Medved-Taiga National Park — Complete Guide: All 8 Animals, Need Zones, Best Weapons & Tips

Medved-Taiga National Park is a reserve DLC released in 2017 in theHunter: Call of the Wild, modelled on Siberia, Russia. Adds a harsh, frozen Siberian-inspired national park to hunt in.

This page covers everything about Medved-Taiga National Park: all 8 species with their class, trophy thresholds and need-zone clocks, the weapons that cover every class here, the official screenshots, our hunting tips, and answers to the questions players ask most.

Medved-Taiga National Park in Pictures

Reindeer in the frosty forest Eurasian lynx in the frozen taiga Brown bear rising up beside a hunting party Snow-covered taiga Sunrise through the pines Railway through the snowy forest Birch forest in the snow Snowy forest slope Frosted spruce forest Sunrise over a snowy forest trail Hunter in winter gear

11 official images from the game's store page. Tap any image to enlarge.

About Medved-Taiga National Park

What you get with the Medved-Taiga National Park DLC:

• Size: 25 sq mi (64 km²).
• Terrain: tundra, ‘Drunken Forest’ (permafrost-tilted trees), frozen bay with cracking ice, sinkhole, Lena Pillars rock formations; abrupt weather.
• Species: Musk Deer, Reindeer (Caribou), Wild Boar, Moose, Brown Bear, Lynx.
• 32 main and 50 side missions; storyline with climatologist Alena Khasavovna.
• Exclusive variant of an existing weapon; ATVs work here but sold separately.
• Non-owners can join owners’ games free; new clothing set for all players.

Our Map of Medved-Taiga National Park

We traced this map ourselves from the in-game map, copying its terrain shading so you can read the ridges and valleys: every lake and river we could see, the roads and trails, the reserve border, and 6 outposts, 9 lookouts and 33 points of interest, placed where they sit in the game. Toggle the layers, zoom in, and tap any marker for its grid square.

Hand-made by Hunt & Live from our own in-game screenshot. Only the parts of the reserve we have explored show roads; water and markers are placed as accurately as we could trace them. We'll keep adding to it as we explore more.

Map

Our illustrated interactive map of Medved-Taiga National Park is in the works. In the meantime, climb lookouts to reveal the map around them and unlock outposts for fast travel. Animals use the same need zones all season, so mark drink zones as you find them. Our six mapped reserves are Layton Lake District, Hirschfelden, Vurhonga Savanna, Te Awaroa, Silver Ridge Peaks and Emerald Coast.

All 8 Animals on Medved-Taiga National Park

Every species on the reserve, heaviest class first. Each card shows the class, the hardest difficulty it can reach, the diamond threshold, any Great One, and the published feed, drink and rest times. For full trophy data see our animals page.

Need-zone times are the published in-game windows (24-hour clock). Zone locations differ between saves, so find and mark your own.

Trophy Thresholds on Medved-Taiga National Park

The trophy rating you need for each medal. Diamonds only drop at the top difficulty levels, so check an animal’s level with your binoculars before you shoot.

Best Weapons for Medved-Taiga National Park

The smallest base-game kit that covers every class here (1–8), so whatever walks into a zone you have legal ammo:

• Caversham Steward 12G: classes 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8 (12 GA Birdshot, 12 GA Buckshot, 12 GA Slug)

Good DLC upgrades for the bigger game here: Bearclaw Lite CB-60 (Free DLC/download), Crosspoint CB-165 (Weapon Pack 1), Houyi Recurve Bow (Weapon Pack 1), Grelck Drilling Rifle (Weapon Pack 2), Solokhin MN1890 (Weapon Pack 2), Eckers .30-06 (Weapon Pack 3). See every pack in our weapon pack guides.

Hunting Tips for Medved-Taiga National Park

• Work the drink zones. Most species here have a published drink window (see the cards above). Sit near water in that window, downwind, and let the animals come to you.
• Bird hunting: Western Capercaillie live here. Bring a shotgun with birdshot, and use decoys and callers where you can.
• Dangerous game: Moose, Eurasian Brown Bear, Gray Wolf can charge or attack. Carry a heavy calibre, keep a tent or tripod for safety, and don’t take marginal shots.
• Fabled furs: only level-10 animals of Moose, Gray Wolf, Wild Boar can carry a Fabled fur. Glass every herd for top-level animals.
• Diamonds: only take max-level animals when chasing trophies, use in-class ammo, and make a clean one-shot kill to keep the harvest bonus.

Similar Reserves

These reserves share the most species with Medved-Taiga National Park:

FinlandRevontuli Coast4 shared species

Yukon / AlaskaYukon Valley Nature Reserve2 shared species

Alberta, CanadaAskiy Ridge2 shared species

Sources: official store page for theHunter: Call of the Wild — Medved-Taiga, our species database (class, thresholds, need zones and furs compiled from community trackers and checked in game where possible), and published game-file coordinates for the map. Compiled October 2026.