Real hunting balance

by saravaksa2·v2.1·Updated 2025-09-20

Realistic animal trophy system. More clean kill options. Firearms serve as an alternative to small game arrows.

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Realistic animal trophy system. More clean kill options. Firearms serve as an alternative to small game arrows.

real hunting balance

🎯 Real and clean kills

**Small Game Rifle Revolution**

  • Do you think it's silly to shoot sparrows with a bow and arrow? In the 19th century, people had already used air guns, Flobot guns and .22 caliber guns (the hunting rifles in the game) to hunt small birds.
  • **Hunter rifles are now treated as small game rifles**! .22 caliber as an alternative to small game arrows
  • Use a hunting rifle to kill small animals such as birds and squirrels to maintain perfect condition

**Pistol & Revolver Hunting**

  • Who says revolvers are not suitable for hunting? If your aiming skills are good, the same goes for a pistol
  • One shot of a medium animal with a pistol or revolver is now equivalent to a clean kill with a repeating rifle
  • Grab your trusty Scofield (or stylish Mauser) and hunt coyotes or beavers

**Big Animal Hunting**

  • Large animals such as deer can now be killed cleanly with revolvers, repeating rifles or shotgun shells

⚙️ Optional features

**Pistol and Revolver (optional)**

  • In that era, revolvers were sometimes used to hunt the skins of small game, and now you can do the same without penalty (even birds)

**Shotgun (optional)**

  • Shoot birds with a shotgun! Admit it, you've always wanted this feature! now you have
  • Also added the possibility of making clean shots in non-designated areas of the body (guts, etc.)

🎯 Clean kill details

**Small animals** (sparrows, squirrels)

  • Small game arrows, hunting rifles
  • Optional: +Pistol, +Revolver, +Shotgun

**Small and medium animals** (beaver, raccoon, turkey)

  • Hunting rifles, pistols, revolvers (normal ammunition only)
  • Optional: + Shotgun

**Medium animals** (fox, pig)

  • Head, heart, neck and lungs: arrows, poison arrows, all knives, pistols, revolvers, repeaters, rifles
  • Optional: + Shotgun
  • Limbs and non-designated areas of the body: poison arrows/knives (none in the original version)
  • Optional: + Shotgun

**Large animals** (deer, wolf)

  • Head, heart, neck and lungs: all arrows, poison knives, pistols, revolvers, repeaters, rifles, single-point bullets
  • Limbs and non-designated areas of the body: poison arrows/knives (none in the original version)

**Very Large Animals** (Moose, Grizzly Bear)

  • Head, heart, neck and lungs: rifles, slugs, improved arrows, poison arrows/knives
  • Limbs and non-designated areas of the body: poison arrows/knives (none in the original version)

🎣 Bait enhancement

  • Animal bait duration increased by 50%
  • Predator bait scent range increased by 50%

👀 Perception Adjustment

  • Increased perception of certain types of animals (mainly small ones)
  • Reduce the perception of law enforcement officers at night

🍖 Real animal trophies

**Loot changes**

  • Pigs contain more animal fat (1-3)
  • Boar contains more animal fat (1-2) and 5 pieces of meat (all qualities)
  • Bears contain more animal fat (1-3) and 5 pieces of meat (all qualities)

-Moose contains more meat (6-8 pieces)

  • Elk contains more meat (6-8 pieces)
  • Bulls contain more meat (6-8 pieces)
  • Buffalo contains more meat (6-8 pieces)
  • Cows contain more meat (7-9 pieces)
  • Crocodiles (large) contain more meat (5-7 pieces)
  • Badger contains 1 animal fat in good+ condition

**Meat type changes**

  • Beaver meat is now game meat
  • Pigeon meat is now game (no fishy smell anymore) because the pigeons here are wild pigeons and are said to be delicious
  • Pelican meat now smells fishy (bad taste)
  • Wolves now contain no meat, except for legendary wolves - their meat is tough meat (allowing you to taste your stinky legendary loot)

**Meat removed**

  • Vultures, vultures, wolves, and toads no longer contain any meat (toxic and inedible)

🪶 Algernon Mission Feather (optional)

  • Orders require 15, 20 and 30 bird feathers, a total of 65 birds need to be killed to get a reward that is not worth your time
  • If you don't want to commit total bird exte …

Install & use Install: follow the bundled instructions

  1. Unzip the archive from playbuff and read the bundled readme / instructions first.
  2. There is no universal mod manager for this game: some mods replace game files directly, some go into a game-specific Mods folder, and some need a game-specific community loader or tool first — follow the bundled readme.
  3. Place the files exactly as the readme says; mods with listed dependencies need those installed too.
  4. Launch the game to confirm it loaded; some games require enabling mods in settings or an in-game mod menu.

Install locations vary a lot between games and mods — the bundled readme is the most reliable guide.

File & checksum

Filename
Algernon's Plumes
File size
11.3 KiB
SHA-256
cc18e0857bfc3a121e2e9e2b2877c6eb8823b15c8ea2370010215bcaefade8d7
Stored at
2026-10-10 18:41