Unable to harvest animals.

[Lookstothestars]

I've logged on today and killed two Moose but when i tried to harvest them it didn't work. The harvest prompt popped up and my characters made the carving animation with the knife in both instances, but when he was finished, that was it. The menu that has the stuff the animals drop just didn't show up. When i tried carving them again, it didn't work. Their bodys just stayed there and didn't turn to skeletons. I'm pretty sure it's a bug, but i don't know how to or if i can fix it. I already killed Moose in this world and was able to harvest them, so i don't understand what has changed.

[TamTroll]

I've had this for a long time now. look away from the moose and go back in with your knife and right click on it a few times, maybe from different angles.

Game just doesn't realize you finished carving for some reason.

[Lookstothestars]

42 minutes ago, TamTroll said:

I've had this for a long time now. look away from the moose and go back in with your knife and right click on it a few times, maybe from different angles.

Game just doesn't realize you finished carving for some reason.

I've tried that in a new world on a bear. It was the same problem there but i eventually managed to get it. But when i went back to the first world and tried the same "technique" on the Moose it just didn't work. I even put it in a hole so i could really get as close as possible and tried to click on different body parts but it just wouldn't work. Though it could be that because i left that world these body are just broken now and maybe it would've worked if i tried that the first time around, but i can't test that anymore.

[LadyWYT]

If you exit the world and relog, you should be able to harvest the moose. You may also try harvesting the carcass from a different angle, as sometimes you can be close enough to harvest but not close enough to actually open the loot window.

[Jade R]

Same thing happened to me today, I tired multiple angles moving the thing around removing all grass around it, getting under it reloading it. Nothing worked 

[Zane Mordien]

 I had the same problem with a moose and bear recently. They definitely screwed up the hit boxes on looting corpses with 1.20.9. I don't understand why they make it so hard to loot a corpse. It should be simply, if you can carve it up then you can loot it. Instead I can carve the body, but then I need to get closer or find the magic angle that lets me loot the body.

[Lookstothestars]

On 4/21/2025 at 10:11 PM, LadyWYT said:

If you exit the world and relog, you should be able to harvest the moose. You may also try harvesting the carcass from a different angle, as sometimes you can be close enough to harvest but not close enough to actually open the loot window.

I have tried that but it did not work. Honestly, it feels very random to me. In a new world i made, i killed some bowtorn and tried harvesting them and in 3 out of 4 times it did not work. Like, i was ablle to harvest the third bowtorn i killed and i remembered the angle, so tried the same angle for the fourth and it simply did not work. From my experience it is purely random if it works or not. Definitely a bug that needs immediate fixing or else it simply becomes a waste of time to hunt big game like bears and moose.

[Aspendosia]

+1 for also having a problem with harvesting larger animals. Granted I'm using a bunch of mods to add in dinosaurs, but I wasn't having a problem until the most recent patch, and since then I go through the carving animation but can't get the mini inventory dialogue to trigger. I've tried looking around, restarting the game, even power cycling the PC but nothing seems to get this to trigger. Something to do with the latest game version? Hope this gets looked at soon...

Edited May 1, 2025 by Aspendosia
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[Tadas Juscius]

I also have the same bug. The best workaround I found is to finish the harvest animation that plays when you do shift+right click, and then if the box does not show up, you walk around the corpse and JUST right click it constantly, basically spam the right click while walking in circles around the corpse. This always gets the dialog box to open for me after 5-20 seconds of trying. Its annoying for sure, but I've always managed to get the rawhides/meat/fat this way.

Edited May 4, 2025 by Tadas Juscius

[AppleJam]

Been having this issue since I started, I hope it gets addressed soon, because not being able to harvest the animals I hunt have been exacerbating my starving lol

[NeutronCoffee]

it happens a lot, I usually have to walk around the body spamming right click till the game registers it 

 

[AppleJam]

Not sure if it's a coincidence but it seems to have improved drastically since last update 

[Lookstothestars]

On 5/9/2025 at 11:36 PM, OutcastAJ said:

Not sure if it's a coincidence but it seems to have improved drastically since last update 

Oh, yeah. The issue has been fixed as far as i can tell since the last update. I should probably end the discussion now, now that the problem has been fixed. I don't know how to do that though besides marking a message as a solution. I guess i could just use your message for that since technically, updating the game fixed it and you were the person to mention that.

[Maelstrom]

Just don't make any comments in the thread and it will slip to page 2, then 3 and so on.

[ALinkToTheFuture]

I'm finding this is still an issue as of v1.21.6. If anyone knows a way to fix this or a patch I could downgrade to where it's fixed I would appreciate it

Update: On a feeling I tried turning off Immersive First Person mode and just like that it started working as intended

Edited January 17 by ALinkToTheFuture