Boar

The Wild Boar, also known as the wild swine or simply wild pig, is a very ferocious animal, and it has been introduced to the game since the very first update of Card Survival: Tropical Island.

The species is one of the most dangerous animals in the game, as well as the most hostile animal in the game. It has been assessed as least concern on the game due to its wide capacity on finding, high numbers, and adaptability to a diversity of habitats.

A Wild Boar, your first danger in the island, and the most common animal you can find in the Jungle and deeper. They appear when you explore, showing the respective card. Then, you have the following choices:

## "Attack it / Leave it alone?"

When the Boar is found, you now have two options: You can try to savagely attack it with your current weaponry and kill it for their precious meat and hide, or you can leave it alone and try to retreat stealthily. There are some situations where you can efficiently (or not) overcome this event:

If you're attacking...

* You need a high luck and also rely on your Spear Fighting skill to actually hit it with your spear. If you're not that lucky, be careful. Actual Boar attacks on the player are very serious, resulting in sprain injuries and lacerations. So be warned, because they can hurt you quite badly if you are not well prepared.

If you're retreating...

* You also need a high luck and relying on your Stealth skill to actually retreat properly. If you're not that lucky, be careful as well. Because it might attack you and apply a serious wound on you.

### Armed to the bone!

If you are attacking, you have to know about your **weapon efficacy**. Depending on your **actual weapon and the related skill**, you can succeed or not hunting down the boar. Make sure that you have the weapon which you're more efficient at to increase the chances!

There are some situations where you can efficiently (or not) hunt down a Boar:

* Using a Rustic Spear, and you might miss some attacks at first, but at least you'll improve your Spear Fighting skill. You can also improve it by training with the Rustic Spear, spending 1 hour to do so.

* Using a Rustic Bow, and you might hit some attacks here and there, and you'll improve your Archery skill. You can also improve it by training with the Rustic Bow, spending an arrow and 1 hour to do so.

### Sweet victory!

When succeeding, you'll get the loot: his *carcass*.

The Boar's carcass is your most reliable source of meat, that also can be *skinned* for its fresh **leather**. It's recommended to do that before the carcass spoils, or you'll lose its precious meat! Skinning the carcass gives you the following items:

* 3x Fresh Boar Skin, which you can flesh it to take off the remaining meat around it using a cutting tool and then wait for it to dry;
* 2x Boar Meat per harvest (raw), which you can cook it in a campfire to make it more tasty;
* 1x Fat per harvest, which you can use to make other recipes or craft other blueprints;
* Bones.

### Juicy contents!

The first time you interact it with a cutting tool you can skin the boar, to get the fresh leather from it. Then, you can butcher it to get the juicy meat, at a maximum of 4 times. Along with the leather and the meat, they can also be butchered for their fat, which can be used for cooking and crafting. The boar skin can be fleshed and used to craft different leather items as well.

## Update History

 v.ea.10.0 | Along with the Wound System introduction, made so that you can now get wounded by a Boar attack. Retreating from Boar Encounters now takes less time.