In Rimworld, 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 can quickly improve your taming skill by training alpacas, hares, rats, huskies, Labrador retrievers, or boars, and if you don't want to keep them, you can slaughter them for their meat. However, do this after the animals have mastered their abilities so that you will get more experience levels.
You definitely want to keep huskies and Labrador retrievers because they are the finest Rimworld animals. After all, they can attack, protect, haul and rescue 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 should absolutely protect the animal master of the wild animals. If the master dies, animals will start to attack the nearest colonist or enemy.
Image | Animal | Information |
|---|---|---|
 | Husky | Huskies are capable of doing anything. They can attack raiders, guard colonists, haul stuff around, and rescue downed colonists. Huskies don'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 that can 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. |
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 | 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 have a 161 carrying capacity, much better than the second-best hauler, the Wolf, with 64 capacity. You can use Grizzly Bears to melee block choke points. |
 | Chicken | Chickens are easy to breed and are a decent food source, so why not have them? Since they are easy to breed you can also slaughter them occasionally for their meat. |
 | Dromedary | Dromedaries usefulness is subject to change according to your biome. They are a good source of milk and decent caravan animals. |
 | Cow | You should have cows in your colony simply because of the milk. They are also a good source of meat, giving 336 raw meat when they reach adult age. |
 | Alpaca | Since alpacas do not require handling skills, they are a 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, and you can get 120 pieces of wool per 15 days from these animals. |
 | Boomalope | Boomalopes are great assets for your wealth in Rimworld. They can be milked for Chemfuels; they only require five levels of animal handling, producing 11 Chemfuel per day. You can milk Boomalopes for Chemfuels and 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 animals can haul, rescue, attack, and guard, and their DPS and health are pretty high. The best way to tame beasts like elephants and megasloths is to down them with sniper or blunt weapons and treat them in a safe environment. |
While taming wild creatures like Grizzly bear, Warg, or cougar, make sure 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.
Making Kibble 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 buffs from items like insect meat or human meat. However, Kibble does not rot or spoil.
The Best Tips For Animals In Rimworld
- When you put livestock animals in a pen, you can make a growing zone for some hay to have an additional food supply for your animals.
- Make sure your carnivorous animals don't have access to livestock animals, especially in winter.
- Herbivore animals must be banned from the field areas, or they will eat your crops.
- You can build a little barn inside the pen that only allows animal food to keep them fed.
- Lock your Boomrats in a dark room with corpses and stack them. You can release the horde when your colony is under a massive raid. Or, if you want to play more safely, you can create a big and empty Rimworld killbox design and release the horde there.
- Wild animals like wolves, wargs, foxes, and cougars are among the best animal kinds to put in your arsenal because if you allow them to wander around your farming fields, they will keep animals like hares, rats, and emus away from them.
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