Simply head to the town of Strawberry and visit the Welcome Center. A cutscene will play introducing two brand new characters who will be integral to the player’s new role. After the cutscene players will be able to purchase the Naturalist starter kit for 25 gold bars, which will allow them to begin their new role.

Being a Naturalist is all about tracking, cataloguing, and sometimes killing animals all over the map. There are a lot of animals in RDR2, so the job can be a bit of a grind if you’re a completionist. It’s not a particularly lucrative role for earning money either.

Naturalist Role Price The Naturalist role is one of Red Dead Online’s most pricey purchases and will cost you 25 gold bars to access yourself ($9.99/£8.99 in real money). However, you can earn gold bars in-game too, and we’ve laid out how here.

Harriet has set up shops at three locations across the map – West of Wallace Station, in the marshes of Lagras and near MacFarlane Ranch. Harriet sells . 22 Sedative ammo for the Varmint Rifle, which you’ll need in order to sedate and sample most animals.

You can hunt Legendary animals more than once, but they are on cooldown.

For Red Dead Online Legendary Animals to appear, you’ll have to reach Rank 5 in the Naturalist role. Although the Legendary Animal Missions will be greyed out when you talk to her, check the bottom right for a prompt to accept the Poached Animals missions she offers to get to Rank 5 faster.

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Collecting samples from animals will still require shooting them (quite a lot of times for bigger creatures) with tranquilizer ammo, but if players kill an animal, Harriet will know and chastise them for it.

Reach Rank 5 in the Naturalist role and then speak with Harriet to unlock Legendary Animal Sighting Missions. Once you have reached Rank 5 of the Naturalist role, you can head over to the nearest campsite that Harriet has set up.

Harriet Missions She’ll offer you legendary animal missions which will see you track down one of these mighty creatures, usually fending off attacks whilst you do so. Just remember; Harriet doesn’t like it if you kill animals, so make sure to play nice while working with her.

Answer: After killing a Legendary Animal in Red Dead Redemption 2 you can skin them to sell the pelt or in some cases even the carcass to a Trapper.

If you failed to kill it, it should respawning in 2-3 days. Always save before you hunt a legendary animal.

the legendary fish and animals will appear on the map, as a small drawing with a crown above the animal. once you have killed or caught them, that drawing will have a big black “X” over it.