Question about taming animals

[KDR264]

Hey, I have tried searching the wiki and couldnt find any detailed posts explaining animal taming.

The below post shows a Muffalo, that is 5/5 tame, and 3/3 obediant. However, the release/rescue/haul is still crossed out. The master has 10 levels in Animals, and has been high for some time. All of my animals are at this stage, and none have progressed any further. I'd really like to get them to haul so I can start some caravans... What am i doing wrong?

Below is some screen shots. Thanks!

https://imgur.com/a/dqB0WM0

[Astasia]

"Muffalo trainability: Simple"

This means they can only ever train obedience.

Being a pack animal is unrelated to the hauling skill. Hauling requires advanced intelligence and is the animal's ability to pick up items and move them to the correct location on their own. Being a pack animal is just a colonist manually loading the animal up with items and guiding them around.

[KDR264]

Oh okay. So if that Muffalo has offspring, is it possible they would be able to haul? And how do you set someone to haul things to an animal? I don't have any mods either btw, just the vanilla version :)

[flu007]

The offspring will have the same level of trainability.
Animals that can haul (Advanced trainability) tend to be things like dogs and foxes etc. (Very convenient to have and train a few of those, by the way.)

Colonists will automatically load up an animal before going on a trip.
You do that by forming a caravan in the world screen. Click on your colony on the world screen, and it will bring up the option to form a caravan. There you can select which colonists and animals will go on the trip, and which items they will take. Once you finalize, the rest happens automatically. (The colonists selected to go on the trip will load up the pack animals, as well as any other colonists who aren't busy and are set to haul stuff.)