Tamed Elk Antlers

[Reade Pringle]

Will my tamed elk drop his gorgeous antlers once "mating season" has ended? It is currently mid-February, so should I start looking out for them to drop, or can I harvest them? Thanks

[Brady_The]

5 hours ago, Reade Pringle said:

Will my tamed elk drop his gorgeous antlers

They will drop indeed, but if nothing has changed in the last couple of updates sadly they'll just disappear. I don't know why. Maybe to keep the rarity of the large antlers higher. That's just speculation, though. It's probably a code thing, because generally you obtain antlers by killing the animal.

[LadyWYT]

12 hours ago, Brady_The said:

They will drop indeed, but if nothing has changed in the last couple of updates sadly they'll just disappear. I don't know why. Maybe to keep the rarity of the large antlers higher. That's just speculation, though. It's probably a code thing, because generally you obtain antlers by killing the animal.

I'm pretty sure it's to keep the antlers rare. I think antlers were bugged in a previous version, in that they weren't dropping from hunted deer at all, however that's been fixed. Whether your elk will drop his magnificent antlers if you(or something else) kills him though...that I don't know. If he does drop them, I'm not sure why you would want to go that route, given the elk's utility and how expensive they are.

[Brady_The]

Addendum: Apparently the antlers drop now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TD9jXMhLh9s&t=71s

Now I wonder if they always did and people always missed them or if that was a fix in one of the latter versions.