Muffalo

Muffalo are slow-moving, grass-grazing quadrupeds analogous to buffalo.

Taming

Muffalo can be found in temperate forests, temperate swamps, boreal forests, cold bogs, tundra, ice sheets, and sea ice. They can either be tamed by a handler or self-tame in a random event.

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

Summary

Muffalo 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.

Muffalo can be sheared for 120 muffalo wool ( 324) every 15 days for 1,700 ticks (28.33 secs) of work. Note that yield and shearing time are modified by the shearer's Animal Gather Yield and Animal Gather Speed respectively.

Muffalo are also pack animals, and will carry up to 84 kg of weight in a caravan. They cannot be ridden.

Analysis

Muffalo arrive in large packs; a herd of muffalo can be a lifesaver in colder biomes. Two or three muffalo usually provide enough leather (or wool if you are willing to tame them) to make a parka as well as a generous amount of meat. But, if enraged, a herd can be a large threat to colonists.

As tamed animals, muffalo are a wool-producing pack animal, which can be found in colder biomes. In a tundra or ice sheet, the only pack animal available is the muffalo. They can survive cold temperatures that would kill most other pack animals. Their wool and leather is also great for cold insulation.

As a pack animal, horses carry the same weight, but eat less. Horses can also be ridden. However, horses do not live in cold biomes (nor do they produce wool). Without considering horses, muffalo are otherwise great pack animals, holding more weight per food than any other alternative.
As a wool-producing animal, alpaca and sheep produce more wool per day. Like horses, both alpaca and sheep do not live in cold biomes.

They are almost identical to bison, the main differences being comfortable temperature, leather type, and wool type. Muffalo are also slower than both bison and baseline humans. This makes muffalo safer to hunt, though as muffalo are only 0.1 c/s slower than humans, you should still take care while hunting.

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	70	1	100%	26%	N/A^[4]	-	Death
Spine	43.75	1	3%	3%	Body	Moving	−100% Moving^[5]
Stomach	35	1	3%	3%	Body	Digestion	−50% Digestion
Heart	26.25	1	3%	3%	Body	Blood Pumping	Death
Lung	26.25	2	3%	3%	Body	Breathing	−50% Breathing. Death if both lost.
Kidney	26.25	2	3%	3%	Body	Blood Filtration	−50% Blood Filtration. Death if both lost.
Liver	35	1	3%	3%	Body	Digestion	Death
Neck	43.75	1	22%	5.5%	Body	Eating Talking Breathing	Death
Head	43.75	1	75%	2.475%	Neck	-	Death
Skull	43.75	1	25%	1.2375%	Head	-	Cannot be destroyed Increasing Pain based on damage.
Brain	17.5	1	70%	2.8875%	Skull	Consciousness	Death Damage always results in scarring.
Eye	17.5	2	12%	1.98%	Head	Sight	−25% Sight. −100% if both lost. Damage always results in scarring. 0% Hit Chance against Blunt damage.
Ear	21	2	8%	1.32%	Head	Hearing	−25% Hearing. −100% if both lost.
Nose	17.5	1	10%	1.65%	Head	-	-
AnimalJaw	17.5	1	10%	1.65%	Head	Manipulation	−100% Manipulation. Can no longer use Bite attack.
Front Leg	52.5	2	7%	5.95%	Body	Moving	−25% Moving. −50% if both lost. Can no longer use Hoof attack.^[6]
Front Hoof	17.5	2	15%	1.05%	Front Leg	Moving	−25% Moving. −50% if both lost.
Rear Leg	52.5	2	7%	5.95%	Body	Moving	−25% Moving. −50% if both lost.
Rear Hoof	17.5	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 Blunt/Poke attack with cooldown of 2s. The actual Hoof is unrelated

Trivia

The original texture was created by Tynan Sylvester himself in 2013, dating it to A2 or earlier and making it one of the oldest textures still in use.^[1]

Gallery

Muffalo facing east
Muffalo facing north
Muffalo facing south
Muffalo decaying

Packing bags facing east
Packing bags facing north

Version history

0.12.906 - Can now be shorn for wool and milked
1.1 (or earlier?) - They can no longer produce milk. Prior to this tamed females could be milked once every 2 days for 16 milk.

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

↑ "It's a pair of ellipses I dragged out in Photoshop in 2013, cut in half using the box-select tool. It filled its purpose, that's what matters!" - Tynan Sylvester, WTF is the Muffalo's Face on Reddit.

[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] If Moving drops below 16% a pawn cannot move.

[6] A Blunt/Poke attack with cooldown of 2s. The actual Hoof is unrelated

[7] "It's a pair of ellipses I dragged out in Photoshop in 2013, cut in half using the box-select tool. It filled its purpose, that's what matters!" - Tynan Sylvester, WTF is the Muffalo's Face on Reddit.

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