Can I breed and train an army of attack thrumbos?

[(bad joke goes here)]

Two thrumbos showed up at around the time two of my colonists developed inspired taming, so I tamed them. One is male and another female, so I was wondering if I could put them in a pen with a tree growing zone(so they have food) and breed them into an army. Is such a thing possible?

[screamingcrane]

If you have the colonists and those colonists have the skills to build up training on that army I don`t see why not.

[Winterbloom]

you could but, keep in mind a thrumbo eats a lot, like having more than 4 will outdo your planter and growing speed.

[VulpineVandal]

it is possible, but thrumbos are big eaters. even if you have a tamer that can train em up you have to double then triple your food production. if you plan to mod your way to success, all you really need is something that adds highly nutritious animal feed.

[dnrob7]

Even if you managed it, they would only be so useful in a fight. Dudes with hi tech guns and armor are going to be the death of them.

[Infern]

Get the Pawnmorpher mod... Sentient thrumbos that would act like actual colonists :3

[Jaggid Edje]

I keep a number of Thrumbos in my current game, and they definitely eat a TON. When there have been events that drastically cut my food production and eliminate my ability to grow hay I always end up culling the herd down to 1 male and 1 female.

I keep them around for how fast they make caravan travel as mounts though, not as attack animals. So I only need a small herd. I can't imagine feeding an "army" of them. I barely keep up with the half dozen that I keep for riding with 3 growers.

[Cat®]

They make for excellent attack animals but their hungry hungry hippo attitudes make keeping them a pain. I would not bother on anything other than a non-desert permanent summer map. In the end you can replace them with elephants or similar and get roughly the same results but without turning the land into a barren waste.

It is very funny to let thrumbos fight the enemy though, and whenever they die it's thrumbo steak for everyone.

[Jaggid Edje]

引用自 Cat®：

...and whenever they die it's thrumbo steak for everyone.

Someone getting a nice thrumbofur jacket to wear along with those steaks too.

[dnrob7]

引用自 Jaggid Edje：

引用自 Cat®：

...and whenever they die it's thrumbo steak for everyone.

Someone getting a nice thrumbofur jacket to wear along with those steaks too.

Killing thrumbos gives me the horn

[Astasia]

Their hunger rate was halved in 1.3, they now eat barely twice as much as a colonist and almost the same amount as an elephant. If you are trying to feed them trees though you are going to have a rough time, trees are pretty awful for nutrition per time/effort. Cactus might be doable but a waste of pawn effort, any other tree would be ridiculously costly.

The main issues with breeding an "army" of them is getting a breeding pair in a colony is a pretty huge hurdle and could take many years depending on RNG, then it takes them over a year to go from conception to maturity, and then you would need several very skilled handlers to keep them tame and trained up. For a very long term game though, yes, very doable, and quite worthwhile for the thrumbofur.

[Jaggid Edje]

I have gotten a breeding pair pretty quickly in my last 3 games.

Saving Inspiration-Taming if you can until you get lucky to get a Thrumbo event and using the Word of Inspiration Psycast specifically to get Inspiration-Taming when they show up makes the taming process quick, painless and without any chance of failure. so the only real RNG hurdle is getting access to the Thrumbos in the first place.

For me, at least, those events are not entirely uncommon. The biggest hurdle is, imo, not RNG but getting at least one person high enough in the Animal skill to tame them in the first place. Just takes time.

[Markus Reese]

As others said, fully possible. It is too easy imo now.

The issue for me is when animal breeding rates got "buffed". Thrumbo breeding used to be story intrigue, now they breed like rabbits pretty much.

As others said, food is an issue, but then if you have a map with a long grazing period, that also is moot.

...But I still really dislike how quickly animals breed all the same. I understand it is a balance to return on investment for meat ideologies, but still, thrumbos breed way to fast.

[Tidal Resonance]

Once you manage to get a breeding pair and, provided that you have an adequate growing season for grazing, then Thrumbos are a powerful combat animal. However, as Astasia said, the pay off is very long term.

Although Thrumbos now breed far faster than before 1.3, it still can take years to get the numbers you need to reliably use them against late game raids. If you stay on the planet for ten years, then they would be quite powerful, but if you leave after, say, four years then they will be helpful, but it would be hard to get that many.

Thrumbos would probably be great for the Archonexus ending. In that case, tame them in your first base and bring four pregnant females and one male to the second base.