#Feeders not working like they did before the 9.0 patch

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median shuttle
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I've noticed that after the update animals aren't attracted to the feeders like they were before the update. My boar grind, for example, doesn't work anymore because sometimes boars just straight up don't show up to the feeders. I've noticed that they go to their feed zones instead of the feeder, especially if the feed zone is close to the feeder. I don't think it's supposed to be that way because I thought the feeders were intended to attract animals from their feed zones.

The image I've attached demonstrates how boars chose to feed at the feed zone even though there's a barrel right next to the feed zone.

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sturdy cedar
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This is something they already did actually. It's not a 100% guarantee that they'll come to the feeders during their feed time - more like 90-95%

median shuttle
cyan aurora
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the boar feed time is 1700-2100 correct? this is according to the feed zone located by my barrel. they don't come to it until 2300. Vm is correct something has changed negatively and needs to be looked at

median shuttle
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yeah something is absolutely off

cyan aurora
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first picture 1745 no pigs, changed time to 2245 pigs.... but this isn't their normal cycle

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the internal game clock is not correct, or there is something going on with their pathing... and ive noticed anomalies with more than just the feeders and time... i spent many hours yesterday sneaking around askiy ridge looking for drink zones and surveying animal spawns , to see whats on my brand new map. the movement rate and time they show up to their zones is way off. they either dont appear, appear late and never drop a zone, and wander off, or the animals that were there the first time aren't the same as the ones that were there the second time.

median shuttle
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yeah I hope EW looks into this asap

cyan aurora
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would also mention the fact that they just stand there and do nothing after being shot this mule deer was shot, and he's obviously not "fleeing" just stood there till the HP dropped to 0

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case in point, i couldn't get this boar into his "natural" need zone until 2330

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last one and im done.... I don't place my feeders willy-nilly they are placed adjacent to active drink zones. the one at the bottom as a natural drink zone, feed zone and rest zone, within 120m but still they don't come to the feeder till 2300 or later

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limber hatch
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Something has got to change with the feeders and tigers. They very rarely ever feed at one. It shouldn’t take days upon days for a tiger to find a feeder that is right outside of their drink zone. Please fix the tiger spawns and feeding.

cyan aurora
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i think its everything, not just tigers at this point.. but yeah spent most of my cash trying to get animals to come in like "expected"

cyan aurora
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Update: i had a consistent herd of boar at a feeder that disappeared after the update. I just found them at a natural feedzone near by but hidden from my view... i believe that this "issue" is linked to the change from feed zone for the feeder to "feeder zone" causing the animals to ignore them completely. i removed one of my feeders cycled the time, and placed it back down in my most consistent zone. and the boar created a feed zone 150-200m away, and ignore the feeder completely.

long ibex
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Theres also invisible Tahr feeding on my Sundar Tahr Grind

hearty mauve
cyan aurora
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at this point i want my money back, if they are going to completely ignore the feeders i wasted half the day moving around and 100k in game money to put on their travel path. only to create a zone 100m away from it and be burried in the trees

long ibex
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the 400 meter radius also does literally not apply to the mineral feeders

fringe glade
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i would like to get into this with nepal feeders for tahr. same issues, ive placed the feeders pretty much on top of my feed zones and instead of doing the obvious and needed thing (bring my tahr on top of the feeder) they bring tahr from 300-400 meters away and the ones RIGHT NEXT to the feeders simply eat at their normal zone. this is not what i hoped to get from the feeders.

long ibex
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it certainly doesnt feel like 400

fringe glade
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also i ve tried placing them 200+ meters away from my zone and pretty much most of the time they dont come to the feeders

fringe glade
# long ibex it certainly doesnt feel like 400

maybe its less than that but still the point is they bring tahr from the nearby zones instead of the zones that are literally right next to the feeders, those ones will just simply eat at their normal zone, like vm was saying here earlier

cyan aurora
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yeah i put a feeder 100m from a zone burried in the woods to bring them out, found their travel pattern into the zone and put it "in the way" and they walked right over it.

pale shoal
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only a few zones are showing up now for me 5 or so when usually all of my zones would show up and it seems like every single time that I close the game and launch it back up it changes which zones show up and changing the time does not work to make them show up

grand birch
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This is Acually so annoying,I’m 4k kills into my boar grind now it’s broken

fringe glade
cyan aurora
grand birch
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Does anyone know if they will fix this? I doubt it considering the huge amount of other bugs they are just leaving in the game but I hope they will.

cyan aurora
grand birch
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Will do

cyan aurora
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can also submit support tickets on their website

steel vault
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its not only boar....... for feeders

cyan aurora
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for anyone reading this thread at 1100 game time i started following boar off my feeder (not an established feed time) all the way across the map to a resting zone at 1223 game time... (this fits their regularly scheduled location) but not leave a need zone.

in the final picture you can see where he finally ended up and dropped a need zone,

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my example is for boar, since thats the only species i have setup to use feeders at the moment

median shuttle
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Guys remember to click that wrench 🔧 so we'll get EW's attention and hopefully this problem addressed quicklier. Thanks in advance!

thin mist
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Yea, I tried for a couple irl hours of playing with the new feeders for coyotes, Couldn't get one attracted. Placed near feed zones, for sure known tracks, on tracks, around normal feeding zones, near drink zones... tried multiple feeders/ and different times outside feeding zone/ in feeding zone.

cyan aurora
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Still having animals not where they are supposed too be hours after their designated time, this time in askiy ridge, mule deer showing up to their zones after hours, sheep staying for hours after.

median shuttle
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weird... something's off and it annoys me

cyan aurora
cyan aurora
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This is still an issue, I did some testing and found that if I uninstall feeder pack 2 I get a small semblance of normal again.

** each documented cycle with the Feeder pack 2 turned on or off consisted of only 1 time change to the initial 1930 time slot. and continuing to go from feeder to feeder until there were no more wild boar available to harvest. the Times included on the list are when i reached feeder 8 and started over at feeder 1

DLC feeder pack 2 turned ON
Exit game turn on dlc (install)
1930 time change at station 1 Cycle till no boar

1930- 5 boar (8 feeders visited)
2000 -1 boar (8 feeders visited)
2030- 0 boar (8 feeders visited)

Exited game turned off DLC feeder pack 2 (uninstalled)
1930 time change

1930 -14 Boar (8 feeders)
2030 - 10 boar (8 feeders)
2100 - 8 Boar (8 feeders)
2200 - 8 Boar ( 8 feeders)

2345 end of time Boar began wandering away

(the above counts, only include the Boar that i successfully harvested per 8 feeder rotation)

dense flare
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I'm honest: after I was searching the Haggis without a result, my second reason (at this moment) to play the game was my wild boar grind with feeders. Now this is (also?) bugged.
It holds me back from entering the game now and even buying the new dlc although I have bought every existing dlc until now.
Hopefully, EW gets this fixed! And I don't need to rearrange my grind setup, too.

cyan aurora
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need more people to send support tickets, and get the devs attention

dense solar
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Same

grand birch
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Is it just for the boar grind? Thinking about doing tahr with feeders but idk yet

cyan aurora
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hit or miss, only way to know is try, some have it work some dont with mine, its affecting everything

grand birch
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How do I send a support ticket?

cyan aurora
grand birch
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Thanks, does anyone know if non feeder grinds are broken aswell?

grand birch
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Just did a boar rotation, all feeders had pigs

steel vault
grand birch
steel vault
grand birch
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Does anyone know if the devs are aware of the issue?

steel vault
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They prob not going too fix it

thin mist
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I finally got the feeders to work with the coyotes!... It took a bit, but I put a scent feeder near one of their feeding zones already, and then it essentially made a mega zone, of 2 packs, 8-10 coyotes, some were eating zone w/o the feeder sign, and most with the zone icon.

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it took a bit of fast traveling and in game days I think, then it started working

civic pumice
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I was trying to complete the stupid coyote mission for MONTHS on Hirschfelden, new feeders came out, dropped a scent tube, and bam COYOTES everywhere. There are a few that have taken longer to attract the animals, like 3-4 in game days, but all mine are being used consistently. Pic for reference. Thats wolves and Red Fox at the scent tube.

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tidal sun
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this def seems broke my pigs just made zones like 200 m away from the feeders and the feeders have a solo at them

cyan aurora
tidal sun
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they worked great for a day we farmed 800 pigs then the next day like half of them work ive tried moving them ive tried changing the entire setup ive tried letting them run outta food

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do i just put the boars on halt why did they work so good before i also tried the scent tubes and none came why do we even have tubes and barrels for pigs

cyan aurora
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i haven't heard much back, submit a bug ticket to EW

tidal sun
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naw at this point it comes down to us to figure out waht glitched i think

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why did they work so good the first time what about how they hijack animals breaks

tidal sun
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why do like 3 feeders work on boars and deer what one does the best do they have dif attraction ranges

hearty mauve
grand birch
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They replied to my support email and they said the issue is solved.

grand birch
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The issue hasn’t been solved so that was kinda a lie

cyan aurora
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they told me they were passing it up the line, and closing the ticket because they don't have an answer atp

grand birch
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I don’t think it’s just feeders, my mule deer grind doesn’t work anymore

undone fjord
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(PS5)
Had issues with the scent tubes which I’ll be testing out further the next couple days. They’re pulling animals inconsistently even on flat terrain/far away from other feeders/100yds away from the actual feed zones. Badgers affected greatly.

The post box feeders are working excellently, though. At least for mountain hare/deer. Been using them for about a week now, they have some “issues” not pulling all of the attracted animals at once but it hasn’t been a huge issue since there’s always enough to shoot before rotating. There’s usually more animals when I come back and if not, I’ve been chalking that up to respawns not being back yet.

I will say, the fact there’s animals outside of the feeder that aren’t attracted may be partially due to some overlap of the feeder ranges themselves since I’ve only ever noticed it at a couple of feeders which were grouped closer together. Could just be a coincidence.

wet inlet
tidal sun
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i let my feeders run out doing stuff and now legit only one of 8 is effective im lost

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i can actively seee pigs walking right pass the full feeders on there way to there zones

finite hound
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My boars are walking right passed the feeders! They was working fine before the last update.

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I put in 3:tickets about this and I got no reply back! The devs know they are ignoring us!

bold slate
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I have over 300 days of play time and have been playing since 2018. I refuse to play this game or purchase anything else in this game until this issue is acknowledged and fixed. I have paid for feeders that do not work TWICE.

grand birch
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I have uninstalled the game because of this because it just shows that they don’t really care tbh.

dense flare
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I did not see anything about this in the Patchnotes for tomorrow!?

cyan aurora
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I don't think it is, I'm torn between buying the dlc because I like the weapons and not getting a fox for feeders in don't have to refill because they aren't going to them, and wasted money on that dlc

cyan aurora
inland hill
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I've tested both Barrels and Scent tubes on Boars on Cuatro before and after patch 9.1 and neither attract boars. I tried both time windows for boar, and even heard Iberian Wolf calls nearby and the scent tubes did not attract them either during their feed time. I placed them in the center of 3 natural Boar feed zones within 300m of each and they just go to their normal feed zones and not the feeders.

undone fjord
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Boars and badgers must be on the list of ill-attracted species. I’ve been able to attract many other types of animals seamlessly but it seems something regarding the feeders and boar + new Scotland animals are a bit funky. (PS5)