Bison

Bison are large, grazing herbivores that provide wool and act as pack animals.

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:

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.

Summary

Bison 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.

Bison can be sheared for 120 bison wool ( 324) every 15 days for 1,700 ticks (28.33 secs) of work. Note that yield and shearing time are modified by the shearer's Animal Gather Yield and Animal Gather Speed respectively.

Bison are also pack animals, and will carry up to 84 kg of weight in a caravan. They cannot be ridden.

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 to make a parka as well as a generous amount of meat. When enraged, they can melee and can become a threat to colonists due to their high health. Unlike muffalo, bison are faster than a baseline human.

Bison are excellent pack animals. While worse than horses as they consume more food and cannot be ridden, a bison does its job well.

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

Body part	Health
Head	44
Skull	44
Brain	18
Nose	18
Neck	44
Jaw	35
Eye ^[1] (left, right)	18
Ear (left, right)	18
Body	70
Kidney^[2] (left, right)	26
Lung^[2] (left, right)	26
Liver^[2]	35
Heart^[2]	26
Spine^[2]	44
Stomach^[2]	35
Limbs (left, right, fore, hind)	53
Appendage (left, right, fore, hind)	35