Does anyone know the specifics of what the "Training Level" on pets does?

[Jaggid Edje]

I know you have to train them to 5 to draft, but what are the benefits of taking them even higher?

[Actual Malice]

The Warrior's Pet achievement requires you to train to level 10. Beyond that, no clue. But I think you referred to achievements in an earlier post, so thought you might be interested.

Just starting a playthrough with Hugo to tame and train. Been putting this off for the longest time. Sigh. I'm not a pet guy.

[Jaggid Edje]

I had just gotten the achievement before posting, it is what made me think of asking the question....before that I never once stopped and thought about it, because I was going to train them for the achievement anyway. LOL

Now that I've got it, I'm like "okay, so what exactly do I get out of continuing to train these other animals?" I know it says it improves their combat ability, I'm just kind of curious if anyone knows what specifically is better, like do they get better defenses, do more damage, both, neither?

It is kind of vague, especially when you consider just how massive the time investment it is to fully train even just one animal up. And then they will end up dying in a few years anyway (from old age, if nothing else).

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Training level improves their combat. Combat determines how easily they'll perform critical hits against an enemy they're fighting.

[Jaggid Edje]

Thank you @JensErik_Frontier.

I just hit year 5 in my True Solo attempt game, and all the dogs I tamed in year 2 are dying from old age. I only had the time to train 2 of the 6 dogs to level 10 in that time, the other 4 are all still just level 5.

I would say it is not worth training them past level 5 with how quickly they die, it takes too much of your survivors' time for animals that will just end up dead probably within a year or 2 of getting to that level of training.

You guys might want to look at either how quickly you have the animals dying of old age, or just how much time is spent training them to get them that high.

[paoweeotter]

Originally posted by Jaggid Edje:

I had just gotten the achievement before posting, it is what made me think of asking the question....before that I never once stopped and thought about it, because I was going to train them for the achievement anyway. LOL

Now that I've got it, I'm like "okay, so what exactly do I get out of continuing to train these other animals?" I know it says it improves their combat ability, I'm just kind of curious if anyone knows what specifically is better, like do they get better defenses, do more damage, both, neither?

It is kind of vague, especially when you consider just how massive the time investment it is to fully train even just one animal up. And then they will end up dying in a few years anyway (from old age, if nothing else).

Have a level 10 farmer set highest priority to Ranch and you’ll have level 8 pets in no time

[Jaggid Edje]

Originally posted by paoweeotter:

Have a level 10 farmer set highest priority to Ranch and you’ll have level 8 pets in no time

I think calling it "in no time" is a stretch, you can only train a limited number of times per day, and it takes a LOT of training sessions to get to level 10. It's a massive investment of the time of your survivor doing the training.

And the question I still ask is, is that worth it, given that they will just die in a few years? I'm really not sure it is.

But I do guess you could say the same thing about your armor or weapons. They take a investment in time to gather resources and then craft, and they 'deteriorate' in one year. But I don't think anyone would argue they aren't worth it. Still, their time investment is a lot lower too, so...

Anywho, My six dogs in my current True Solo playthrough were starting to die off, and hungry pests came while my survivor was out on expedition, so I decided to let them fend it off without human help.
6 Dogs whooped the behinds of 39 hungry uh..the beetle things (forgot their name). Only one of them was training 10, the rest were only 5 or 6. But I definitely feel that dogs themselves are good to have around, especially with having only one survivor.

I'm now watching and searching the map for more dogs to replace all the ones dying, I should have planned ahead and kept more of the puppies in the last year or two, but I didn't realize they were about to start dying until all of my males died in a row.

[Kenji]

How do I check the dog's level?

[OverThere]

Originally posted by Kenji:

How do I check the dog's level?

Training level is one of the numbers shown in the tamed animals screen. It is also shown in each animal's information screen (the page with the 'eye' tab, but it could be the adjacent one.

I usually just train to level 5. Level 5 allows the animal to be drafted, which makes moving them around and staying in good places a lot easier. Effort to get training above 5 does not seem to be worth it.

[Swato85]

Originally posted by JensErik_Frontier:

Training level improves their combat. Combat determines how easily they'll perform critical hits against an enemy they're fighting.

So improving something regularly, devoting time and power geta you just a CHANCE to get better hits? Terrible design, outright terrible. Would trade immediately for lower bonus, but a stable one like better: speed, strength, resistance, bigger hp, stun capability, new attacks, like literaly anything with visible stable improvement, rather then a "chance". Another reason not to train.

[Kenji]

Originally posted by OverThere:

Originally posted by Kenji:

How do I check the dog's level?

Training level is one of the numbers shown in the tamed animals screen. It is also shown in each animal's information screen (the page with the 'eye' tab, but it could be the adjacent one.

I usually just train to level 5. Level 5 allows the animal to be drafted, which makes moving them around and staying in good places a lot easier. Effort to get training above 5 does not seem to be worth it.

Thanks
Looking at it now, I missed that obvious detail

[Filavorin]

I also just noticed that I get like lvl 7->8 demand something like 72k XP for animal but I get level 8 somewhere around 10k or even less so numbers aren't even consistent.