5:25 writer here...I don't know what I was thinking when I wrote that...yeah goats do give milk, I must have misread or didn't notice or was up late on 5 bottles of coke when I wrote it...apologies, Noobert pin this

I use pigs to get rid of corpses, maybe works in rimworld aswell

Here is a thrumbo story. I had a colony 7 people in total. 1 person her name was jex had a thrumbo she was returning from a mining mission along with a mining slave and some muffalo. she brought her pet thrumbo, Thrumby. Before she got back the colony was getting ROLLED by raiders. When jex and the mighty thrumby got back I had low hope of winning that battle but THRUMBY the GIGACHAD that he is with 1 dose of go juice was able to single handedly murder 13 raiders spread throughout the colony while my 2 other returning colonists helped stabilized the downed colonists. Thrumbos are so freaking awesome. And a go juiced thrumbo will murder everything in its path like an unstoppable force. Perks of thrumbos. -eats trees, in the winter time you don’t have to feed them precious food -tanky as all hell they just don’t go down -absolute murder machines -can save dying colonists -adorable

One of my first long lasting runs, I got a MegaSloth using the taming buff on it to guarantee the tame. I named it Toothless and that sloth was *amazing.* It fought for me for a year easy, taking a bullet to the brain, losing a paw, both of its eyes being scratched, and still, still he fought on. He ended up retiring and we found him a lady sloth to make babies with, and he ended up saving more lives by hauling the wounded back to the hospital building. After that, MegaSloth will be my golden goal for animal taming.

10-14 cobras joined my colony once, since they don't require much maintenance I let them be. A month or two later I was attacked by infected ships, I'd totally lose the colony if not for the cobras. Almost all of them died, but they saved my colony. There were 5-6 heavy injuries but every pawn survived.

The new animal pen mechanics in 1.3 means that the chickens no longer circle their coop in some ritual to summon the chicken God and the auto slaughter means I have a endless supply of chicken meat

Fun fact, an Emu managed to steal a truck in the Emu War. Well “steal” is more “shanghaied” a truck, when the army though to just run the emu over, the emu instead rolled over the bonnet and through the window of the truck where it processed to kick and attack the driver and passenger, who bailed out leaving the emu tangled with the wheel where it drove away with the truck.

goose > chicken. one goose is literally chicken x2 stats. except for maturing age, which is exactly the same. their eggs are x2 nutrition but produced 2 times slower and don't need to be fertilized. each goose requires x2 food as chicken. it takes pawns at least 2 times less work to handle geese compared to chickens because of their lower number for same output. also butchering geese gives bird leather in addition to meat. put those chickens to C tier where they belong. and give geese their rightful place in the S tier.

i just started playing rimworld, and my first colonists spawned in with a lab retriever. he was such a good boi, took me a while to realize i could train him to haul and rescue, but he 100% saved the lives of some of my other colonists. yesterday he died while defending during a raid, and i didnt realize that sarcophagi count as art pieces, so theres just a gorgeous marble sarcophagus for my dog next to a bunch of raider graves outside my base. RIP in peace Yuuta, you were the goodest boi

I managed to tame a megaspider in base game rimworld. He was the best tank a colony could ask for. Sadly he passed away due to old age. In case you got how I did it: 1. Find insect 2. Down them. Pick the least damaged and kill off the rest. 3. Place it inside cryptosleep casket 4. Destroy the hive. Nothing must remain. (The insect will be non hostile if it's hive is gone.) 5. When you have a colonist with inspired taming, take the insect out. The insect is downed due to crypto sickness. 6. Patch it up. 7. When it manages to move, use inspired colonist to tame it. 8. Repeat if you want more.

Wargs are not S tier IMO, my first ever rimworld colony my doctor/tamer bonded with a warg she landed with. I was still a noob and unfortunately my doctor got downed trying to tame an animal with a 10% chance of retaliation when it did so. unfortunately she was the only person i had with any medical skill and the rogue animal wouldn’t let anyone else rescue her. she died in my crappy little hospital and the warg immediately ate the rest of my colonists in sadness. RIP

"emu is an s rated animal against Australian colonists" rimworld is banned in australia

I wish I knew about boom rats being a more questionable animal earlier... Spikefall traps + wood base was.... fun

Horses and maybe even donkeys should be A for the sheer power of caravan speed bonus, the boost is so huge and makes caravaning so much less of an annoyance

For me the elephants are a S tier, the doesn't need much, are easy to tame, eat grass, have a high intelligence, are tanking, does a lot of meat and leather when slaughter, the leather are great for clothes, in caravans carry much and give a bonus of speed.

Egg laying animals are hard to keep under control even with auto slaughter. Glad to see you uploading, shorts and these longer videos are both great.

Yeah as someone who went through the trouble of taming 4 thrumbos I can say they aren't particularly useful. I'm at a point in the game where I can't even use them in combat so they just sit on their asses all day. They look cool though so in my mind they'll always be S tier. Just a couple comments. Bears have a comically small hunger rate. They eat a third as much as pawns or a little over twice a chicken. Also alpacas are a definite s tier in my book. Extremely easy to tame and they produce a ridiculous amount of wool. Get yourself a small herd of them and never worry about running out of clothing materials again. It's also pretty valuable for some reason. The majority of my money to this day comes from alpaca wool. I'd say wargs are a c tier. They are ridiculously powerful but the risk associated with getting them just doesn't justify going out of your way to get them to me. Unless you have an inspired taming, then go nuts.

Horse should be in s tier. They are perfect caravan animals. They breed kinda fast and you can sell them in high prices. They are easy to tame and no need to train them. Just make a horse farm and you can easily travel and carry your stuff and sell stalions for really good amount of silver.

My current colony has two pets, a tortoise and a husky The tortoise was a self tame. He has alzheimers The husky is kinda a funny story. I took a quest for a Noble to keep his 2 Huskies (male and female) for a long period of time. The female got pregnant, gave birth (ig litters arent a thing in rimworld, since she only had one), and when the time came, the shuttle only took the original two It's pretty cool to know that my suprise animals are actually good. I'm pretty new to the game and had never donr much with animals, so it's good to know the ones I got are good! The colony also has several muffalo and a yak

Hm. I'll just throw in a few things here: 1. Ibexes are the most efficient Meat source per food intake if you exclude things like tortuses which take insane micro and work hours to be efficient and chickens which don't take insane micro but even more work hours from you pawns then the tortuses do. Just adult slaughter Ibexes and you are good, they give great amounts of one of the better types of leather too. 2. Horses make you caravans the fastest they can be, plus they can still take a comparativeley large amount of stuff with them and they are also one of the better sources for meat and leather.They take a while to grow up but that also means they take less labor time from your colonists and if you put the corpses in the freezer you are going to save a lot of space too. So overall I think they are actually the best animal in the game at the moment. 3. Wargs are awful for what they eat. If you actually get lucky at the early game and just tame one you are going to starve, Bears are just better then Wargs if you compare how much they eat since you can support a lot more Bears with the same amount of food then you could Wargs. Wargs don't even breed that much faster in reality since you can have way more Bears breeding at the same tame for the same resources.

One time I downloaded a mod that let every animal be tamed to at least guard and attack. After many years of farming and preparation, it finally paid off. The rough outlander union id been lowering my relationship with attacked. But they didn’t account for one fatal mistake. The first four attackers jogged cautiously at the seemingly inactive north end of the compound. It would be a while before the second attack group coming from the south reached the base due to the large hills and river to the south. Purple, in her good marine armor clutched her chain shotgun as she joked with Marco about blackjack. High on go-juice, Marco blitzed past his comrade, storming into the already-opened doors of the outer walls. But there wasn’t anybody there. Moving further into the flagstone roads crisscrossing the base, he heard a noise. The skittering of a small animal, perhaps? Turning around, he found a single raccoon, wandering the empty roads. The psychopathic Marco raised his heavy SMG with a grin. As soon as the first shot went off, his fate was sealed. The raccoon dodged two of the heavy caliber slugs, but fell to a shattered spine on the third shot. *And then the rest came*. Five, six, seven, eight, they emerged like a swarm of ants from the doors of the colony. Overwhelmed, Marco swung his machine gun in a desperate attempt to fend them off. By this time, the other four of the northern attacking party cleared the doors of the colony. Horrified by the sight unfolding in front of them as their friend’s flak jacket was torn to pieces before their eyes, they too raised weapons. But it wasn’t enough. Not by a damn sight. They flowed like water from the corridors between the buildings. Tens of them, no, *hundreds* of raccoons emerged from every direction. Every single one with the same goal, and the same unbridled ferocity. *The Garbagemind had been awoken.* Breeching the thick lower walls, the second raid party spread out, causing wanton destruction on the south side. Colonist gunmen opened fire in an effort to delay the attackers, but they had no need. Dead in a matter of minutes, the raccoon-overwhelmed northern party was no more. The Garbagemind, with minimal losses, shifted its fury to another target. Still easily 90 strong, the horde shredded the armored invaders in a day-long struggle. Soon overwhelmed and wrought with causalities, the raiders turned to retreat. But their death was assured the moment they set foot in the compound. Although sustaining heavy losses, the 40-odd raccoons remaining pursued the fleeing attackers. Back at the base of the attacking faction, they waited. Many days had passed, surely they would have returned in victory by now, right? And return they did. Or rather, he did. One man, missing an eye, three fingers, an ear, and with no small amount of cuts and bleeding limped back to his home territory. From then on, no faction dared to go near the colony of The Dump.

The galaxy brain pawn at 1:56 was adding roofing to the solar panel room.

With many, many bionic mods... I make my Thrumbos S tier fighting machines that never die, until they do ( which is a sad day in the colony) I've honestly used a reserrector mech serum on a mecha god thrumbo over a dead 20 shot colonist many times..."sorry Tom, you just don't measure up to the power of a thrumbo"

I tried to tame a warg during one of my earlier "I'm still new at this game" runs, it looked at my pawn (who was very good for animals with 10+double passion), laughed in my face, then proceeded to hunt down my entire group because of manhunter (sadly that same pawn was incapable of violence and I didn't react quickly enough before it got into my base). Quickest run of my life if I didn't save before hand.

8:30 Chinchilla fur is alo the 3rd best leather in the game when it comes to price and insulation, although they arent very protective.. 1st and 2nd being thrumbofur and hyperweave so. yea

A video on animal pens dos and donts would be helpful. I feel like after the pen stuff was added I don’t mess with animals much at all

Thrumbos do quite a lot of damage, even had a calf kill a scyther in a 1v1.

I want to put wargs on S tier, but that is dependant on biome and the colony's weapons, if your biome has large, tough to kill animals you have an issue where they try to hunt an animal like a rhino or elephant but this can cause the whole herd to go manhunter and potentially kill an underdeveloped colony

In my opinion, Thrumbos are much better now due to Ideology providing rancher and animal personhood memes. I believe rancher is better because animal personhood basically prevents you from killing animals and racher increases train chance. Rancher multiplies tame chance by 1.2 and animals specialist multiplies tame and train chance by 2. Also, the Rimworld wiki has pages on these things but might not include all of the factors as somehow I got a 93% train chance on a thrumbo.

I do not understand. Thrumbo has 98% of wildness. But I adopted three of them at the first try! And later I had two little thrumbo, so it's five... Dammit.

I love how you went from the bottom to the top. Most people who do these ranking Tier thing, don't do it in any order. The way you did it was satisfying. Thank you! Binging on so many of your ringworld videos

Rats used to be so good when they could attack on command. Could just swarm enemies with sheer numbers

In my first playthrough a megasloth self tamed and helped with the first couple raids, and then after taming one of the opposite gender I had around 8 megasloths at one time and a handler with 20 animal skill at some point. They were very tanky and easily tanked for my colonists in infestations and raids, but mech raids were a different story. And at some point I tamed a thrumbo and another thrumbo of the opposite gender self tamed, and I switched to a thrumbo army.

Going to go with Warg's being in the B tier. They offer about the same advantages as the wolfs do, with a slightly lower chance for them to go wild. However the trade off for their less likelihood to go wild, is that they'll strait murder your colonists if they do. They're easily one of the toughest and most deadly creatures in the game, outside of the Thrumbo, especially do to their numbers. Even with a fully geared and teched up colony, a man hunter pack of these can be one of the worst threats they'll encounter. Trying to tame one of these early is extremely dangerous, if it goes manhunter and you are unprepared to deal with such a threat, it could spell the doom of your colony. However it's positives are not to be taken lightly either. Giving the same advantages as wolves, with a much tougher body, and amazing attack power. They do require meat, but this can easily be subsidised with raider corpses and other animals, depending on where you are. They do have a high wild stat, but it is still lower than a large number of the other animals, which means they won't require huge amounts of attention to keep them tame. They're extremely deadly in combat, and can easily kill an entire group of well armed raiders, and at the least break a siege. They're very durable, so even if they go down, they can usually be rescued with plenty of time to spare. The main reason I set them into the B tier along with wolves, is because outside of their deadliness, they don't offer much more than their weaker counterparts. Their deadliness, despite being a great advantage for your colonists, can also be extremely detrimental to them. Essentially the Warg is slightly easier to tame, but more difficult to keep around, due to its food requirements. It offers the same advantages for hauling, and mood buffs for the colony as their weaker counterparts. Lastly they're extremely deadly, which works both ways as a positive and a negative, giving them in my opinion a nice position at B.

In one play through we had a beloved thrombo that was just so awesome in so many ways, that when the ship was finally ready to take off and everybody was getting on board, we had one mech healer serum left. Since she had a painful scar on her eye, we used it on her as a thank you. We turned her loose and flew away.

please make more videos of this type. They are very fun to watch :D

More of these! It'd be cool to see a tier list for weapons, biomes, growables, and craftable items!

God I love the muffalo as they breed like rabbits when you get like 5 and they just snowball into a fur based economy

The funny thing about ranking them overall is that deep down looking at every one you remember that one colony they screwed you over by randomly attacking your colonist miles away from the base

Now that Wargs can't haul or rescue they're def C tier 😭

Chickens are op. If you do it right you can get infinite free food. If you throw them in an outdoor pen and give them just enough grass to get them started, I’ve found that they usually have enough hunger in them to grow up, lay an egg, and then starve to death, giving you free chicken meat. I’ll have to check the stats as it’s possible that they do require a tiny bit of grass to last long enough to lay an egg?? But I’ve had colonies in past where I just have HUNDREDS of chickens and constant notifications saying they’ve starved and a freezer full of chicken corpses for basically free food for the whole game. Easily S tier for me

I did a thrumbo run a few years back because they are cool. Got to ~15 thrumbos before I got bored. Their downsides can be mitigated with just the mod where there's a psychic device to instantly take them. Of course you still need a skilled colonist to keep it tamed. I remember save scumming a bunch of times because I wanted a thrumbo really badly. At the beginning it's fine to let it roam around, got more wood than you need. Once you get a male and a female, it's time to go caravaning. Thrumos feed themselves during trips so that's fine. You can afford to have just one or two colonists on the caravan and have the thrumbos do the killing for you. Whenever you get back to base, or you're looting the enemy base, your thrumbos breed to get more thrumbos that are automatically tamed. Not sure about this but I never had trouble with untamed thrumbos so it should sort out itself. Once you get to a high number of thrumbos then you need kibble to even support their short time during bases, or when you're just lazy to go caravaning, but by then you'd be one so rich kibble isn't an issue. Having an insect farm helps with the kibble. Nice to have mods are the pet armour mod, the pet body parts mod, and the riding mod, though I usually don't ride my thrumbos and just let them loose I also had the rich ruins mod which made me go caravaning for very long trips to strip ruins clean, and the tilled soil mod which probably helped getting me enough kibble. I also never actually slaughtered a thrumbo before so I don't know what would happen there. If that is a no go, I suggest try selling them.

I WAS JUST WISHING FOR A LIST LIKE THIS! THANK YOU NOOB

5:16 I too as an industrial farmer use the very subtle build over solar panel hack.

every colony isnt complete without a rat cave

You should do an alpha animals tier list next! I'd be really interested on seeing what is the best animals in that

I love building an expendable panther army. They eat almost anything. They can be trained in everything. They live long. They can kill well. They can take good damage. It looks awesome having a pitch black wave of teeth running at tribals

I really appreciate the video. Definitely going to try the rancher memes now

Thrumbos are good if you have that mod that allows you to harvest their wool, that being said they are very hungry gentle giants.

Wargs are most definietly S tier. I once had three wargs join up with five colonists in a very generous setting by Randy, pawns were completely covered in finest armor and weaponry by the time that number grew to twelve. I had trained all of them to completion, becoming an unstoppable force, and really didnt have to fight enemies with pawns at all. Lauch the mortars and then send in the dogs. I believe you could also teach a warg to haul, which later would prove useful for collecting raider corpses without even leaving home.

About Thumbos, one important thing that can not be forgotten is how valuable their fur is. If you can spare a small forest to feed them and breed yourself a sizable number of them, you can get rich very easily. Also, they fur is good at bribing rivale settlements into being your friends

I couldn't stop watching your pawn building roof over your solar pannels :D...

Clearly the reason to keep raccoons around is because they're adorable.

Ibex rams are actually surprisingly decent farm animals thanks to the update to ranching. You can breed and slaughter them for meat and leather, the former is just nice while the latter is great to have a consistent supply of. I don't think they're worth keeping unless you have a mod that makes grazing better or you have an absurd amount of well defended grazing space, plus you might as well get rid of them once you've got a decent amount of sheep or cows. Rhinos are great. I had a sepient rhino(via pawnmorpher) that joined my colony once. He sucked as a human so I left him transformed, I gave him a grenade launcher since his weapon skills sucked. His only jobs were to fish, defend the colony and carry caravan goods(I had a mods that let rhinos be pack animals).

As always, well done!

Holy cow, a long video, may the mighty lord Noobert bless us.

This has definitely been in the works if it's pre 1.3 lmao, I remember buying the game the day after 1.3 came out and I'm already a few 100 hours in the game lol

5:17 why is there a pawn roofing over solar panels?

I agree with the S tier for wargs also it's funny to hear about all those animals that don't do anymore what they used to do like boars being combat animals or wargs being haulers

honestly, wargs are sub C tier. Its a pain to make a stockpile of meat outside in your animal pen JUST for the Warg, and it only becomes useful during a raid and if you actually remember to release the animal during the raid.

every time I get inspired taming I look around immediately for a megasloth. yes, hard to train, but a really really good tank animal for defending colony and hauling to boot. disagree with c, I would put it at least a b.

I demand, as a Wanderer/Caravaneer Player, to lift ELEPHANT to the S Ranking! My Argument for my point? They are a LIFE SAVER for a traveller going on journey in the harsh, harsh Rimworld world! Simply taming one ensures the Safety of your fellow Companions in case of bandit attacks, Mental security by having such mighty and magnificent animals by your side comforting you as you hide from the coming storm in a mountain cave, and a great Source of Meat and Leather whenever one dies of either being felled by a dozen Raiders, infected by desease, or simply you being desperate for meals! And with the Traveller/Caravaneer style playthrough, there is no real concern with Feeding or Taming the Elephant, since you can collect foods in each pit stop or let it free to eat in the wild, and there's plenty of smaller, easier animals to train your Pawn's Taming skills. They also sold for a lot in case you were breeding them, and an army of Elephant is strong enough to defend your ever growing group of Traveller/Caravaneer as the game progress. Now, after presenting my point to the Judges and the Court, I shall now surrender my place to the Coury of Public Opinion to either support my case or go against it. Captain of the Silver Caravan Express, signing out.

Holy crap Noob! I have been off platform for a bit and haven't stopped by your channel in some time. I just logged back on and I see you've blasted your way up to nearly 50K subs!?!?! Wow man. Super congrats. I remember when I was the first to find you and was sub #1 and now...just wow. Heck yeah dude!.

Guinea pig works as some awesome idle money maker - they doesnt roam away (so they doesnt need a pen and can be assigned to a zone), grow fast and got market value of 150. Just put some "everything except of the base" zone with some vegetation and assign guinea pigs there, later when their horde size will grow up to some hundreds just assign them to a caravan and sell.

Thrumbos would've been better animals if we didn't have Megasloths, the fact that they spawn more frequently, give wool and nuzzle and can be decent attack animals kind of overshadows the Thrumbo... Their stats are also similar, so domesticating Thrumbos isn't of much use unless you want to flex

I feel like the megasloth doesn't get enough light, they are incredibly power creature that can do most thing

Something else worth mentioning about tortoises, they're solid commodity animals. Sell well each and you can breed a bunch fairly quickly.

I used a inspired colonist to tame a mega sloth and it is 100% a amazing tame but your right it’s hard to keep it happy and I haven’t been able to tame another one yet

Explanation of tier list : 2:15 Tier d : 3:17 Tier c : 7:50 Tier b : 13:00 Tier a : 18:20

Grizzly / Polar bears are S tier for me. They are great for using taming inspirations on. They take a bit longer to breed but bear cubs can be trained to haul immediately after they are born. And the kibble diet makes them easy to feed (compared to wargs). Not to mention they are pretty decent in combat. I tend to allow them to roam outside the base when hauling and limit my huskies to inside of my perimeter walls.

5:13 Just a pawn casually roofing a solar panel room in the background... 11/10, perfect example of RimLogic

Horses are the best. Low maintenance. High production. Best caravanning animal by far.

Egg-layers are annoying due to egg mechanics - if egg that is near to hatch is merged with a new egg, it would equalize progress. This means that they tend to stockpile and hatch in a huge numbers at once. Also, you have to take extra measures to make sure eggs are not ruined, and once ruined it is somewhat difficult to utilize them. So I am generally avoiding them given the option. Too much food? Make packaged survival meals. They sell for a decent amount and tend to make a big chunk of my income lately. And unlike other traditional sources like questionable substances and art, you can eat them if something goes wrong. Boomalopes are awesome early. One boomalope can produce 11 per day, while generators use 4.5 per day - which means just one boomalope can produce 2444W of power. Get a few of them and you won't have power shortages until late game. Wargs? Eeeeh, I usually avoid them. Taming inspirations are your ticket to safely tame warg, megasloth or thrumbo.

I'm a little surprised with the megasloths, for me are B or even A, not thaaaaat hard to train... and don't eat like a thrumbo, still nice ranking, like the video

Yes!!! I love these kind of videos

When I had 28 boomalopes in my settlement game started to lag deadly, and I didn’t even understood that they were a reason before the y die lol

I like to use dogs and bears as hauling teams. Dogs get taken out too easy by predators, by bears make too much mess inside the base. I like to put bears outside to haul in then dogs to haul around the base.

Every time someone says Emoo instead of Emu is a step towards Emu world domination

Thrumbros are good for a slow, but steady supply of thrumbofur which in itself is an OP material for non-encumbering armor if your setup makes feeding them reasonable. Thrumbos are too slow breeding to use as disposable combat animals. If I have no other means of corpse disposal, wargs are good for that, and pretty good animals to swarm raiders with. Megasloths in very cold biomes for their wool. But I don't play unmodded, with giddyup I only really keep my choice of mounts in the colony and any breeding animals are good enough source for leather. Horses, camels, whatever fits the theme I'm going for. I don't like having a lot of fast breeding small animals, they take a lot of work to keep the population in check. Many may be efficient resource wise, but not so much for time wise.

Alphabeavers have (or had, in this vanilla version) a niche use... Say you're mid-late game, you want to clear some areas of trees because of firebreaks, construction pawns tryna chop down stuff, etc. but DONT need any more wood or have enough already, you can zone alphabeavers to the parts you want treeless, like potential cover, or maybe you want to create an outpost in a jungle or swamp fast, zone like 10 alphabeavers into where you want the outpost, and then wait a bit. Also provide flak for raids, giving people time to get to defences.

The thrumbo fur is really useful, they make for very good combat Allies, and you can sell thrumbo children for thousands each. They also simultaneously do really well in combat and for riding/hauling while being perfectly easy to feed, they’re pets who can eat any old grass, most combat animals are carnivorous. Having a few thrumbos who can breed means constant high level clothing material, high level warriors, jack of all trades working machines, and a huge cash bank waiting to be traded when needed. They’re also majestic. Their only downside is the training difficulty because of their high wildness, but if you only ever keep a few and already do a lot with animals they’re really good. If you rarely work with animals don’t bother with thrumbos, which you won’t be able to take anyway.

Let your Warg roam the entire map, it hunts automatically, you just need to pick up and butcher the corpses it leaves behind

A long video. What I needed

Rats are underated, one of mine that self tamed actually defended a bridge form a mad rat on his own. He hencefore got permanent access to the raider dumping stockpile. (okay he lost his 2 rear paws but let's not mention that)

I would put wargs in S tier for the fact that they can turn any raider attack into route in a matter of seconds...also losing one or two is not a problem if you're in the right biome. They can be temperamental and are definitely a problem if they go nuts, but with proper planning they can be neutralized quickly. The biggest advantage they have over lesser wolves is the amount of wolfskin and meat they can provide 196 warg meat and 56 wolfskin vs. 119 wolfmeat and 36 wolfskin from a timber wolf or arctic wolf. TLDR: Wargs are furry fast breeding raider disposal systems that create alot of edible meat and skin (8th most protective in game for clothing making). They can be dangerous but proper management and planning can minimize or mitigate the threat of them entirely.

I feel chinchillas could be rated slightly higher just because at the moment I have a thriving chinchilla farm and it is damn profitable. Their fur is pretty good insulation and protection wise and generally sell pretty well. They also breed quickly and don’t eat too much

I once had two thrumbos. One magically self tamed and the other was an inspired tame. Thrumbo number 2 had a meteor smack them. What would annihilate most animals instantly instead only shredded It’s body neck and head but it’s blood loss was not immediate whatsoever. It in fact lived without any treatment. Thrumbos are giga Chad’s early to mid game are quite helpful for hauling large fields of wheat. Also the first thrumbo slaughtered an entire raider group after she was given some go juice so yeah there is that.

a warg can be soloed with a single colonist with 12 in melee, the brawler trait, and 2 power claws... you have slayn manny a animal choco my hard carry face tank colonist. thankyou for your service xD

To be fair, a thrumbo simply can save your ass in a huge fight. I had 1 thrumbo in a choke point, and behind him had my gunners, and i easily fended off around 100 pirates without losing anybody. So, saving your colony outweighs every downside the animal has.

Very curious where you’d rank things now that pens are a requirement for a bunch of animals. Personally I find pens pretty annoying to use. Especially if a siege happens to destroy a pen wall and your animals decide to wander randomly, potentially opening doors to your outer walls for raiders to abuse.

When I see elephants inside the base it just cracks me up for some reason lol

4:15 I am so proud to hear the Emu War in a Rimworld video as an Australian.

My colony with over 21 Thrumbos would like to disagree with placing them in such a low Tier, For me Thrumbos are at least B Tier cause of their heavy tankiness, I won so many fights just because of the thrumbos alone, putting them infront of a good chokepoint makes it almost impossible for raiders to come through. Especially with royalty and the possibilities with all the psy-casts like painblock and skip they are just incredibly valuable. Another plus side for lategame is that they keep the outter perimeter clean of trees so enemy raiders don't have cover when i decide to lower their numbers with some snipers

Elephants is S tier for me. They're great tanks, intelligent, can nuzzle and haul. They're like the jack of all trades and so versatile.

I like to have armies of huskies to send into battle, their pretty effective especially against sieges :p

Turtles are so good, I made a colony with over 100 turtles and every grass tile can permanently feed about 3 turtles, I would just create a zone around the raid to get them to attack. They wouldn't kill much but would be an amazing distraction as my 4 pawns would slowly pick off the raid of 25 raiders, and turtles reproduce so quickly I was able to turn off taming completely since I would through them into a meat grinder so frequently that they wouldn't even go wild by the time they died.

Thrumbo really shouldn't be any lower than B purely based off their stats alone. Their everything is amazing (but wool is the only thing you'll be getting from them without killing them), I'm fairly certain no vanilla animal can take them on and I know no pawn in anything less than power armor can either (unless you got mods which boost dodge chance), they can be trained in everything (Tell a pack of thrumbos to go hunting for you with Hunt for Me mod and just watch the bullying ensue), good for modded stack size hauling since they share the same carrying capacity as elephants outside of caravans (I think they can carry a 1k stack of steel in one go, which is the default size with Ogrestack), and all of that comes with the 99% wildness which this video considers as a pure downside. I don't think it is, especially in a vanilla setting, for one really big reason: Maintaining tames is your only form of animal handling training. If you're not including mods in this list, then mods like fishing aren't being included so you have no way to safely and reliably raise the animals skill, and especially maintain it at the higher levels with the vanilla skill degradation. Seeing as you don't want to completely fill your colony with high maintenance animals, if you're going to get any 90+% wildness animal, then you might as well go for broke with the thrumbo. Its handling requirement of 10 is the floor for skill degradation, so you'll never lose your ability to train them outside of pawn death.

i once had a colony that only used wargs for animals. they were also my main melee fighters, at one point i had 27 wargs. not one ever went manhunter on me and while i nearly starved every single winter trying to keep them fed they were more then worth it. Warg is S tier.

Dear God, that soundtrack! Pigs don't require maintenance training while boars do. That by itself puts them ahead for me.

Heyy Noobert, is there an image i could download for you animal tier list? no part of the video shows the complete animal tier image. its cropped due zooming or otherwise, thank you