Harvesting an animal in Hunting Season on Roblox requires locating the downed carcass, walking up to the body, and interacting with the prompt to claim your kill. Doing so brings up a detailed harvest screen that reports your shot accuracy, target statistics, cash rewards, and experience points, while offering the option to save the animal to your trophy lodge.
Steps to Track and Harvest Downed Animals
Harvesting begins as soon as your shot drops the animal in Josima Studios' hunting simulator. The full harvesting sequence follows these in-game steps:
- Follow the animal's trail: Neutralized animals that do not drop instantly will flee before collapsing. Follow their tracks across the terrain. Interactive track clues display direction, gait (Walking, Trotting, or Galloping), and blood spatters confirming that the target took damage. Tracks also report freshness stages: Very Fresh, Fresh, Very Recent, Recent, Old, and Very Old.
- Locate the physical carcass: Follow the blood trail until you reach where the animal fell. Unlike live prey, fallen animals lie flat on the ground.
- Trigger the harvest interaction: Walk up to the animal's body to claim it. Interacting with the carcass immediately brings up the official harvest summary window.
Data Displayed on the Harvest Summary Screen
Collecting the animal opens an inspection menu containing the ballistic results and physical traits of the prey. The screen records the following information:
- Animal Characteristics: Displays the species, gender, age, weight, fur type or color, difficulty rating, and rarity.
- Shot Breakdown: Lists the total number of hits, which player landed each shot, distance from the shooter in yards, bullet velocity, weapon name, and caliber.
- Hit Placement: Pinpoints which anatomy zones absorbed damage. The game models four vital organs: the Heart, Left Lung, Right Lung, and Brain. Shots striking outside these zones register as flesh hits. Hitting primary organs stops prey quickly, while flesh-only hits allow targets to run long distances before expiring.
- Score and Rewards: Displays the numeric harvest score achieved from shot quality, alongside awarded cash and character experience points.
Preserving Harvests Versus Clicking Continue
The bottom section of the harvest summary window presents two distinct actions:
- Continue: Closes the harvest overview and deposits your earned money and experience points directly into your account. Choosing this option cleans up the animal carcass from the map so you can resume tracking nearby wildlife.
- Preserve: Saves the kill record into your permanent collection. Preserving adds the animal to the in-game "Harvests" menu, marked with a trophy icon. Saved animals can then be selected and mounted inside your personal hunting lodge to display your highest-scoring trophies to other players. Clicking preserve keeps the harvest screen open until you press continue.
Harvest Rating Badges
The game awards account badges based on the harvest rating of qualifying catches. Higher ratings correspond to larger body weights, higher kill scores, and rarer animal spawns.
| Badge Name | Requirement |
|---|---|
| Bronze Animal | Harvest an animal with a Bronze rating |
| Silver Animal | Harvest an animal with a Silver rating |
| Gold Animal | Harvest an animal with a Gold rating |
| Diamond Animal | Harvest an animal with a Diamond rating |
| Ruby Animal | Harvest an exceptionally rare Ruby animal |
| Mythical Animal | Harvest an ultra-rare Mythical animal |
Frequently Asked Questions
Can animals run away after being shot?
Animals run when shots strike non-vital flesh rather than the heart, lungs, or brain. Targets hit only in the flesh can travel hundreds of yards before collapsing from blood loss, requiring hunters to follow blood tracks to find the harvest location.
Where do preserved animals go after claiming them?
Preserving a harvested animal places it in the Harvests tab of the game menu. You can access your personal lodge property to mount preserved animals onto trophy stands.
Do birds require a different method to harvest?
Canada Geese fly mid-air in flocks and must be brought down with shotguns over dry land. If geese are shot down over lakes or deep water, retrieving the downed harvest is impossible because open water cannot be crossed to reach the body.
