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Boomalopes are herbivores with a high hunger rate. They produce 11 chemfuel per day, and explode on death.

Acquisition

Boomalopes can be found in temperate forests, temperate swamps, tropical rainforests, tropical swamps, arid shrublands, and deserts. They can either be tamed by a Handler or self-tame in a random event.

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

Summary

Boomalopes 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. As pen animals, raiders will not attack boomalopes.

Boomalopes produce 11 chemfuel per day when fully fed. Production decreases as saturation drops. Production drops to half when the animal is hungry, one third when urgently hungry and completely stops when starving.

Boomalopes have 90% Toxic Environment Resistance rendering them highly resistant to environmental effects such as rot stink and toxic buildup from non-attack sources.

Explosion

On death, boomalopes explode, doing 10 flame damage in a radius that depends on the age stage of the animal. Baby boomalopes explode in a 1.9 tile radius, juveniles in a 2.9 tile radius, and adults in a 4.9 tile radius. This explosion does not itself set fires nor provide chemfuel puddles to burn but the flame damage might ignite surrounding objects and pawns.

Note: This explosion will still occur if the boomalope is slaughtered or dies of natural causes.

Analysis

Boomalopes are an efficient source of chemfuel

Chemfuel

An adult boomalope consumes 17.2 hay per day. In 100% fertility soil, this would require 12.4 tiles of haygrass to grow. In order to produce the same 11 chemfuel per day in a biofuel refinery, 21 tiles of corn plant would be needed.

This advantage is further increased if the boomalope is allowed to graze instead of requiring pawn-grown crops. This can partially or totally negate the ongoing resource costs of boomalopes, which the refinery cannot replicate.

Lastly, milking at its base value requires 400 ticks (6.67 secs) of work for 11 units of chemfuel, or 36.4 ticks (0.61 secs) of work per chemfuel, while the refinery requires 2,500 ticks (41.67 secs) for 35 units, or 71.4 ticks (1.19 secs) of work per chemfuel. Milking time is dependent on the animal gather speed of the pawn, while refining time is dependent on their general labor speed. Notably, both stats have the same factors except that of the Animals skill of animal gather speed - thus, milking is more work efficient than refining for any pawn with a Animals skill of 4 or above and has a much greater potential for further reduction at higher skill levels.

Strategies

Wild boomalopes spawn in areas with long and year-round growing periods. If you really need to kill a boomalope, use ranged weapons to kill them, preferably during rainfall to prevent fires from spreading. Manhunter boomalopes can be devastating enemies, but they are prone to chain reactions.

It is naturally risky to handle boomalopes due to potential collateral damage, but they can be a vital part of a colony's infrastructure. You can let boomalopes sleep outside, but one should have animal sleeping spots in a separate safe area, to avoid bringing injured boomalope inside your base. If you need to kill a tamed boomalope, then you can make a fireproof room, put a pen marker in there, and shoot the boomalope.

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	16
Skull	16
Brain	7
Nose	7
Neck	16
Jaw	13
Eye ^[1] (left, right)	7
Ear (left, right)	7
Body	26
Kidney^[2] (left, right)	10
Lung^[2] (left, right)	10
Liver^[2]	13
Heart^[2]	10
Spine^[2]	16
Stomach^[2]	13
Limbs (left, right, fore, hind)	20
Appendage (left, right, fore, hind)	13

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

Gallery

Facing east
Facing north
Facing south
Decaying

Version history

0.12.906 - Added
Beta 18 - gained the ability to produce chemfuel, at a rate of 20 fuel per 2 days.
Beta 19/1.0 - chemfuel production reduced by 40%, hunger rate 1.0 -> 1.3
1.3.3066 - Trainable Intelligence reduced from Intermediate to None. Became pen animals.

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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@@ Line 77: / Line 77: @@
 Boomalopes produce {{icon small|chemfuel}} {{#show:{{PAGENAME}}|?Daily Milk Average#}} [[chemfuel]] per day when fully fed. Production decreases as [[saturation]] drops. Production drops to half when the animal is hungry, one third when urgently hungry and completely stops when starving.
+Boomalopes have 90% [[Toxic Environment Resistance]] rendering them highly resistant to environmental effects such as [[rot stink]] and [[toxic buildup]] from non-attack sources.
+==== Explosion ====
 On death, boomalopes explode, doing 10 [[Damage Types#Flame|flame]] damage in a radius that depends on the age stage of the animal. Baby boomalopes explode in a 1.9 tile radius, juveniles in a 2.9 tile radius, and adults in a 4.9 tile radius. This explosion does not itself set fires nor provide [[Filth#Chemfuel puddle|chemfuel puddles]] to burn but the flame damage might ignite surrounding objects and pawns.
-* '''Note:''' This explosion will still occur if the boomalope is slaughtered or dies of natural causes; boomalopes have a life expectancy of 15 years, so have a plan to deal with your older livestock. Creating a [[pen]] that only encloses a [[Rough stone|natural stone floor]] area, moving them there, and then [[drafting]] a colonist and targeting them from a distance is one solution.
+* '''Note:''' This explosion will still occur if the boomalope is slaughtered or dies of natural causes.
-Boomalopes have 90% [[Toxic Environment Resistance]] rendering them highly resistant to environmental effects such as [[rot stink]] and [[toxic buildup]] from non-attack sources.
+== Analysis ==
+Boomalopes are an efficient source of chemfuel
-== Analysis ==
+=== Chemfuel ===
 An adult boomalope consumes {{#expr:{{#show:{{PAGENAME}}|?Real Hunger Rate}}/0.05}} [[hay]] per day. In 100% fertility soil, this would require {{#expr:{{#show:{{PAGENAME}}|?Real Hunger Rate}}/0.05/{{#show:Haygrass|?Harvest Yield Per Day (100)}} round 1}} tiles of [[haygrass]] to grow. In order to produce the same {{icon small|Chemfuel}} {{#show:{{PAGENAME}}|?Daily Milk Average#}} chemfuel per day in a [[biofuel refinery]], {{#expr:{{#show:{{PAGENAME}}|?Daily Milk Average#}}/{{#show:Corn plant|?Harvest Yield Per Day (100)}}*70/35 round 1}} tiles of [[corn plant]] would be needed.
-This advantage is further increased if the boomalope is allowed to graze instead of requring pawn-grown crops. This can partially or totally negate the ongoing resource costs of boomalopes, which the refinery cannot replicate.
+This advantage is further increased if the boomalope is allowed to graze instead of requiring pawn-grown crops. This can partially or totally negate the ongoing resource costs of boomalopes, which the refinery cannot replicate.
 Lastly, milking at its base value requires {{ticks|400}} of work for {{icon small|Chemfuel}} {{P|Daily Milk Average#}} units of chemfuel, or {{ticks|{{#expr:400/{{P|Daily Milk Average#}} round 1}}}} of work per chemfuel, while the refinery requires {{ticks|2500}} for {{icon small|Chemfuel}} 35 units, or {{ticks|{{#expr:2500/35 round 1}}}} of work per chemfuel. Milking time is dependent on the [[animal gather speed]] of the pawn, while refining time is dependent on their [[general labor speed]]. Notably, both stats have the same factors except that of the [[Skills#Animals|Animals skill]] of animal gather speed - thus, milking is more work efficient than refining for any pawn with a Animals skill of 4 or above and has a much greater potential for further reduction at higher skill levels.
 === Strategies ===
-While relatively weak, when dying they cause a large fiery explosion, igniting nearby flammables. Killing them using ranged weapons is recommended, especially during rainfall to prevent fires from devastating the area. Boomalopes spawn in areas with long and year-round growing periods. A herd of man hunting boomalopes can destroy a base, but they are susceptible to chain explosions.
+Wild boomalopes spawn in areas with long and year-round growing periods. If you really need to kill a boomalope, use ranged weapons to kill them, preferably during [[rain]]fall to prevent fires from spreading. [[Manhunter]] boomalopes can be devastating enemies, but they are prone to chain reactions.
-While it is always risky to handle them as tamed animals due to [[Mental break#Slaughterer|potential collateral damage]], their fuel production can be a vital part of a colony's manufacturing and power infrastructure. While boomalopes can still sleep outside, one should also have separate [[animal sleeping spot]]s in a nearby safe area to avoid bringing an injured boomalope to your other tamed animals or inside your base. Killing a tamed boomalope will still cause it to explode, but they can be butchered afterward without issue.
+It is naturally risky to handle boomalopes due to [[Mental break#Slaughterer|potential collateral damage]], but they can be a vital part of a colony's infrastructure. You can let boomalopes sleep outside, but one should have [[animal sleeping spot]]s in a separate safe area, to avoid bringing injured boomalope inside your base. If you need to kill a tamed boomalope, then you can make a fireproof room, put a [[pen marker]] in there, and shoot the boomalope.
 ==Training==