So, how does wildness work exactly?

[La Criatura Espada]

I know that it dictates things like how difficult animals are to tame, the dirtiness of animals, and how hard it is to train animals. I'm running Alpha Animals, and I just tamed a Feralisk which has a 98% wildness stat. Does this ever go down, even for regular animals? Also, as said in title, how does the wildness stat work exactly? I know a tiny amount of the basics for that stat

[FrankTheMagicPotato]

according to the wiki
An animal with 0% wildness has a x2 taming chance.
An animal with 50% wildness has normal taming chance.
An animal with 100% wildness cannot be tamed at all.

[MayoCulpa]

Not too clear on the details - half the reason I'm commenting is I'm hoping others show up with more in depth info. But I know it's related to how training degrades if animal handlers don't do upkeep training. An animal with 0% wildness like a chicken or cat will never lose "Tameness" training. But if an animal has wildness they can gradually lose that over time.

IIRC I saw someone mention in a thread on bonded animals that one of their handlers had formed a bond with a cobra. The cobra gradually lost tameness and wandered off because the handler was always away on caravans, and the handler didn't get a penalty for the bond being broken.

[Astasia]

I'm like 99% sure wildness is a fixed stat based on animal type and will never change.

The stat directly controls training and taming chances/levels, training degradation, and filth generation, but the game gives you the relevant information separately so the wildness stat itself isn't important to understand. IE the game will say an animal has a minimum handling skill of X and a Y% chance to tame, those are already derived from wildness so there is no extra effect to consider.

[Bosh]

I read somewhere that wildness affects how much dirt an animal will create while wandering around your base. Megasloths have somewhere around 95% wildness and IIRC it did make a lot of dirt, whereas huskies and the like made very little or none.

[M.K.]

Thus spake the wiki:
"Filth: While walking on constructed floors they can leave animal filth. The rate of producing filth is proportional to body size and wildness."

As the Megasloth is both VERY large, and VERY wild, it is one filthy animal indeed!

[Preechr]

Everyone knows megasloths have permanent diarrhea...

[Monoxide]

Originally posted by Preechr:

Everyone knows megasloths have permanent diarrhea...

Primary means of propulsion.

[Dr@g0n]

thanks. yeah it took a while to figure out there is multiple stats that go into the consideration of taming. Does rescuing animals do anything? tried to lock some up after rescue but they ate too much to feed on taming attempts and lost that colony..

[Monoxide]

Rescuing animals gives a chance for a free tame on the tending doctor. Some people will actually injure animals just to care for them for the free tame chances.

As far as handling animals, these forums seem pretty torn on if its worth it. I always have some animals roaming an outdoor field. Worth it or not, I like to do it. I usually have muffalo, camels, or alpacas. Ill do chickens or cows if I can get my hands on them. I once made a chinchilla army, that was neat. I almost always have 1-2 boomalope because you can milk them for chemfuel. Can help a lot with generators early on.

[MayoCulpa]

I love pack animals (especially the ones that also produce milk and wool!) and hauling animals. I find chickens annoying out of proportion to their usefulness as a food source but a lot of folks seem to use them.

[Preechr]

Chickens and rabbits can be reliable food sources but it takes a lot of micromanagement. Basically, you kill all the non-bonded males as soon as all the females of each generation are impregnated or their eggs are fertilized, then as soon as they give birth or lay their fertilized eggs you off the females too. I think someone once did the math and showed that killing the baby rabbits right off is the most mathematically efficient method, but I'm not killing bunnies, man.