Boomalope

Taming

Can be tamed like any other animal

Training

Boomalopes 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.

Tactics

While relatively weak, they can cause devastating effects by causing a huge AoE explosion and fire following it. Taking them out from afar using ranged weapons is recommended. While it may be dangerous to handle them as tamed animals due to potential collateral damage, they are extremely useful as release animals against tribal raids, being used as suicide bombers. It is useful to have them contained to a small area of the colony to ensure that they do not cause any damage if they become injured. Boomalopes spawn in areas with long and year round growing periods and are very risky to live near in perma-death settlements as a herd of man hunters can easily destroy the base. Consider hunting in an area with a shorter, but still present growing season up north.