A deer stole my only arrow head, will I ever get it back?

[togg]

Yes, I know that somewhere else in this big world I will be able to forge them. At the moment I have explored mystery lake only (13% I think) and the exteriors of the Dam in another savegame. That arrow head was gold!

This is what happened: I was practicing deer hunting near the Camp Office, I missed everytime, then a deer started to run towards me and I was able to shot at him. He runned away and I lost his tracks (I suck).

My question: will the game destroy the arrowhead or it will popup somewhere in the snow/corpse?

[Dirmagnos]

If animal was bleeding(was there a blood trail or not) then it most likely died somewhere some times later. So youd have to find a corpse to recover your arrowhead, you have a bout 3-4 days to do that be4 corpse despawns.

If it wasnt bleeding, and you(or wolf) wont kill that deer, then you can say your arrowhead goodbye. I believe that animals despawn/respawn when needed, but your arrow wont be spawning back.

[togg]

I'm actually not sure about the blood trail but I think there was none. So I will start travelling (<3) to find the solution.

[Wasteland Watcher]

On 3/19/2016 at 8:56 PM, togg said:

Yes, I know that somewhere else in this big world I will be able to forge them. At the moment I have explored mystery lake only (13% I think) and the exteriors of the Dam in another savegame. That arrow head was gold!

This is what happened: I was practicing deer hunting near the Camp Office, I missed everytime, then a deer started to run towards me and I was able to shot at him. He runned away and I lost his tracks (I suck).

My question: will the game destroy the arrowhead or it will popup somewhere in the snow/corpse?

If your arrow did indeed hit the deer then it will have run a while with the arrow stuck in it then died. Even if the corpse has completely rotted away the arrow will be where the deer died.

I know this to be true because the same thing happened with me, but with a wolf.

[togg]

On 30/3/2016 at 0:50 AM, Wasteland Watcher said:

If your arrow did indeed hit the deer then it will have run a while with the arrow stuck in it then died. Even if the corpse has completely rotted away the arrow will be where the deer died.

I know this to be true because the same thing happened with me, but with a wolf.

Yes, now I've got it better in another save.

[Excorpion]

I was living on CH a good time... and i traveled to PV for like 40 days... 
i remember that i shoot and miss some shoots at the lake on CH
its was really cool when i went back to CH and i found 2 arrows on the ground... 
One on the lake and the 2nd near my house

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=571812383

[Jolan]

I'm finding the arrows sometimes bounce off the deer to really weird places.  Either that or the arrow faries keep bringing them back.