For the sole purpose of packing goods, this is a downside, as elephants need to be re-trained. In addition, elephants are the only pack animal that isn't a pen animal. However, any other rideable animal would be better on a caravan (2 donkeys can carry 2 people, 1 elephant can carry 1 person). Elephants can be ridden, and the only rideable animal native to the tropics, where their hunger usually isn't an issue. 1 elephant carries less and eats more than 2 muffalo or 5 alpaca. This is not usually a problem, as elephants reside in tropical biomes, but can be an issue during a toxic fallout or caravan trip.Įlephants, despite carrying the most out of any pack animal in the game, are not great pack animals. However, this comes at the cost of a high hunger rate. In addition, elephants will never go manhunter on a failed taming attempt. They have a high health, joint second with megasloths, but elephants are much easier to tame. Įlephants are powerful animals, great for damage soak tactics. As a plus side, elephant herds are great to use with a psychic animal pulser or the Manhunter pulse psycast. Even if you want to slaughter elephants, consider taming them first. In addition, elephants have 50% manhunter on hunt but 0% manhunter on a failed tame. As a bonus, elephants are great at combat.Įlephants come in herds hunting 1 elephant may anger the entire herd. They can also be ridden in a caravan for extra speed. They are in the unique position as the only pack animal that be trained to haul.

They can additionally be ridden for up to 130% caravan speed, reached if there is at least 1 elephant per rider.Įlephants are difficult to tame and eat a high amount of food, but are very powerful animals. It is currently unclear whether the ability for female elephants to attack with tusks, but not yield them on butchering is intentional or a bug.Įlephants can be brought on caravans as pack animals, they can carry 140 kg of weight, almost double that of the muffalo. All animals will attempt to breed if there are animals of the opposite gender available, producing young that are automatically tamed by the colony.When an adult male elephant is butchered, it yields 2 elephant tusks, unless the tusk body part is damaged.ĭespite the texture of female elephants showing tusks, and female elephants' ability to attack with tusks, they do not yield them when butchered. These animals can also eat Kibble, prefer to sleep in animal beds, and will provide mood bonuses to colonists that they attach themselves to. More independent animals like canines and felines are best allowed to roam freely, or given a safe area to wander near the base through the zoning system. Animals in Pens will be marked as passive, meaning that they won't be attacked by predators or marauders. In areas where there isn't enough land to graze on, players should grow Haygrass to support their animals, or feed them on RimWorld's Kibble. Pens not only show whether they contain enough grazing land to support the animals inside but also allow players to set up systems to automatically harvest and slaughter from the herd. Grazing animals like cows and sheep are best contained in Pens, fence-enclosed areas that are designated with the Pen Marker item.

Taking care of animals in RimWorld isn't always easy, but the rewards can be considerable.

Rimworld animals