Hunting Attributes

There are three hunting attributes that you can use to improve your performance in the dark forest. The relative levels of each attribute are a matter of strategy which may evolve depending on the enemies being encountered at each level. You can check your current values by saying **hunting values** or **hunting stats.**

**Aim**: increases the chances of hitting an orc; higher level orcs are more evasive, requiring higher aim to hit them

**Breakthrough Power**: increases the amount of damage you can do when you hit an orc; higher level orcs have more health points, requiring higher breakthrough power to kill them. Each standard hit does between 1 and 1.25 times your breakthrough power.

**Read Tracks**: increases the number of orcs and objects you find in the Dark Forest

### Raising Hunting Attributes

* Each time you level in the forest, you can assign a skill point to one of these attributes, which raises that attribute by 1 point through the end of the current season.
* Each attribute can also be raised by buying bonuses in the Hunting Lodge. Each bonus costs 15 arrow makers and raises the attribute by 5 points.
* You can eat a raspberry to raise aim by 5 points for 30 minutes.
* You can eat a blackberry to raise breakthrough power by 5 points for 30 minutes.
* You can eat a carrot to raise read tracks by 5 points for 30 minutes
* You can eat a carrot bread to raise read tracks by 50 points for 90 minutes.
* You can eat a berry stew to raise all three attributes by 50 points for 30 minutes.
* The effects of the raspberry, blackberry, carrot, carrot bread, and berry stew can be stacked, meaning that you can eat several of them at once to get a greater effect for the same duration; however, if you eat too many at once, your knight gets sick, the effect is lost, and you’ll have to wait for a while before you can eat them again. If you get sick, your capacity should increase, allowing you eat more of the item the next time.

While this won’t raise your hunting stats, most of the hunting skills include a damage multiplier, increasing the damage done by a successful shot above your current breakthrough power.

### Health Points

One other attribute is important in the forest: health points. This is the only combat attribute that affects your hunting. Most of the orcs are aggressive, and their attacks will cost you health points. When you reach 0, you will lie moaning on the forest floor, waiting for another hunter to come by and heal you, unless you have salads of resurrection equipped. The more total health points you have, the more damage you can take in the forest before you need to be healed.

* Health points reset to your max at the start of a new game day, or at the start of a hunting tournament that you have entered.
* Being injured in the forest doesn’t affect the health points available to you in combat, where you always start every fight with your max health points.
* If you consume foods to raise your health points, they will affect both your current health points and your max; however, if you have reached 0 health in the forest, eating a food and going back into the forest won’t resuscitate you and you will still need to be healed.