Deer

Deer are herding herbivorous animals that are found in temperate forests, temperate swamps, boreal forests, and cold bogs. Males of the species are called Bucks and can be distinguished by the presense of antlers and larger visual size, while females are called Does and are visually smaller and lack antlers. Young deer of both genders are light colored and spotted. Despite the visual differences, adult deer of both genders have the same stats and attacks.

Summary

Deer 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.

Analysis

Other than being an animal to be hunted, deer don't have much of a purpose.

Ibex are more efficient ranch animals, are easier to tame, and they can be found in all biomes that deer populate. Deer are better to hunt than ibex, as deer are larger targets (which won't revenge when hunted).

Nutrition

When slaughtered, a deer yields 35 meat and 17 leather as a baby; 84 meat and 28 as a juvenile; or 168 meat and 48 leather as an adult. 1 meat is equal to 0.05 nutrition.

An adult deer consumes 0.32 nutrition per day, and a doe creates up to 0.18 offspring per day.

When offspring are slaughtered as babies, a doe will produce 0.31 nutrition of meat per day, giving an optimal nutrition efficiency of 96.6%.
If the offspring are allowed to grow to adulthood, they will consume an additional 0.73 nutrition per day, but will instead yield 1.48 nutrition per day as they are slaughtered, resulting in an optimal nutrition efficiency of 141.4%.

When considering a population of equal numbers of males and females, these nutrition efficiencies fall to 48.3% for baby slaughter and 108.4% for adult slaughter.

As mentioned above, ibex, as well as horses, are superior for nutrition. Horses are also pack animals.

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	36	1	100%	26%	N/A^[4]	-	Death
Spine	22.5	1	3%	3%	Body	Moving	−100% Moving^[5]
Stomach	18	1	3%	3%	Body	Digestion	−50% Digestion
Heart	13.5	1	3%	3%	Body	Blood Pumping	Death
Lung	13.5	2	3%	3%	Body	Breathing	−50% Breathing. Death if both lost.
Kidney	13.5	2	3%	3%	Body	Blood Filtration	−50% Blood Filtration. Death if both lost.
Liver	18	1	3%	3%	Body	Digestion	Death
Neck	22.5	1	22%	5.5%	Body	Eating Talking Breathing	Death
Head	22.5	1	75%	2.475%	Neck	-	Death
Skull	22.5	1	25%	1.2375%	Head	-	Cannot be destroyed Increasing Pain based on damage.
Brain	9	1	70%	2.8875%	Skull	Consciousness	Death Damage always results in scarring.
Eye	9	2	12%	1.98%	Head	Sight	−25% Sight. −100% if both lost. Damage always results in scarring. 0% Hit Chance against Blunt damage.
Ear	10.8	2	8%	1.32%	Head	Hearing	−25% Hearing. −100% if both lost.
Nose	9	1	10%	1.65%	Head	-	-
AnimalJaw	9	1	10%	1.65%	Head	Manipulation	−100% Manipulation. Can no longer use Bite attack.
Front Leg	27	2	7%	5.95%	Body	Moving	−25% Moving. −50% if both lost. Can no longer use Hoof attack.^[6]
Front Hoof	9	2	15%	1.05%	Front Leg	Moving	−25% Moving. −50% if both lost.
Rear Leg	27	2	7%	5.95%	Body	Moving	−25% Moving. −50% if both lost.
Rear Hoof	9	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