Legendary Story Hunts

Every legendary animal has its own story. Instead of a plain trail, a legendary expedition plays out in three chapters: two scenes that tell you what the animal has been up to, then its lair, where it waits in its own way.

🗺️ How a story hunt playsCopy Anchor Link

1. Take the hunt from a trapper's Legend Board, then set out from the Expeditions tab of the Hunter's Journal. The usual expedition rules apply: rank 5, standing in a region the animal roams, and once a day per animal. Story hunts show a Story hunt stamp, their title, a short tagline, the number of chapters and the reward.
2. The intro. A story card opens with how the hunt began.
3. Chapters I and II. Follow the signs to a scene: carcasses, a wrecked camp, sprung traps, torn brush. Hold Examine at the scene to read the chapter. The card also tells you which way the trail goes.
4. Chapter III: the lair. The legend shows itself with a banner, and the lair is dressed for it. How it behaves depends on its story (see below).
5. Bring it down. A Legend felled banner and a reward card appear. Skin it as usual for the legendary pelt.

The trail HUD shows the story title, the chapter you're on and a mark for each chapter.

🐾 Lair behaviourCopy Anchor Link

Some chapters and lairs also have poachers or rival hunters waiting, who have to be dealt with first.

Some legends are not alone: wolves around the Onyx Wolf, a herd around Tatanka, gators in the water with the Sun Gator. These guards are normal animals and can be skinned and sold like any other.

🏆 The fourteen storiesCopy Anchor Link

The story reward is paid when the legend dies, on top of the legendary pelt and the reputation for skinning it.

👥 Hunting a legend togetherCopy Anchor Link

A hunting party shares the story: everyone gets the intro, the chapter cards and the lair. When the legend falls, every member within 150 metres (rewardRange) gets the story reward, and the hunt counts for them in the journal. That legend then goes on cooldown for each of them, the same as for the hunter who set out.

🔧 ConfigurationCopy Anchor Link

Config.Legends in shared/config.lua:

✍️ Writing your own storiesCopy Anchor Link

The easiest way is the in-game Hunt Editor. Stories and scenes also live in shared/legends.lua, which stays open to edit. A story's key must match a legendary id from shared/rare.lua. A legendary without a story still runs as a plain expedition trail.

A storyCopy Anchor Link

onyx_wolf = {
    title   = 'The Black Pack',
    tagline = 'A wolf black as coal has been running down cattle in the high country.',
    intro   = 'Ranchers up in the Grizzlies swear a black wolf leads the pack...',
    chapters = {
        { scene = 'dead_cattle', signs = 2, text = 'Two cows torn open and left...' },
        { scene = 'dead_trapper', signs = 2, text = 'A trapper, his rifle still loaded...' },
    },
    lair = { scene = 'feeding_ground', behaviour = 'feeding', guards = { models = { 'a_c_wolf' }, amount = { 2, 3 } }, text = 'You hear them before you see them...' },
    reward = { cash = 30, xp = 180, items = { { item = 'part_tooth', amount = 4 } } },
},

A sceneCopy Anchor Link

poacher_camp = {
    bodies = { { models = { 'mp_g_m_m_animalpoachers_01' }, x = 1.5, y = 1.0, heading = 250.0 } },
    props = {
        { models = { 'p_campfire01x' }, x = 0.0, y = 0.0 },
        { models = { 'p_bedrollopen01x' }, x = -2.2, y = 0.6, heading = 90.0 },
    },
},

x and y are offsets in metres from the middle of the scene. List more than one model and the first one your game build has is used. Bodies are only staged for the hunter, so they can't be skinned, carried or sold.