InRimworld, the importance of animals is often overlooked, and they are seen as a waste of resources. However, they are extremely useful and life-saving. Many animals can protect you, attack enemies, haul things, and rescue wounded colonists from the hot battlefield and take them out of the conflict.
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When other colonists go elsewhere for raids or missions, your animal master colonist can easily defend the colony with the animals you have. In addition, you can use livestock to produce food supplies such as milk, eggs, and meat, or wool from animals such as Mufallo and alpaca to make apparel and sell it for money.
Best Way To Increase Animal Skill
If you don’t have a colonist with Animal skills, don’t worry because it’s fairly easy to improve this skill. If you have a colonist with a passion for Animal skills, this is a huge plus for you, even if the level is not high.
You canquickly improve your taming skill by training alpacas, hares, rats, huskies, Labrador retrievers, or boars,and if you don’t want to keep them,you’re able to slaughter themfor their meat. However, do thisafter the animals have mastered their abilitiesso that you will get more experience levels.
You definitely want tokeep huskies and Labrador retrieversbecause they are the finest Rimworld animals. After all,they can attack, protect, haulandrescue wounded colonists.
When it comes to rats, they may seem unnecessary, but these animals can be the springtails of your Rimworld colony if you don’t want to deal with things like crematoriums and graveyards. Just gather your tamed rats in a big dark room and leave the corpses of your enemies in there, and the rats will grind these corpses.
Don’t forget to restrict your domesticated animals from entering your home and kitchen in the “Manage areas” section; otherwise, the base will get very dirty, and the colony may become infected due to the dirt in the kitchen.
The Best Animals To Train
There are many different animals in Rimworld, each with different characteristics and different benefits and detriments for you. It is important to know which animal has what characteristics and abilities.
You shouldabsolutely protect the animal master of the wild animals. If the master dies, animals will start to attack the nearest colonist or enemy.
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Husky
Huskies are capable of doing anything. They canattack raiders, guard colonists, haul stuff around, and rescue downed colonists. Huskiesdon’t require a minimum animal taming level, and they don’t have any wildness.
Labrador Retriever
Labrador retrievers are nearly the same as Huskies the only difference between them is huskies are more combat effective. They are both omnivorous creatures, so they eat both plants and meats—other than that, they breed fast.
Warg
Wargs are great at combat;they stun their enemies for five to six seconds, making them a valuable asset for the colony. They only require level-five taming skills.Wargs are one of the few animals thatcan easily defend the colony against raiders.However, they can’t rescue pawns and can’t haul anything.
Boomrat
Boomrats require a minimum of seven-level handling, and they don’t produce anything, but they can be used in battle strategically. Bear in mind this creature’s destructiveness; keep them away from your base, and use them with caution.
Timber Wolf
Timber wolves are another great animal in Rimworld. They are nearly the same as the Husky and Retriever, but they are better at fighting. Other than that, they can easily guard, haul and rescue pawns. They require a minimum of eight handling skills.
Cougar
Cougars are easily one of the most powerful animals in Rimworld. Cougars are much stronger than wolves and boars, and their first attack applies a stun for six seconds. Apart from that, these animals are able to guard, attack, rescue, and haul as well.
Grizzly Bear
Grizzly bears are a MUST if you are thinking about getting into animals. These beasts give lots of perks to your colony. They can guard, attack, rescue, and haul. They havea161 carrying capacity, much better than the second-best hauler, the Wolf, with 64 capacity. You canuse Grizzly Bears to melee blockchoke points.
Chicken
Chickens areeasy to breedand are adecent food source, so why not have them? Since they are easy to breed you’re able to also slaughter them occasionally for their meat.
Dromedary
Dromedaries usefulness is subject to change according to your biome. They area good source of milk and decent caravan animals.
Cow
You should have cows in your colony simply because of the milk. They are alsoa good source of meat, giving 336 raw meatwhen they reach adult age.
Alpaca
Since alpacas do not require handling skills, they area good place to start leveling up your taming skills. They are very useful in winter or for making money. If you have a decent dedicated crafter in your colony,you can craft apparel for winter or sell it for money.
Muffalo
Mufallo is easily one of the best caravan animals and a great source of wool. They just require a minimum of five-level handling, andyou can get 120 pieces of wool per 15 days from these animals.
Boomalope
Boomalopes are great assets for your wealth in Rimworld. Theycan be milked for Chemfuels; theyonly require five levels of animal handling,producing 11 Chemfuel per day. You canmilk Boomalopes for Chemfuelsand sell them good money to traders or from your Orbital trade beacon.
Elephant
Elephants are another strong must-have animal; however, they are extremely dangerous to tame and are likely to manhunt if your handling level is average. The minimum required handling is seven for the Elephants.
These animalscan haul, rescue, attack, and guard,and theirDPS and health are pretty high.Thebest way to tamebeasts like elephants and megasloths is todown them with sniper or blunt weaponsandtreat them in a safe environment.
While taming wild creatures like Grizzly bear, Warg, or cougar, ensure one of your best combatant pawns escort your animal tamer in case things go wrong.
How To Make Kibble
Kibble is incredibly easy to craft in Rimworld. You don’t have to do any research, you only need to craft a Butcher Table, or you can simply put a butcher spot in a relatively clean area.
MakingKibble requires one unit of vegetarian ingredients and one unit of meat ingredients.Afterward, you can simply click on the Butcher Table or spot and click the Bills button to craft the Kibble item.
Pawns don’t like eating Kibble; if they do eat it, they get a -12 “Ate kibble” negative mood buff. Also,Kibble doesn’t mask any negative buffsfrom items like insect meat or human meat. However,Kibble does not rot or spoil.
