🐭 Hunting guide, 1 to 99

Hunting is stalking mice, rats and birds out in the zones for meat and feathers. Cooking turns the meat into meals, and feathers go into gear and the Fortress.

The quickest route

Doing the action with the most XP an hour at each level, back to back, Hunting 1 to 99 takes about 156 hours (13,034,431 XP). Life skills carry on while you nap, action by action, so much of that happens while you're away.

Levels	Do this	Where	Time
1–10	Catch Mice	Hearthmeadow Fields	6 min
10–22	Stalk Sparrows	Mousewood Edge	14 min
22–30	Hunt Plump Voles	Mousewood Edge, Reedbank	15 min
30–40	Catch Sewer Rats	B3: Rattlecourt	40 min
40–46	Ambush Rooftop Pigeons	Saltgrass Shallows	40 min
46–56	Raid Gull Nests	Saltgrass Shallows	2.3 h
56–64	Flush Moor Grouse	Ironcollar Barracks, Featherwhite Steps	3.7 h
64–74	Stalk Snow Hares	Windscour Ridge, The Sunken Promenade	10.2 h
74–84	Catch Pantry Mice	Tabletop Plateau, The Anvil Thunderhead	24.3 h
84–94	Snare Desert Jerboa	Mirage Basin, Coconut Heights	58.8 h
94–98	Snare Rock Ptarmigan	The Whitewind Steppe, The Ashfall Slopes, The Heroes' Road and 3 more	42 h
98–99	Snare Dusk Voles	The Whitewind Steppe, The Ashfall Slopes, The Heroes' Road and 3 more	12.8 h

Set your own levels and bonuses in the life skill calculator.

Every action

XP an hour at the action's own level.

Level	Action	Makes	Where	XP an hour
1	Catch Mice	Mouse Meat	Hearthmeadow Fields	12,000
10	Stalk Sparrows	Sparrow Feather, Mouse Meat	Mousewood Edge	19,800
22	Hunt Plump Voles	Plump Vole	Mousewood Edge, Reedbank	32,000
30	Catch Sewer Rats	Sewer Rat, Rat Tail	B3: Rattlecourt	36,000
40	Ambush Rooftop Pigeons	Pigeon Feather, Plump Vole	Saltgrass Shallows	46,080
46	Raid Gull Nests	Gull Egg, Gull Feather	Saltgrass Shallows	51,231
56	Flush Moor Grouse	Moor Grouse, Crow Feather	Ironcollar Barracks, Featherwhite Steps	59,586
64	Stalk Snow Hares	Snow Hare	Windscour Ridge, The Sunken Promenade	67,355
74	Catch Pantry Mice	Pantry Mouse	Tabletop Plateau, The Anvil Thunderhead	76,364
84	Snare Desert Jerboa	Desert Jerboa	Mirage Basin, Coconut Heights	84,857
94	Snare Rock Ptarmigan	Rock Ptarmigan, Snowy Owl Down	The Whitewind Steppe, The Ashfall Slopes, The Heroes' Road and 3 more	91,946
98	Snare Dusk Voles	Dusk Vole	The Whitewind Steppe, The Ashfall Slopes, The Heroes' Road and 3 more	96,000

Tips

Hunting spots stand in the zones themselves, so pick one near where you fight.
Cooks need meat, so the surplus sells on the Exchange.
At a Hunting spot, tap Play for Pounce, a 30-second minigame. A gold score (90 points) gives +25% Hunting XP for 15 minutes while your cat keeps working, and the first gold puts a look in your wardrobe.
Each week's contest features one life skill; the three cats who gain the most XP in it win big gold prizes.

More on Hunting: its wiki page, and the other life skill guides.