Tracking and Skinning Trade Skill Guide for New World

Tracking and Skinning in New World: Aeternum offers a range of benefits for players looking to excel in crafting armor. As a key trade skill, tracking and skinning allows you to harvest valuable materials (such as hides, furs and animal parts) from defeated enemies. Mastering this trade skill will provide you with the resources needed to craft some of the most valuable armor and furniture items in the game

This trade skill is directly linked to Leatherworking and Cooking, as the raw resources you gather from using this trade skill can be used in both of these to turn into unique resources.

To begin your Tracking and Skinning adventures, simply craft a Flint Skinning Knife at any campfire or workshop. The only materials needed to craft this tool are Flint and Green Wood, making it an easy tool to quickly put together.

This trade skill scales directly with Dexterity, so we highly recommended that you focus on obtaining Dexterity on both gear and your attribute selection, up to 250 for the final skinning perk, if you are aiming to get the most out of your Tracking and Skinning. If you are not a Dexterity-based character at the time, you will still be able to get a lot out of Tracking and Skinning, but it will be at a slower rate.

Below is a list of the perks granted from Dexterity that benefit Tracking and Skinning.

• 25 Dexterity: +10% skinning speed
• 50 Dexterity: +20% haste for 3 seconds after skinning/li>
• 100 Dexterity: +50 encumbrance
• 150 Dexterity: -10% weight of skinned items
• 200 Dexterity: +20% skinning speed
• 250 Dexterity: +10% yield increase from skinning
• 350 Dexterity: +10% chance at finding rate items while skinning

Luck greatly increases your chance at getting rare materials from Tracking and Skinning. Stacking as much luck as possible on all of your armor, tools, and even consumables is the key to finding those legendary rare materials. The armor for skinning is the Skinner Gloves, Hat, Pants, Shirt and Shoes, but the perk can also roll on any gear.

Below is a list of some of the rare resources you can find while Tracking and Skinning and where to find them.

• Bizarre Bone — skinned from level 59+ creatures
• Scarhide — skinned from level 50+ creatures
• Smolderhide — skinned from level 50+ creatures
• Pristine Bear Claw — skinned from Bears.
• Pristine Boar Tusk — skinned from Boars.

You are able to have a total of three houses currently in New World:Aeternum, and in each of those houses you can place up to five trophies. Placing a tracking and skinning trophy in your house increases your tracking and skinning luck globally, and you may place a tracking and skinning trophy in each of your three houses, which will stack the luck up even further.

You are also able to permanently increase the power of these trophies by acquiring either Notes on Aeternum Fauna or Tracker's Seal. Trophies can be made and upgraded with the Furnishing profession.

1. Minor Trophy = +500 Luck
2. Basic Trophy = +1,000 Luck
3. Major Trophy = +1,500 Luck

The best perks for your skinning knife can change depending on what you need. For example, as you are leveling up your tracking and skinning skill, you may want the Tanner's Discipline perk.

We recommend the following perks on your Skinning knife:

1. Tanner's Discipline
2. Skinning Luck
3. Skinning Yield
4. Azoth Extraction
5. Gathering Alacrity

Armor	Drop Source
Skinner Hat	Open World
Skinner Shirt	Open World
Skinner Gloves	Open World
Skinner Pants	Open World
Skinner Shoes	Open World

If you are an avid skinner, you may want to look for the Tanner's Burden perk, which reduces the weight of your raw hide, leather, and skinning knives. The Extra Pockets perk is also fantastic for all situations, as it adds additional bag space.

In addition to the tracking and skinning yield perk at 250 Dexterity, you can also get more raw hide and rare materials by drinking the Powerful Proficiency Boost potion, made by the Arcana profession, which can increase your yield by up to 15%. You can also get additional yield on your crafted skinning knife, which is mentioned above.

Leveling tracking and skinning in New World: Aeternum is fairly simple: the higher level required to skin the enemy, the more experience you will gain (generally), and it is largely considered one of the easiest professions to level - just be sure to skin most of the monsters you defeat, and you'll have no problem hitting max level.

The radar at the top of your screen in-game can be used to track many things - including nearby beasts. By utilizing this compass, you can reduce time spent looking for those last few boars for your quest, or give you the advantage for a pack of wolves that might be slightly in front of you. Below is a list of what prey is tracked at each level. Happy hunting!

• Small Prey — tracked at level 15
• Medium Prey — tracked at level 40
• Large Prey — tracked at level 65
• Small Predator — tracked at level 100
• Large Predator — tracked at level 125

Please note: As you increase the level of your tracking and skinning level is, your ability to skin higher leveled animals also increases.