Hunter is a profession. Hunters can gather meat and preserve it to make preserved meat. It is usually paired with Butcher.
Acquiring
- Speak to either Musa in Edge of the Evil Forest at (1,18) or Unterix Unter in Astrub Forest at (2, -24).
- Agree to becoming a Hunter. You will then automatically start a fight with a Hunted Gobball.
- Kill the Hunted Gobball, it will drop a Smelly Gobball Leg.
- Take the Smelly Gobball Leg to the NPC, who will then teach you the profession.
- Buy a Hunting Tool from the NPC.
Equipment
Hunters have a chance to get meat drops when they're wielding a weapon with the hunting characteristic during their battle. This characteristic is naturally present on some weapons as well as a set of special hunting tools (described below) - it can be added to other weapons by a Magus while using a Hunting Rune.
The special Hunting tools listed below are all level 1 but require the listed level of hunting profession to be equipped. They are classified as tools - weapon mastery skills do not affect their damage and they are not affected by the normal class penalties associated with specific weapon types.
- Hunting Knife (level 1)
- Hunting Axe (level 10)
- Hunting Blade (level 30)
- Hunting Bow (level 30)
- Hunting Shovel (level 30)
- Hunting Wand (level 30)
- Hunting Spear (level 50)
- Hunting Hammer (level 70)
Workshops
- Astrub City at (0,-15)
- The Amakna Forest at (1,13)
- The Lonesome Pine Trails at (-74,-49)
- Brakmar at (-29,32)*
- although not technically a workshop there is a workbench to prepare meat upstairs in the brakmar butcher's workshop
Crafting
See Hunter/Recipes.
Gathering
See Hunter/Gathering.
Guides
See Hunter/Guides.