Thrumbo

Thrumbos are large, gentle creatures that do not spawn natively in any biome, but can appear in all biomes through a random event. If provoked, thrumbos will retaliate using their horn which inflicts massive damage.

If slain, they will drop a thrumbo horn with a market value of 3000 silver, which can be either used as a powerful weapon or can be sold to various traders. Note that a juvenile thrumbo doesn't have a horn yet, and will not drop one.

Thrumbos are extremely powerful animals and a rampaging thrumbo can threaten the entire colony. Take full precautions when attempting to hunt Thrumbos: never ever engage in melee, only dare to engage them on favorable terms, and be cognizant that they can move faster than a colonist. An incapacitated Thrumbo is an excellent opportunity to train healing skills as it may have sustained dozens of treatable wounds.

Thrumbos are, arguably, more profitable dead than alive for many reasons, their horn, as stated previously, has a high value in the market or can be used as a good melee weapon, their fur or skin makes the most valuable clothing, for example a legendary Parka made out of Thrumbo fur has a market value of 16105 silver and they yield more meat than any other animal when butchered.

Hunting Tactics

Due to the high movement speed and very high attack power of a Thrumbo, they are very dangerous creatures to hunt and you need a sheer amount of firepower to overwhelm one. As of Alpha 15, one way to take on a Thrumbo is to have somebody take Go-Juice and kite it, while at least 4 gunmen (preferably 6 or 9) shoot at it. Somebody with 2 bionic legs or 1 bionic leg and either Fast Walker or Jogger traits will get by just fine kiting it too. Be sure to keep a fair distance from the shooters and keep the kiting person fairly close (but not too close) so that angry Thrumbo(s) don't aggro onto the gunners. However: Thrumbos with bad backs, frail bodies, Dementia or Alzheimer's can be kited by most colonists.

Alternatively, if you don't have any fast pawns available (or you're just a pansy), Thrumbos are easy to kill with a sort of evil game of peek-a-boo. Have all your colonists shelter inside, then have pawns take turns peeking out of doors and taking potshots, then retreating behind the doors when the Thrumbo closes in. Repair the doors as the Thrumbo pounds them until it gives up, then rinse and repeat (many, many times).

Another way to kill a Thrumbo is to wait until it goes to sleep, build a room around it and set a storage to only store beer, the Thrumbo then will drink the beer when it gets hungry and eventually will pass out or die. If you don't have beer or don't want to wait then you could shoot the Thrumbo with a psychic shock lance when it is sleeping, this will sometimes cause death or will leave it unconscious for a moment making it easier to attack it with fire power, but be careful when doing this since it might enrage other Thrumbos around. Another way to kill it is to shoot it with a insanity shock lance, it will then make the Thrumbo attack anything on sight including other Thrumbos around meaning that they will kill or at least incapacitate each other. Maddened Thrumbos will attack and even kill other animals until they die or get incapacitated, this could be used on your advantage to get dead animals without actually sending your colonists to hunt them. Building a room around a sleeping Thrumbo and then throwing a molotov or setting the room on fire will eventually kill the Thrumbo from either a heatstroke or burning, this way is less effective since the horn they drop will catch on fire and start losing HP thus decreasing its value.

Taming

One of the hardest animals to tame, even at level 20 you may only have a 1% chance to tame it. Additionally, thrumbos have a 2.5% chance to turn manhunter on a failed taming attempt, making this animal one of the hardest to tame. Even on best of terms a handler can still enrage a Thrumbo, who will likely incapacitate or kill the handler. The best method of training a Thrumbo is therefore capturing a wounded Thrumbo and healing it, as your doctor has a chance of bonding with the animal for each attempt.

Successfully tamed Thrumbos are of little everyday use to a colony when compared to ordinary dogs, sporting a voracious appetite and a high resistance to training. Carry mechanics do not allow the Thrumbo to carry multiple stacks of items despite its strength. Still, being extremely dangerous in combat and highly resilient to damage, a Thrumbo pet can become a colony's last line of defense against infestations or mechanoid drops.

Training

Thrumbos can be trained as follows:

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.

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