Hunting Simulator 3 lodge customization allows you to personalize your central hunting lodges, adjust room aesthetics, and display harvested game across dedicated trophy mounts. Available in locations such as the Club HQ and regional reserves like Colorado, the lodge serves as your base of operations for weapon tuning, trophy viewing, and gear management. Unlocking interior sets requires completing challenges recorded in your Field Journal, while pre-order and special editions offer additional cosmetic themes and poses.
Available Lodge Themes and Room Customization
Inside the lodge, players can interact with customization menus located near the main entrance to restyle individual sections of the house. The customization system applies coordinated furniture, trim, and wall palettes across multiple areas rather than placing loose individual clutter objects.
During gameplay testing and developer showcases, several distinct interior aesthetic sets were identified:
| Theme Set | Availability | Visual Characteristics |
|---|---|---|
| Oak Set | Base Game (Starter/Early Unlock) | Traditional wood finish with classic cabin furniture styling. |
| Birch Set | Base Game (Point Unlock) | Lighter wood textures, updated benches, and modern metalwork fixtures. |
| Crimson Set | Base Game (Point Unlock) | Deep red accent walls and rich wood furniture tones. |
| Royal Set | Apex Predator Edition (DLC) | Premium interior decor styling designed for all eight main rooms. |
How to Earn Points to Unlock Furniture Sets
Lodge customization items cannot be purchased purely with standard hunting cash. Instead, they require a dedicated reserve or field point currency earned through the Field Journal challenge tracking system.
To accumulate customization points efficiently:
- Open your handheld device or map menu and navigate to the Field Journal tab.
- Select an animal category (Big Game, Small Game, Upland Game, or Waterfowl) or the Weapons tab.
- Complete tiered hunting challenges. Early access gameplay shows that standard animal harvests reward roughly 10 points per animal towards that species tier, with milestone bonuses awarding larger lumps like 50 to 150 points upon finishing full objective tiers.
- Level up weapon family challenges (such as bolt-action rifles, break-action shotguns, or compound bows) through active field use to gain additional customization points.
- Return to the lodge customization stand in the front hall to spend your accumulated points on locked sets like the Birch furniture package.
Displaying Trophies and Taxidermy
Taxidermy displays give you a physical record of successful hunts throughout the lodge. The placement spots use static mounts and pedestals fixed to specific locations around the building, including the front entrance, living spaces, and hallways near the indoor shooting range.
Plaque Scoring and Dual Ribbons
When you place a mounted animal on an open pedestal, the front plaque displays two distinct emblems representing your harvest quality:
- Animal Score: Rates the size, age, and biological traits of the specimen, emphasizing mature and prime animals with higher genetic potential.
- Hunter Score: Reflects harvest ethics, including proper caliber matching for the species class, shot placement, and distance.
Both ratings scale through four medal tiers: Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Platinum. Harvesters using an unapproved caliber receive an ethics penalty that reduces payouts to a nominal $1 and locks out taxidermy options entirely.
Poses and Replays
Interacting with a mounted trophy or opening your Hunt History at the lodge bookcase opens a detailed harvest breakdown. This screen features an interactive camera that can zoom, orbit, and replay the bullet flight trajectory through the animal's internal organs. While the base game includes standard mounting positions, the Apex Predator Edition adds more than 20 alternative taxidermy poses to provide varied stances for displayed game.
Armory, Wardrobe, and Garage Management
Beyond wall styling, the lodge functions as the mechanical hub where you configure tools before heading into reserve maps.
The Loadout Bench and Firearm Storage
The lodge includes a dedicated armory room with static wall displays and an interactive loadout bench. From this bench, you can:
- Equip official firearms from licensed manufacturers such as Winchester, Remington, Browning, and Beretta.
- Swap calibers on compatible multi-caliber weapon platforms (for example, switching between calibers like .243 Win, .308 Win, or .300 Win Mag on supported rifles).
- Mount optics, including the starter Bushnell Prime 3-9x40 scope or variable zoom alternatives.
- Attach barrel accessories, such as suppressors that reduce gunshot noise range or muzzle brakes that reduce recoil by 20% to 30%.
- Attach bipods to under-barrel slots to increase shooting stability.
The Wardrobe Station
Located near the upstairs bookcase, the wardrobe lets you customize character cosmetics and equipment capacity:
- Clothing items: Select apparel options including branded caps and jackets from makers like Browning and Verney-Carron.
- The Backpack Upgrade: Equipping a backpack at the wardrobe is essential early on. It expands your character from a single weapon slot to two weapon slots, and increases quick-gear utility capacity from two slots up to six. Carrying a backpack does introduce slightly more movement noise when stalking.
The Vehicle Garage and Kennel
The garage and adjacent dog kennel handle transport and scouting preparation:
- Vehicles: Access vehicles like the electric UTV or the Ford Raptor pickup. The vehicle bed can be fitted with modular add-on boxes, including extra seats, item storage, a mobile weapon loadout workbench, or a dog storage box.
- Hound Management: Retrieve hunting companions, such as the Labrador Retriever or the pre-order American Foxhound, from the kennel. Equipping a dog storage box on your vehicle ensures your canine companion travels safely alongside your truck without falling behind across large distances.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can you freely place trophy plaques anywhere on the lodge walls?
No. In the current builds of Hunting Simulator 3, trophy mounts and taxidermy pedestals are placed in fixed, predetermined positions throughout the rooms. You choose which harvested animal occupies each available stand, but you cannot reposition the stands themselves.
How do you unlock the second primary weapon slot in the lodge?
The second weapon slot is unlocked by purchasing and equipping a backpack at the lodge wardrobe station. Starting characters without a backpack are restricted to a single firearm slot and two gear slots.
What is included in the Apex Predator Edition for lodge customization?
The Apex Predator Edition includes the "Royal" lodge interior customization theme, which provides unique decorative furniture and styling for all eight main lodge rooms, along with over 20 additional taxidermy mounting poses.
Does changing the time of day at the lodge cost money?
No. You can interact with the clocks located upstairs in the lodge bedrooms or at the top of reserve observation towers to advance time forward by up to approximately 22 hours for free.
