Trophy Hunting Guide

Introduction

Hunting for trophies in Neocron is a good way of gaining XP. I have levelled my PE all the way up from /2 to cap by hunting the trophy mobs. However, this route is only for the people who aren't in a hurry to cap, or who want something to "aim" for whilst levelling. A few important things to consider before hunting:

• It is very, very boring and extremely frustrating. Specifically going out to get all the trophies is only for people who don't mind farming for hours on end.
• Don't expect too much; trophy drops are random. You might get one quite quick that others have been hunting for hours. Likewise an "easy" trophy might become the bane of your life.
• Prepare and plan. Understand the mob spawns and decide of you are going to empty all the mobs for re-spawn or wait for normal decay. Take enough nanites if you are on a vehicle. Where are you going and do you have the right armour on? ViperKing/Titan armours are not expensive, buy some. Get the right belt.

Also, please note that the spawn maps I have given are from my experience only. There may well be better spawns somewhere. I'm a pro-city runner so inner-DoY locations are not listed. For the record all my hunting was done:

• Outdoors Low level: On a Combat Chaincraft.
• Outdoors Mid level + Hovers and Warbies: A hacking Judge PE.
• Outdoor High level: Rhino Driving/Gunning Tank who dismounted and used CM epic for Reaperspider kills.
• Indoor Low level: Phosphor Modded Beggar Nailgun PE
• Indoor Mid/High level: Judge PE.

I initially told myself I would get all the trophies myself, however I got to a point where I would gladly sell my soul for a Saurus bull carcass (Of course, they don't drop trophies I later found out!). In fact, in the end the ones I didn't personally get were Scorpion and Chaos Lieutenant; which I traded for, and the hoverbot and Mutant Bat which still elude me.

Notes on the Guide

The trophy part of this guide shows easy it is to get trophies; easy, medium and hard. Please note that these are my catagories based on my hunting. I might have got lucky on some trophies and unlucky on others. Hence, you should take the difficulty rating with a large bag of salt. That being said, I have tried to show three catagories and an overall "Gut Feel" difficulty. The three catagroies are:

1. Prevalence. How easy is it to find this mob?
2. Killing time. How long do they take to kill?
3. Trophy drop. How good is the trophy drop rate (Disclaimer: The author is not responsible for your hissy fit because I say it's an easy drop and you never get one).

Essentials

You will need access to some stuff if you want to be a hunter. How you choose to hunt is, of course, entirely up to you as far as weapons/vehicles but some other things are important too:

• Access to a recylcer with at least a TL90 recylcing tool, recycling lube and at least 65 points of recylcing.
• Wood, metalplates and metal pipes. Wood can be obtained from rotten/metal boxes or from looting plantlife (Toxic plants, etc). Metal pipes and plates can be found in rotten/metal boxes as well as from blowing up a vehicle. Provided you have your LE out you can blow up your reveller or quad (don't do other vehicles, it will get expensive) and pick up the plates. My favourite places for rotten/metal boxes are the shopping areas in MB and the front gates of NC, however there are tons of places that have boxes. Also, some mobs drop plates (TH Reactor mobs drop plates as well as some robots iirc).
• Combat Rank changing weapons. To get the best drop rate you need the mob to drop a "full load" of loot. You do this by lowering your combat rank (the first number in your rank - i.e. CR10 = 10/xx). Weapons of low TL do this for you, but even when equipped the CR takes a while to drop (try zoning a few times). This is why I try to use vehicles a lot, as they fix your CR for you (quite low too).

Once you have your carcass, the recycler needs to put them in the processor with a combination of wood/metalplates/pipes. I won't bore you with the details, but they are always either:

• 2 Wood, 2 Plates, 1 Pipes
• 3 Wood, 2 Plates
• 2 Wood, 3 Plates

Understanding Mob Spawns and Mob Groups

Mobs don't just appear anywhere on the map. Likewise, they don't randomly appear after you just killed a mob. Understanding what to kill to get your mob to spawn is key to getting the rare trophies. Example:

Let's take somewhere that everyone should be aware of: J-01 (the bunker and MB zone) There are at least three spawn groups in this sector. The group names are made up by me.

• The Robots. This includes Warbies, Spiderbots, sentinels, etc.
• The Bunker. Includes Launcher Cyclops, Butchees, Agressors, Mutant Corp/gunmen, etc.
• The Mercs. The City Merc guard NPC's.

Now, if you kill a merc guard (good luck with that), when it de-spawns the game will not spawn something from the other groups...ever. If you kill a mutant corporal a warbie doesn't spawn and so on. The server (semi?) randomly picks a mob from a list of mobs in that group that the sector will allow. And every sector has a different set of groups and lists.

Why is this relevant? Well, an example for the hunters is the Fierce Glider. This is not in the "swamp" mob group (killing a Fierce Floating Jelly for example will never yield a Fierce Glider spawn). It's in the "Reptile" group (killing a swamp snake might yield a Fierce Glider spawn). I'll go in to detail for the rare ones in the advanced notes.

Now, for spawn points - Mobs spawn within range of a spot somewhere in a zone. There are usually multiple spots for each mob group within a zone. Sometimes mob groups share the same spot.

Some zones have spawn points that are ideally suited for someone on a vehicle (i.e. Jankins Lab - You can circle the zone on a bike and be able to see every mob). Some are better suited for people on foot (F-03 has a massive Swamp spawn point to the left of the road, it's a bit tight in there for a vehicle and you end up in the water a lot). Decide how you are hunting and choose (you've researched the spawn points beforehand yes?) the one that's right for you.

The Trophy List

Trophy	Creature Remains	Creature	Spawn	Recycle recipe
Wolf Trophy	Wolf Carcass	Alpha Wolf	C 07, Crest Village
Fierce Glider Trophy	Fierce Glider Carcass	Fierce Glider	E 05, E 06, G 04
Floating Jelly Trophy	Floating Jelly Carcass	Fierce Floating Jelly	D 05, D 06, E 03 and much more
Decayed Brute Trophy	Decayed Brute Carcass	Decayed Brute	G 08, F 10
Hoverbot Trophy	Hoverbot Remains	Giant Hoverbot	D 08, D 09, D 11 and much more
Chaos Creeper Trophy	Chaos Creeper Carapace	Chaos Creeper	Chaos Caves	<itemdb:icon items="957" style="none"/><itemdb:icon items="957" style="none"/><itemdb:icon items="980" style="none"/><itemdb:icon items="980" style="none"/><itemdb:icon items="980" style="none"/>
Chaos Lieutenant Trophy	Chaos Lieutenant Carapace	Chaos Lieutenant	Chaos Caves
Grim Chaser Trophy	Grim Chaser Carcass	Grim Chaser	Canyon Sectors E 12, H 12 and much more.	<itemdb:icon items="957" style="none"/><itemdb:icon items="957" style="none"/><itemdb:icon items="980" style="none"/><itemdb:icon items="980" style="none"/><itemdb:icon items="980" style="none"/>
Lizard Trophy	Lizard Carcass	Big Lizard	D 06, E 05, E 06, F 02, F 05, G 03, G 04
Grim Persecutor Trophy	Grim Persecutor Carcass	Grim Persecutor	E 12	<itemdb:icon items="957" style="none"/><itemdb:icon items="957" style="none"/><itemdb:icon items="980" style="none"/><itemdb:icon items="980" style="none"/><itemdb:icon items="980" style="none"/>
Giant Sewer Rat Trophy	Giant Sewer Rat Carcass	Giant Diseased Rat	City Sewer Level 2
Reaperspider Trophy	Reaperspider Carapace	Big Reaperspider	Canyon Sectors E 12, H 12 and much more.	<itemdb:icon items="957" style="none"/><itemdb:icon items="957" style="none"/><itemdb:icon items="957" style="none"/><itemdb:icon items="980" style="none"/><itemdb:icon items="980" style="none"/>
Decayed Horror Trophy	Decayed Horror Carcass	Decayed Horror	G 08
Drom Trophy	Drom Carcass	Drom	F 08 and many other places.	<itemdb:icon items="957" style="none"/><itemdb:icon items="957" style="none"/><itemdb:icon items="980" style="none"/><itemdb:icon items="980" style="none"/><itemdb:icon items="980" style="none"/>
Giant Black Scorpion Trophy	Giant Black Scorpion Carapace	Giant Black Scorpion	Desert City Underground (El Farid)	<itemdb:icon items="957" style="none"/><itemdb:icon items="957" style="none"/><itemdb:icon items="980" style="none"/><itemdb:icon items="980" style="none"/><itemdb:icon items="980" style="none"/>
Spider Trophy	Spider Carapace	Spider Queen	C 08, Crest Village
Marsh Hippo Trophy	Marsh Hippo Carcass	Marsh Hippo Bull	Swamp sectors F 03, D 05, D 06, E 03, H 03 and much more
Swamp Warrior Trophy	Swamp Warrior Carcass	Swamp Warrior	Swamp sectors F 03, D 05, D 06, E 03, H 03 and much more	<itemdb:icon items="957" style="none"/><itemdb:icon items="957" style="none"/><itemdb:icon items="980" style="none"/><itemdb:icon items="980" style="none"/><itemdb:icon items="980" style="none"/>
Swamprider Trophy	Swamprider Carcass	Swamprider	Swamp sectors F 03, D 05, D 06, E 03, H 03 and much more
Terror Raptor Trophy	Terror Raptor Carcass	Terror Raptor	Canyon Sectors E 12, H 12 and much more.
WarBot Trophy	WarBot Remains	Warbot Titan	G 08, I 06, and much more	<itemdb:icon items="957" style="none"/><itemdb:icon items="957" style="none"/><itemdb:icon items="957" style="none"/><itemdb:icon items="980" style="none"/><itemdb:icon items="980" style="none"/>
Mutant Bat Trophy	Mutant Bat Carcass	Crystal Cave Swarmer	Maybe TheCrystal Caves or maybe The Swamp Caves
Cavespider Trophy	Cavespider Carapace	Maybe Cavespider Queen	Not known
Cockroach Trophy	Cockroach Carapace	Big Black Roach	C 09, C 11, D 07, D 12 and City Sewer Level 2

Master Hunter Trophies

If you thought the normal trophies were bugged; you will be dissapointed to hear that the master trophies are even worse. The script for the Master Hunter NPC (certainly ViaRosso Sec 3 on Terra) is so bad that I spent days hunting Saurus Bulls before switching to Swamp Warriors and getting the trophy.

There are three Master Hunter trophies, and each one takes seven trophies to get however the hunter only takes seven from your inventory. Also, he always tells you that you don't have the correct amount of trophies, so keep an eye on the comms window to see if you got one (it says 'You gave away a Chaos Creeper [or whatever] trophy').

Listed below are the three lists he asks you to get, and listed nest door is the confirmed (as of Patch #156, List confirmed by Dirus 3rd April 2006) required trophies. As I mentioned above - He only takes seven of the eight required. I cannot confirm whether only taking seven of the eight will get you a master trophy, or whether you need all eight in your inventory and he only takes seven.

Master Trophy	Required Trophies
Master Hunter Trophy 1	row 1, cell 2
Master Hunter Trophy 2	row 2, cell 2
Master Hunter Trophy 3	row 2, cell 2