Hunting, fishing & foraging

You do not need a job for any of this. A hunter or fisher job just gives you contracts for it, see Jobs, hunting & fishing.

Hunting

Animals live in the hunting areas: the forests and hills around Paleto, Mount Chiliad, Raton Canyon, the Tongva and Zancudo hills, east Grand Senora, the Tataviam mountains, Mount Gordon, the Great Chaparral and the Palomino Highlands. They never spawn inside towns. You will find deer, boar, coyotes and rabbits, and now and then a mountain lion.

• Mountain lions and boars attack you if you get close. Everything else runs away.
• Kill the animal, walk up to it and choose Skin the animal from the interact menu. You need a knife: hunting_knife, machete, hatchet or axe.
• Skinning gives raw meat, hides or pelts, leather and bone. A deer gives 3 to 5 raw meat, a deer hide and 1 or 2 bones. A rabbit gives one meat and a pelt. Big animals pay more XP: a mountain lion counts as 2.5 deer.
• Cook the raw meat at a campfire.

Fishing

1. Have a fishing_rod and some fish_bait in your inventory. Each cast uses one bait.
2. Stand on dry ground facing water within about 30 m and use the rod from your inventory, or type /fish.
3. A bar appears. Press E when the marker is inside the target area, three times. A miss costs you a point. Backspace, moving away, or taking more than 35 seconds cancels the cast and the bait is gone.
4. A better fishing skill makes the bar easier and the catch faster.

Inland lakes and rivers (the Alamo Sea and the river corridors) give freshwater fish: bass, catfish, trout and rarely salmon. The coast gives mackerel, sea fish and, rarely, a trophy fish.

Foraging

Walk up to a bush or a patch of undergrowth and choose Search bushes. It takes a few seconds and you must stay close. You find sticks and leaves, and sometimes cranberries from berry bushes, plus a little survival XP. A bush you searched is empty for 10 minutes, and a patch of undergrowth is shared with everyone standing in the same small area, so move on to find another.

If a bush will not let you search it, tell staff. They have a debug command that shows what the game thinks that plant is.