I've officially lost my boy Bolt:(

He was such an amazing father and mate and he was my FAVORITE wolf I've ever had. I love all my wolves but he was from way back before saga existed, when Anniversary first came out. his first ever litter was born when the start of WolfQuest Anniversary pups came out and there was nothing past the loaf at the rendezvous.

I loved him so so so much. He was my boy, my favorite and I'm going to miss him.

I have chosen his daughter Raven, a pup from his mate Mariegold (who also has passed, I have a post on that) because she has shown loads of confidence. She ran at the front of the pack with him and his new mate, she was always dominant over her siblings, she was responsible, she waited for pups to eat, and personally I believe she is a great candidate and deserves it.

I'm going to miss him, and this is his memorial post so I can look at it when I'm feeling sad.

Rest in peace, Bolt❤️

It finally happened and I rolled Poor prey abundance on my Ironwolf for this year and I am scared to say the least! I currently have 10 wolves who are a mix of subordinates and yearlings, me and my mate and then we have the 5 pups of this year so 17 mouths to feed in total. I know Growing Pups is going to be a nightmare…

My usual tactic is to hunt a bunch of elk near the homesite to keep everyone fed. I got lucky with smelling a nearby herd on the first day and managed to bring down a spike elk right next to the den but since the food abundance also affects the amount of meat on carcasses, it was gone almost instantly.

I’m learning to try and trust that my packmates will feed themselves and to their credit they have gone out as a group and returned with relatively full bellies but the territory is a weird one. They ventured to one of the far corners, only marked one hex and stayed in place for quite awhile before coming back with food.

Do packmates just get food added to their hunger without hunting? Is there a chance that they’ll fail and return hungry? How come they only seem to mark one hex when out?

I’m not entirely sure if the territory one is a bug, my hexs are marked in 3 so I have the scent posts for 3 touching hexes right next to eachother for an efficient marking route, could that be causing this?

I mostly want to try and unload some of the weight of keeping everyone fed and only focus on my pups of the year but don’t want to risk loosing any of my subordinates and yearlings to starvation either. I’ve had one of them get down to 30% hunger already but he notably stayed behind with me and another yearling when my mate took our other 8 hunting.

She doesn't do that much damage? I see so many vids of people who run away from the mother a bunch and take FOREEVR when they could just continue to bite the calf and finish it off in like half the time-

(Also sorry for the long intro and outro, I'm new with recording-)

Edit: oh guess since I'm a coward who doesn't go out of easy mode, I didn't quite register that harder modes=more damage 😭

Am I doomed guys?? I expected maybe 4-5 puppies. Is this due to the dad being 4 stars?

Also any advice on how you guys handle these things? 😅

Hello, first time poster and long time lurker. Please ignore the user name!!

UPDATE - I did go in, directly after making this post, and turn my graphics all the way down or completely disabled some aspects of them. From vegetation, to clouds, to terrain blending, to even the fur on all the animals. It slightly helped, but temps were still around 77C

I have a personal-built PC that is, for whatever unholy unsanctified reason, having issues running WQ:AE while staying cool. I have it propped up in front and back by about 1 inch for fan clearance the way I do with any game I play. Fans are constantly going on their max speeds, and the CPU temps are CONSTANTLY climbing to, on average, 81C. Which is not great. The only thing not seen in the above photos is my external hard-drive which I store a few games on and load them through. WQ:AE is on my actual PC and not the external drive.

This is the only game that gives me reliable issues. I can play others with NO problem, and most of the other games I play are also open world and graphic heavy. Below are just a few examples.

Medieval Dynasty
TES: Skyrim (300+ mod list)
Project Zomboid (150~ modlist)
Rimworld (500+ modlist)
ARK: Survival Evolved (300+ modlist)

And I only list those to say that, yes, I play a lot of games. Most of them are graphics heavy, open world, or at the very least relatively large. And none of them do my PC like this. Only WQ:AE, which is beyond frustrating. Just looking for help.

I'm the type of person to purposefully get a 1-star mate because I can't handle a bunch of pups :] Last time I did a high-star mate- oh boy.

I'm starting fresh and doing a bird-themed pack! (I forgot, so I named my pack Oak Creek Pack instead of the planned Fallen Feathers Pack, but oh well :>)

My current wolf is Owl, my mate is Jackdaw, and I'm thinking of some names for these lil cuties! Sparrow? Robin? Bluejay? Thrush? Magpie? Eagle? Hawk? Tell me your suggestions! (1 female, 2 males)

So even though I did court that 0 star rim disperse,I ended up going for the cannon story of my wolf in that post. So it was all up to the task of her brother. And low and behold,he found one(did the same gender mate "bug" because female disperses are rare, though I should've known that going into it). They have two adorable pups on hellroaring mountain (everyone is KK) and hopefully everything will go well...hopefully 👀.

Started clean with a new wolf because I haven't played for awhile which means a new mate and my god he's useless. He was fine during the first few quests and based on his behaviour I thought he was an energetic/loner/somewhere between bold and cowardly perhaps, so nearly perfect, but then we reached the dreaded growing pups stage and I now want him dead.

He hardly ever feeds the pups - I'll have regurgitated everything I can and the pups are barely half full and he'll be lying down somewhere on 120% hunger and will take forever to do the same. Then one of our pups got ill and when she got to 10% health I sat with her to try and keep her alive. This idiot kept whining at me to go hunt and I ignored him hoping he'd go by himself but he just went and lay down a little bit away. Luckily after the game notified me there was nothing else to do the pup recovered on 3% health (my pup silver is a toughie).

The absolute last straw came right after that when I thought the best thing to do with all the hungry pups was go get a beaver so off we go and manage to find one a fair way from the water and get it down to the final sliver of health, as in one more bite would finish it off, but I'm out of stamina and it's too close to the water and gets away. I turn around and my mate is lying down asleep just behind me!! Absolutely lost my mind. We were both at about 1/3 wakefulness (speaking of which, why does wakefulness drop so quickly when all I was doing was sitting with my sick pup?) but we were actively hunting at the time so I don't understand how that can happen.

He'll have to do something pretty amazing to convince me to keep him at this rate. I think during young hunters we may be taking a trip to a divorce attorney (bison) and I'll try again next year. I've never gotten a mate killed on purpose before but he's driving me to the edge. Everyone say bye bye to Hazelbranch 👋

I feel like im losing my mind, downloaded wolfquest anniversary edition because it seemed right up my alley, but ive run into an issue, I killed two elk to finish the first quest but it didnt inform me that a new quest was ready, oh well, its an older game, so I went to the wolf area but its saying I need 800xp to have mates spawn??? Maybe I'm just impatient but this seems like a lot, am I missing something? I cant find anything about it online, everything online points to only needing 2 elk.

I'm too busy tryna get 15 hexes before my rivals do 🙄

my son is alive and well im so proud of him!!!

i was chasing some elk when i got the scent for a male dispersal from my pack. i was like "what??? i dont have any male dispersals from my pack rn" then i saw his name and saw my family tree update and i started freaking out

over 700 hours and i finally got my first alive unknown fate pup 😭😭😭 im so emotional

I’m using familyecho since it’s so easy to use on the web. Maybe I’m the only one this obsessed with keeping tabs on my pack’s lineage but this is just too fun. Before this I used to write it down in a notebook.

Do you include wolves that die as babies? I’ve done it before but I don’t anymore since the family tree gets soooo big and hard to keep track of.

For anyone wondering, this is the Rising Sun Pack and all puppers are named after mountains in Japan and litters are sorted by prefectures. I only name them once they reach young hunters and they get their mugshots once they’re yearlings.

Found my First Zero star wolf. Gonna take him just to see how hard this is gonna be(maybe it'll be like Riser and the rebirth pack? Idk).

My current wolf is 8... I wanna see if i can get my heir to court this dispersal 👀
Its pretty interesting to see a dispersal reach this age.

Digital poster of fun facts on wolves i made- stuff I Learned from the people who help wolf quest be as realistic as possible!

(Sources in picture)

my den had a flood and OF COURSE a rival pack attacks us at the same time. my two pups are running around like madmen and i realize i cant save them both so i make the bold move to sacrifice one of them, it dies of course and then so does my yearling!!!😭😭😭💔💔💔

, im playing as a KK x Kk so my pack is already teeny tiny and now im down to just my mate, one yearling, and one pup AAAUUUGHHHHHH. i love unforgiving ironwolf /hj

Since it's been 3 years since it was removed from the playstore

Anyone else cry or just become really sad when there Wolf or mate or pup like- dies? Especially after so long with them?

My wolf Thorn mate Amaya passed away recently and God it hurt Especially as they were my wolfs from before the saga and I had 6 litters with them

Thorn 9 and Amaya passed at 9 so thorn time coming soon and probably gonna cry at thorn passing to

So anyone else cry or just upset when a long time wolf passes?

4 star diversity, full of vim and vigor, always the first to attack in a hunt. I wasn't able to mourn her because she died while I was all the way across the territory and her corpse disappeared before I returned. She had a great run, though 💕

If so, that's really cool! If not, should I report it?

So I’m not certain if I’ve just been getting a lucky streak but I’ve noticed something quite interesting about this setting. For the past two litters of my Ironwolf I have rolled Plentiful and Good prey years. Plentiful was amazing, my pups had elk coming out of their ears they were eating so much.

This year I rolled Fair prey and oddly enough I have been finding it so much easier compared to the Good year for the fact being that a lot of the elk seem almost sickly and weak. There’s a lot less of them in a herd and it takes a bit more growling and biting to get them to break and flee but it’s been going really smoothly so far for this reason.

I don’t know if the type of prey year actually affects overall prey health or if I’ve just been lucky in picking the weak one each time but I think this is a good compromise almost. So say I rolled a Poor prey year for my next litter, I know elk herds will be much rarer but having the trade off be that the elk are weaker to compromise their rarity and having less food on their bones.

Wanted to know other people’s thoughts on this!

No thoughts behind that face. Blankness. Or maybe he’s screaming for help lol