Megasloth

The megasloth is a giant, ancient sloth. Megasloths can be found in temperate forests, temperate swamps, arid shrublands, boreal forests, cold bogs, tundra, and ice sheets

If tamed, it produces Megasloth wool at a rate of 200 every 20 days.

Analysis

Although being a "sloth", it actually has a slightly faster movement speed than a human. Attacking one is quite dangerous and taming one will require both high skill and considerable risk. It is the second hardest animal after the Thrumbo to tame, and with most skill levels, the manhunter chance is higher than the taming chance. Wounding then saving the megasloth, or waiting for an inspiration is the recommended way to tame one.

As an attack animal

If it can be tamed, it makes for a good attack or damage soak animal. Compared to other bulky attack animals, it is joint second in health and second highest in DPS, despite only eating as much as a human colonist.

Animal	Health Scale	DPS	Move Speed	Hunger rate	Training Decay
Thrumbo	8		5.5	2.8	6.1
Megasloth	3.6		4.8	1.6	6.2
Elephant	3.6		4.8	2.57	7.5
Rhinoceros	3.5	5.481	5	1.71	6.6
Bear	2.5	5.375	4.6	0.56	7.2

As attack and hauling animals, megasloths face heavy competition with elephants. Elephants have less wildness, which means they produce less filth, are easier to train, and need to be trained less often. In addition, elephants are pack animals, and won't go manhunter on a failed taming attempt. However, elephants can only be found in tropical rainforests, tropical swamps, and arid shrublands. They eat more food than megasloths, but as grass is free, this usually isn't a problem.

Note that megasloths are the only combat animal that produces wool. All other wool-producing animals are pen animals and cannot be used in combat.

Wool

Megasloths produce megasloth wool, though they are the worst animal for wool quantity. 3 alpacas eat less than 1 megasloth, and produce wool at 13.5 alpaca wool per day. A megasloth produces 10 wool per day.

Megasloths are theoretically the most work efficient animal for wool, however, since megasloths are not pen animals, they need to be re-trained constantly. Combined with their difficulty to tame, and their wool is usually an afterthought.

As compensation, megasloth wool insulates well against the cold, being the 2nd best textile for cold protection. Unlike their fur, megasloth wool is not physically protective, with it being slightly worse than plainleather.

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	90
Skull	90
Brain	36
Nose	36
Neck	90
Jaw	72
Eye ^[1] (left, right)	36
Ear (left, right)	36
Body	144
Kidney^[2] (left, right)	54
Lung^[2] (left, right)	54
Liver^[2]	72
Heart^[2]	54
Spine^[2]	90
Stomach^[2]	72
Limbs (left, right, fore, hind)	108
Appendage (left, right, fore, hind)	72