Cow

Cow

A large domesticated ungulate, cows have been bred for millennia to produce huge amounts of milk, meat, and leather. They are exceptionally gentle creatures and will never seek revenge, no matter how many times they are harmed. Most of them are so adapted to farm life that they cannot survive in the wild.

Base Stats

Type

Animal

Market Value

300 

Flammability

70%

Pawn Stats

Move Speed

3.2 c/s

Health Scale

150% HP

Body Size

2.4

Mass - Baby

28.8 kg

Mass - Juvenile

72 kg

Mass - Adult

144 kg

Carrying Capacity

180 kg

Filth Rate

16

Hunger Rate

0.86 Nutrition/Day

Diet

herbivorous

Life Expectancy

22 years

Manhunter Chance

0%

Manhunter Chance (Taming)

0%

Trainable Intelligence

None

Wildness

0%

Roam Interval

2 days

Mate Interval

12 hours

Maturity Age

0.333 years (20 days)

Juvenile Age

0.2 years (12 days)

Comfortable Temp Range

-10 °C – 40 °C (14 °F – 104 °F)

Production

Meat Yield

336 beef

Leather Yield

96 plainleather

Milk Amount

14 milk

Milking Interval

1 days

Gestation Period

6.66 days

Offspring Per Birth

1

Melee Combat

Attack 1

Teeth
8.8 dmg (Bite)
13 % AP
2.6 second cooldown
0.7 chance factor

Attack 2

Head
7 dmg (Blunt)
10 % AP
2 second cooldown
0.2 chance factor

Attack 3

Front left leg
8 dmg (Blunt)
12 % AP
2 second cooldown

Attack 4

Front left leg
8 dmg (Poke)
12 % AP
2 second cooldown

Attack 5

Front right leg
8 dmg (Blunt)
12 % AP
2 second cooldown

Attack 6

Front right leg
8 dmg (Poke)
12 % AP
2 second cooldown

Average DPS

2.36

Technical

tradeTags

AnimalFarm, AnimalCommon

The cow is a large herbivore best known for its milk and tasty meat. Males of the species are referred to as Bulls and can be distinguished by their horns and lack of udders, while females are referred to as Cows and have the opposite features. Babies of either gender are referred to as Calves and have the features of adults of their gender.

Obtaining

Cows don't spawn in the wild and thus cannot be tamed. They can only be obtained via trading or received through the animal self-taming event.

Summary

Cows are pen animals. Once tamed, pen animals cannot and do not need to be trained any further. But if left outside of a pen or caravan hitching spot, pen animals will eventually roam outside your colony. Making a caravan is not required to tie animals to a caravan hitching spot.

A female cow can be milked for up to 14 units of milk per day (depending on your pawn's Animal Gather Yield).

Analysis

Cows are reasonably efficient animals that produce milk, which can be used as a meat substitute for fine meals and lavish meals.

While they are worse for vegetarian food than chickens, cows can be friendlier to your computer (lots of chickens can create lag).

Nutrition

When slaughtered, a cow yields 67 meat and 25 leather as a calf; 168 meat and 48 as a juvenile; or 336 meat and 96 leather as an adult.

• Milking

Female cows produce 14 per day, or 0.7 nutrition in milk per day. A cow consumes 0.86 nutrition per day. This results in a nutrition efficiency of 81.4% from milk alone ( 16.28 per day per 1 nutrition consumed).

Cows produce produce 27% more milk than the next best producer, the yak. However, yaks are also pack animals.

• Slaughtering + Milking'

Slaughtered as calves, and including the production of milk, the nutrition efficiency of a population of cows varies from 70.3% to 140.5% depending on how many more female cows there are than bulls.

If the calves are allows to grow to adulthood before they are slaughtered, this changes to 0.388-1.436

Cows are reasonably nutritionally efficient, but they are slightly less so than Horses and Ibexs. The increased work required to milk the cows every day further places them behind such competition. As a result, the cow shines best in colonies with the Animal Personhood meme, that want to create fine or lavish meals without slaughtering animals. Even in this regard, cows are inferior to chickens in every respect other than lag-friendliness.

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	38
Skull	38
Brain	15
Nose	15
Neck	38
Jaw	30
Eye (left, right)	15
Ear (left, right)	15
Body	60
Kidney (left, right)	23
Lung (left, right)	23
Liver	30
Heart	23
Spine	38
Stomach	30
Limbs (left, right, fore, hind)	45
Appendage (left, right, fore, hind)	30

Version history

• 0.12.906 - Added

Gallery

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  Bull facing east

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  Bull facing north

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  Bull facing south

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  Decaying bull

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  Cow facing east

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  Cow facing north

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  Cow facing south

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  Decaying cow

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