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Milking is currently on the TEST CENTER, not the live servers. It is expected to go live when Publish 6 goes live. It appears to be a scout skill as maskscent is reportedly required.

The above info was garnered from reading the Chef and Scout and Test Center forums. I have no personal experience.

Message Edited by Ragnoan on 03-09-2004 12:08 AM

You can do it without mask scent but the creature will get upset and walk away. Aragon's right mask scent happens at explore 2. You can get mask scent clothing from tailors to boost your mask scent ability. You need to have the skills for the clothing to work though.

Walk up to a creature and click on it and you will see "MILK" on the radial. This applies only to female herbivores except for one weird exception. The exception is gurrecks on endor which also give milk for some reason.

There are two types of milk domestic and wild. Most of the time you will find wild to be the one you get the most. If you see a domestic herbivore creature, say a Domesticated Mott or Domesticated Eopie, you will get domestic milk. But it wont be in the quantities you will get from a wild creature.

What aragon says is very important! Use the shift key and WALK up to your target. Running will aggravate it and it wont be milkable.

Pickets, Bols, Fambaa's and Gurrecks are usually the ones reported most as dropping the largest amounts. Milk does stack but not automatically when its in your inventory. So just push them all together. And if you get a harvest over 100 milk from one creature you will see it as two stacks

Lastly talk to your chef about whether they are making bantha butter, where the stats dont matter, or any of the foods where it does.

Cu Pu on Tantooline can also be milked. You have to be especially careful around them tho because all the ones i have run into are in a large group kinda like Banthas. If you spook one of them good luck thrying to get to milk another one.

Don't forget...you can have a Ranger conceal you, too. BTW, I thought you HAD to be masked or concealed to be able to milk? Honestly, I haven't milked anyhting since it was put in the game, so I may be working on old information.

The radial menu gives you the option to milk, but you cannot unless you are /concealed or /maskscented.

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Calculus_Entropy wrote:
Don't forget...you can have a Ranger conceal you, too. BTW, I thought you HAD to be masked or concealed to be able to milk? Honestly, I haven't milked anyhting since it was put in the game, so I may be working on old information.

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I think you're correct, I've never been able to successfully milk a critter without /mask or /conceal. And I did say you could find a friendly neighborhood Ranger to camo you.

DOH! I even double checked to make sure no one pointed that out before I made my post . I am slipping in my old age.

Hey I missed it to Calc. I havent been without mask scent since nearly at launch. But I had thought my guild members had done it without maskscent.

Im probaly thinking of fishing which doesnt require scout to do. But does require scout to filet the fish when your done.