Not sure if posting in the right category, correct me if not.
I'm fairly new to this game, but I believe I have grasped the basics, although having trouble finding animals to hunt. It's not hard for me to chase them down or to kill them, but I end up wasting more food trying to find animals than I get. I can't seem to find anything bigger than a badger 
What I do is walk around in the wilderness map hoping to encounter something because it seems like trying to track anything is a waste of time.
Can you guys give me some basic hints? How do you personally find animals in your save? And are they supposed to be so hard to find or am I doing something wrong?
Any help will be appreciated, thanks.
it can take a long time to find a good meal, eyesight and tracking are very important to find them. you may need to set up a few camps to extend your hunting range, a place to sleep so you can cover more ground if your home has nothing. and tracking is VERY usefull, animals will flee, especially big ones can run rather fast. but you can do more distance over time so you can tire them, to do that tracking so you dont lose them is essential. if you can't track you should not rely on active hunting to much.
the place you are staying also has an impact on what animals you will encounter, currently i'm up north (by the coast, in the middle) and there's lots of reindeer there, stags, elk, seals, bears, wolves, a few birds, hares, polecats and both type of foxes. the reindeer in such abundance i dont even hunt all that i find. i just walk around from highspot to highspot and see them in the distance, if i need food i'll go the where i've seen them and look for tracks. this works better in winter when everything leaves tracks.
also you don't need to hunt to survive. fishing (especially with nets) and farming/foraging are perfectly viable. combining is best for a full RP playtough, as you would in real life. usually those are my goals, finding the right plants/berries and sometimes encountering animals to hunt along the way, fishing with nets if the land yields to little to survive (wich doesn't really happen). that's when i'm not tending my field for those turnips i use to feed baldrick. (actually i mostly farm plants that can't be found up north, to reduce trips to those decadent southerners.)
on another note, if you switch to fishing, know that everything freezes. even the sea, all except for rapids. if you rely on fishing, live near rapids. should you chose to farm, know that wild animals will come to eat your turnips, traps are your friend. i walled my homestead to keep walking things out (an actual wall, not fence) and use loop traps to catch birds that would dare to eat baldricks turnips.
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