Warg

Wargs, called warg puppies as babies, are cold-loving, wolf-like carnivorous animals that roam through temperate forests, temperate swamps, boreal forests, cold bogs, tundra, glowforests, and grasslands. While most carnivores can eat meat, corpses, kibble, and meals, Wargs can only eat raw meat and corpses.

Acquisition[edit]

Wargs can be found in temperate forests, temperate swamps, boreal forests, cold bogs, tundra, glowforests, and grasslands. They can either be tamed by a handler or self-tame in a random event.

Wargs can be bought and sold in other faction bases and from bulk goods traders. Wargs purchased from traders will be already tamed.

Summary[edit]

Despite being carnivores, wargs can't eat or be fed with meals or kibble. A steady supply of meat and fresh non-mechanoid, non-drone corpses is required to keep them fed. As allowing your wargs to feed on human corpses doesn't generate bad thoughts, zoning your wargs into a human corpse freezer is an efficient way of getting rid of corpses and keeping your wargs fed at the same time.

It is advisable to keep your colonists and animals (excluding even larger beasts like Thrumbos) away from wargs if you have predators hunting humans enabled, as their high hunger rate, carnivorous nature and brutal combat ability make them extremely dangerous. Keep smaller animals, children or colonists with poor combat skills far away from wargs and exercise caution keeping anybody near them. Allowing wargs to feed on corpses may be an effective strategy to reduce the risk of them hunting your pawns.

Wargs have 80% Toxic Environment Resistance, rendering them highly resistant to environmental effects such as rot stink and toxic buildup from non-attack sources.

Wargs can appear in raids alongside yttakin pirates.

Analysis[edit]

Attacks[edit]

Wargs have two attacks: scratch (paw) and bite (teeth). Both attacks apply a stun for 6.67 seconds on their first strike when hunting. Faster and smaller than a Grizzly bear and with 95.85% of their DPS, though with less AP and 56% the health, Wargs are remarkably strong in combat.

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.

In addition, a Warg can be trained to perform 'Attack Target': “Command the animal to attack a specific target that its master can see.” (Prerequisite needed: Attack)

Health[edit]

The body part table is collapsed due to length. Expand to view.

Part Name	Health	Quantity	Coverage^[1]	Target Chance^[2]	Subpart of	Capacity^[3]	Effect if Destroyed/Removed
Body	56	1	100%	21%	N/A^[4]	-	Death
Tail	14	1	7%	7%	Body	-	-
Spine	35	1	3%	3%	Body	Moving	−100% Moving^[5]
Stomach	28	1	3%	3%	Body	Digestion	−50% Digestion
Heart	21	1	3%	3%	Body	Blood Pumping	Death
Lung	21	2	3%	3%	Body	Breathing	−50% Breathing. Death if both lost.
Kidney	21	2	3%	3%	Body	Blood Filtration	−50% Blood Filtration. Death if both lost.
Liver	28	1	3%	3%	Body	Digestion	Death
Neck	35	1	20%	5%	Body	Eating Talking Breathing	Death
Head	35	1	75%	2.25%	Neck	-	Death
Skull	35	1	25%	1.125%	Head	-	Cannot be destroyed Increasing Pain based on damage.
Brain	14	1	70%	2.625%	Skull	Consciousness	Death Damage always results in scarring.
Eye	14	2	12%	1.8%	Head	Sight	−25% Sight. −100% if both lost. Damage always results in scarring. 0% Hit Chance against Blunt damage.
Ear	16.8	2	8%	1.2%	Head	Hearing	−25% Hearing. −100% if both lost.
Nose	14	1	10%	1.5%	Head	-	-
AnimalJaw	14	1	10%	1.5%	Head	Manipulation	−100% Manipulation. Can no longer use Bite attack.
Front Leg	42	2	7%	5.95%	Body	Moving	−25% Moving. −50% if both lost. Can no longer use paw attack.^[6]
Front Paw	14	2	15%	1.05%	Front Leg	Moving	−25% Moving. −50% if both lost. Can no longer use paw attack.
Rear Leg	42	2	7%	5.95%	Body	Moving	−25% Moving. −50% if both lost.
Rear Paw	14	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.

Attack table

Warg
Attack (Damage type)	DPS^[1] (Post Hit Chance)^[2]	Dam.	Cool.	AP	Selection chance^[3]
Average	8.31 (5.15)	-	-	19.75%	-
Front left paw (Scratch)	8.67 (5.37)	13	1.5s	19%	37.5%
Front right paw (Scratch)	8.67 (5.37)	13	1.5s	19%	37.5%
Teeth (Bite)	7.5 (4.65)	15	2s	22%	25%
Head (Blunt)	2.5 (1.55)	5	2s	7%	0%

↑ Note: This is the actual base average derived from the melee verb system updated in 1.1.2610, it may sometimes disagree with the listed value in the in-game infobox.
It may also change depending on the stats and the melee verbs available to the pawn.
↑ Assuming a melee hit chance of 62%
↑ Chance for attack to be selected. It may change depending on the melee verbs available to the pawn.

Gallery[edit]

Facing east
Facing north
Facing south

Dessicated facing east
Dessicated facing north
Dessicated facing south

Trivia[edit]

Wargs are presumably based on the vicious wolf-like monsters of the same name from J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-Earth mythology.

Wargs were added into the game at the request of a Designer-tier Kickstarter backer. ^[1]

Version history[edit]

0.11.877 - New sound: warg voices.
0.12.906 - Sprite changed
Beta 19/ 1.0 - damage increased by 15%.

Legacy texture before version A12. Was later reused by the husky

References[edit]

↑ "Ambrosia, chain shotgun, Warg... There may be others I forgot. Not everyone who got that tier actually entered something, I know that." - Tynan Sylvester, Reddit comment

Animals

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 • Bluebird • Hippo • Lava snail • Macaw • Mastodon • Moose • Muskox • Panda • Peafowl • Porcupine • Prairie dog • Quail • Sparrow • Swan

Dendrovorous: Alphabeaver • Thrumbo • Alpha thrumbo

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 • Bog hound • Monitor lizard • Armadillo • Badger • Bullfrog • Colossus toad • Crow • Flamingo • Gorilla • Hermit crab • Heron • Hive queen • Larva • Locust • Megavole • Mink • Otter • Sea turtle • Stone crab

Carnivorous: Arctic fox • Arctic wolf • Cat • Cobra • Cougar • Fennec fox • Lynx • Panther • Red fox • Timber wolf • Warg • Alligator • Greatwolf • Penguin • Scimitar cat • Sea lion • Seal • Tiger • Vulture • Walrus • Wolverine

Dryads: Barkskin • Berrymaker • Carrier • Clawer • Gaumaker • Immature dryad • Medicinemaker • Woodmaker

[1] 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.

[2] 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.

[3] Note that capacities can affect other capacities in turn. Only the primary effect is listed. See specific pages for details.

[4] This is the part that everything else connects to to be considered 'connected'.

[5] If Moving drops below 16% a pawn cannot move.

[6] A Scratch attack that varies from animal to animal. Each front paw allows one attack.

[Actual-7] Note: This is the actual base average derived from the melee verb system updated in 1.1.2610, it may sometimes disagree with the listed value in the in-game infobox.
It may also change depending on the stats and the melee verbs available to the pawn.

[Hit_Chance-8] Assuming a melee hit chance of 62%

[Selection_Chance-9] Chance for attack to be selected. It may change depending on the melee verbs available to the pawn.

[10] "Ambrosia, chain shotgun, Warg... There may be others I forgot. Not everyone who got that tier actually entered something, I know that." - Tynan Sylvester, Reddit comment

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