12.1. Good hunting weapons.
One of the best weapons you can build your self for hunting is probably the crossbow, because it holds 5 shots and while it reloads slowly, it can be fired quickly and the ammunition is extremely easy to make. it also does decent damage and has a range about comparable to the revolver. A little bit less, but not by much. You make the crossbow by combining a string with a branch three times, so that you have 3 tied branches, then just combine 2 of the tied branches to make a broken bow, combine that with your third tied branch to make a broken crossbow, combine that with a piece of wood, and finish that disfigured crossbow with your knife. Arrows are just branch plus knife, and you hold the arrow in one hand and the crossbow in the other, pressing T multiple times to load the arrows until you either run out or fill it to capacity, then you can put them away until needed, though they will be unloaded on logout. Another really good weapon is a boomerang. While it doesn't do to much damage every hit, it's pretty long range and you can just keep throwing it at your target with out worrying about reloading! If you don't have a boomerang yet, the best short-ranged thing to have is a spear. it is as strong as a hammer (stronger?), but has a longer range. Or you could go with an axe, but those are a bit slower and have a much shorter range. Even if you have a lance, using those while killing rabbits is useless (even your knife has a longer range and rabbits die quickly), and for bears and wolves it is quite a hard job, because they are so slow and have 2 tiles range. If you want a spear, then do the following: Combine 2 pieces of wood with your knife, then repeat that with the previously carved wood to get 2 shafts, and combine those to get a long shaft. Next combine 2 stones, which you can find near the entrance to the desert and a bit east, and carve the pointed stone that you get with your knife to make a spearhead, which you can then attach to the long shaft to finish the weapon. You can make a hammer by carving a piece of clay into a hammerhead with your knife and then attaching a regular shaft to it... (No long shaft needed!)
6.2. Animal movement
In terms of hunting, the way that the animals move is as follows. •Rabbits move quickly in a curving path, then stop for a few seconds, and move again, they also make allot of squeaking noises while doing so.
•Wolves move at a slowish pace, but seem to have a long stride, they could be on 1 side of you in the first second and on the other in the next. they sometimes attack on sight and run away too fast to follow, but they usually just jog through without incident. When you make them angry by hitting them, they'll come after you, sometimes breaking off the attack to follow a more promising target or just to mislead you farther, so don't be surprised if a wolf is hit by someone near you, starts to attack them back, then suddenly runs up and bites you instead before dodging away.
•Bears move quite slowly, but determinedly, so unless you give them a reason to change direction they won't, but if you do attack them, they will head towards you, sometimes moving slightly left or right in the process, and then they will maul the heck out of you until you back up and break off your efforts.
12.3. Hunting rabbits
The way I hunt rabbits is to firstly make sure that I'm at an optimal range to make a kill, otherwise it's more than likely that they'll be gone before I can get into the correct position anyway, this is usually 25 tiles at maximum. I check the rabbit's position at least every second with the A key, and make sure that it is very slightly left or right and forward of me before even attempting a shot, I also sort of build a rectangular box encompassing both of us in my mind, so that I know when very slight turns to slight, which is the edge of that box, then I try to find the center point which is where the rabbit will be, and fire, then I move 1 to the left, fire, 1 to the right, fire, and again 1 to the right fire,or vice versa and check position to see if they moved and I need to acquire the rabbit's position again, something which I do not attempt to do if they are already more than 30 tiles away. However, with rabbits, at least at first, as long as you are fast enough and have a decent amount of energy to spare, it's almost better to go after them with a melee weapon like an axe or a hammer. I'd say that the most difficult thing about hunting rabbits would be when you're in a constantly changing group of them, since the game isn't very good at telling you which is the most valuable target, and therefore you end up wasting time making sure your on track to the right one with each press of the A key, and you get distracted by the running and squeaking sounds of the other animals. The best places to find rabbits would be northwest of the pond, and in the dirt trail across the bend in the river between the leaves and weeds, as wel