Animal husbandry

Main / Animal husbandry

Description

Rivia is full of animals/creatures/monsters--some harmless and others quite dangerous.

Spawning and behavior

• There are basically two types of creatures in Wurm: normal animals which can be tamed (and are usually based on real-world domesticated animals) and monsters which cannot be tamed (and are sometimes also known in the real world) but can often be dominated.
• Most creatures spawn in lairs. Some can also be bred by players.
• Most creatures like to avoid civilized areas and will have a reduced spawn rate near such areas.
• Some animals have various conditions that affect their strengths and weaknesses.
• Bred animals can have traits that normally spawned animals do not have.
• Most animals have ages of young, adolescent, mature, aged, old, or venerable.
• Animals can be normally fed, fat, or starving. Starving animals will not give any meat when butchered, and some animals can die of starvation.
• Hunger is the primary and quite rare reason that a creature may go aggressive, attack, and kill another that is hitched or destroy the barrier protecting said animal and then kill it.

Leading

• Using a rope or halter rope on some animals will let you lead it around behind you. To do this you activate the rope, open the context menu on the animal, and choose "Lead". A player may lead up to four animals at one time with separate ropes, or a halter rope.
• You can lead many types of creatures without taming the creature. Leadable creatures include all tamed animals as well as those listed in the table below.
• Only the commander of a boat or cart can lead animals. Passengers are not able to lead animals.
• Attempts to lead animals across a server line will result in them becoming disconnected from the leading player and left at the crossing point as that player successfully crosses to the next server. It is therefore recommended that players use creature cages for the purpose of moving animals across server lines.

Table

Fighting skill (FS) ranking estimated; proceed with caution. The amount of skill required to kill an animal will also vary greatly depending on the player's equipped weapons and their quality levels.

Animal Name	Fight Skill	Hostile	Tamable	Recommended Taming skill	Groomable	Can Swim	Lead w/o Taming	Dominated	Weight	Spawn Tile	Spawn Lair	Breedable
Bison	20	No	Yes	15	Yes	No	Yes	No	50	Steppe tile	?	Yes
Black bear	25	Yes	Yes	20	No	No	No	No	50	?	Bear cave	Yes
Black wolf	15	Yes	Yes	5	No	No	No	No	50	?	?	Yes
Brown bear	25	Yes	Yes	15	No	Yes	No	No	50	?	Bear cave	Yes
Bull	5	No	Yes	5	Yes	No	Yes	No	50	?	?	Yes
Cave bug	10	Yes	Yes	35	No	No	No	No	19.28	Cave tiles	Cave bug mound	Yes
Cow	1	No	Yes	5	Yes	No	Yes	No	50	?	?	Yes
Crocodile	40	Yes	Yes	45	No	Yes	No	No	50	?	?	No
Deer	1	No	Yes	1	No	Yes	No	No	50	Tree tile, Grass tile	No Lair	Yes
Dog	5	No	Yes	1	Yes	Yes	No	No	50	?	No Lair	Yes
Hell horse	10	Mix	Yes	70	No	No	Yes	No	50	?	?	Yes
Horse	5	No	Yes	7	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	50	Steppe tile, Grass tile	?	Yes
Large rat	1	Yes	Yes	1	No	Yes	No	No	7.14	Rock tile	Trash heap	yes
Mountain lion	15	Yes	Yes	1	No	No	No	No	50	?	?	Yes
Pig	1	No	Yes	1	Yes	No	Yes	No	50	?	?	Yes
Seal	??	Yes	Yes	???	No	Yes	No	No	?	Rock tile	?	Yes
Sheep	??	No	Yes	1	Yes	No	Yes	No	?	?	?	Yes
Tortoise	65	No	Yes	25+	No	Yes	No	???	?	?	?	Yes
Troll	60	Yes	No	N/A	No	No	No	Yes	50	?	?	Yes
Unicorn	25	No	Yes	35+	No	No	No	No	50	Grass tile, Mycelium tile, Steppe tile	?	Yes
Wild cat	1	Yes	Yes	1	No	No	No	No	7.14	?	Wild cat hideout	Yes

• For more complete info on butchering and butchering products, see butchering or butchering items.

Additional information

• Creatures can be examined to determine their wounds, if any (look at their equipment to see the body with wounds).
• Some rare creatures will drop unique items when killed, some of which are highly valuable.
• All corpses except humans max is 50.00 kg.
• Any creature that is listed as Tameable can also be Charmed
• Carnivorous animals or mobs will attack certain non-hostile animals.

See also

• Age
• Animal conditions
• Animal husbandry (covers the "care-for" mechanic)
• Bestiary
• Lair
• Mounts
• Rift creature
• Pet