Prey

Prey is a universal term used to refer to any creature in the game that is huntable or praisable. This includes bosses and predators (hostile creatures).

Other common terms include Mobs, Creatures, Animals and Critters.

## Hunting Prey

Hunting prey is very easy. If you are using F1 Camera mode you can run up to a creature and click to attack it when within range. If you are using F2 Camera mode you can use the mouse to click on a creature and your character will automatically run to and attack it. This can be less accurate as the character may not approach it enough to strike the prey's hitbox and may need manually moving the character into place- usually this only happens with flying creatures.

F3-4 Camera modes will use any of these methods depending on whether you have the mouse cursor active or not.

You can use abilities to help you hunt prey and can cycle through them by pressing 2. Pressing 3 will automatically cycle and activate Heal, Pressing 4 will automatically cycle and activate Strong Heal, 5 is Rush and 6 is Tame. You will have to Press 1 to return back to basic 'Attack'.

Offensive abilities are more powerful then you're standard attack, however some abilities may not be more powerful then your weapons and weapon damage **doesn't** contribute to *abilities*, only to you're normal attacks. Using offensive abilities, however, can help take down prey faster.

Once a prey hits 0 health points, the prey will die and have a chance to drop a random item from it's drop list and the player will absorb some of it's power, giving a new or more of an ability.

For example: Gazelle's can drop Gazelle Horns and Common Pelt. You may get one of the two when it dies. They also provide the Rush ability, and you will get between 1 and 10 of that ability.

You are not guaranteed an item drop on every prey kill and some items are much more rare drops then others- you could hunt 10 gazelle and get 8 common pelts and only 1 horns, for example.

## Finding Prey

If you are hunting prey for a quest, the Quest Giver will probably tell you what map the prey can be found (to learn about travelling across maps go here). However, if you are looking for a specific prey as you are item or ability hunting, you can find a complete Prey Location list below, or find their individual Wiki Page (if they have one) for more information.

Generally speaking however, prey will usually be appropriate for a map. So you will find Gazelle's and Cheetahs in Savannah Wilds, for instance, but you won't find them in Snowy Plains.

## Hostile Prey (Predators)

Some Prey are hostile and considered 'Predators'. It's important to note that GROWL has a lot of prey that don't have real world counterparts, so something that looks like a deer but is in one of the Nightmare Realms might actually be a Predator.

Hostile Prey (Predators) are named such as they will attack the player when within range without warning. Predators will target a player and chase them briefly, attack, then run off again like any normal prey being hunted.

It's equally as important to note that hostile predators in packs are lethal to players underprepared, as the entire pack could potentially target and gang up on a solo player. Predators will remain targeting a player even if the player runs away so it is recommended to kill all hostiles targeting a player before moving on into more dangerous territory before you get 20 predators after you.

## Passive Prey (Runners)

Passive Prey, also known as 'Runners', are prey that will flee whenever attacked. They will not fight back, they will continue to run away from the player.

Players will have to outrun the Runners or use long-range abilities to be able to take down higher level Runners.

## Praisable Prey

Praisable Prey are a special prey that can not be killed in the game. When they are stationary, you can click and hold the prey and an interactive box will come up with the option to 'Praise' the prey. It will do an emote and has the chance to drop an item or give you abilities each Praise.

You must then wait for the emote to finish before you can Praise again. If the prey moves, you will have to wait for it to stop running to be able to Praise it again.

Praiseable Prey after often the best way to fill stacks of abilities.

## Taming Prey

You can tame almost all wild prey to become your pet, prey that is untamable include bosses (which can drop their own pet version anyway), NPCs or any praisable prey. Every other prey that you come across in-game can be tamed.

To learn about Taming & Pets go here.