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

Body part	Health
Head	10
Skull	10
Brain	4
Nose	4
Neck	10
Jaw	8
Eye ^[1] (left, right)	4
Ear (left, right)	4
Body	16
Kidney^[2] (left, right)	6
Lung^[2] (left, right)	6
Liver^[2]	8
Heart^[2]	6
Spine^[2]	10
Stomach^[2]	8
Limbs (left, right, fore, hind)	12
Appendage (left, right, fore, hind)	8