Cassowary

The Cassowary is a large, flightless bird found in tropical rainforests and tropical swamps.

Taming

Cassowaries can be tamed wild, randomly join your colony in an event, or bought pre-tamed from a trading ship or trade caravans.

Summary

Cassowaries 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.

A female cassowary produces 1 ostrich egg every 3.33 day when fertilized. Cassowary will not lay unfertilized eggs.

Analysis

Cassowaries are one of many egg-laying animals that are inferior to chickens. 2 hens eat less food, and each hen lays 3.33 eggs for every cassowary egg. While an cassowary egg is worth 2 chicken eggs, a single hen remains superior for egg production (let alone 2). Hens do not need to be fertilized, which adds a further advantage.

They can be found in the wild, unlike chickens. In tropical biomes, the cassowary is the only native egg-laying animal, other than the carnivorous cobra. However it is not worth the effort and risk to tame a cassowary, when you could ranch other, more efficient animals, or make vegetarian fine meals and vegetarian lavish meals instead.

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	20
Skull	20
Brain	8
Nose	8
Neck	20
Jaw	16
Eye ^[1] (left, right)	8
Ear (left, right)	8
Body	32
Kidney^[2] (left, right)	12
Lung^[2] (left, right)	12
Liver^[2]	16
Heart^[2]	12
Spine^[2]	20
Stomach^[2]	16
Limbs (left, right, fore, hind)	24
Appendage (left, right, fore, hind)	16