Mercy for Elk mummy?

[Mr Wendal]

I shot the mommy in the leg, then saw the calf. Now my character is having a crisis of conscience. What would you do?

[trowftd]

It would be very hard for the mother to survive with an injured leg anyway, you gotta do what you gotta do man.

[Mr Wendal]

Only a very minor wound, she should be OK

[PALU]

Mummies that are moving about are generally deadly, evil threats, and so have to be eliminated. Babies are generally not forces of extreme evil

I would guess the calf is old enough to survive on its own, and you'll probably get enough meat from the adult to satisfy your needs, so I'd take the adult only (and hope to get the calf as a larger young elk next year).

[Privateer]

 Well I'd let them go because to even have the thought, you're obviously not starving or possibly even 'slightly' strapped for food.
I've found myself releasing many more trapped animals since the change in smoking.

[Plotinus]

If I'm starving I'll take whatever I manage to kill first. If I have enough food then I often let mother-calf pairs go, unless they're in my traps. Animals heal pretty well in this game, unless there's a predator around to chase them I guess.

[JP_Finn]

Well I'd let them go because to even have the thought, you're obviously not starving or possibly even 'slightly' strapped for food.
I've found myself releasing many more trapped animals since the change in smoking.

I release all waterfowl from loop snares the same. As waterfowl are/were able to pass messages to/from the dead. Tuonenvirta, Tuoni’s River, where dead souls would travel. Waterfowl reaching down with their necks.

Those same mallards, tufted ducks would be found dead floating in the bay, when going fishing.  That’s because “once trapped, the creature will die”... which was to stop folks from skill grinding dodge and blocking on trapped elk. Now we can’t release animals back into the wild. Even uninjured ones like any caught in loop snare will die shortly after.

Shame really.

(Btw, British spelling is ... unfortunate ...)

[Mr Wendal]

Those same mallards, tufted ducks would be found dead floating in the bay, when going fishing.  That’s because “once trapped, the creature will die”...

Really? I've let trapped young / small birds go before, haven't found any of them dead.

[JP_Finn]

Yes indeed. Discussed here

Upland birds might be not obvious, as they‘ll fall down dead in the woods, water fowl is pretty easy to see as there’s not much obstacles on water.

[Sami]

Yes indeed. Discussed here

Upland birds might be not obvious, as they‘ll fall down dead in the woods, water fowl is pretty easy to see as there’s not much obstacles on water.

Animals freed from traps indeed seem to perish as mistakenly still considered trapped. This isn't intentional though and only time actually spent trapped should matter, but the calculations seem to fail most of the time. It's something pending to be fixed.