35 level 2s 5s respawned a lot quicker

[daring kindle]

Yeah and about 60 would be crZyyyyyyyy

I’m about 40 rn I think

[pliant oak]

was similar on my red deer

which i hm for about 8 months

well reds i got down to 23 shooters

at that size the diamonds with selective shooting could be either every kill or every 3

but im not sure if you could get the pool of shooters any lower

[daring kindle]

It might be possible but it would take a very long time

[pliant oak]

i think you need a certain amount of levels to be alive of each

so i think there is a limit

but yeah it maybe possible to decrease it but it could take years lol

or lots of time daily for many many months

it took 8 months to get reds to that. at 23 left. so imagine to 10

if possible

i think the fallow great one spawned off a massive level 4 diamond i shot

as i didnt kill anything else

shut game down then loaded back up

as i was videoing it

then he was there

[somber elbow]

Damn, what is going on. Possible super rare now, lever 3 piebald white tail. Pics to follow!

Omg, it was a super rare. Only second one ever. Today has been wild!!!

[simple bluff]

Got it!

[crude sundial]

@jaxybeard got him a couple days after they came out

And before anyone say anything he ask me to @ him

[acoustic cedar]

God I want to grind bears so bad

They’re so good

But my males don’t exist anymore I stg 😂

[crude sundial]

O no Mel

Your spotted g1 video was beautiful tho

[north nova]

Yooo thats a beautiful bear!

[crude sundial]

Thank you

[untold knot]

Same 😭😭😭 gonna go back to them tomorrow and probably get to 2k kills 🫠. Already at 1.9k

They’re so gorgeous. They don’t get enough love

[dusty igloo]

Do you remember number of kills in grind?

[crude sundial]

No I don’t remember

At that time i didn’t keep track of my kills

[acoustic cedar]

Thank you so much!!

[somber elbow]

He’s on the ground.

[green glen]

Forgot to get harvest screen screenshots so this is all i have lol, golden irish elk

[pliant oak]

nice mine is a orange painted

gonna shoot soon

[acoustic cedar]

My dream go whitetail 😍 congratulations

[somber elbow]

Thanks, it was mine too. I couldn’t believe it when I spotted him this morning.

[acoustic cedar]

That’s epic!!

[somber elbow]

I know, and then I left him a few rotations and there was a diamond piebald, craziest day I’ve ever had on COTW!!

I still can’t believe it 😂

[acoustic cedar]

That’s nuts

Congratulations!

I’m going to do half whitetail and half fallow tonight I think

Maybe some moose too

[somber elbow]

Thanks, I appreciate it. That’s why I took the harvest and codex pics, I almost didn’t even believe it.

[acoustic cedar]

I bet!!

[somber elbow]

Yeah I thought about taking a little break, after the fallow grind, went straight back to white tail, got some ish I gotta do irl 😂

[full cave]

This grind is going to kill me on the inside

[somber elbow]

Good luck Mel!! I’m gonna go subscribe to your channel, I’ve seen you on here a lot. You got some awesome trophies!

[full cave]

My map is producing nothing

[acoustic cedar]

Thank you so much, that’s so kind of you!! 🖤

[somber elbow]

No problem, have a GREAT ONE!!

[acoustic cedar]

Aha thank you!! You too!

[full cave]

where's everyone hunting for their great one fallow and red deer? NZ map?

[acoustic cedar]

Yep, some are on Australia but te Awaroa is far more popular for both

[crude spindle]

NZ

[full cave]

thank you! I really like Te Awaroa. yet to buy Australia but pretty sure I'm buying every map at some point lol. I've become obsessed..😅

[acoustic cedar]

It’s very easy to become obsessed with this game aha!

https://tenor.com/view/brick-wall-gif-18068710

^me when I keep going to SRP and hoping 12x more male black bears will be there

Instead of the like 6 that I know exist

[crude spindle]

^me when Mel goes for another bear a week after getting one stupid fast

[acoustic cedar]

Bro they’re addictive

Idk why but I’m really into bear hunting atm

[acoustic cedar]

I think it’s because they’re so rare to see

[pliant oak]

trying to catch him in his resting zone

hes being a tricky fellow

rest man 😁

[frigid bramble]

this is not the usual behavoir of a sane human, time to bring out the strapjacket

[acoustic cedar]

I’m definitely not sane

If I was I wouldn’t be grinding fallow still lol

And moose

And whitetail

and bears

[frigid bramble]

Well, its nice knowin ya

Oh and its 3am

[acoustic cedar]

Lmao

[pliant oak]

just time

[frigid bramble]

My eyes

[pliant oak]

time = reward

[frigid bramble]

Well, goodbye chaps

[acoustic cedar]

Goodnight!

[pliant oak]

hes burping at me

gotta love fallow burping

😂

[frigid bramble]

Good job ron, hopefully ya got more stuff to show tomorrow

[pliant oak]

yeah gonna explain hm

how it actually works

[frigid bramble]

updated 2023

[pliant oak]

just another step

in community learning

[frigid bramble]

definitely not an exploit

Yep, they gotta learn

Ight gotta go

[gusty spade]

im so stupid lol

[full cave]

you know know I'm having the same experience with bears lol, grizzlies and black bears. they're so damn hard to hunt but I can't stop lol

and there are also, way more females than males. like, whyyy

2 male grizzlies, 7 FEMALE grizzlies at this Yukon drink spot

[valid olive]

I messed up a mela salty

[terse wyvern]

I messed up both my albinos luckily they were terrible scoring anyway

[unkempt parcel]

The perfect 200 score trophy, it's a really rare thing ... and it was a Melanistic... messed up oof

[tiny kestrel]

A perfect 200? And it’s a mela?

fuuuuck man

[crude spindle]

That’s better than my super troll

[tame badge]

Is grinding the same as it was when red deer came out? Or has it changed?

[crude spindle]

Like when the great one came out?

[tame badge]

Yeah, when the red deer GO came out

Is it still shoot all the mid sized, then go back and shoot the large ones?

[tame badge]

^

[crude spindle]

A lots changed I would reccomend looking up videos about herd management

You also have to pick up all kills now

[tame badge]

Thanks so much

[solar wing]

Really?

[crude spindle]

yep we were heavily suggested to pick up our kills by EW themselves

My 7000+k red deer grind came to an end shortly after I started picking up

[solar wing]

But there's still no proof right other than the team saying play the game like you're supposed to?

[tame lark]

The longer grinds (6k+) tend to be dirty grinds from what I’ve seen

[solar wing]

My grind was super short

Like a couple hundred kills

Like 90% were picked up

[crude spindle]

Wdym dirty grind

[tame lark]

Yeah. Claiming grinds seem to be shorter kinda

[crude spindle]

When the people who make the game say you should do something that’s enough proof IMO

[solar wing]

Maybe cause you get respawns faster

[tame lark]

But of course there’s always the possibility of bad luck

[tame lark]

No claiming

[solar wing]

But you're supposed to pick up kills, that's how the game was made

[crude spindle]

Yes

[solar wing]

You still get respawns even if you don't pick them up

So I don't see why it would make a difference really

[tame lark]

But they may not be able to respawn as a GO

[solar wing]

I really wonder what that GO code looks like lol

[crude spindle]

We all do

But they’re saying it makes a difference so it’s okay to go with that as being the best way to do it

[sinful bear]

Anyone got any good fallow hotspots on te aw?

[crude spindle]

hes here

OH MY GOD

[full cave]

combo

[crude spindle]

@acoustic cedar @tiny kestrel I DID IT BOZOS

[full cave]

gold spoon

[terse wyvern]

You got a fallow GO?

[crude spindle]

YHES

Any guesses?

[full cave]

painted typical

[crude spindle]

Close!

Painted blade!

[full cave]

damn that’s what i have

[terse wyvern]

Sweet

[full cave]

i almost said it too

[terse wyvern]

Congratulations 🎊 👏

[acoustic cedar]

Ayoooooooo congratulations!!

[acoustic cedar]

Omg that’s what I’m hoping for rn lmao- congratulations!! Nice one!!!

[terse wyvern]

How many kills

[crude spindle]

I don’t know exact but at least 5k

This comes right after I start leaving the twos for awhile

[acoustic cedar]

I swear it makes a difference

[crude spindle]

he's stunning

crow just got his bear too

[acoustic cedar]

I just shot my third max weight diamond of the night…👀👀👀👀

[crude spindle]

it's fucking bonkers

WAIT @acoustic cedar

any tips for finding his zones

I want good pics

[acoustic cedar]

Set time to before his drink time, then let him come into his zone and track backwards

[acoustic cedar]

Wait what fur?

Ugh I want to grind bears but mine are sucky asf rn

[crude spindle]

idk focussed on my own rn

ty

[acoustic cedar]

Lol fair

No problem!

I hope you get some cool pics!

Congratulations again!

[terse wyvern]

Fallow are killing me

I did get an albino and mela yesterday tho

[gritty tendon]

i think it’s the fabled cream

[acoustic cedar]

Yeah it is

[crude spindle]

first time I've ever seen great one tracks!

oh my god lmao

he should still be there

I'm just gonna take him I think

not risking this rn

[terse wyvern]

💀

Yeah I would play it safe

[crude spindle]

we good

[pliant oak]

hehe same colour fur as mine

id love that rack though

[crude spindle]

im so happy

perfectly even boi

[terse wyvern]

Me want

[crude spindle]

Thank you guys for the congratulations, forgot to respond in the moment, it’s been nice to have some company in here on a long grind like that

Kinda poetic too that it’s my initial favorite fur and my initial least favorite rack, but I’ve grown to love all of them

[full cave]

bro liked the spoon rack more than blade

[pearl birch]

amazing combo😍

[crude spindle]

I love the spoon rack

I think what draws me to great ones is the kinda fantastical element and spoon fits that description pretty well IMO

[terse wyvern]

Well I hit 3.7k

[tiny kestrel]

Took you way too long

[void hawk]

i got the same combo 20 minutes after you sent this

[full cave]

You got one?

I swear this game has a hatred for me

But congrats on the go though I'm proud of you

[full cave]

i pretty much spawned a super rare bruh

smol level 2 pie 🤪

told you

[crude spindle]

Fr now to one up you on crocs

[crude spindle]

That’s awesome

Same everything

[void hawk]

yeah it is pretty cool

[daring kindle]

Ayyy congrats man finallllly!!!! How many kills

[crude spindle]

I only counted like 2.6k or so

I did half the grind before that so I think roughly 5

Stack your two’s friends

[acoustic cedar]

I’ve shot 4 max weight diamonds and a handful of others tonight

I’m thinking imma focus fallow for these last two grinds

Then go back to moose, whitetail and bear

If bears will WORK

[acoustic cedar]

another max weight

Literally respawned in the exact zone I shot one last run

[full cave]

are yall following some pattern to get these animals to spawn? I'm shooting the big boys, and the medium boys and they keep getting smaller lol

like my fallow at the river and small lake in te awaora are getting smaller

[acoustic cedar]

For fallow I’m shooting 3/4/5s and leaving 1/2s

[full cave]

I'm doing that exactly and they're coming back smaller, they started out 4s, now they're 3s, and some are 2s

[normal rose]

I'd love some help with setting up tents and stuff for the fallow grind since this will be my first GO grind

I've also been grinding red deer a bit... but thats mostly because im trying to get a diamond. That GO will come later. Unless I get surprised.

[full cave]

so what do you do if they're all smaller than that? do you leave them and then rest until the next day to see if they're bigger? I first checked these drink zones and they were all literally 4s, I shot all of the 4s and they came back as 3s, now they're a mix of 3s and 2s, but what do you do for a drink zone that only has 2s?

[crude spindle]

The urge for the huddle is starting lol

but I need to stay strong

there is a whole coast of emeralds to hunt

[acoustic cedar]

Shoot the 3s

That’s what I’ve been doing

And if everything is small then shoot some of those

[full cave]

Wait Mel are you dipping your toe into HM?

[acoustic cedar]

I’m just not shooting anything really small anymore

Light management is what I’ve been hearing it called

Not like stacking and stuff but after being informed I may be big dumb for shooting small things constantly I have changed my ways

[full cave]

That’s pretty much the reason I started doing HM. I was like “you’re telling me that I don’t have to shoot these little pathetic males anymore and that it will actually improve my results!? Sing me up!”

[acoustic cedar]

As soon as I was told I was basically shooting myself in the foot by shooting tiny ones, I had to rethink

Im not going to intentionally disadvantage myself

[full cave]

Yeah

[gusty blade]

Let’s goooo!!! A nice surprise after a long work day!

[crude spindle]

Is that a typical rack silver, or blade rack painted

[gusty blade]

Pretty sure blade rack silver

[pastel dagger]

welp i woke up to find scarecrow got his g1 bear and i was more excited then him.

[north nova]

Which one do we know

[gusty blade]

Crow got the fabled cream, heck of a stream that was lol

[north nova]

Ohhhh wow

[gusty blade]

Took him cowboy style🤠

[worthy junco]

bruh, when will I get my second? Im at 1700 with not even a sr. I had 2 at this point last grind

NGL think this game hates me

[stray ivy]

same question, but when i get my FIRST g1

[north nova]

thats the beauty of RNG

[pliant oak]

hows the hunting today all good luck grinding 🍀

[pure turtle]

@acoustic cedar yeah I started doing the same with some of my non HM grinds seems silly not to just leave the small Bois

8.1k kills in for me

[raven rose]

Moose 600, I wish that this won't take as long as the red deer grind...

Red deer 8300+ kills - Moose 600 kills - Whitetail 240+ kills

No GO

[dapper pumice]

Got my first two diamonds of the grind

Also should I be hunting zones with single males

[pliant oak]

its upto you really

if hard zones you can leave em

or you can blitz them

hard zones leaving em saves you time visiting the hard areas that cost time

or shooting them you may get em in easy places

a lot depends on the level of the animal

especally if herd managing

so none shooter leave

shooter kill

[dapper pumice]

Ok thank you

[pliant oak]

new video later then gonna shoot my great one fallow me thinks

then see what get next

[acoustic cedar]

Stunning- congrats!!

Really hoping for a blade rack silver or painted for one of my next two 🤞

Think I’m just gonna grind fallow for a few nights again

Just focus on them

And try and get this huddle doneeee

[full cave]

my fourth diamond obtained from the grind (I killed 330 deers)

[acoustic cedar]

First deer of the day is a max weight buck 😂🙈

[plain raptor]

Lawd

[acoustic cedar]

Maybe it’s a sign that the next lad will arrive soon

Fallow have literally been the nicest species to me that I’ve ever grinded

Nothing has ever come close

[gritty tendon]

don’t jinx your fallow luck

[acoustic cedar]

Good point

[dapper pumice]

How does herd management work

[pliant oak]

you kill higher levels to get lower levels to spawn

then as you get more lower levels

higher levels will spawn faster

i have a very detailed video going out in a few minutes actually

it explains where herd management came from

how it works

😉

many people in here dont understand how it came about or how it works

been nice to do this video

hope it helps people understand

[full cave]

for predators it's only recommended to shoot the 6 and up? or whatever can spawn 5 to 10, yes?

[crude spindle]

I’m sure there’s a bear guide on YouTube that would let you know

[full cave]

very helpful answer.

[reef flax]

Hello, one question about my red deer grind on Cuatro colinas. I have come to a point where I have only about 6 stags to shoot per run. Usually I start normally at 7 and shoot these few, then I go to main menu and if they respawned I shoot them again. Is doing this ok or does it effect anything about grind?

[glossy hearth]

are you stacking ?

[sinful thorn]

I was doing my grind on te awroa, had same problem. Just set time at 8 or even 9 this solved my problem so you can try it also

[reef flax]

Not really

[glossy hearth]

stacking isnt gonna help you get great ones tho
i recommend not doing it since it does basically nothing but looking cool

[reef flax]

No, this is not it, I know exactly how many of them I have, there is no problem about them coming into zones.

[reef flax]

I dont stack

[glossy hearth]

right

they may have went to other zones

[reef flax]

No

You know, on Cuatro there is many solo zones and those I leave to get level 5 stags or lower, also I have lot of herds with just level 4s in them. That is point. Now I have exactly 3 solo zones with level 7 in them, and other 5 (herd) zones with 6 other red deer. I stacked one level 9 in herd zone, I will stack more and then shoot the 3 solo level 7 zones to get those three stags to at least level 5, so I have better respawns on herd zones.

[golden sage]

7s, 8s, and 9s. Maybe 6s but do some testing and see what works better

[pliant oak]

you want half your map level 4s or below

basic hm then just shoot 5s and above

its pretty simple

you only stack level 9s at start of a grind

otherwise it hurts respawns

when you get later in your grind and got shooters down to 20 ish then you dont shoot 5s or 6s

as no need to

as you just replacing them with 5s and 6s

[tame badge]

How do we get half our map to be low levels just kill as many high levels as you can till then?

I watched your HM guide and I'm still a little confused

[pliant oak]

red deer just kill level 5s and above

slowly you will get more level 4s and below it takes time

[tame badge]

Thanks so much, so basically kill 5 and above till half your map is low. And then kill diamonds only

[pliant oak]

but once you get to about 40 4s on your map you should get good respawns pretty quick

[full cave]

thank you, I will try for only 7s and up for now

[pliant oak]

for reds

[tame badge]

Alright, appreciate you

[gusty blade]

Thank you! He truly is stunning. I’m sure you’ll get something amazing regardless to finish that huddle. Back to plundering EC multiplayer for me!😂

[acoustic cedar]

Aha good luck!!!

[crude spindle]

I have once again returned to medved taiga

This time leaving all level 2’s and seeing what happens

[daring kindle]

Welcome to hell. I hope you enjoy your stay seeing there’s now no way back muahahahaaha

[acoustic cedar]

Just got my first 270 fallow since the changes, a lorge chocolate lad

[zealous ferry]

make you guesses friends, is it a troll? I really hate that estimate

[daring kindle]

Guarenteed diamond

[daring kindle]

W sr

[zealous ferry]

it was not! My second super rare ever and my first sr deer

[zealous ferry]

thanks

[daring kindle]

I know it was diamond cause back hooks

That’s how I knew mine was a sr

[zealous ferry]

yeah I was thinking the same when I saw the hooks but I'm never sure with fallow, they all look almost the same to me

[worthy junco]

@signal kindle If you have not thought of it yet you can use this logo for your g1 counter on stream.

may need to clean it up a bit tho

[tame badge]

Stacking diamonds?

Or big 4 next to it?

[zealous ferry]

It was a 5 but not stacking, I don’t really need it my hr and set up are as good as they get I think

[crude spindle]

that's so cool

[normal rose]

I didnt see this until now. Do you mean GO rack or just standard?

Because with red deer GOs i really dont know what variants there are

[marble heron]

no way

sucks i cant shoot it

[north nova]

They basically look the same at first glance for RD GO, imo. I meant regular racks

[normal rose]

Honestly I'm not sure what's my favorite. There's a ton of BEAUTIFUL racks with Red deer. That makes them one of my favorite things to hunt in the game.

I will say this though, the troll rack is certainly up there.

I actually kinda prefer that over the real diamond rack

[north nova]

I think, even though it's little, my favorite is the L4 heart rack

I haven't seen it in any higher level

But it's just so cute and petite

[normal rose]

Can you remind me what one that is? Through a photo?

[north nova]

I don't have one on deck but let me see if I can google it

[normal rose]

I do like the level 7 and especially level 8 racks as well

I'm actually not a huge fan of the diamond rack personally

Yea its pretty but idk ive never seen a red deer that looked like that

If i can see some irl photos of racks like that then maybe i can be convinced

[north nova]

The l9 with all the points, or the cluster at the end?

[normal rose]

Legacy ver

[north nova]

waits for photos to load

Ah yeah

That's be a high fence lad irl

[normal rose]

Ohh

Me personally i love this one

[north nova]

Man.

Google had no images of the l4 rack

Only of 7/8/9 or GO

[normal rose]

Im seeing a lot of lvl 7 and 8 racks irl

Not anything quite like the diamond i posted tho

Im also a fan of what i call the crescent rack... i'll have to post it when i can find it again but im pretty sure its a level 8 rack

[crude spindle]

I hate all non g1 red deer racks now

So unbelievably sick of them

Even the diamonds

Shoutout the crab racks tho

[north nova]

Lol

I'll have to specifically go find and kill a l4 heart so you can see it

It's just dainty and nice looking

[warm flax]

They’re literally all the same across the board

So boring

[crude spindle]

Mhm

Deleted like 60 red deer diamonds yesterday because of that

[dapper pumice]

Should I be shooting all lvl 3 fallows or is there a certain score estimate I should leave alone

[normal rose]

Might be good to get a hall of them all for reference

If you have one can you show me the one that's kinda shaped like a cresent moon

Kinda like a sharp backwards C?

Its one of the high level racks... level 8 I believe

[crude spindle]

I saved a few I like but not enough for an entire reference thing

Sorry

[normal rose]

(Its fine if ya dont have it dw)

I might have a mission then

I'll collect every Red deer rack

(Except for GO)

How many are there?

[north nova]

It's a trurac so... yes.

[normal rose]

Oh good lord

[north nova]

There are yes number of racks

[normal rose]

I've got a lotta work to do huh

[north nova]

Start the mission with grabbing the most common lmao

[normal rose]

Is there actually infinite possibilities

[north nova]

No idea

[normal rose]

Yea I know lmao

Broo I wonder if that crescent rack I shot was one in a milliom

If I did then 💀💀

[north nova]

Rip

Rip one million more red deer

[normal rose]

It was damn pretty but only a gold

215 score I think he was

I call it a crescent rack because it kinda reminds me of a crescent moon

Also kinda reminds me of caribou

[tame badge]

Pic?

[normal rose]

I dont think I got one unfortunately

I didn't post it

But it was kinda like a caribou's rack but of course pointier

Its got that backwards C shape caribou rack have

[tame badge]

Oh sick

Is it not in your lodge?

[normal rose]

I didnt save him as he was just a gold

Im sure i'll find another

Actually I did probably save him i'll have to check

[tame badge]

👍

[dapper pumice]

Omg guys

I found a lvl 9 fox

Red

I rly hope it doesn’t troll like my grey fox and lynx did

Omg

And it’s the fur type I wanted

[signal sun]

My 2nd fallow grind going pretty good tbh (im doing a casual grind so like not as far in as I could be lol) ill show stats

these are my stats so far

Ik that im not getting a diamond every 20 kills like crow lol but my hm hasnt really started working yet... still working on it...

[pliant oak]

yeah once it kicks in really well you will get a diamond under 10 kills

its just not that many grind hm that far or that well

my fallows now are about every 20 kills

reds i got to every 3 kills

with selective shooting

[signal sun]

geez

3 kills

[pliant oak]

yeah basically you get your pool of shooters as low as possible

so when you stack lower levels and most wont tell you this is you deminish what you can shoot as more and more spawn

red deer i got to 23 left now and it doesnt seem to get any lower

so now i just leave 5s 6s

and only shoot from 7s which i can leave

8s or 9s

so basically each respawn will be replacements

7 8 or 9s

so diamonds will respawn almost instantly

in theory if you can shrink the pool even more which im not sure about

at the limit you could just shoot level 9s

my last red deer was like diamond respawn

diamond

diamond

go

same with fallow go that fallow spawned recently

2 diamonds a botched diamond then a massive diamond 4 then go fallow

going to shoot my fallow go today

😁

[plain anchor]

Question

Is it “PROVEN” that stacking diamonds helps spawn G1’s ?

[full cave]

you don’t stack for g1, you stack to shoot your map down faster

[tame lark]

There’s no conclusive evidence that shows herd management helps great ones spawn

[pliant oak]

the only reason to stack diamonds is at the start of a grind

to help get lower levels to spawn

but other than that it hurts respawns of higher levels

also just shot my first fallow deer great one

😁

[tame lark]

Nice Ron!

[pliant oak]

im glad hes one of the furs i wanted too

pretty boy

[full cave]

I got the same one yesterday

Just don't like the Irish elk rack

[pliant oak]

id of prefrered the saw rack with this fur but maybe thats next

😁

[tame lark]

Better than the spoon and saw imo

[full cave]

I got two Irish elk now and it's my least favorite

[pliant oak]

not sure whether to go back to moose or continue with fallows

[full cave]

I prefer spoon over saw and irish

@pliant oak I have the same problem

Idk what to go after

It was a really long grind 180 diamonds

[tame lark]

Another level 9 red deer just spawned

4.1k in roughly

[full cave]

My red deer weren't that bad first was 120 diamonds and second was like 50

[tame lark]

I’m not doing herd management so I don’t get a ton of diamonds

[full cave]

Why no hm

[tame lark]

I can get more kills without

And I already have enough diamonds

[full cave]

I'm like 90% sure that gos spawn more often off of diamonds especially max weights

[tame lark]

Doubt it

[pliant oak]

i think my last red spawned off a max weight

but i think the one before maybe spawned off a level 6

[full cave]

All of mine spawned either off of a diamond or max weight

[pliant oak]

my fallow spawned off a diamond

100 percent

[tame lark]

Well I’m getting probably 10-15 max weights per run

[pliant oak]

as i have been testing this for a long while

[full cave]

My go respawned as a super troll

[pliant oak]

basically find diamond

kill diamond close game

see what respawns

[full cave]

When I say max weight I mean actual 240 for reds or 100 for fallow

[pliant oak]

yeah

[tame lark]

Yeah, I don’t think that does anything

[pliant oak]

as said my last go red came off a max weight red diamond

[full cave]

Check dms and I can explain my theory

[pliant oak]

same position

one kill

my fallow go

diamond one kill

respawn diamond kill

diamond respawn one kill

botched

then diamond 4

go

i think as i said in my latest video that i dont think its as complex as people think

just think go is just like a diamond respawn with a lower probability of spawning

[full cave]

I agree

[pliant oak]

also with herd management it helps especially if you get your spawn pool to as small numbers as possible

[full cave]

Especially for animals with a lot of zones

[pliant oak]

as higher levels can spawn more frequent

[full cave]

I had bear diamonds like 1/3 of my animals at the very best

[pliant oak]

i want to go back to bears but cant...bear to hunt them 😁

they have some of the best furs too

[full cave]

Lol

I want chestnut so badly but don't want. To risk getting a dupe because I already have 3

[fallow owl]

I didnt kill any diamonds for like 3 runs before mine spawned. Or do you mean a diamond that respawns but it becomes a GO or something

[tame lark]

Going to see what he comes back as

[pliant oak]

no you have a chance of it spawning based on your levels

herd management 100 percent helps lower probability

[fallow owl]

😵‍💫

[full cave]

I'm nearly certain that gos spawn more often off of max weight diaminds

[fallow owl]

I'm convinced it helps ever since people started getting like 20 GO moose xD

[pliant oak]

you just have to make it so the lowest level amount on your map is the highest level if that makes sense

so you have highest chance of a higher level spawning

it 100 does

[full cave]

I do beleive that you can over manage your herds tho

[pliant oak]

look who has the most gos its just time and herd management

its not hard its just time

[fallow owl]

you mean me, right?

[tame lark]

Wasn’t scarecrow using herd management on his BB grind?

[full cave]

I have 7 gos and I used hm for every one

[pliant oak]

selective shooting is another thing which even top grinders dont often do

this cuts down time again

[acoustic cedar]

Welp

It’s fallow time

[fallow owl]

I think he was, but he was grinding like 2 lakes or something. At least last I heard

[plain raptor]

As someone who doesn’t HM, I can’t judge anyone who uses HM on BB because they are a major pain

[pliant oak]

gotta remember hm also takes a lot of time

which many miss

[full cave]

I hunted one lake for black bears

[tame lark]

If he was using herd management it definitely didn’t help any

[pliant oak]

my reds i been on 8 - 9 months daily testing trying things people dont even do

[full cave]

@tame lark he could have just had really bad rng

I'm just saying it helps not that it affects your luck

[tame lark]

That’s a possibility but how bad of luck do you need if HM does help

[pliant oak]

its just a case of getting your highest levels into the smallest possible pool

then selective shooting

boom there you go

[full cave]

Anyways my shot was really bad on the go fallow

So lucky I didn't mess that up

[pliant oak]

i was following mine about trying to get him resting but kept resting in bad places

🤣

[full cave]

I was trying but then just gave up too lol

[pliant oak]

but hes in the lodge now so he can look pretty there

😁

[acoustic cedar]

Patience is key when following trophies

[fallow owl]

I cant make what I want to say make sense, but I think its still the same odds that the great one spawns, its just that when HMing, you shoot more animals that have a chance of making it spawn. Or something like that. Thats how I see it. So its still stupidly rare, but you get more dice rolls at it. Does that make any sense at all?

[full cave]

I shot all of mine with the longbow

[acoustic cedar]

I spent like 6 hours following my bear lol

[pliant oak]

followed him for two days mel

😂

he just sat in bad bushes

so you couldnt see him

maybe he knew 🤣

[acoustic cedar]

Was talking to @full cave

[fallow owl]

did you try asking nicely?

[acoustic cedar]

This is how I see it also

[full cave]

My bear I spent about 6 hours then on the second 3 hours then the last one like 15 minutes

[pliant oak]

its the highest trophy

logic dictates it just spawns like a diamond but...with less probability

herd managemnet helps

[acoustic cedar]

I reckon when you get a roll for a diamond there’s like a small chance it rolls into a GO

hence “elevated diamond”

[pliant oak]

you can see the ones with the most gos herd manage and spend most time doing it

so its just time and herd manage to get the best results

[acoustic cedar]

Bro are you kidding

Guaranteed troll albino

[full cave]

I agree with Ron but have a completely different reasoning for it

[acoustic cedar]

Ffs

Why game

[pliant oak]

ooooft

[full cave]

Lol I just got a gauranteed troll pie and mela fallow yesterday

[acoustic cedar]

Great start lmfao

[full cave]

Ik the pain

Both scored 239

[acoustic cedar]

Damn

[full cave]

And two gos yesterday

My luck was just really good and bad at the same time

[acoustic cedar]

This is my 2nd ever albino troll fallow lol

This one is bigger tho

[full cave]

My second red deer albino of the grind was a max weight diamind

I only have 1 albino fallow all grind rn

[acoustic cedar]

Yeah this is my 2nd albino

In like 7k kills

[tame lark]

Great ones are just too confusing 😂. I thought that any male that you claimed could respawn as a GO no matter the level.

[full cave]

My most recent go was a 6k kill grind

I just want 1 short grind and by short I mean less than 1500 kills

[acoustic cedar]

Man 1/6 for supers for me

[full cave]

Im at 2/2

[acoustic cedar]

My super luck is such badness lol

[full cave]

I have like 1200 diamonds and somehow have only two supers

That's without all of the diamond bears I just left because they had no estimate to be max score

[untold knot]

Noooooooo Mel

[acoustic cedar]

Bro I must have like nearly 2k with 5 super trolls and only 1 actual SR

[fallow owl]

thats how grinding was done for a few years. With that assumption. Now its pretty clear that shooting smaller ones doesnt help much at all

[acoustic cedar]

The fact I have two troll albino fallow is just

Ugh

3 of my super trolls are fallow

And the only super rare is a fallow lmao

[glossy cove]

I still only have gotten 1 max level rare fallow and it was that troll piebald.

[full cave]

Some people get so lucky and have Like 20 with like 1000 diamonds I just don't get it

5 super trolls is unfortunate tho

[acoustic cedar]

My worst one is still the albino moose tho

274 top estimate

Biggest troll ever

He’s beautiful but being so close to diamond was so rude

[full cave]

Yup that sucks

My mela fallow made me pretty mad

My piebald fallow didn't even look like a diamond rack tho

So I wasn't to mad about it

[pliant oak]

hehe my red deer one day will give me my super rare

[acoustic cedar]

It sucks that I’ve had that rack make diamond, I even got a 254 with the rack, but when it’s rare? Nah man 239

[full cave]

Both my trolls were 239 also lol

[pliant oak]

right continue fallow or go moose again 🤔

[acoustic cedar]

239 seems to be a heckin common score for the trolls

[pliant oak]

i do want a bladed rack fallow

[full cave]

It may be bugged because by buddy also got a 239 piebald troll

Has anyone seen a fallow over 270 that doesn't score either 270.49 or 270.72 I think there is also a bug there

All 6 over 270 between me and my brother have been either those two

[acoustic cedar]

I had a 270 last night but don’t remember the decimal

[acoustic cedar]

I swear

I feel like there’s something big on my map

Because suddenly I’m getting trolls constantly and next to no diamonds, plus a lvl 1 spawned

But

I’ve checked everywhere

I see nothing big lol

[glossy hearth]

21 kills on the fallow grind
seems easy even tho i still dont have all the zones set up
maybe we will get the GO before 2k kills (low expectations)

[full cave]

@acoustic cedar I had that feeling right before both of my gos

[wooden junco]

My fallow hate me lol. Taking a break for now

[full cave]

Fallow hate Me too

[acoustic cedar]

Oooo

[wooden junco]

They wont stop spawning back at lakes or river areas I dont want to go or I removed tents from

[full cave]

9k kills and 2 gos

[acoustic cedar]

Maybe the map is gearing up for something big lol

[full cave]

Rn out of 7 gos I'm averaging like 3500 kills and 120 diamonds per go

[glossy hearth]

maybe u should set up a zone there again
some big boys might spawn there

[full cave]

That red deer go I got yesterday was probably on my map for quite a while because it was at a zone I hadn't checked for like 50-100 rotations

[wooden junco]

I walk my lazy ass back there every few days just to pop em and reassign my tents again but then they seem to stop again not long after and after about a week of return trips I remove tent. Come back 2 weeks later the turds have returned

[glossy hearth]

maybe u place ur tent somewhere which makes them not render in

[wooden junco]

Was about to say I give an extra 20 to 30m buffer for those odd ones drink back from the water or I go opposite side but still none

[glossy hearth]

ah

[wooden junco]

I have a tonne of my higher grades all solos same happened for moose

[glossy hearth]

they sometimes just change zones naturally same happens to me but they come back after a 10 in game minutes

[wooden junco]

I do zone checks to see how many drink at zone before collecting harvest so I find most just respawn elsewhere being solos

[glossy hearth]

yeah i always kill solos
they sometimes mess up my herds

[wooden junco]

TA gave ke the 💩s like that as 1 lake would have none then after 3 weeks of grindi g I would go there and find 6 solo 7s

[glossy hearth]

lmao

its prob a solo drink zone
i hate those

[wooden junco]

Yeah I have found my fallow stacking like that at 2 lakes in EC. Shoot em out over a couple days they go elsewhere lake is barren for a while until I shoot em back there from wherever else they go lol

EC has a decent outpost setup so its only about 400m run to some of the lakes at least

My bear grind well I wont even go there with those SOB's

[acoustic cedar]

Bears are just

Like

Pain

They neeeeeed some changes so bad

I just shot a 256 lvl 4 fallow

Shot it with the 300 tho because they never make me think they’re big

[wooden junco]

Lol whoops

I havent switched to the 300 for the I am too lazy to find my harvest mode yet

[quasi seal]

finished the fallow huddle

[acoustic cedar]

Took a smol break from fallow, and now I have both rares for stubble quail

[tame lark]

I know of about albino but what’s the other?

Nvm, I just checked somewhere else and found out

[acoustic cedar]

Yeah dark brown

One of the oddly named rares but it looks cool!

[tame lark]

I didn’t even know that it existed until just now

[acoustic cedar]

They seem rarer than albino to me from the lack of them I’ve seen posted, but that could be people not knowing that “dark brown” is rare

[tame lark]

That’s probably it along with them not looking too different from the commons (I assume)

[acoustic cedar]

I noticed it fairly immediately but then I know of them

I think they could be named better, like light brown crocs

[tame lark]

That or a way of it saying what’s rare

[acoustic cedar]

Exactly

[tame badge]

After probably like 50 kills of HM I've noticed that I have buckless herds that I remember having bucks before. Am I doing something wrong?

(Copy and pasting cause im too impatient to wait for a reply in a different server)

[coarse oak]

are you sure they werent solo males ? ive noticed in herds that i thought were 2 males and like 4-5 females were atually 1 male and a solo

[tame badge]

They could have been, how did you find out they were solo males?

And where would have the respawns gone if they were solo males

[gusty spade]

Both lvl 4

[raven rose]

This! I have many many moose zones like this.

[coarse oak]

i typically count how many i see and then go to the zone and pick up a track and see if it matches the number it says, alternatively you can just shoot a male and before picking it up check a track. I have seen solos goa cross teh whole home range honestly lol I had a solo go from the starting lake to the double lake in the right

[acoustic cedar]

Praise be, some diamonds are spawning again!

[terse wyvern]

Fallow are making me want to do the ice bucket challenge, but with boiling hot water

[acoustic cedar]

Me with bears

Three diamonds at twin lakes

They’re spawning again holy

[terse wyvern]

Noice

[acoustic cedar]

I had nothing for a fair few runs there

I was big concerned

[terse wyvern]

Fallow is getting very stale, thinking I might switch grinds

Starting to get massive 4s again tho so maybe I stay

[crude spindle]

You light managing the bears?

[tame badge]

👍 I'm still not sure if I'm doing everything right tho

[acoustic cedar]

I claimed all those deer, reset, two more fives I can see already

[tame badge]

This is my like area

Should I add more lakes?

[acoustic cedar]

I was yeah. Leaving the min weights. Had like 5 lvl 2 baby lads

[crude spindle]

interesting

[crude spindle]

so you're not checking like 3 whole areas? Or are they herd managed down?

[tame badge]

Wdym 3 whole areas? I just started HM so right now almost every lake will have a shooter

[crude spindle]

these

oops

wrong format 1 sec

[crude spindle]

this

[tame badge]

I tried to remove the zone in pink with pressure (not sure if that works)

The black area has no zones

And I forgot to circle the bottom middle zone

And I haven't checked the far right zone

[tame badge]

^

[pliant oak]

you get quite a few fallow on the river

there is no wrong or right way to do it

just clear hunting pressure then go there next

[tame badge]

Alright, appreciate it. Does changing the time in the middle of a hunt have any effect

[pliant oak]

dont change time at location you hunting

as often you wont get the animals there

also change time to late in drink time

[tame badge]

Wait, then how do I hunt all my zones in time?

[acoustic cedar]

Guess who’s got another super rare fallow in front of themmmmm

[wooden crypt]

Nooo way Mel!!! Congrats!!

[acoustic cedar]

Eeeeee I’m dying!!! Same pie pattern but a different rack! Thank you!!

After a super troll albino earlier too lol

[plain raptor]

Lawd

[acoustic cedar]

Literally

Man

I can’t believe it

He’s so cool

Focusing on fallow for my last two great ones seems to have been the correct idea lol

At twin lakes again

Same as the two super trolls and the last pie diamond

This lake

It’s magical

[terse wyvern]

Congrats 👏

[acoustic cedar]

Thank you so much!!

Getting some close ups of him now!

[acoustic cedar]

I can’t find his zones

Just like the first one

His tracks just stop randomly

Dropped him

Top of his est

Yeeeeeet

[crude spindle]

Incoming 30 minute super rare video tomorrow 😂

(Which I will watch ofc)

[acoustic cedar]

Imma put the two super trolls and the super rare in a video together

Seeing as unfortunately I couldn’t get zone footage of the super cuz weird tracks

[terse wyvern]

Well I'm about to hit 4k

[full cave]

lol, just shot my first mythical red deer and man that rack is glorious. he had an entourage of 8 females with him and no other males lol. that rack bring all the girls to the yard

[signal sun]

Holy crap

i just got so lucky

i just got a diamond and a mela back to back zones

*fallow

the mela is a 201 so hes a gold!!!!!!

im so appy rn lol

*happy

[acoustic cedar]

Ayyyy congratulations!!

[full cave]

LETS GOOOOOO!!! waiting for the vid

[acoustic cedar]

It’ll be out later today! 😄 gotta get some sleep first lol

[dapper pumice]

Is it possible to turn every lvl 3 fallow on your map into a lvl 2 or lvl 4

[acoustic cedar]

GREAT ONE 5 JUST SPAWNED

BLADE RACK

In the same bloody zone as the diamond pie was in

At twin lakes

God I need sleep

Been at it all night with a like borderline migraine headache

Worth it

[worthy junco]

BRO

COME ON

BHUIAFHBLK:UJWABVw

'v]\ds

v'LDsmbv./ed

[acoustic cedar]

Helth -12

[worthy junco]

"vb

sorry just slamed my head into my keyboard

[acoustic cedar]

Lmao

[worthy junco]

Congrats tho mel!

[acoustic cedar]

Thank you so much!!

[worthy junco]

how many kills was this one

[acoustic cedar]

I’m literally not even gonna deal with this until later I’m so tired lmao

God I dunno

A good few hundred

[worthy junco]

💀

[acoustic cedar]

I didn’t bother counting 😭

[worthy junco]

im at 1700 with nothing

[acoustic cedar]

I know the struggle

[worthy junco]

I think I have the Ibuy luck

[acoustic cedar]

My first was not great like that

[worthy junco]

yeah, it was like 4.6K right?

[acoustic cedar]

Then it’s just been like “she’s really gonna keep doing this huh? FINE here’s the good stuff”

[acoustic cedar]

4.3 yea

[worthy junco]

I think hunter is mad that im playing angler lol

[acoustic cedar]

Lol 😂

Feels betrayed

[worthy junco]

then again

[acoustic cedar]

Helth™️

[worthy junco]

anyway, congrats again mel!

[worthy junco]

💀

[acoustic cedar]

Got this to put in a video later lol

[acoustic cedar]

Thank you so much- sending my luck your way!!!

[worthy junco]

yeah now you have to make a vid withe the super rare and the g1 huh

[worthy junco]

LETS GO

[acoustic cedar]

Imma split it into two

Because imma put the super trolls and super rare in tonight’s video

[worthy junco]

oh

[acoustic cedar]

Then a great one the next day

They’re too cool they need their own videos aha

[worthy junco]

and inturn more views

[acoustic cedar]

That would be a bonus!

Literally yesterday was sat here worrying cuz things seemed to have gone downhill

And then

This

[worthy junco]

welp im going to lose my mind on some random game. gl with the g1!

[acoustic cedar]

Thank you so much! Good luck!

[worthy junco]

the world works in werid ways

[acoustic cedar]

Fr it does

[tiny kestrel]

I haven’t touched the grind in well over a week or two

I’ve been playing other games

[glossy cove]

GREATTTTTT ONEEEEEE, silver spoon rack!!!

[tiny kestrel]

Fake news

Propoganda that big theHunter wants you to believe

[wooden junco]

Same I have been addicted to dave the diver 😂. Might throw down a couple fallow runs tonight though between work as I only have short breaks on the computer