The hunting lodge is the hub between hunts: a warm, practical building where you prepare. It is where you buy and modify gear, where you display your trophies, and where you relax by the fire before the next outing. It also holds the shooting area, because the clay-pigeon mode is run from the lodge with a weapon of your choice.
Hunting Simulator 3 hunting lodge: what happens inside
- The gallery. Weapons, scopes, attachments, clothing and dog accessories are bought here with Credits.
- The weapon bench. This is where you switch calibers on a rifle and fit attachments once you own the weapon.
- The trophy wall. Mounted animals are displayed here instead of being sold.
- The shooting range. The clay-pigeon mode is run from the lodge, and the same range is where you test a new setup before taking it into the field.
Displaying your trophies
A harvested animal can be kept as a trophy and mounted in your lodge instead of being sold, and the mount is what you then look at while you are back at base.
The Apex Predator Pack adds more than 20 taxidermy poses, so the same animal can be shown in different stances rather than a single default one. The lodge also displays the rest of your kit, so your arsenal can be laid out alongside the trophies, and the Royal interior theme from the same pack restyles all eight main rooms at once.
Photo Mode is a separate tool for the moment of the hunt itself, and posing a harvested animal is not supported there — that is exactly what the lodge taxidermy poses are for.
The rating a mounted animal carries comes from the individual you took, not from its species: its age, its DNA score and the traits those produce. The trophy scoring guide works through how that rating is read and what separates an ordinary mount from a Gold one.
The regional split matters here too: because each reserve has its own lodge and its own Field Points, a trophy won in Texas is mounted in the Texas lodge, and the decoration you have already paid for there stays with that reserve.
Customising the lodge with Field Points
The lodge is customisable and it is regional. The Field Points you earn in a region's Field Journal are the currency used to customise that region's hunting lodge, which is why the Texas lodge and the Colorado lodge are decorated separately and keep separate balances.
That is the whole point of the two-currency split: Credits are shared and buy gear, while Field Points are locked to the reserve that produced them and buy lodge decoration. The currencies guide explains the difference in full.
Where to go next
- Best loadout — what to buy with Credits once you have them.
- Clay pigeon shooting — the mode you run from the lodge range.
- Credits and Field Points — where each currency comes from and what it buys.
- Trophy scoring — how the rating on a mounted animal was decided.