Megasloth

The megasloth is a giant, ancient sloth. If tamed, it produces Megasloth wool at a rate of 200 every 20 days.

Although being a "sloth", it actually has a slightly faster movement speed than a human. Attacking one is quite dangerous and taming one will require both high skill and considerable risk. It is the second hardest animal after the Thrumbo to tame, and with most skill levels, the manhunter chance is higher than the taming chance. Wounding then saving the megasloth, or waiting for an inspiration is the recommended way to tame one.

Megasloths can be found in temperate forests, temperate swamps, arid shrublands, boreal forests, cold bogs, tundra, and ice sheets.

Analysis

If it can be tamed, it makes an excellent attack or damage soak animal. Compared to other bulky attack animals, it is joint second in health and second highest in DPS, despite only eating as much as a human colonist.

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

One advantage of taming them is that they can be sheared for an incredible amount of wool. Although they can only be sheared every 20 days (the longest interval of any shearable animal), they give 200 wool per shearing, making them the most work efficient source of wool in the game. This feature can be exploited to either make lots of excellent cold-resistant clothing, or lots of silver.

Training

This animal can be trained as follows:

Guard:
Attack:
Rescue:
Haul:

*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