Way of the Hunter 2 Missions: All 33 New Laurentia Quests

By Rowan Ashby · Updated October 4, 2026

The game mixes open free hunting with missions picked up from NPCs and from campsites. The official FAQ calls the story “light”, with references to the first game and Easter eggs. This page lists every New Laurentia mission the community has logged, with the reward each one paid when recorded.

About the rewards: cash and XP come from the community wiki and were logged during Early Access. Update 0.4.1 rebalanced level progression and XP rewards, so treat the numbers as a ranking of which missions pay most, not exact values.

The developers explained in their launch stream that, unlike the first game’s single long story, New Laurentia has three or four shorter story lines (they call them “mini stories”) that you can take on in any order: Mikael Anderson, Juniper, Regina and Patrick Harper.

Story missions

Mission	Given by	What you do	Cash	XP
For the Hearth	Angel	Harvest a male mule deer near your lodge and choose to taxidermy it	—	—
For the Hunt	Angel	Put that mule deer in a diorama with a mid-sized herbivore; check the map board in the lodge	—	—
Angel on your shoulder	Angel	Read the Hearth & Hunt files on the locals	600	15
Fox Fires	Mikael	Analyze Dall sheep feeding or resting zones (highlighted on the map), then harvest a Dall sheep	1,050	40
Loudest deer	Mikael	Harvest a male Rocky Mountain elk with 70%+ fitness	1,050	40
Pack Dynamics	Mikael	A calling lesson: older, fitter animals hide better	1,050	40
One shot, no waste	Mikael	A lesson on buying a bigger rifle so you lose less meat	1,050	40
Heterochromia Iridum	Juniper	Harvest a male whitetail with the dog active; have the dog follow a whitetail blood trail	600	15
Who let the bloodhounds out?	Juniper	Harvest an elk between 00:00 and 05:00 with the dog active	1,050	40
Friendly competition	Juniper	Harvest 3 wolverines	600	15
Parasomnias	Juniper	Find and harvest the lone Dall sheep	1,050	40
Pieris Marginalis	Regina	Remove invasive plants in the marked area; create a butterfly garden	1,050	40
Cercyonis Pegala	Regina	Harvest 3 whitetails with 60% fitness or lower	1,050	40
Erynnis Lucilius	Regina	Harvest the 3 sick moose in the highlighted area	1,050	40
Speiredonia mutabilis	Regina	Go to the last sighting of the moose with bloodied antlers	600	15
Tyria Jacobaeae	Follows automatically	Face the moose with bloodied antlers: shoot it or leave and let it live, then talk to Regina and Patrick	—	—
Crystal clarity	Patrick	Harvest one animal with a bow sight, one with a crossbow sight, one with a bolt-action rifle and no scope	1,800	100
Talk turkey to me	Patrick	Call 3 wild turkeys to within 100 m	1,800	100

Regina’s missions are tied to Patrick’s, so you cannot finish her chain without progressing his.

The moose with bloodied antlers

This is the payoff of the New Laurentia story. After Speiredonia mutabilis, Tyria Jacobaeae starts on its own: enter the swamps (moose live only in Mishipeshu Swamp and Thunderbird Muskeg) and choose to harvest the moose or let it live. Either way you report to Regina and Patrick afterwards. Patch 0.1.0 fixed a bug where the wrong dialogue played after this mission. Update 0.4.1 fixed a progression blocker where the sick moose in Erynnis Lucilius could die in the river.

Campsite missions

Mission	Campsite	What you do	Cash	XP
Fifteen stars	Kermode Plateau, west	Harvest 3 elk with 5-star trophy ratings	2,100	250
Which one has a white butt?	Kermode Plateau, centre	Harvest a 5-star whitetail and a 5-star mule deer	2,100	250
Hunting Solo	Thunderbird Muskeg, north	Harvest 5 mallards of 1.3 kg+ without the dog	1,800	100
Weather Extremes	East of Jackalope Cordillera	One-shot a Dall sheep from 400 m+ with the Primacy Vision Unity scope	1,800	100
Super pigs	Kermode Plateau, south-east	Call a wild boar with 80%+ fitness to within 100 m	1,800	100
Artificial route	Slalakum Shore, centre-east	One heart shot on a pronghorn with 70%+ fitness from 200 m+	1,800	100
Iconic pairing	Slalakum Shore, centre	Build a taxidermy diorama with a grizzly and a wood bison	1,200	40
Lure in	Kermode Plateau, far east	Harvest a male grizzly using a luring scent	1,200	40
Zip up	Wetiko Foothills, north-west	Harvest a mule deer between 00:00 and 03:00 with a night vision scope	1,200	40
Quail country	Slalakum Shore, south	Harvest a male and a female ptarmigan, both 60%+ fitness	1,200	40
Wattle Bearers	Slalakum Shore, north-east	Harvest 2 female and 2 male turkeys, all 60% fitness or lower	800	15
Cycle of Life	Slalakum Shore, centre	Harvest 3 snowshoe hares of 1.3 kg+	800	15
MooseNews	Thunderbird Muskeg, south-east	One-shot a moose with .338 Lapua Magnum	800	15
Bison Bank	Kermode Plateau, centre-east	Harvest a male bison with 40%+ fitness	300	5
Superhero of the wilderness	Lake Sasquatch, east	Harvest a wolverine from a tripod stand	300	5

Update 0.3.0 added two campsite missions to New Laurentia in the same patch that brought the pronghorn and wild boar.

Mission tips

“Hunting Solo” used to need more than 5 mallards because some did not register; that was a known issue at Early Access launch.
“Talk turkey to me” crashed for some players when it completed; fixed in 0.1.0. Turkey calling itself was fixed in the same patch.
Fitness requirements matter: binoculars show trophy stars since 0.1.0, and fitness shows in the animal analysis. See herd management.

Kilimaya Reserve missions

There is no complete public list yet. What the official notes confirm: new Hearth & Hunt characters with their own stories (a safari guide, an archery expert and a retired huntress), two campsite missions added in 0.3.0, and mission names that appear in fix notes: Teacher’s Pet (an archery mission), Crocodile Tears and Final Roar. Completing every initial assignment unlocks You’re Hired: Kilimaya Reserve. We will add the table once it can be checked against more than one source.

Earning more: money and XP guide.

Sources: community wiki New Laurentia mission table, patch notes 0.1.0 to 1.1 (mission names and fixes), Nine Rocks 1.0 FAQ, checked October 4, 2026.

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