Beast Hide Locations: Essential Materials in NieR: Automata

NieR: Automata boasts a diverse arsenal of weapons, allowing players to experiment across multiple playthroughs. Each weapon offers multiple upgrade levels, extending their viability and enabling completion of the game with a single favorite weapon, if desired.

Weapon upgrades are readily available at the Resistance Camp, though they require specific resources. One particularly sought-after material, Beast Hides, isn't readily obtained; this guide details efficient farming strategies.

Acquiring Beast Hides in NieR: Automata

Beast Hides are potential drops from wildlife such as moose and boar. These creatures spawn randomly in designated map areas, generally avoiding players and robots. Their white icons on the mini-map distinguish them from the black icons of machines. However, unlike machines, wildlife doesn't respawn frequently, requiring strategic searching.

Moose and boar exclusively inhabit the ruined city and forest zones. Their reaction to player attacks depends on the level difference; higher-level animals may flee, while lower-level animals may attack. Proximity alone can trigger aggression from significantly higher-level animals. Wildlife also possesses substantial health, making early-game encounters challenging, especially against similarly leveled or higher-level creatures.

Animal Bait can lure wildlife closer, simplifying hunting.

Due to the non-continuous spawning of wildlife during the main story, hunting must be integrated with exploration. Wildlife and machine respawning follows these patterns:

• Fast traveling resets all enemies and wildlife.
• Traveling a sufficient distance respawns enemies and wildlife in previously visited areas.
• Story progression can trigger the respawn of nearby enemies and wildlife.

Efficient Beast Hide farming lacks a straightforward method. Consistently eliminating encountered wildlife while traversing the forest and city ruins usually yields sufficient hides. The relatively high drop rate ensures that accumulating excessive hides is unlikely unless upgrading more weapons than currently equipped.