Hunting

Hunting supplies hides, meat and animal parts. Use a Skinning Knife on an animal you killed. Skinning adds materials without removing the body's ordinary loot.

Outfitters normally cure two hides into one leather. Compare raw-material offers with the value of processed goods.

Making money

Best route: skin animals on a combat route you already profit from, then sell the hides and parts to confirmed buyers. Add the body's ordinary gold and loot to your combat earnings separately; skinning does not remove them. There are no Court writs for hides or meat.

Tanner is the clearest repeat-volume income perk when leather has buyers. A batch spending 100 suitable hides makes 100 leather with Tanner, versus 50 without it, for one station fee. Curing has no Outfitting rank gate. Sell against an order or compare the leather proceeds with selling the original hides; higher-tier processing does not guarantee a better price.

Harpy Feathers, Dreugh Shells and Dragonling Scales share a three-hide account allowance per day, including clean bonus hides. Treat them as occasional high-value sales rather than an unlimited farm. Scorpions and slaughterfish remain repeatable supplies of Hardened Leather inputs. Harpy Feathers stay whole for arrows; they do not cure into leather.

At Hunting 100, Butcher gives 2 Raw Meat or Raw Fish per eligible body instead of 1. Store fresh food before it starts to spoil. Big Tooth, Spider's Venom and Giant Scorpion Stingers add separate potion-ingredient sales where buyers want them; a bonus part is only a 25% roll and is lost on a torn trace.

The best target is the animal with the strongest combined loot and material return for your actual kill time, not necessarily the highest hide tier. Follow Market fees, and include combat supplies, repairs, knife wear and selling trips.