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Guinea Pigs are tameable herbivores with a fast movement speed. Guinea Pigs come in three colours: Cream, Black and Brown.

Acquisition

Guinea pigs can be found in temperate forests, temperate swamps, tropical rainforests, tropical swamps, arid shrublands, deserts, extreme deserts, and cold bogs. They can either be tamed by a handler or self-tame in a random event.

Guinea Pigs can be bought and sold in other faction bases and from bulk goods traders. Guinea Pigs purchased from traders will be already tamed.

Analysis

Guinea pigs can be farmed for meat and fur. While each guinea pig is small, they reproduce rapidly, so a large pack of guinea pigs can produce a lot of meat. Compared to chinchillas, guinea pigs are not pen animals, so they will need to constantly be re-tamed. However, guinea pigs can nuzzle and can be controlled via allowed areas.

Guinea pigs have valuable fur. While it makes some of the least protective clothing, it is very beautiful. Clothing also has exceptional cold insulation, lending itself for innerwear. Guinea pig tribalwear can be used to protect against heat and cold. Meanwhile, shirts and pants do not provide substantial protection unless made out of the best materials. So if you don't have the best protective materials, the fur can be used for insulation. It is also a profitable trade good. Turning it into high value clothing for sale, such as dusters and formal vest]s, has some merit.

Due to their high reproductive rate, guinea pigs can be used as bait animals. Set an allowed area towards the direction of raiders. This allows you to direct where the guinea pigs go, and they will be shot at rather than your colonists. This results in less meat & leather than slaughtering them would, but can be useful in combat. Compared to rats and hares, guinea pigs are more wealth, can nuzzle colonists, but are larger targets and reproduce less.

They are one of the few animals that can nuzzle, occasionally giving a +4 Nuzzled moodlet to colonists. Guinea pigs and monkeys are the only 2 wild animals that can nuzzle.

Training

This animal can be trained as follows:

Guard:
Attack:
Rescue:
Haul:

*As of version 1.1.2610, all animals can be tamed. The percentage of likelihood of success depends on factors such as the Animals Wildness Percentage, Pawn Handling Skill, and others. More information can be found on the animals page.

Health

Body part	Health
Head	10
Skull	10
Brain	4
Nose	4
Neck	10
Jaw	8
Eye ^[1] (left, right)	4
Ear (left, right)	4
Body	16
Kidney^[2] (left, right)	6
Lung^[2] (left, right)	6
Liver^[2]	8
Heart^[2]	6
Spine^[2]	10
Stomach^[2]	8
Limbs (left, right, fore, hind)	12
Appendage (left, right, fore, hind)	8

↑ Located inside of Head.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 ^2.5 Located inside of Body.

Version history

1.1.0 - Added as part of the integration of the Vanilla Animals Expanded - Livestock mod into the basegame.

Gallery

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Cream variant
Guineapig.png

Black variant
GuineaPig3 east.png

Brown variant

Animals

Herbivorous: Alpaca • Bison • Boomalope • Capybara • Caribou • Cassowary • Chicken • Chinchilla • Cow • Deer • Donkey • Dromedary • Duck • Elephant • Elk • Emu • Gazelle • Goat • Goose • Guinea pig • Hare • Horse • Ibex • Megasloth • Muffalo • Ostrich • Rhinoceros • Sheep • Snowhare • Squirrel • Turkey • Yak • Toxalope

Dendrovorous: Alphabeaver • Thrumbo

Omnivorous: Boomrat • Grizzly bear • Human • Husky • Iguana • Labrador retriever • Megascarab • Megaspider • Monkey • Pig • Polar bear • Spelopede • Raccoon • Rat • Tortoise • Wild boar • Yorkshire terrier • Waste rat

Carnivorous: Arctic fox • Arctic wolf • Cat • Cobra • Cougar • Fennec fox • Lynx • Panther • Red fox • Timber wolf • Warg

Dryads: Barkskin • Berrymaker • Carrier • Clawer • Gaumaker • Immature dryad • Medicinemaker • Woodmaker

[Head-1] Located inside of Head.

[Body-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 ^2.5 Located inside of Body.

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 == Analysis ==
-Guinea Pigs are of limited commercial use as tames. They provide only small quantities of fur and meat.  They also have some of the lowest health values of any pawn ingame making them incredibly fragile. They will, however, occasionally nuzzle a colonist, giving a +5 mood buff, and are the only "wild" animal to have this "[[cute]]" quality.
+Guinea pigs can be farmed for [[meat]] and [[guinea pig fur|fur]]. While each guinea pig is small, they reproduce rapidly, so a large pack of guinea pigs can produce a lot of meat. Compared to [[chinchilla]]s, guinea pigs are not [[pen animal]]s, so they will need to constantly be re-tamed. However, guinea pigs can [[nuzzle]] and can be controlled via [[allowed area]]s.
-Their limited utility is primarily in their [[Guinea pig fur|fur]]. While it makes some of the least [[Armor#Armor rating|protective]] [[clothing]], and is poor for use in [[sandbags]], it has the fifth highest [[Property:Beauty Factor|beauty factor]] (11) of any [[textile]]. Compared to its [[Textiles#Material_Effects|competitors]], only [[chinchilla fur]] (14) and [[devilstrand]] (13) are reasonably available, and devilstrand is likely needed as clothing.  [[Thrumbofur]] (32) and [[hyperweave]] (22) are significantly rarer and in far more demand for protection than beauty. This makes it an ideal material for [[Armchair]]s and [[Drape]]s {{RoyaltyIcon}}.
+Guinea pigs have valuable fur. While it makes some of the least [[Armor#Armor rating|protective]] [[clothing]], it is very beautiful. Clothing also has exceptional cold insulation, lending itself for innerwear. Guinea pig [[tribalwear]] can be used to protect against heat and cold. Meanwhile, shirts and pants do not provide substantial protection unless made out of the best materials. So if you don't have the best protective materials, the fur can be used for insulation. It is also a profitable trade good. Turning it into high value clothing for sale, such as [[duster]]s and [[formal vest]]]s{{RoyaltyIcon}}, has some merit.
-The fur also has exceptional cold insulation, the highest of all textiles, and respectable heat insulation. It thus is a valid choice for clothing such as [[Button-down shirt]]s and [[pants]], whose protective capabilty will be irrelevant with all but the very best textiles and whose insulative abilities with Guinea pig fur may allow a pawn to forgo a [[parka]] or [[tuque]] for more protective items such as a [[duster]] or [[Simple helmet|helmet]] in very [[Biomes#Cold_Biomes|cold biomes]].
+Due to their high reproductive rate, guinea pigs can be used as bait animals. Set an [[allowed area]] towards the direction of raiders. This allows you to direct where the guinea  pigs go, and they will be shot at rather than your colonists. This results in less meat & leather than slaughtering them would, but can be useful in combat. Compared to [[rat]]s and [[hare]]s, guinea pigs are more [[wealth]], can nuzzle colonists, but are larger targets and reproduce less.
-Lastly the fur is very valuable, meaning turning it into high value clothing for sale such as [[Corset]]s {{RoyaltyIcon}} has some merit.
+They are one of the few animals that can [[nuzzle]], occasionally giving a {{+|4}} ''Nuzzled'' moodlet to colonists. Guinea pigs and [[monkey]]s are the only 2 wild animals that can nuzzle.
 == Training ==