Help for hunting (common skill group)

The hunting skills cover tracking, taming, and harvesting creatures. Each skill is learned independently. The more hunting skills you know, the more effective your tracking becomes, and the better the materials you recover from beasts you slay.

Companion Limit:

  You can keep 1 tamed creature at a time. Predator's Knowledge already
  raises that to 2, though its study command is not built yet.

Skills:

  Track                 Read the trails in a room: who passed through and which way they went.
  Tame                  Tame a creature you have learned to handle, making it your companion.

Planned, not built yet:

  Lure                  Place bait to attract creatures to your location.
  Predator's Knowledge  Study a beast to reveal its stats and drops.
  Trophy Hunter         Rare creatures drop trophies for Renown.
  Apex Predator         First attack against a studied beast deals double damage.
  Improved Track        Track scans further and works during storms.
  Clean Kill            Deal 10% bonus damage against beasts.

Skinning:

  When you kill a beast, you automatically attempt to recover materials
  from the remains: hide, pelt, feathers, scales, snakeskin, or amphibian
  skin depending on the creature. The recovered item is named after the
  creature ("a Gray Squirrel Pelt", "a Sturdy Buck Hide") and goes straight
  into your pack, or your ingredient bag or a carrier when it belongs there.
  In a group, the hunter with the most hunting skills works the remains.

  Quality comes in four tiers, from worst to best:

    damaged    A torn scrap, only fit for the simplest work.
    normal     Serviceable, the usual result for a steady hand.
    fine       Cut clean and intact. Worth more to a tanner.
    pristine   Taken whole, without a single flaw.

  Each hunting skill you learn improves both your chance of recovering
  anything at all and the quality of what you find. A hunter with no
  hunting skills will mostly come away empty-handed or with damaged
  scraps. An experienced one consistently brings home fine or pristine
  materials.

  Some creatures drop multiple materials (a beak alongside feathers,
  bones alongside a pelt). Extra drop slots are gated behind hunting
  experience, so deeper investment opens up new things to recover.

See also: tame, pets, skills