[Suggestion] Animals should be able to kill other animals

6 votes

100% love the game. It would be so cool to see a pack of wolves attack a bear and leave nothing but bones if you dont attack or you can watch and then kill the wolves when the bear is dead skin the wolves and bear. epic.

Under consideration AI Suggested by: antwan (11 Dec, '21) • Upvoted: 04 Sep, '23 • Comments: 2

Comments: 2

11 Dec, '21
The Unknown
they already do - it is just a VERY rare occurance...

That is to say... Only elephants in the desert and bears do... it needs to happen with the others like cougar/hyena/antelope etc

**I personally have only seen this happen (LIVE) with bears and elephants - elephants will protect themselves (or) attack cougar/etc... bears will seem to *rise/threaten* against some animals but not atatck them... i have yet to see any of this from any other animal ... BUT i have seen cougar and boars dead in a desert stream when i have played offline - solo... so i assume it happens but we are just not there to see it all the time???**
13 Dec, '21
Skwiggily
The problem with animals attacking each other is twofold:
1. If predators kill more prey, there will be less prey for the players.
2. If predators kill other predators, there will be less difficulty for the players.

Sounds chaotic and realistic, but is extremely hard to balance. Could be done if you increased the spawn rate and then let predators be the population control for all the prey spawning. Also have to consider how that impacts how much exp people can get, if they can't find higher value animals because bears or wolves keep killing them, wouldn't feel very rewarding.