How animal bonding works?

[thecarlocarlone]

I'm playing with the animal personhood meme, so I'm taming animal like crazy.
I have basically an entire ranch that gives me milk, wool and chemfuel, but I never saw any bonding wiht any animal I have.

How does bonding work? becasue this playthrough became a rancher one, with the exception that I can't eat meat and I have to manually free the animals when there are too many, instead of using the auto-slaughter feature.

[Astasia]

Colonists can't normally bond with farm animals that have no trainability, since that would make ranching for meat very difficult. Bonding otherwise has a small chance of happening when a colonist is attempting to tame or train an animal, and very rarely when tending an animal's wounds. Or nuzzling.

[thecarlocarlone]

Got it.

Taking nuzzling animals and animals that can be trained should solve the problem.
I find it weird that it's "easier" to happen with a megaspider than with a guinea pig or an alpaca, but ok.
OR
since I'm playing wiht fluid ideology I could slowly change so I get the rancher meme instead, since it's basically how I'm playing right now.

TY

[glass zebra]

Originally posted by Astasia:

Colonists can't normally bond with farm animals that have no trainability, since that would make ranching for meat very difficult. Bonding otherwise has a small chance of happening when a colonist is attempting to tame or train an animal, and very rarely when tending an animal's wounds. Or nuzzling.

I vaguely remember it triggering from proximity too. I filled some bedrooms with yorkshires to spam bonds in the past. Was that removed or never true?

[Astasia]

I think that would have been nuzzling. Yorkshires have a very high nuzzle rate and nuzzling is only really done if the animal is close to a colonist. So sticking a colonist in a room full of yorkshires should still create a bond relatively quickly.

[glass zebra]

Originally posted by Astasia:

I think that would have been nuzzling. Yorkshires have a very high nuzzle rate and nuzzling is only really done if the animal is close to a colonist. So sticking a colonist in a room full of yorkshires should still create a bond relatively quickly.

It was a sleeping room and colonists always wake before yorkshires. It was also some patches ago when nuzzling interval was double what it is now. I tried too look for that info but likely made it up.

[glass zebra]

I just let a test round for a bit with cougars and set them to a master in the same room. It took several days but the master got bonded. Master is not set to animal work.

[jerrypocalypse]

Originally posted by glass zebra:

I just let a test round for a bit with cougars and set them to a master in the same room. It took several days but the master got bonded. Master is not set to animal work.

It might have been due to the nuzzle them. I've been trying to get a couple animals to bond to one of my animal handlers (because all the others already have bonded animals) by having them sleep in his room, but keep getting unlucky and they're bonding to almost everyone else in the colony but him.

[glass zebra]

Originally posted by jerrypocalypse:

Originally posted by glass zebra:

I just let a test round for a bit with cougars and set them to a master in the same room. It took several days but the master got bonded. Master is not set to animal work.

It might have been due to the nuzzle them. I've been trying to get a couple animals to bond to one of my animal handlers (because all the others already have bonded animals) by having them sleep in his room, but keep getting unlucky and they're bonding to almost everyone else in the colony but him.

I just tested this with cougars who can't nuzzle and the social tab had the last entry as 22h ago someone else trained them when the bonding happened. Keep in mind that dryads also bond and not just with a doc. You have to actually set the target person as their master though.
For the test, I forced some cougars into a room with an artist, made them their master and waited.

[jerrypocalypse]

Originally posted by glass zebra:

Originally posted by jerrypocalypse:

It might have been due to the nuzzle them. I've been trying to get a couple animals to bond to one of my animal handlers (because all the others already have bonded animals) by having them sleep in his room, but keep getting unlucky and they're bonding to almost everyone else in the colony but him.

I just tested this with cougars who can't nuzzle and the social tab had the last entry as 22h ago someone else trained them when the bonding happened. Keep in mind that dryads also bond and not just with a doc. You have to actually set the target person as their master though.

Ah, gotcha. I assumed all non-pen animals could do the nuzzle effect.

[glass zebra]

Originally posted by jerrypocalypse:

Originally posted by glass zebra:

I just tested this with cougars who can't nuzzle and the social tab had the last entry as 22h ago someone else trained them when the bonding happened. Keep in mind that dryads also bond and not just with a doc. You have to actually set the target person as their master though.

Ah, gotcha. I assumed all non-pen animals could do the nuzzle effect.

It's mostly the "pet" like animals. Animals have a stat for that listed in their info.