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

Summary[edit]

Tamed megasloth can be sheared for 200 Megasloth wool ( 324) every 20 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.

Analysis[edit]

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.

Early armor[edit]

Megasloths can spawn from the very start of the game, and provide large quantities of meat and heavy fur, the 5th most protective textile in the game. The protection offered by a heavy fur duster can provide a significant buff to the combat staying power of your pawns at a time where they're most vulnerable, especially if a skilled crafter is available. Hunting megasloths this early is not simple however, as they are faster than most pawns, and have high DPS and large health pools.

However by kiting it with one pawn as the others attack, trading off colonists for it to target as needed, and allowing it to bleed out if necessary, both Crashlanded and Lost Tribe starts can successfully hunt them from day one. Avoid wearing encumbering armor, and ideally use any pawns with move speed bonuses, such as those with the jogger trait or fast runner gene, as the primary bait.

As an attack animal[edit]

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	5.55	5	1.71	6.6
Bear	2.5	5.36	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[edit]

Megasloths produce megasloth wool, though they are the worst animal for wool quantity per nutrition consumed. 3 alpacas eat less than 1 megasloth, and produce wool at 13.5 alpaca wool per day. A megasloth produces 10 wool per day. Biomes that provide adequate grazing make this consideration irrelevant however.

Megasloths are theoretically the most work efficient animal for wool, however, since megasloths are not pen animals, they need to be re-trained constantly. This is less of a concern when training is already accounted for in its role as a combat animal, as all combat animals require training, but even there it consumes more time than others. Combined with their difficulty to tame in the first place, their wool is usually a secondary consideration unless its insulative properties are desperately needed.

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 - while significantly superior to all other wools in that regard, it places slightly worse than plainleather when compared to textiles as a whole.

Training[edit]

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[edit]

Part Name	Health	Quantity	Coverage^[1]	Target Chance^[2]	Subpart of	Capacity^[3]	Effect if Destroyed/Removed
Body	144	1	100%	21%	N/A^[4]	-	Death
Tail	36	1	7%	7%	Body	-	-
Spine	90	1	3%	3%	Body	Moving	−100% Moving^[5]
Stomach	72	1	3%	3%	Body	Digestion	−50% Digestion
Heart	54	1	3%	3%	Body	Blood Pumping	Death
Lung	54	2	3%	3%	Body	Breathing	−50% Breathing. Death if both lost.
Kidney	54	2	3%	3%	Body	Blood Filtration	−50% Blood Filtration. Death if both lost.
Liver	72	1	3%	3%	Body	Digestion	Death
Neck	90	1	20%	5%	Body	Eating Talking Breathing	Death
Head	90	1	75%	2.25%	Neck	-	Death
Skull	90	1	25%	1.125%	Head	-	Cannot be destroyed Increasing Pain based on damage.
Brain	36	1	70%	2.625%	Skull	Consciousness	Death Damage always results in scarring.
Eye	36	2	12%	1.8%	Head	Sight	−25% Sight. −100% if both lost. Damage always results in scarring. 0% Hit Chance against Blunt damage.
Ear	43.2	2	8%	1.2%	Head	Hearing	−25% Hearing. −100% if both lost.
Nose	36	1	10%	1.5%	Head	-	-
AnimalJaw	36	1	10%	1.5%	Head	Manipulation	−100% Manipulation. Can no longer use Bite attack.
Front Leg	108	2	7%	5.95%	Body	Moving	−25% Moving. −50% if both lost. Can no longer use paw attack.^[6]
Front Paw	36	2	15%	1.05%	Front Leg	Moving	−25% Moving. −50% if both lost. Can no longer use paw attack.
Rear Leg	108	2	7%	5.95%	Body	Moving	−25% Moving. −50% if both lost.
Rear Paw	36	2	15%	1.05%	Rear Leg	Moving	−25% Moving. −50% if both lost.

↑ Coverage determines the chance to hit this body part. It refers to the percentage of the super-part that this part covers, before its own sub-parts claim their own percentage. For example, if the base coverage of the super-part is 100%, and the coverage of the part is 20%, 20% of hits would hit the part, and 80% the super-part. If the part had its own sub-part with 50% coverage, the chances would be 10% sub-part, 10% part, 80% super part.
↑ Target Chance is the actual chance for each part to be be selected as the target when each part's coverage has been taken into account(I.E. Neck covers 7.5% of Torso but Head covers 80% of Neck so it actually has only a 1.5% chance to be selected). This is not pure hit chance, as different damage types propagate damage in different ways. See that page for details.
↑ Note that capacities can affect other capacities in turn. Only the primary effect is listed. See specific pages for details.
↑ This is the part that everything else connects to to be considered 'connected'.
↑ If Moving drops below 16% a pawn cannot move.
↑ A Scratch attack that varies from animal to animal. Each front paw allows one attack.