Tracking

Woodcutters and Farms are used for tracking during Winter. Click on the structure and select track. Upon completion of the time required, you will be notified by either a Number or an X for failure to find anything. The number indicates how far away the beast is hiding from that tile. Once a few numbers are obtained, triangulate to find the location. You must complete this objective prior to the end of Winter. Boars give 20 Honor, Bears 3 Crafting Material & Wolves yield Gold. The fourth is undetermined

From what I encountered: The prey is within 9 fields of your max range(Had this now several times).

For example:

You have 40 trees, all except one can have the X instead of a number, but at least one show a number(9 seem the maximum, because I don't have a 10 one down/left/up/right in the opposite direction the number leads you)

look then so:

xt xxt xtt xxxt xt xxx9........p xxtt

(x are trees without the number, because it's 10+ distance from it, t are trees, that can't be tracked and . are tiles between the numbertree and your prey)

so yes, the p(rey) seem to be out of your normal range, but within 9 fields of the maximum point to reach them. But I have only tracked 3 so far(lucky guy, because first one was the wolf, second the bear and third now boars).

One thing: Does the level(or just the building?) determine how far you can track? Because with my lvl 2 farm I found the 9 for the wolf, while my lvl 1 woodcutter, which was next to it and had the same distance to the 9 tile, couldn't even try to track the same tree.