Karakul Valley Hunting Reserve (Based on Tajikistan, Kyrygzstan & Uzbekistan)

[summer bay]

Welcome to the Mountains of Central Asia, home of animals like the Ibex, Urial, Markhor and most importantly: The Marco Polo Sheep
When your not up on the mountains chasing sheep, you can traverse the river valleys in search of all manner of game like partridge, pheasant, hare and wild boar, with this area being home to truly gigantic specimen.
While you may be targeting the various types of wild goat and sheep in the mountains, it pays to keep a keen eye out for species like the Steppe Wolf, Feral Yak & Long-tailed Marmotl
And with 3 new weapons to choose from, your hunt here will be worth remembering

Reserve Summary

• The Reserve is dominated by 2 massive mountain ranges, with a river cutting through
• The northern mountains are home to Marco Polo Sheep & Ibex
• The southeastern mountains are home to markhor & urial.
• The southwestern mountain range in the west is where the ibex and urial dwell. It is also a potential home for a second type of Argali
• They are separated by a secondary river
• All mountain ranges are also home to marmots, wolves, chukar, snowcock and yak
• The River Valley and the large eastern lake is where you can find the rest of the species

Based on

• Tajikistan
• Kyrgyzstan
• Uzbekistan

Species List - Returning

• Wild Boar
  • Potential Great One Inclusion
• Ring-necked Pheasant
• Tufted Duck

New Species - Map Wide

• Steppe Wolf - Class 6

New Species - Mountains

• Marco Polo Sheep - Class 6
• Mid-asian Ibex - Class 4
• Bukharan Markhor - Class 4
• Afghan Urial - Class 4
• Feral Yak - Class 9
• Long-tailed Marmot
• Himalayan Snowcock

New Species - Valleys

• Daurian Partridge
• Pin-tailed Sandgrouse
• Tolai Hare
• Corsac Fox - Class 2
• Jungle Cat - Class 2
  • While protected in Tajikistan, this reserve is also based on 2 other countries in the area
• Asian Badger - Class 2
• Siberian Roe Deer - Class 3
• Red-crested Pochard
• Ruddy Shelduck

Potential Species

• Severtzov Argali - Class 4
  • Only hunted in Uzbekistan
  • Should it be included it would inhabit the western mountain range
• Himalayan Brown Bear - Class 7
  • While a video does exist of a hunter taking one of these bears in Tajikistan, I’m not going to use it as justification for their inclusion
  • If included they would be incredibly rare but found in all parts of the map
• Central Asian Red Deer - Class 6
  • This would be a way to include Red Deer without actually including them
  • They do resemble a mix of red deer and elk but are their own species: Cervus hanglu

Species that I am Excluding

• Snow Leopard - At least in Tajikistan the hunting of Snow Leopard is prohibited
• Tian Shan Argali - Too similar looking to the Marco Polo Sheep

Now we do have several suggested mountainous areas for Asia, this one was made to include Marco Polo Sheep, here are the other ones:

• Mongolia (https://discord.com/channels/393040947006406657/1095853516850991154)
• Caucasus Mountains (https://discord.com/channels/393040947006406657/1117315981849669662)
• Pakistan (https://discord.com/channels/393040947006406657/1096606793695756368)

Central Asian Mountains + Wild Boar Great One

Also this reserve could be potentially home to the Great One Wild Boar
As far as features go having larger tusk and various battle scars would be a good start as wild boar can live very rough lives

The Mountain Game: Marco Polo Sheep, Bukharan Markhor, Mid-Asian Ibex, Afghan Urial & Feral Yak

Other mountain dwellers: Long-tailed (Golden) Marmot and Himalayan Snowcock

The reserves top predators: The Steppe Wolf

Some other predators: Corsac Fox, Jungle (Reed) Cat and Asian Badger

Siberian Roe Deer + Tolai Hare

The new bird species of the valleys and lowlands (alongside Tufted Duck and Pheasant): Daurian Partridge, Pin-tailed Sandgrouse, Ruddy Shelduck and Red-crested Pochard

[summer bay]

As for the potential big game inclusions: The Severtzov’s Argali, Himalayan Brown Bear and Central Asian Red Deer (it is hard to find a good image of Severtzov’s Argali)

[median birch]

Well Done!!! This looks amazing!

[summer bay]

Thank you

[light stag]

Welp. I'm in.

[inland forge]

I have a Pakistan reserve idea, but I can't deny this awesome reserve idea that I would say is better than mine.

[summer bay]

Your Pakistan reserve has a good number of animals and covers several biomes, it is a fine reserve itself

[tall perch]

Can you add mandarin duck please?

[manic hedge]

Now this is another great suggestion for an Asian map! I hope we get an Asian map sometime in the future, we certainly lack one right now.

[summer bay]

No
Those are native to Eastern Asia (Japan, China, Korean Peninsula, Southeastern Russia)

[summer bay]

I agree, we need a map that is properly in Asia

[summer bay]

For Weapons here are few ideas:

A Single Shot Rifle based on the IZH-18MN that is chambered in 30-06

• It would be a light weight rifle

A Semi-auto Rifle chambered in 243 that is based on the Valmet M88 Hunter (same rifle as seen on my Mongolian Reserve)

An Over/Under Combination Gun

• Upper Barrel in 12 Gauge
• Lower Barrel in 308

[terse rampart]

Yes!! @summer bay what can be the name of this reserve, I might make a logo for this one too, love the animal list!

[summer bay]

Hunters Valley Reserve (Central Asian Mountains + Wild Boar Great One)

Hunters Valley Reserve is probably the best name I can come up with

Will the logo feature the Marco Polo Sheep by chance?

Karakul Valley Reserve (Central Asian Mountains + Wild Boar Great One)

[summer bay]

Just changed the reserves name to Karakul Valley

[strong frigate]

This looks better than my suggestion, so props to you!

[summer bay]

Karakul Valley Hunting Reserve (Central Asian Mountains + Wild Boar Great One)

[strong frigate]

@terse rampart Could you do me a solid and take a look at my reserve suggestion?

@summer bay did you think about adding Asian wapiti/Tian Shan wapiti?

[summer bay]

No, I have no plans to include them (I almost excluded Central Asian Red Deer from the list) but they could work for a reserve set in Kazakhstan (and while I do remember a thread existing for it I wouldn’t be surprised if it was abandoned)

Kazakhstan could not only hold Tian Shan Wapiti and Mid-asian Ibex but also Moose & Brown Bear

[barren zealot]

Great suggestion

[light stag]

Love to see the concept art of the GO boar, if anyone has it

[median birch]

If you keep making these I'm never getting another map for the Roosevelt and Blacktail. This map is amazing.

[terse rampart]

This is really a map that we need in the game. I went ahead and put together a logo for this that would suit COTW.

Here it is on the World Map. (With some other map suggestion concepts in the Feedback chat)

[light stag]

wanna see this in game

[lean merlin]

nice, Asia feel empty in the game

[summer bay]

And this map has 3

[summer bay]

The general idea I had was a more muscular, battle scarred boar with noticeably larger tusk

Maybe a mane like that of the Indian Wild Boar (attached image shows the kind of mane I am talking about)

[terse rampart]

Is hunting anywhere around these areas legal? Would like to see a map concept suggestion how it would be if it is legal

[light stag]

Saw a show not long ago where Jim Shockey went hunting for water buffalo and javan Rusa deer on papua new guinea

[summer bay]

That is outside the marked out area
But I do remember seeing this once https://discord.com/channels/393040947006406657/1080984511912890529

[light stag]

Its as close as i knew, this is also why i stick to weapon pack ideas lol

[summer bay]

As for the answer I am going to give

The only hunting areas in that circle is Nepal and possibly Malaysia

Nepal only has 4 Huntable Species
• Himalayan Blue Sheep/Bharal
• Himalayan Tahr
• Indian Wild Boar
• Indian Muntjac
And there is an actual hunting reserve in Nepal (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhorpatan_Hunting_Reserve)
It is the only one though

Nepal could potentially include Hog Deer, Asiatic Black Bear and several upland birds with a bit of creative liberty (though the cheer pheasant and Himalayan monal seem off limits alongside wolf and obviously snow leopard)

As more Malaysia, from what little I know the only legal big game are: Water Buffalo, Sambar, Saltwater Crocodile, Wild Boar and Bearded Pig

The rest is small game with includes things like water monitors, muntjacs, mouse deer, porcupine, civet cats, macaque and langur monkeys, junglefowl (wild chicken ancestors) and fruit bats

[terse rampart]

Tnx for letting me know!! Hopefully close to endgame, they'll manage some sort of a reserve with maybe less than 10 or 8 species there

[hexed grove]

Looks beautiful !

[strong frigate]

@terse rampart I made a Pakistan map idea

[median birch]

Bump because it's amazing hunting

[fringe pivot]

I really think that a fully mountainous map whit no trees or large shrubs would be great, there is not even a need to add climbing mechanics or anything like that because the game engine already generates realistic scenarios in this sense, what do I mean by this? it is due to the fact that mountains can be climbed ONLY through the least steep areas or where there is vegetation and the steep areas are inaccessible, which is consistent with real life, not all steep terrain is climbable and not all places are accessible. ..
Having animals on these mountains and large peaks would look great and would be unique, and just like in real life if we want to make an accurate shot we should climb and look for a favorable position, the animal will not always be in an accessible area where we can pick it up after opening it, so we should decide whether to shoot or not since it is possible that the animal falls into an inaccessible area and we lose the trophy (Something similar to what happens with the Mississippi Alligators when they enter the water)

[summer bay]

It would make for some interesting challenges

[median birch]

Bump

[mystic compass]

Is this the most recent version?

[unkempt magnet]

The Maral stag could be added https://www.bookyourhunt.com/en/Tour/13632?species=Maral Stag

[main shard]

To many mountains

[mystic compass]

That’s what makes it fun

You work with your surroundings to get the trophy,Ambush your prey

[fringe pivot]

It happens that we have covered almost all the ecoregions, however there is one of this type that has not yet been integrated, although we have it designed in Layton in the 3 large mountains, an animal was never placed there that used them, to climb them you have to knowing where, which path is too steep and which path has "grip" to walk on without slipping, is an incredible area that has not yet been exploited

[summer bay]

Seeing as how there are 3 different mountain ranges on the reserve, the southwestern range would be the easier to navigate while the other 2 are very challenging (sometimes extremely challenging in some parts).

The Valleys won’t be a tough climb but they will have their own sets of challenges with some areas being thick with cover while other parts are rocky and require some navigating

[cunning moat]

marco polo should be class 4

[mystic compass]

No they shouldn’t,the only class 4 that weighs more than Marco Polo Sheep is Boar.

[summer bay]

Most Argali sheep in my suggested reserves (Mongolia, Central Asia) are Class 6 since they are rather large sheep

The Severtzov Argali is the only Argali to be Class 4 as it is the smallest subspecies

[long schooner]

This would be amazing. I just hope they improve the mountain hunting in the game. Honestly, hunting for sheep and goat in SRP is very boring, it just feel like hunting deer. If they did something similar to the alpine ibex in Classic, it would be nothing but perfect.

[summer bay]

That is what I am hoping happens should this reserve be released

[summer bay]

Bump, also if you guys wanna check out a reserve set in Nepal here is one I just looked at: https://discord.com/channels/393040947006406657/1125269206779301908

[summer bay]

48 till 100

[summer bay]

A potential feature that could be added alongside this reserve: https://discord.com/channels/393040947006406657/1126948626778816682

[median birch]

Riding a horse on the way to bag a Marco Polo sheep would be sweet.

[summer bay]

Bump

[mystic compass]

Goals.

[median birch]

Could elk be added to this map ? I know central Asia has elk but wasn't sure if they would work on this reserve as well. It would really top it off if they could.

[summer bay]

@median birch the Central Asian Red Deer is listed as a potential species

[median birch]

I didn't see that. Thanks ! I would like to see it added if this addition ever got added.

[mystic compass]

I would like to see Altai Wapiti,I could be wrong on whether or not you can hunt them though or even that they are different from red deer or Rocky Elk (I’d be ok if they are Rocky Elk under a different name WITH A REMODEL)?

[median birch]

If they end up making a Rocky Mountain Elk GO later on I feel like they would have to just rename it with the same model to cut down on Dev time.

[summer bay]

https://discord.com/channels/393040947006406657/1095853516850991154 Altai Elk here

[mystic compass]

Ah,Mixed em up.Totally thought this was the Mongolia map,although they seem to have one isolated population in northern Pakistan

[summer bay]

To my rough understanding regarding Altai Wapiti, they are mainly hunted in Mongolia and Russia (Altai & Sayan Mountains) and I think Kazakhstan (the Altai mountains do extend that far west)

And I don’t recall wapiti being in Pakistan (the only deer hunted there are Indian Hog Deer), I do recall hearinf of the occasional Marco Polo Sheep showing up in Pakistan, but it is only considered a game species in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan

[mystic compass]

I see!

[summer bay]

Bump

[summer bay]

Bump

[summer bay]

Bump

[wintry lotus]

those horns look so nice

[summer bay]

Bump

[summer bay]

Bump

[scenic yarrow]

Bump

[summer bay]

Bump

[summer bay]

bump for Marco Polo Sheep and Markhor

[terse rampart]

Bububububuuump

[mystic compass]

Marco Polo Sheep hunting would be such a vibe!

[tight pollen]

Canadian co-sign I represent the whole nation

[summer bay]

I might have to draw a map for this reserve sometime this month

[summer bay]

Bump

[dawn nest]

I want this map sooooo bad. More than africa 2.0 or an arctic map. I need marco polo in game

[vague token]

It looks like you spent a lot of time planing this and it has paid off. We really need some maps like this

[fickle fossil]

Has Maral Stag been talked about for this?

[summer bay]

Central Asian Red Deer (Cervus hanglu) is the "Red Deer without being a Red Deer" for this map and I wouldn't be surprised if they got referred to as Maral

[summer bay]

Bump

[summer bay]

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[summer bay]

Bump

[summer bay]

The start of the entire thread in case anyone was curious and yes Maral have been considered, I list them under the potential species list as "Central Asian Red Deer"

[dawn nest]

I forgot about this post, but this is my take on this, (pretty much the same ish) https://discord.com/channels/393040947006406657/1235404052657999942 but it would have no drink zones since its a really open map for some different stuff

[dapper depot]

Bump

[summer bay]

Bump, even though the upcoming map is almost certain to be set in the Himalayas, I might as well bump this map up for the Marco Polo Sheep. Plus its not solely set in one country but based on 3 countries in Central Asia: Tajikistan, Kyrygzstan & Uzbekistan (Which is how Severtzov Argali made the list)

[summer bay]

Just in case anyone is curious about the species list

Returning Species
• Wild Boar
• Ring-necked Pheasant
• Tufted Duck

New Species
• Steppe Wolf (Map wide) - Class 6
• Himalayan Brown Bear - Class 7 (Rare)

Mountain Game
• Marco Polo Sheep - Class 6
• Mid-asian Ibex - Class 4
• Bukharan Markhor - Class 4
• Bukhara Urial (Ovis vignei bochariensis) or Afghan Urial (Ovis vignei cycloceros)- Class 4
• Severtzov Urial - Class 4
• Feral Yak - Class 9
• Long-tailed (Golden) Marmot - Class 1
• Himalayan Snowcock

Lowland Species
• Daurian Partridge
• Pin-tailed Sandgrouse
• Red-crested Pochard
• Ruddy Shelduck
• Tolai Hare
• Corsac Fox - Class 2
• Jungle Cat - Class 2
• Asian Badger - Class 2
• Siberian Roe Deer - Class 3
• Central Asian Red Deer - Class 6 (Rare)

I may also consider including a third Argali subspecies: The Tian Shan Argali

Mainly because the main differences between Marco Polo and Tian Shan Argali is the horns: Tian Shan Argali have horns that are thicker and more tightly curled then the horns of the Marco Polo Sheep

And also because I based this map idea on 3 countries: Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan & Uzbekistan

Pictures in Order: Marco Polo Sheep, Tian Shan Argali & Severtzov Argali

Karakul Valley Hunting Reserve (Based on Tajikistan, Kyrygzstan & Uzbekistan)

[final nymph]

I need this, I need this, I need this. Please Central Asia reserve, any country would be good, but this is just perfect! Now that Sundarpatan is out I hope EW considers this!

[dawn nest]

BUMP

[summer bay]

This one is outdated, Karakul Valley is now a more arid hilly region in #1253737251867721820

[dawn nest]

you could make feral yak as wild yak as a returning species now

[weak wigeon]

This is a very very good idea hope it’s made into a map

Man this guys a legend for all the map ideas I hope every single one of his map ideas are made

[summer bay]

You should check out #1253737251867721820 its basically a 2.0 version of this idea with extra species

[terse rampart]

Ah, the good old days when we had no idea lol

[magic comet]

Bump

[summer bay]

I made #1253737251867721820 as sort of a remake of this/expanded version