@Lulu that's got to have been a puzzling realization
@TC man I have 70% in bows. I should think that's not bad? I'll try to get a better bow, but I have a short one, not a crummy primitive one.
By trying to track in different locations, you mean on the zoomed-out map, right? I spent whole days doing nothing but tracking every other tile while traveling, and I got nothing. And my skill is 95% with a ritual (without it would be 90%)! By contrast I have found many animals by pure chance--but by far not enough to rely on that for a steady food supply.
There's simply no way. I have to try trapping, but it looks that in order to work it needs a bigger capital investment than a steel mill. :-/
The help says bait is absolutely necessary to capture carnivores, and has no effect on herbivores.
In this first game I'm now hack-loading, so I've tried different mushrooms (that came out weird). Before I had eaten some leaves just to try and I spent days poisoned at -11%, no biggie, I recovered.