Animals do not leave their pen or assigned area when fleeing. Animals do not flee predators or melee attacks. Fleeing: all animals have a chance of erratically fleeing from ranged attacks hitting a target in their immediate vicinity.A text warning pops up on the screen when a colonist is ordered to interact with a potentially dangerous wild animal. They will defend themselves in melee combat, and some animals can turn manhunter and chase your colonists. Attacking: All animals can only melee attack.Sleeping: when tired or wounded, tamed animals prefer to sleep in an animal bed or animal sleeping spot.Mating: male and female adults of the same species occasionally mate, which may result in a female pregnancy.Animals will keep searching for food until their hunger bar reaches satiation. Herbivores move to find mature plants and carnivores hunt. Consuming food: animals attempt to eat a nearby food source when hungry.Moving: the animal is moving into its assigned area.Their escape frequency is determined by the stat roam interval. Roaming: Tame pen animals will occasionally attempt to leave the map if not in a pen or if a pen door is left open.This can be mitigated by straw matting floors or by simply keeping animals outdoors on natural terrain. Farm animals tend to produce massive amounts of filth.

The Filth rate stat is proportional to the body size and wildness stats. While walking on constructed floors, some animals produce animal filth. Wild animals can cross fences but not doors. Tamed animals may cross doors and fences in their assigned area, unlike pen animals. Some wild animals tend to stay together in a herd. Wandering: Animals will wander the accessible map, their pen, or their assigned zone when their needs are satisfied, e.g.Some animals have a different sprite for infant and adult life stages, like the chicken. Some animals have different appearances between males and females. Most animal sprites do not show limbs, just like human sprites. Some species (most ungulates) cannot be assigned an area and must instead be roped by a colonist into a pen. Be certain to designate them an animal sleeping spot and ensure they have access to a food source. Zoning prevents animals from wandering into danger and eating things they shouldn't be. Allowed areas are created via the Expand allowed area function in the Architect>Zone menu. One of the best ways to control animals is to assign them an allowed area. Most of the above information is also displayed in the animal's inspect pane. Animals stay in their assigned areas unless designated to follow their master. Checkbox columns for each trainable skill: Tame, Guard, Rescue, Attack, and Haul for the management of animal training.A 'Slaughter' checkbox column allows easy slaughtering of multiple tamed animals at once.If the animal is designated to follow its master when drafted or doing field work.A button lists the animal's master, if it has one.Gender, Age, and Life Stage are displayed.Double-clicking an animal's name will center the map to that animal.From left to right, displayed information is as follows: The Animals tab lists all the colony animals. The Animals tab is in the menu bar at the bottom of the screen. Animals can also form bonds with colonists, providing a permanent +5 thought.įriendly fire can happen with domesticated animals. When tamed ' cute' animals nuzzle a colonist, the colonist receives a +3 mood thought for 16 hours. Animals are an important source of food by the meat they provide once hunted and butchered.Ĭolonists assigned to Handle receive 90 XP towards their Animals skill per training or taming attempt.

Rimworld animals