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#1
General Discussion / Re: Changes to Animals
July 21, 2021, 12:18:48 PM
Quote from: Serenity on July 21, 2021, 10:18:08 AM
You have to distinguish pack and hauling animals. You can use things like horses and donkeys in caravans. But some animals will no longer move around random stuff within your colony all by themselves.
Most dog/wolf-like animals and certain others can still be trained to haul from what I can tell. The exception seems to be wargs who are now attack animals and not allrounders anymore.

Typical livestock animals have been made a lot more useful by changing their eating habits.

Thanks for the info.

So, if I understand correctly, you have to keep some animals in pens, and use them just for caravans? They can't be tamed or trained by you, but can (I guess) be bought from traders?  These are "wanderers"? Is there a way to know what they are, and which animals can be used to carry things for caravans?

Others can be tamed (by looking at info in the wildlife tab). Is there a way to tell whether you need to pen them up, and whether you can just let them run around and do things? Because if everything has to be penned in, then the keeping of animals is restricted to having them in reserve for caravans, or (I guess) raising them for meat and egg, correct?

I have to say, as a new player, that this change is poorly documented and quite confusing. A system where I have to look up in a table whether I can tame something, because it has no correspondence to the world around us, seems a poor choice. Restricting fighting animals actually seems reasonable, much less so than draft animals.
#2
General Discussion / Changes to Animals
July 21, 2021, 12:34:04 AM
Hello all.  I'm new to Rimworld, having just picked it up a couple of weeks ago. I like it overall, but I'm truly puzzled about animals after the new patch.  Apparently...horses can't be trained at all? Also Alpacas, etc.? This seems utterly immersion breaking to me - in my jungle home I can train a panther and a rhino, but not a horse or a pig? I'd appreciate some insight into what you're now supposed to do with animals - the entire fencing them in thing seems like it makes it very difficult to use them to haul things, which was previously enormously useful. Is the intention that we don't tame animals now? If not, which ones, and what do you do once they are tamed?