Clawer dryad

Clawers are a caste of Dryads, a type of animal added by the Ideology DLC. Vulnerable but fearsome, the clawer specializes in damage dealing.

Summary

All dryads are immune to disease events and have a Toxic Sensitivity of 0%, rendering them immune to Toxic fallout and Toxic buildup. As well as not requiring food, Dryads are also immune to blood loss and will survive virtually any damage short of instant death, in addition to the ability to retreat to a healing pod in order to regenerate wounds.

Attacks

Thanks to the Melee Verb system, Clawers will only actually use their single and best attack: their front claws. This attack stuns for 5.33 seconds on first hit and has strong damage, with 80% armor penetration on a fast attack interval. If both claws are somehow destroyed, then they will resort to biting and headbutting.

Melee Attacks	Damage Amount	Cooldown
Cut	20	1.5 sec
Bite	9	2.0 sec
Blunt	4	2.0 sec

In terms of overall DPS, Clawers are some of the strongest melee combatants in the game. They outstrip both the scyther and thrumbo, though the latter can hit harder with individual attacks.

Analysis

Clawers are glass cannons, make no mistake. Having about 28% the health of a Grizzly bear, they are weak combatants in a 1v1 fight. However, with a dedicated tank or swarm of other clawers, they'll put up an impressive (and quick) fight. A pack of four can take down a Thrumbo on their own and only receive a handful of hits in the process, and any permanent injuries can be healed off with 3 days time in a healing pod.

As far as combat animals go, Clawers excel not only because of the incredible damage per second and the ability to chew through armor, but also because they are arguably the most disposable pawn in the game. A leg shot off normally means a forever crippled warg or suddenly a much less useful bear hauler. Training animals is also a major investment, and one that you don't want to leave bleeding out during a raid. This is before considering colonist bonding with them. In contrast, Clawers can hop in a pod for 3 days to come back good as new, can safely sit on the floor downed without risk of death. Even if killed, it will be replaced naturally by the tree after 12 days; 7 for the tree to grow, and 5 for the dyrad to grow up.

With the ability to take Luciferium or Go-juice in a pinch and shrug off any unlucky side effects with a healing pod, Clawers can make devastatingly effective forays into melee range, and push their endurance to the limit. The only real drawbacks are a -2 mood buff to the connected pawn on death per dryad which lasts for about 5.5 days, in addition to the labor cost maintaining a gauranlen tree, which is significant. If you expect frequent combat and can play to their strengths, however, Clawers can be extremely competitive combatants.

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.

Clawers spawn fully trained in Guard and Attack and have no training decay.

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

Ideology DLC Release - Added.
1.3.3076 - Fix: Dryads are affected by disease incidents.
1.3.3101 - Change: Dryad Healing Pods now remove all negative hediffs in addition to restoring lost body parts.

Animals