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

Animals – Wild

Market Value

700 

Pawn Stats

Move Speed

4.8 c/s

Health Scale

360% HP

Body Size

4.0

Mass - Baby

48 kg

Mass - Juvenile

120 kg

Mass - Adult

240 kg

Carrying Capacity

300 kg

Filth Rate

1

Hunger Rate

3.2 Nutrition/Day

Diet

herbivorous

Life Expectancy

20 years

Manhunter Chance

10%

Manhunter Chance (Taming)

10%

Trainable Intelligence

Advanced

Wildness

97%

Minimum Handling Skill

10

Nuzzle Interval

2.5 days

Maturity Age

3 years

Comfortable Temp Range

-55 °C – 40 °C (-67 °F – 104 °F)

Production

Leather Yield

120 heavy fur

Wool Amount

400 megasloth wool

Shearing Interval

50 days

Gestation Period

55 days

Offspring Per Birth

1

Melee Combat

Attack 1

Left hand
22 dmg (Scratch)
33 % AP
140 second cooldown

Attack 2

Right hand
22 dmg (Scratch)
33 % AP
140 second cooldown

Average DPS

0.1

The megasloth is a giant, ancient sloth. Attacking them 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 is the recommended way to tame one.

It makes an excellent attack animal, but its taming difficulty means that you're generally better off trying to tame other animals, such as the elephant or rhinoceros.

One advantage of taming them is that they can be sheared for an incredible amount of wool. Although they can only be sheared every 50 days (the longest interval of any shearable animal), they give 400 wool per shearing, making them the most time efficient source of wool in the game. This feature can be exploited to either make lots of excellent cold-resistant clothing, or lots of silver.

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

Version history

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

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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