Megasloth

Megasloth

Megasloth

A giant, solitary herbivore with two giant claws for warding off threats. Long extinct after being wiped out by the natives of Earth's American continent, the megasloth was later brought back using advanced cloning and artificial gestators. Its thick hide is exceptionally strong and insulating, and makes a great leather for cold-weather clothing. It is peaceful if left alone, but will shred anyone who disturbs it with its giant claws.

Base Stats

Type

Animal

Market Value

700 

Flammability

70%

Pawn Stats

Move Speed

4.8 c/s

Health Scale

360% HP

Body Size

4

Mass - Baby

48 kg

Mass - Juvenile

120 kg

Mass - Adult

240 kg

Carrying Capacity

300 kg

Filth Rate

24

Hunger Rate

1.6 Nutrition/Day

Diet

herbivorous

Life Expectancy

20 years

Manhunter Chance

50%

Manhunter Chance (Taming)

30%

Trainable Intelligence

Advanced

Wildness

97%

Minimum Handling Skill

10

Mate Interval

12 hours

Maturity Age

0.667 years (40 days)

Juvenile Age

0.333 years (20 days)

Comfortable Temp Range

-55 °C – 40 °C (-67 °F – 104 °F)

Production

Meat Yield

560 megasloth meat

Leather Yield

160 heavy fur

Wool Amount

200 megasloth wool

Shearing Interval

20 days

Gestation Period

13.32 days

Offspring Per Birth

1

Melee Combat

Attack 1

Front left paw
21 dmg (Scratch)
31 % AP
2 second cooldown

Attack 2

Front right paw
21 dmg (Scratch)
31 % AP
2 second cooldown

Attack 3

Teeth
22 dmg (Bite)
33 % AP
2.6 second cooldown
0.7 chance factor

Attack 4

Head
15 dmg (Blunt)
22 % AP
2 second cooldown
0.2 chance factor

Average DPS

5.73

Technical

tradeTags

AnimalUncommon, AnimalFighter

The megasloth is a giant, ancient sloth. Megasloths can be found in temperate forests, temperate swamps, arid shrublands, boreal forests, cold bogs, tundra, and ice sheets

If tamed, it produces Megasloth wool at a rate of 200 every 20 days.

Analysis

Although being a "sloth", it actually has a slightly faster movement speed than a human. Attacking one is quite dangerous and taming one will require both high skill and considerable risk. It is the second hardest animal after the Thrumbo to tame, and with most skill levels, the manhunter chance is higher than the taming chance. Wounding then saving the megasloth, or waiting for an inspiration is the recommended way to tame one.

As an attack animal

If it can be tamed, it makes for a good attack or damage soak animal. Compared to other bulky attack animals, it is joint second in health and second highest in DPS, despite only eating as much as a human colonist.

Animal	Health Scale	DPS	Move Speed	Hunger rate	Training Decay
Thrumbo	8	6.33	5.5	2.8	6.1
Megasloth	3.6	5.73	4.8	1.6	6.2
Elephant	3.6	5.35	4.8	2.57	7.5
Rhinoceros	3.5	5.24	5	1.71	6.6
Bear	2.5	4.89	4.6	0.56	7.2

As attack and hauling animals, megasloths face heavy competition with elephants. Elephants have less wildness, which means they produce less filth, are easier to train, and need to be trained less often. In addition, elephants are pack animals, and won't go manhunter on a failed taming attempt. However, elephants can only be found in tropical rainforests, tropical swamps, and arid shrublands. They eat more food than megasloths, but as grass is free, this usually isn't a problem.

Note that megasloths are the only combat animal that produces wool. All other wool-producing animals are pen animals and cannot be used in combat.

Wool

Megasloths produce megasloth wool, though they are the worst animal for wool quantity. 3 alpacas eat less than 1 megasloth, and produce wool at 13.5 alpaca wool per day. A megasloth produces 10 wool per day.

Megasloths are theoretically the most work efficient animal for wool, however, since megasloths are not pen animals, they need to be re-trained constantly. When you account for training, megasloths become the least work efficient out of all wooly animals. Therefore, wool is usually an afterthought, with megasloths being tamed for their combat purposes over all else.

As compensation, megasloth wool insulates well against the cold, being the 2nd best textile for cold protection. Unlike their fur, megasloth wool is not physically protective, with it being slightly worse than plainleather.

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	90
Skull	90
Brain	36
Nose	36
Neck	90
Jaw	72
Eye (left, right)	36
Ear (left, right)	36
Body	144
Kidney (left, right)	54
Lung (left, right)	54
Liver	72
Heart	54
Spine	90
Stomach	72
Limbs (left, right, fore, hind)	108
Appendage (left, right, fore, hind)	72

Gallery

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  Megasloth facing east

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  Megasloth facing north

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  Megasloth facing south

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  Megasloth decaying

Version history

This creature was renamed from "Megatherium" to "Megasloth" in Alpha 16.

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