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'''Elephants''' are large land [[animals]] often found in {{Habitats}}. They have two [[elephant tusk]]s which give both genders of elephant dangerous attacks in melee, and which can be harvested from adult male elephants for trade or use by humans as a modest melee weapon. Butchering female or non-adult elephants does not yield any tusks. It is currently unclear whether the ability for female elephants to attack with tusks, but not yield them on butchering is intentional or a bug.
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'''Elephants''' are large land [[animals]] often found in {{Habitats}}. They have [[elephant tusk]]s , which can be used to fight in melee.
  
They are relatively hard to tame, with a wildness of 75 percent, but once tamed, they can be trained in high level animal skills due to their intelligence. It can be employed in the [[Defense tactics#Animal melee blocking|animal melee blocking tactic]] because of their tankiness and high damage output.
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== Summary ==
Elephants can be brought on [[caravan]]s as [[pack animal]]s, they can carry {{P|Pack Capacity}} kg of weight, which is four times more than the [[alpaca]] and almost double that of the [[muffalo]].
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When an adult male elephant is butchered, it yields 2 [[elephant]] tusks, unless the elephant tusk body part was damaged while it was alive.
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Despite the texture of female elephants showing tusks, and female elephants' ability to attack with tusks, they do not yield them when butchered. It is currently unclear whether the ability for female elephants to attack with tusks, but not yield them on butchering is intentional or a bug.
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Elephants can be brought on [[caravan]]s as [[pack animal]]s, they can carry {{P|Pack Capacity}} kg of weight, almost double that of the [[muffalo]]. They can additionally be ridden for up to 130% caravan speed, reached if there is at least 1 elephant per rider.
  
 
== Analysis ==
 
== Analysis ==
Elephants have a high revenge chance on harm and zero revenge chance on tame. Consider taming elephants for future slaughter rather than hunting them, especially because the slaughter of tame animals produces 50% bonus meat.
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Elephants are difficult to tame and come with a high hunger rate, but are very powerful animals. They are in the unique position as the only pack animal that be trained to haul. They can also be ridden in a caravan for extra speed. As a bonus, elephants are great at combat.
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Elephants come in herds; hunting 1 elephant may anger the entire herd. In addition, elephants have 50% manhunter on hunt but 0% manhunter on a failed tame. Even if you want to slaughter elephants, consider taming them first. As a plus side, elephant herds are great to use with a [[psychic animal pulser]] or the [[Psycasts#Manhunter pulse|Manhunter pulse]] [[psycast]]{{RoyaltyIcon}}.
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===As an attack animal===
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Elephants are powerful animals, great for [[Defense tactics#Animal melee blocking|damage soak tactics]]. They have a high health, joint second with [[megasloth]]s, but elephants are much easier to tame. In addition, elephants will never go manhunter on a failed taming attempt.  
  
Elephants are in the unique position of being the only [[pack animal]] that can also be trained to haul. They can even be ridden in caravans for a {{P|Riding Speed}} overland speed multiplier, for longer-range trade and travel.
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However, this comes at the cost of a high hunger rate. This is not usually a problem, as elephants reside in tropical biomes, but can be an issue during a a [[toxic fallout]] or [[caravan]] trip.
  
Elephants are a good choice as a [[Defense tactics#Animal melee blocking|damage soak animal,]] as the amount of damage they can take is joint second with [[megasloth]]s, although this comes at the cost of a very high hunger rate.
 
 
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Revision as of 06:13, 16 March 2023

Elephant

Elephant

The largest unmodified land animal. Elephants has a long trunk they use to manipulate objects, and sharp tusks they use to gore attackers. A dead elephant's valuable tusks can be recovered by butchering it.
Intelligent creatures with complex social relationships, elephants can be used as pack animals or trained to carry out the most complex of tasks. They live a long time, and are known to remember events and relationships from many decades before.

Base Stats

Type
Animal
Market Value
600 Silver
Flammability
70%

Pawn Stats

Move Speed
4.8 c/s
Health Scale
3.6
Body Size
4
Mass - Baby
48 kg
Mass - Juvenile
120 kg
Mass - Adult
240 kg
Pack Capacity
140 kg
Carrying Capacity
300 kg
Riding Speed
1.3
Filth Rate
24
Hunger Rate
2.57 Nutrition/Day
Diet
herbivorous
Life Expectancy
50 years
Manhunter Chance
50%
Manhunter Chance (Taming)
0%
Trainable Intelligence
Advanced
Wildness
75%
Minimum Handling Skill
7
Mate Interval
12 hours
Maturity Age
0.666 years (40 days)
Juvenile Age
0.3 years (18 days)
Comfortable Temp Range
-12 °C – 50 °C (10.4 °F – 122 °F)

Production

Meat Yield
560 elephant meat
Leather Yield
160 elephant leather
Gestation Period
13.32 days
Offspring Per Birth
1

Melee Combat

Attack 1
Tusk
25 dmg (Scratch)
37 % AP
2.6 second cooldown
Attack 2
Tusk
25 dmg (Stab)
37 % AP
2.6 second cooldown
Attack 3
Front left leg
16.9 dmg (Blunt)
25 % AP
2 second cooldown
Attack 4
Front right leg
16.9 dmg (Blunt)
25 % AP
2 second cooldown
Attack 5
Head
14 dmg (Blunt)
21 % AP
2 second cooldown
0.2 chance factor
Average DPS
5.35
Technical
tradeTags
AnimalUncommon


Elephants are large land animals often found in tropical rainforests, tropical swamps, and arid shrublands. They have elephant tusks , which can be used to fight in melee.

Summary

When an adult male elephant is butchered, it yields 2 elephant tusks, unless the elephant tusk body part was damaged while it was alive.

Despite the texture of female elephants showing tusks, and female elephants' ability to attack with tusks, they do not yield them when butchered. It is currently unclear whether the ability for female elephants to attack with tusks, but not yield them on butchering is intentional or a bug.

Elephants can be brought on caravans as pack animals, they can carry 140 kg of weight, almost double that of the muffalo. They can additionally be ridden for up to 130% caravan speed, reached if there is at least 1 elephant per rider.

Analysis

Elephants are difficult to tame and come with a high hunger rate, but are very powerful animals. They are in the unique position as the only pack animal that be trained to haul. They can also be ridden in a caravan for extra speed. As a bonus, elephants are great at combat.

Elephants come in herds; hunting 1 elephant may anger the entire herd. In addition, elephants have 50% manhunter on hunt but 0% manhunter on a failed tame. Even if you want to slaughter elephants, consider taming them first. As a plus side, elephant herds are great to use with a psychic animal pulser or the Manhunter pulse psycastContent added by the Royalty DLC.

As an attack animal

Elephants are powerful animals, great for damage soak tactics. They have a high health, joint second with megasloths, but elephants are much easier to tame. In addition, elephants will never go manhunter on a failed taming attempt.

However, this comes at the cost of a high hunger rate. This is not usually a problem, as elephants reside in tropical biomes, but can be an issue during a a toxic fallout or caravan trip.

Animal Health Scale DPS Move Speed Hunger rate Training Decay
Thrumbo 8 6.33 5.5 2.8 6.1
Megasloth 3.6 5.73 4.8 1.6 6.2
Elephant 3.6 5.35 4.8 2.57 7.5
Rhinoceros 3.5 5.24 5 1.71 6.6
Bear 2.5 4.89 4.6 0.56 7.2

Training

This animal can be trained as follows:

Guard:  Check.png
Attack:  Check.png
Rescue:  Check.png
Haul:  Check.png

*As of version 1.1.2610, all animals can be tamed. The percentage of likelihood of success depends on factors such as the Animals Wildness Percentage, Pawn Handling Skill, and others. More information can be found on the animals page.

Health


Body part Health
Head 90
Skull 90
Brain 36
Nose 36
Neck 90
Jaw 72
Eye [1]
(left, right)
36
Ear
(left, right)
36
Body 144
Kidney[2]
(left, right)
54
Lung[2]
(left, right)
54
Liver[2] 72
Heart[2] 54
Spine[2] 90
Stomach[2] 72
Limbs
(left, right, fore, hind)
108
Appendage
(left, right, fore, hind)
72
  1. Located inside of Head.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Located inside of Body.

Trivia

Female elephants don't drop tusks when butchered, despite being able to make tusk attacks in melee and displaying the tusks on their texture. If it is intended for female elephants to not have tusks, this may imply that the elephants in-game are Asian Elephants as tusks aren't a sexually dimorphic trait in African Elephants.

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