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Skinning is not entirely reliable.
In every Realm so far, I occasionally have problems skinning a mob.
It is by far most pronounced in Swamps.
I find it helps to move around, gather anything under or next to the mob (rocks, plants, etc) but this does not work all the time.
I circle the mob over and over, head, body, tail, moving across the entire thing, and sometimes get the "noise" with skinning, but see no damage numbers, regardless how much I move around.
As stated earlier, most pronounced in Swamps, where I lose somewhere around 1 in 4 mobs I kill.
It is not a game killer by any means. But it does have an impact.
| Mode | Online |
| Impact | It's difficult to play or progress |
| Category Tags | Farming, Creatures/Enemies |
| Realms | Sylvan’s Cradle, Other, Abeyance, Magwytch Marshes, Welkin’s Reach |
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Yup. I'm glad I could skin the rare mob, but these other ones are a no go. Not gonna try gather stuff around tho etc. Just tried skin the area around the corpses. For fabled items I would have tried some more. Thanks for the tip. Hollowed Moor 60 Swamp Realm.
I'm having the same problem! It was annoying but ignoreable when it was basic creatures (who would give predator/prey items). However, I just killed Bloodhorn (fabled deer) in an ascended herbarium forest realm and can't skin him. Now it's become frustrating.
Same for me! Was never a probelm until the Feb 3 2025 update.
It happens more frequnetly when the animals have moved after they died. Such as falling down cliffs, hills or off rocks.
I eventually figured out that throwing knives will skin things I can't use my regular skinning knife on. I had the same problem and I just accidentally threw my throwing knife.
I wasn't able to notice that there was something that made skinning not possible without a throwing knife. It happens whether or not the animal is partially submerged in water or died next to a rock. Sometimes it's a problem, sometimes it's fine. One animal fell off a cliff and then I couldn't skin it when I got to its body. I don't know.
But try a throwing knife!
Had the same issue, also in Swamp. I was in Magwytch. A whole hear of Ox were not skinnable. I was using a maxed out knife too.
Can confirm this issue, also most often with swamps, encountered by myself and my partner. Attacking it at an odd angle sometimes does seem to work, which suggests to me that it's a failure of the knife to collide with the hitbox properly.
I have been having this issue too. I noticed for me, it tends to happen when the body moves from the spot killed such as roll down hill, fall into gap and such.
I run into this often. I'll be able to partially skin something then suddenly I can't anymore. In order to continue skinning it I have to use my throwing knives.
same thing here, especially with one of the crown mobs
ran into something like this a few times in Magwytch. I couldn't "skin" the animal but my knife attack animation became insanely fast when targeting the "unsinkable" prey.
i would say it happened maybe 1 out of 8 times.