Once you’ve paid 25 Gold Bars to unlock the role, as long as you purchase some Sedative Ammo from her for your Varmint Rifle, you can head out and start collecting samples. Both new characters appear in a variety of accessible locations on the open world map. You can find Gus on the map by looking for paw symbols and you can find Harriet by looking for magnifying glass icons on the map. He’s simply an enterprising trapper who would prefer it if you just killed and skinned the animals and sold the pelts and parts to him for special garments and trinkets.
Gus is not a quest-giver, and working for him won’t give you any Naturalist XP. There’s a reason for that! When you meet Davenport you’ll also be introduced to Gus MacMillan, the less animal-friendly secondary vendor introduced in this update.
Harriet will provide the player with a field guide for cataloguing all of the animals in Red Dead Online, but you can’t complete each entry without killing and skinning every animal. This will also allow you to buy Sedative Ammo from Harriet, which enables you to tranquilise and sample animals, starting your career as a Naturalist. You can find Davenport at the Welcome Center in Strawberry once you’ve updated the game, where you can pay 25 Gold Bars to access the Naturalist Sample Kit.
