Bison
Bison
A large plant eating mammal appearing in the savannah wilderness. Tamed are quite docile, but enraged are fast and dangerous.
Base Stats
- Type
- Animal
- Market Value
- 350
- Flammability
- 70%
Pawn Stats
- Move Speed
- 4.7 c/s
- Health Scale
- 175% HP
- Body Size
- 2.4
- Mass - Baby
- 28.8 kg
- Mass - Juvenile
- 72 kg
- Mass - Adult
- 144 kg
- Pack Capacity
- 84 kg
- Carrying Capacity
- 180 kg
- Filth Rate
- 16
- Hunger Rate
- 0.86 Nutrition/Day
- Diet
- herbivorous
- Life Expectancy
- 15 years
- Manhunter Chance
- 10%
- Manhunter Chance (Taming)
- 0%
- Trainable Intelligence
- None
- Wildness
- 60%
- Minimum Handling Skill
- 5
- Roam Interval
- 2 days
- Mate Interval
- 12 hours
- Maturity Age
- 0.333 years (20 days)
- Juvenile Age
- 0.25 years (15 days)
- Comfortable Temp Range
- -55 °C – 45 °C (-67 °F – 113 °F)
Production
- Meat Yield
- 336
bison meat - Leather Yield
- 96
plainleather - Wool Amount
- 120
bison wool - Shearing Interval
- 15 days
- Gestation Period
- 6.66 days
- Offspring Per Birth
- 1
Melee Combat
- Attack 1
- Head
15 dmg (Blunt)
22 % AP
2.9 second cooldown - Attack 2
- Front left leg
10 dmg (Blunt)
15 % AP
2 second cooldown - Attack 3
- Front left leg
10 dmg (Poke)
15 % AP
2 second cooldown - Attack 4
- Front right leg
10 dmg (Blunt)
15 % AP
2 second cooldown - Attack 5
- Front right leg
10 dmg (Poke)
15 % AP
2 second cooldown - Attack 6
- Teeth
10 dmg (Bite)
15 % AP
2 second cooldown
0.5 chance factor - Average DPS
- 3.12
- tradeTags
- AnimalFarm, AnimalCommon
Bison are slow-moving, grass-grazing quadrupeds analogous to buffalo. When enraged, they can melee and can become a threat to colonists due to their high health.
A bison will also increase the carrying capacity of any caravan it's part of by 84 kg, making them an excellent pack animal.
Taming
Bison can be found in temperate forests and arid shrublands. They can either be tamed by a Handler or self-tame in a random event.
Bison can be bought and sold in other faction bases and from bulk goods traders. Bison purchased from traders will be already tamed.
This animal can be trained as follows:
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*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.
Production
Bison can be sheared by animal handlers once every 15 days, giving 
120 pieces of bison wool worth 324 silver.
See animal products for more details on how much each type of animal produces.
Analysis
They provide a large quantity of leather compared to other creatures that spawn in the same biomes. Killing two or three bison usually provides enough leather (or wool if you are willing to tame them) to make a parka as well as a generous amount of meat.
Bison stats are essentially equivalent to muffalo except they have a slightly higher market value and movement speed, and give plainleather instead of bluefur. When tamed they give bison wool instead of muffalo wool, which is largely the same but has an inferior cold insulation - offering an insulation factor of +26 °C (46.8 °F) instead of +28 °C (50.4 °F). See Textile Comparison Table for further details.
Health
Gallery
Facing east
Facing north
Facing south
Decaying
Packing bags facing east
Packing bags facing north
Version history
- 1.1.0 - Added as part of the integration of the Vanilla Animals Expanded - Livestock mod into the basegame.
- Version 1.3 - Animal Overhaul
- Herbivorous
- Alpaca • Bison • Boomalope • Capybara • Caribou • Cassowary • Chicken • Chinchilla • Cow • Deer • Donkey • Dromedary • Duck • Elephant • Elk • Emu • Gazelle • Goat • Goose • Guinea pig • Hare • Horse • Ibex • Megasloth • Muffalo • Ostrich • Rhinoceros • Sheep • Snowhare • Squirrel • Turkey • Yak • Toxalope
- Omnivorous
- Boomrat • Grizzly bear • Human • Husky • Iguana • Labrador retriever • Megascarab • Megaspider • Monkey • Pig • Polar bear • Spelopede • Raccoon • Rat • Tortoise • Wild boar • Yorkshire terrier • Waste rat
- Carnivorous
- Arctic fox • Arctic wolf • Cat • Cobra • Cougar • Fennec fox • Lynx • Panther • Red fox • Timber wolf • Warg
- Dryads
- Barkskin • Berrymaker • Carrier • Clawer • Gaumaker • Immature dryad • Medicinemaker • Woodmaker