Originally posted by GeoForce:

Seems like it to me also. Used to be my main food, but now, I use then only when I expect a big need coming up.

You must not be too far into the game. There are much better foods out there. Once you are far enough they become obsolete.

Originally posted by wizard_of_woz:

Originally posted by GeoForce:

Seems like it to me also. Used to be my main food, but now, I use then only when I expect a big need coming up.

You must not be too far into the game. There are much better foods out there. Once you are far enough they become obsolete.

Except they're needed to create anti-poison potions as well; so when having to kill the entire neck population (50+ at my island) to get just 10 tails, things don't seem right.

Only thing that's helping a bit is killing the higher tiers.
Single star offer a guaranteed 2 tails, double stars offer a guaranteed 4 tails. Which may be enough to get enough potions going.

Thorin :)

Originally posted by wizard_of_woz:

You must not be too far into the game. There are much better foods out there. Once you are far enough they become obsolete.

Correct. Still h bronze age and haven't killed The Elder yet. Finally found a runestone pointing to him this morning.

Originally posted by GeoForce:

Originally posted by wizard_of_woz:

You must not be too far into the game. There are much better foods out there. Once you are far enough they become obsolete.

Correct. Still h bronze age and haven't killed The Elder yet. Finally found a runestone pointing to him this morning.

Gotcha, as the person pointed out above me, you will want to save some of those tails for your poison resistence potions. Entering the swamp without them is asking for trouble.

Originally posted by Oakshield:

Originally posted by wizard_of_woz:

You must not be too far into the game. There are much better foods out there. Once you are far enough they become obsolete.

Except they're needed to create anti-poison potions as well; so when having to kill the entire neck population (50+ at my island) to get just 10 tails, things don't seem right.

Only thing that's helping a bit is killing the higher tiers.
Single star offer a guaranteed 2 tails, double stars offer a guaranteed 4 tails. Which may be enough to get enough potions going.

Thorin :)

Them respawn bro , and not take too much time for that
And the only use after BF is for anti poison me/ad and only use 1 for 6 potions
Them arent limited AT ALL , if u hunt deers you can see little necks annoyying u , or just shore any meadows u have in your map

I believe it is just probability. I needed two drake trophies for the helm in the wolf armor set. Got the first one when i killed my third drake. By the time I got the second, I had forty freeze glands in a chest. There were a few drakes I killed that I don't know what they dropped because their corpses tumbled down the mountainside while I was busy with their siblings, or wolves or a pesky stone golem.

Originally posted by blankitosonic:

Originally posted by Oakshield:

Except they're needed to create anti-poison potions as well; so when having to kill the entire neck population (50+ at my island) to get just 10 tails, things don't seem right.

Only thing that's helping a bit is killing the higher tiers.
Single star offer a guaranteed 2 tails, double stars offer a guaranteed 4 tails. Which may be enough to get enough potions going.

Thorin :)

Them respawn bro , and not take too much time for that
And the only use after BF is for anti poison me/ad and only use 1 for 6 potions
Them arent limited AT ALL , if u hunt deers you can see little necks annoyying u , or just shore any meadows u have in your map

yes, I know they respawn, bro.

My point was, I'm living at an island, with a population of about 50-60 Necks maximum. If I need to kill all of those, to get 10 tails so I can "cook" them and use as food in addition to meat and raspberries or mushrooms; it's not much.

Also: Kill a boar and 50% drops leather scraps and raw meat. Kill deers and 100% drop raw meat. Kill a Neck and unless it's one having one or more stars (which have a 100% tail drop rate; and about 10-20% drops a tail; it's pretty obvious the spawn rate of Neck Tails is below that of raw meat.

Which was what this topic was about in the first place.

Thorin :)

I'm having good luck punching Necks to death...so far about 80% of the time, they drop meat.

I don't really need the meat at this point so only did a small sample size test (20 necks=16 meat and 1 trophy) so maybe I'm just getting good rng (for a change), but I'd be curious of the findings of others.

Seems like it to me also. Used to be my main food, but now, I use then only when I expect a big need coming up.

Same problem here. The first 10h or so in my game Necks would drop their tails but now they rarely drop anything.
Help would be appreciated

I have the same problem but since they are always in or near the Water i discovered that often the Tails get carried away under water, searching a bit near their death location made me find tails sometimes.

Same problem here