Kill a sheep, hold your flint knife and press E on it once. You step round to its side, kneel beside it, never on it, even when you come at it from its head or tail, and work the knife for about six seconds, and then the meat is in your pack. The sheep stays where it fell. Come back half a day later and it has rotted to bones.
Your Hunting level decides how it goes. The cut gets shorter as you level, down to two seconds at 99, and more comes off: the fleece-on sheepskin from level 5 (a beginner often tears it), sinew from 10, fat from 15, bone from 20, and wolves and horses from 30. A hunting knife cuts faster than the flint one. From October 8 anyone can take meat from a wolf, and only its hide waits for Hunting 30.
Open the book with B, turn to Skills and then Hunting to see what harvesting opens at each level, and your tally, such as “Sheep harvested: 3”.
