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Cobras are predatory and ovivorous snakes found only in tropical rainforests and tropical swamps. They eat smaller animals, and sometimes people if they don't find a smaller prey in time.

Their bite causes toxic buildup.^{[How much?]} The toxic buildup from their bite is not applied when they are hunting, to prevent rotting their would-be prey and leaving them unable to eat it.

Analysis

In a tropical biome, cobras are a persistent threat to your small animals and children. They don't serve much purpose otherwise.

Cobras are one of the weakest predators in the game, which makes them poor tamed animals. In the tropics, you have access to elephants, which are one of the strongest animals in the game, herbivores, and only slightly harder to tame. In addition, elephants will not go manhunter on a failed taming attempt. If for some reason you want a carnivore, then panthers are stronger, though they are more likely to go manhunter.

When fighting a single cobra with adult colonists, its toxic bite is unlikely to make a difference. However, toxins can add up when fighting a manhunter pack of cobras. Toxic buildup can also matter when the cobra fights smaller targets.

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

Part Name	Health	Quantity	Coverage^[1]	Target Chance^[2]	Subpart of	Capacity^[3]	Effect if Destroyed/Removed
Body	15	1	100%	55%	N/A^[4]	Moving	Death
Head	15	1	20%	4%	Body	Hearing	Death
Skull	12.5	1	30.0%	3%	Head	-	Cannot be destroyed Increasing Pain based on damage.
Brain	5	1	50.0%	3%	Skull	Consciousness	Death Damage always results in scarring.
Eye	5	2	10.0%	2%	Head	Sight	−25% Sight. −100% if both lost. Damage always results in scarring. 0% Hit Chance against Blunt damage.
Nose	5	1	15.0%	3%	Head	-	-
Mouth	10	1	15.0%	3%	Head	Manipulation Eating Talking	−100% Manipulation −90% Eating^[5] Can no longer use venom-fangs^[6]
Heart	7.5	1	3%	3%	Torso	Blood Pumping	Death
Lung	7.5	2	3%	3%	Torso	Breathing	−50% Breathing. Death if both lost
Stomach	10	1	5%	5%	Torso	Digestion	−50% Digestion
Liver	10	1	5%	5%	Torso	Blood Filtration Digestion	Death
Kidney	7.5	2	3%	3%	Torso	Blood Filtration	−50% Blood Filtration. Death if both lost

↑ Coverage determines the chance to hit this body part. It refers to the percentage of the super-part that this part covers, before its own sub-parts claim their own percentage. For example, if the base coverage of the super-part is 100%, and the coverage of the part is 20%, 20% of hits would hit the part, and 80% the super-part. If the part had its own sub-part with 50% coverage, the chances would be 10% sub-part, 10% part, 80% super part.
↑ Target Chance is the actual chance for each part to be be selected as the target when each part's coverage has been taken into account(I.E. Neck covers 7.5% of Torso but Head covers 80% of Neck so it actually has only a 1.5% chance to be selected). This is not pure hit chance, as different damage types propagate damage in different ways. See that page for details.
↑ Note that capacities can affect other capacities in turn. Only the primary effect is listed. See specific pages for details.
↑ This is the part that everything else connects to to be considered 'connected'.
↑ Eating won't go below 10%
↑ A Toxic bite of Power 12, Cooldown 2s. It also has a surprise attack, a stun of 14 power.

Trivia

Unlike in real life and most animals in RimWorld, cobras have no skeletons besides their skull.

Gallery

Facing east
Facing north
Facing south
Decaying

Version history

0.7.581 - Added
0.12.906 - Can now lay eggs
0.18/1.0 - Now provides the new lizardskin, which merged its previous leather type, cobraskin, with tortoise leather and iguana skin.
? - Cobras no longer use their venom when hunting. Previously, cobras had a tendency to inadvertently destroy entire ecosystems when hungry. Predators hunt when hungry, but the cobra's bite inflicted toxic buildup which caused the prey's corpse to rot. This prevented the cobra from being able to eat the corpse, which left them hungry, so they'd go hunting again and the cycle repeated. Eventually they'd leave a string of rotting animals corpses and still end up malnourished.

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

[1] Coverage determines the chance to hit this body part. It refers to the percentage of the super-part that this part covers, before its own sub-parts claim their own percentage. For example, if the base coverage of the super-part is 100%, and the coverage of the part is 20%, 20% of hits would hit the part, and 80% the super-part. If the part had its own sub-part with 50% coverage, the chances would be 10% sub-part, 10% part, 80% super part.

[2] Target Chance is the actual chance for each part to be be selected as the target when each part's coverage has been taken into account(I.E. Neck covers 7.5% of Torso but Head covers 80% of Neck so it actually has only a 1.5% chance to be selected). This is not pure hit chance, as different damage types propagate damage in different ways. See that page for details.

[3] Note that capacities can affect other capacities in turn. Only the primary effect is listed. See specific pages for details.

[4] This is the part that everything else connects to to be considered 'connected'.

[5] Eating won't go below 10%

[6] A Toxic bite of Power 12, Cooldown 2s. It also has a surprise attack, a stun of 14 power.

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-'''Cobras''' are predatory and ovivorous snakes found only in [[tropical rainforest]]s and [[tropical swamp]]s. Their bite causes [[toxic buildup]]. They eat smaller animals, and sometimes people if they don't find a smaller prey in time.
+'''Cobras''' are predatory and ovivorous snakes found only in [[tropical rainforest]]s and [[tropical swamp]]s. They eat smaller animals, and sometimes people if they don't find a smaller prey in time.
-The toxic buildup from their bite is not applied when they are hunting, to prevent rotting their would-be prey and leaving them unable to eat it. This makes them fairly unsuccessful hunters, as even with poison, they are not particularly strong fighters.
+Their bite causes [[toxic buildup]].{{Check Tag|How much?}} The toxic buildup from their bite is not applied when they are hunting, to prevent rotting their would-be prey and leaving them unable to eat it.
+== Analysis ==
+In a tropical biome, cobras are a persistent threat to your small [[animal]]s and [[children]]. They don't serve much purpose otherwise.
+Cobras are one of the weakest predators in the game, which makes them poor tamed animals. In the tropics, you have access to [[elephant]]s, which are one of the strongest animals in the game, herbivores, and only slightly harder to tame. In addition, elephants will not go manhunter on a failed taming attempt. If for some reason you want a carnivore, then [[panther]]s are stronger, though they are more likely to go manhunter.
+When fighting a single cobra with adult colonists, its toxic bite is unlikely to make a difference. However, toxins can add up when fighting a [[manhunter pack]] of cobras. Toxic buildup can also matter when the cobra fights smaller targets.
 == Training ==