Wild boar

For the farm animal, see Pig.

Boars are omnivorous wild pigs. They are quite pervasive, being found in temperate forests, temperate swamps, tropical rainforests, tropical swamps, boreal forests, and cold bogs. If slain, they can be butchered for 119 pork and 36 pigskin.

Summary

Wild boars 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.

Wild boars can appear in raids alongside yttakin pirates. Note that "raider" boars are still unable to travel through fences and barricades. This can alter their pathing. If the animal raider cannot reach a better target because of fences/walls, it will start bashing at structures randomly.

Analysis

Boars are one of many animals that exist primarily to be hunted.

As tamed animals, boars are worse for meat/leather than pigs. While boars can be found in the wild, they are generally outclassed for meat by at least 1 animal, regardless of what biome you've settled on.

Nutrition

When slaughtered, a boar yields 28 meat and 15 leather as a baby; 60 meat and 23 as a juvenile; or 119 meat and 36 leather as an adult.

An adult boar consumes 0.48 nutrition per day, and creates up to 0.22 offspring per day.

When offspring are slaughtered as babies, a female boar will produce 0.31 nutrition of meat per day, giving a nutrition efficiency of 64.4%.
If the offspring are allowed to grow to adulthood, they will consume an additional 1.37 nutrition per day, but will instead yield 1.31 nutrition per day as they are slaughtered, resulting in a nutrition efficiency of 71.1%.

When considering a population of equal numbers of males and females, these nutrition efficiencies fall to 32.2% for baby slaughter and 56.5% for adult slaughter.

Boars are inferior to pigs, chinchillas, ibex, and horses for meat / nutrition consumption. Pigs and horses take less slaughtering work, too. One of the few advantages of boars is that they are omnivorous, able to eat leftover human corpses, but pigs are also omnivores (otherwise, boars are the best animal for this task).

Combat

Boars are surprisingly powerful for their size, though boars will rarely fight. They have a 0% manhunter on hunt chance, so they can't revenge on colonists. As pen animals, they will never be attacked by raiders. When they do attack, such as in manhunter packs, boars are threatening.

They have a damage output higher than that of a megaspider, with a movement speed equivalent to that of an unarmored human. Boars tend to be able to put up a good fight against predators such as timber wolves and Wargs, often severely injuring, occasionally downing, or even outright killing them on rare occasions.

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	18
Skull	18
Brain	7
Nose	7
Neck	18
Jaw	14
Eye ^[1] (left, right)	7
Ear (left, right)	7
Body	28
Kidney^[2] (left, right)	11
Lung^[2] (left, right)	11
Liver^[2]	14
Heart^[2]	11
Spine^[2]	18
Stomach^[2]	14
Limbs (left, right, fore, hind)	21
Appendage (left, right, fore, hind)	14

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

Version history

0.7.581 - Added
Beta 19 - trainable intelligence Advanced -> Intermediate, tusk damage 9 -> 8, speed 5 -> 4.2, min comfy temperature -20 -> -15
1.3.3066 - Trainability changed from intermediate to none, boars now are predominantly a pen animal. Removed manhunter chances.

Animals