Hunting

Why do I Need to Hunt? The Sad Truth of Starvation

The answer is simple and universal: if you don't eat, you will starve. As a kit, every 7 in-game hours means you must eat something (that's 1 week in real life). Everyone else needs to be sure they eat at least once every 14 in-game hours (2 weeks). If not, you will automatically stare.

What is your Starvation date? Look at the sidebar - if the "Starvation Death" date matechs the date of when you last ate, then you've officiall starved to death.

So eat up! Cat's arn't usually the sharing kind, so you will take at least enough from a single meal, and not 'kind-of-not-staved status.' Bigger prey like rabbits CAN be shared, and how many shares exactly they have are listed in the Predator and Prey Guide.

Once you have eaten a meal, please update the staff and give them a link to the exact page that you ate on so they can confirm not only that you ate but update how much, if any parts, of the prey is left.

Kittypets are the least likely to starve. as they need only return to the zone that houses their nest, and eat from their supply of cat food. They cannot share with outsides. And Kittypets DO need to roleplay eating their kibble, just like anyone else.

Rotting animals are not edible. Plants & herbs also will not fill your cat's stomach enough to avoid starvation. Otherwise everything is game including other cats. Though please note: your Clan will more than likely frown on you hunting and killing other warriors as if they're prey.

Keep in mind that food can also rot. When fresh-kill is listed, an expiration date is given beneath. If you eat it on that date or after that date, it is rotten and it can get you sick. Rotten food can also attract other predators, and bring the wrong kind of attention. You need to get rid of expired food as soon as possible. 7 days after it's expiration date has passed, the food will disappear anyways.

Rotting animals are inedible, and plants will not fill your cat's stomach. You CAN however, eat other cats if you happen to kill them. Though the likelihood of your Clan looking upon you with anything other than disgust is probably something you should think about.

How Do I Find Prey?

Looking for something to eat? Good, you should be! Hunting is a main skill that any warrior needs to have. But where can you find prey? Your going to have to go to the Guide

Here, you will see that each animal has a rarity; a percentage listing their frequency in reguards the prey population being low, average or high (To discover what the population is currently at, please see the "Time and Weather" sideboard). This will change given the season, the current climate - many different things. So if the Prey Population is LOW, then the number you will be dealing with when searching for this prey is the "LOW" total.

Also, please keep in mind that certain prey can only be found during certain times, or in certain areas. Look beneath the animal to see if they can even be found in the area you are currently hunting in; that will determine if you can even be elegible to find it there.

If your choice of prey is available, then by all means roll a dice! They should be set on 1d100. Now, you must roll a number between 1 - and the listed percentage to even find that prey. Any number higher means you did not find it.

Example: A mouse at High level may be 80%. This means you need to roll between 1-80 to locate a mouse.

Animals in the Guide are listed in four different varieties: Playable (Cats). Prey, Predators and Twoleg. With any change in rarity in the Time and Weather Sidebar, it reflects a change in population of those specific animals.

Failing to locate an NPC animal in that zone means you cannot search again until the next in-roleplay hour (Real life day). However, if you manage to find an animal, but it gets away, you can search for that animal again.

So How Do I Hunt?

Similar to fighting, a difference in hunting comes from the fact that what you're hunting is a n NPC. They are controlled by no one, do not roll dice and do not reply to your posts. They behavior can be found in their entry of the guide: dictating what they do if pinned, attacked, if they fight back, ect. Basically, it is a guide to say that if you do ___, it will react in this way. The "Round" references refer to what they do during non-existent posts.

First, find the animal and make your attack. Any friend(s) should attack too, and when everyone has had one chance, the NPC would reply if it could post. The is when it does its' Round One reaction. Round two is what happens after you and your friends post the second time, and so on.

Please follow that the NPC behavior states, writing in the reactions in post however you please. Since the NPC can't roll dice, the stats listed for them are based on their natural stats - and no number need be added to them. They can only do four 'moves' per round, so if it says they will 'first' evade, then they will not attack, but evade first. If it says they will try and target the smallest cat, they will only attack once and thus be ready to evade three different attacks (if there are four cats in your hunting party.)

Remember to keep track of the NPC's Health. Most prey goes down in one hit, but predators tend not to.
They may also try to escape by flying or swimming. In the case of swimming, you can only go after them if you, too, can swim (Creekclan Cats). If they are flying, you get one chance - and then they are gone.

NPC's will not die at -5HP. They die at 0. Whether you win or lose in a hunt has not effect on energy like fighting does. Only sprinting lowers energy.

Upon completing a successful hunt, please Update the Staff. Prey will be listed on the left sidebar entitled Fresh Kills. You can have your cats bring the food back to camp or bury it, or even leave it there - but be warned that anyone can come along and snag your food if you leave it unprotected!



From time to time, a NPC (Most likely a powerful Predator) will be anonymously controlled by staff. These animals do not need to be found, they will come for you. They will make posts and roll dice - making them strong and dangerous. However, they still die at 0HP, and you do not lose energy from a loss or a win.



Do Be careful how much you hunt in one particular location. Overhunting, or hunting too much in one spot can cause that animal to become extinct in that area.