Raccoon

The raccoon is a small ground mammal which scavenges for most of its food.

They can be found in temperate forests, temperate swamps, boreal forests, and cold bogs

Summary

Raccoons have 80% Toxic Environment Resistance rendering them highly resistant to environmental effects such as rot stink, as well as toxic buildup from non-attack sources.

Analysis

Raccoons are mostly there as small manhunter threats for your small manhunter events. For the first manhunter event in the game, raccoons are about the largest animal you'll get. They can also appear in the low end of caravan ambushes, or in the Noble wimp quest. During the winter, raccoons will often eat any of your exposed food you have available.

As hunting game, they yield about 50% more meat and leather than the smallest RimWorld animals (the hare, squirrel, and rat), but they still offer meager amounts of both. Prioritize other animals unless have nothing else to hunt or want a relatively safe target for training Shooting skill.

As tamed animals, raccoons offer practically no niche. They gestate slower and lose tameness faster than rats. Rats are also omnivorous grazers. You can find rats in every biome that raccoons appear in, and rats are more common than raccoons. As bait animals, rats are harder to hit due to their smaller body size, reproduce faster, and eat less.

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	16	1	100%	26%	N/A^[4]	-	Death
Spine	10	1	3%	3.0%	Body	Moving	−100% Moving^[5]
Stomach	8	1	3%	3.0%	Body	Digestion	−50% Digestion
Heart	6	1	3%	3.0%	Body	Blood Pumping	Death
Lung	6	2	3%	3.0%	Body	Breathing	−50% Breathing. Death if both lost
Kidney	6	2	3%	3.0%	Body	Blood Filtration	−50% Blood Filtration. Death if both lost
Liver	8	1	3%	3.0%	Body	Digestion	Death
Neck	10	1	22%	22%	Body	Eating Talking Breathing	Death
Head	10	1	75%	9.9%	Neck	-	Death
Skull	10	1	25%	1.2375%	Head	-	Cannot be destroyed Increasing Pain based on damage.
Brain	4	1	70%	2.8875%	Skull	Consciousness	Death Damage always results in scarring.
Eye	4	2	12%	0.495%	Head	Sight	−25% Sight. −100% if both lost. Damage always results in scarring. 0% Hit Chance against Blunt damage.
Ear	4.8	2	8%	0.33%	Head	Hearing	−25% Hearing. −100% if both lost. −15 Disfigured Social penalty
Nose	4	1	10%	0.4125%	Head	-	−15 Disfigured Social penalty
AnimalJaw	4	1	10%	0.4125%	Head	Manipulation	−100% Manipulation. Can no longer use Bite attack.
Front Leg	12	2	7%	5.95%	Body	Moving	−25% Moving. −50% if both lost. Can no longer use paw attack^[6]
Front Paw	4	2	15%	1.05%	Front Leg	Moving	−25% Moving. −50% if both lost.
Rear Leg	12	2	7%	5.95%	Body	Moving	−25% Moving. −50% if both lost
Rear Paw	4	2	15%	1.05%	Rear Leg	Moving	−25% Moving. −50% 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'.
↑ If Moving drops below 16% a pawn cannot move.
↑ A Scratch attack that varies from animal to animal. Each front paw allows one attack.