Tracking

Tracking Skill Tree

• Basic Tracking - With some difficulty, you can track animals and people. (track for 2 AP, "wild boar went south")
  • Advanced Tracking - You can track animals and people who were here recently. (track for 1 AP, often gives 3-6 most recent tracks)
    • Expert Tracking - You can track animals and people who were here several days ago.

Description of Tracking

Once you have learned Basic Tracking, a button appears to "Look for Tracks". This button uses up 2 AP, and gives you a message such as "A wild boar went south." You only get the location of the next square of the creature's wanderings, so following a trail is an AP-intensive process.

Advanced Tracking appears to reduce the cost of tracking to 1.5 AP. You usually see half a dozen tracks (if in a well-travelled area), and the trails are listed as quite recent, recent, several days ago, and so on.

Untrackable Terrain

In certain places, pushing this button will not use any AP, but will yield the message: "You can't make out any kinds of tracks in these surroundings." (It still uses an IP hit.) You cannot track:

• inside a hut
• shallow or deep water
• swamp
• mountain path (you can track on the level jungle trail, just not while climbing)