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Pet & Tameable Creature Reference

Taming System

When a creature is tamed, it becomes an Owned entity with:

Wander factor reduced to 0.25x
Aggro range reduced to 0.25x
Trading behavior set to AcceptFood
Teleported to owner if distance exceeds 200 units

Pets receive no combat bonuses or nerfs -- they fight identically to their wild counterparts.

Tameable Species

Not all creatures can be tamed. The following body types are tameable (defined in common/src/comp/pet.rs):

QuadrupedSmall: All species
QuadrupedMedium: All except Catoblepas, Mammoth, Elephant, Hirdrasil
QuadrupedLow: All species
BirdMedium: All species
Crustacean: All species

Damage Per Hit

Damage values come from ability .ron files in assets/common/abilities/custom/.

QuadrupedSmall

Ability set: Quad Small Basic | Weapon: quadsmallbasic

| Attack | Damage | Type | Poise | Knockback | Range | |--------|--------|------|-------|-----------|-------| | Single Strike | 9 | Bash | 3 | 1 | 1.5 |

QuadrupedMedium

Ability set: Quad Med Basic | Weapon: quadmedbasic

| Attack | Damage | Type | Poise | Knockback | Range | |--------|--------|------|-------|-----------|-------| | Single Strike (primary) | 20 | Bash | 28 | 3 | 2.7 | | Triple Strike hit 1 | 10 | Bash | 15 | 5 | - | | Triple Strike hit 2 | 10 | Bash | 18 | 5 | - | | Triple Strike hit 3 | 10 | Bash | 20 | 5 | - |

QuadrupedLow

Ability set: Quad Low Basic | Weapon: quadlowbasic

| Attack | Damage | Type | Poise | Knockback | Range | |--------|--------|------|-------|-----------|-------| | Triple Strike hit 1 (primary) | 36 | Slash | 24 | 3 | 4.0 | | Triple Strike hit 2 | 18 | Stab | 18 | 3 | 3.5 | | Triple Strike hit 3 | 28 | Bash | 36 | 15 | 3.0 | | Single Strike (secondary) | 36 | Bash | 28 | 3 | 3.0 |

BirdMedium

Ability set: Bird Medium Basic | Weapon: birdmediumbasic

| Attack | Damage | Type | Poise | Knockback | Range | |--------|--------|------|-------|-----------|-------| | Single Strike | 1 | Stab | 0 | 0 | 2.5 |

Crustacean

Ability set: Crab | Weapon: crab_pincer

| Attack | Damage | Type | Poise | Knockback | Range | |--------|--------|------|-------|-----------|-------| | Triple Strike hit 1 | 5 | Slash | 5 | 0 | 1.1 | | Triple Strike hit 2 | 8 | Slash | 8 | 1 | 1.1 | | Triple Strike hit 3 | 12 | Slash | 9 | 1 | 1.1 |

Base Health by Species

QuadrupedSmall

| Species | HP | |---------|-----| | Cat | 25 | | Fox | 25 | | Pig | 25 | | Dog | 30 | | Goat | 30 | | Jackalope | 30 | | Sheep | 30 | | Boar | 55 | | Truffler | 70 | | Hyena | 85 |

QuadrupedMedium

| Species | HP | |---------|-----| | Alpaca | 55 | | Antelope | 55 | | Deer | 55 | | Donkey | 65 | | Llama | 65 | | Mouflon | 75 | | Wolf | 110 | | Lion | 175 | | Tiger | 205 | | Saber | 210 | | Panda | 215 | | Yak | 215 | | Bear | 240 | | Moose | 265 |

QuadrupedLow

| Species | HP | |---------|-----| | Pangolin | 20 | | Tortoise | 45 | | Driggle | 50 | | Alligator | 130 | | Crocodile | 145 | | Salamander | 210 |

BirdMedium

| Species | HP | |---------|-----| | Chicken | 10 | | Duck | 10 | | Bat | 10 | | Penguin | 10 | | Crow | 15 | | Goose | 25 | | Eagle | 35 | | HornedOwl | 35 | | SnowyOwl | 35 |

Crustacean

| Species | HP | |---------|-----| | Crab | 40 | | SoldierCrab | 50 |

Damage Formula

Final Damage = Base Damage
             x attack_damage_modifier (default 1.0)
             x precision_multiplier
             x flank_multiplier
             - armor_reduction x (1.0 - attacker_penetration)

Pets have default stat modifiers (all 1.0), so their output is purely base damage minus target armor.

Best Combat Pets

Ranked by damage output and survivability:

QuadrupedLow (Alligator, Crocodile, Salamander) -- 36 damage primary, 130-210 HP, longest range (4.0)
QuadrupedMedium (Bear, Moose, Saber) -- 20 damage primary, 210-265 HP, good poise damage
Crustacean (SoldierCrab) -- 25 total combo damage, 50 HP, short range
QuadrupedSmall (Hyena, Boar) -- 9 damage, 55-85 HP
BirdMedium -- 1 damage, 10-35 HP (effectively useless in combat)

Source Files

| File | Purpose | |------|---------| | common/src/comp/pet.rs | Pet component, is_tameable() | | server/src/pet.rs | Taming logic, pet teleport | | common/src/comp/body/mod.rs | Base health by species (lines 974-1260) | | common/src/comp/stats.rs | Attack/damage modifiers | | common/src/combat.rs | Damage calculation | | assets/common/abilities/custom/ | Per-body-type ability definitions | | assets/common/abilities/ability_set_manifest.ron | Body type to ability set mapping |