Questions about Blessings

[finger]

I had a few questions I was hoping you guys would help me out with, I started using the Hunting and Gathering Blessings recently and was unsure about a few things.


Gathering Blessing:
-Does this blessing increase 20% chance to receive trade goods from Animals/Gathering?
-Does the Gathering part increase the yield of farms/caravans by 20%?

Animal Blessing :
-Is there a cap on the number of animals that can be present at one time (if I use this blessing with max animals will new ones spawn or will it stay the same ammount wasting the buff?)
-I have been using both Animal and Gathering at the same time is, it best to hunt all animals before using the Animal buff?


How do you guys use these buffs (if at all)?

Also, The loot blessing do you find this as useless as I do? The trade good cost is huge and I could use the same goods to get a better return hiring mercs with the same goods.

 

[Whatwhat]

i never use the gathering blessing so im not sure. i used to use the animal blessing alot as it would generate alot of animals over the duration.
but since the last major update the animal blessing doesn't work for me. i might get 3 or 4 animals total during the duration of the blessing.

 

[drwong]

From what I can tell, the Gathering Blessing bonus only applies to actual gathering by your citizens (mines, fruit trees, and wild game). No extra bonuses for farms, caravans, or roads. The Animal Blessing generates more animals, but your odds of collecting fur and leather will be the same. Admittedly, with more animals appearing, you'll probably collect additional fur & leather, but you won't get extra fur and leather until you get your library to level 4 and research "Hounds" to Chapter 2. However, if you're using the Gathering Blessing regularly and your library hasn't advanced to level 4 yet, your odds of finding extra cider and metal during the gathering phase increases by 10% if you have a library at level 1 and research "Pottery" to Chapter 2.