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''Animal husbandry'' allows for the production (breeding) of new creatures, sometimes with increased quality, without the need to wait for new [[spawn]]s.
* 0 skill: Horse's color is considered a trait.
* 20 skill: "It will fight fiercely." (High fighting skill?)
* 21 skill: "It has fleeter movement than normal." (Minor speed boost)
* 22 skill: "It is a tough bugger." (Withstands more damage)
* 23 skill: "It has a strong body." (More health)
* 24 skill: "It has lightning movement." (Randomly increases speed for a short duration)
* 25 skill: "It can carry more than average." (Less penalty to speed due to high load)
* 26 skill: "It has very strong leg muscles." (Less penalty to speed due to slope? Does not currently do this.)
* 27 skill: "It has keen senses." (Increased agro range or possibly harder to tame?)
* 28 skill: "It has malformed hindlegs." (Minor speed penalty)*
* 29 skill: "The legs are of different length." (Major speed penalty)*
* 30 skill: "It seems overly aggressive." (Goes into frenzy when attacked)*
* 31 skill: "It looks very unmotivated." (Seldom uses speed boosts?)*
* 32 skill: "It is unusually strong willed." (Will drop lead or unhitch from a cart at random)*
* 33 skill: "It has some illness." (Usually unridable. Penalty to body strength)*
* 34 skill: "It looks constantly hungry." (is twice as fast hungry again)*
* 39 skill: "It looks feeble and unhealthy." (Prone to disease)*
* 40 skill: "It looks unusually strong and healthy." (Has a higher resistance to disease)
* 41 skill: "It has a certain spark in its eyes." (Affects breeding? <s>Will not die of old age?</s> Disproved, see talk.)
(All "?" are unconfirmed, traits with a * are removed by a [[Genesis]] cast)
Inbreeding == Traits ==* Bred animals have a chance of gaining traits, some positive, some negative, some neutral. Animals may have multiple traits as seen in the table below. All traits are put into the gene pool when breeding and those of the parents will increase the chance of the offspring having the same. Should both parents have the same trait the likelihood of the offspring gaining that trait is even higher.**The dominant category is picked from either the mother or the father randomly.**If neither parent has traits, all categories of traits receive a negative effectbonus to seed the initial traits. It adds extra negative *The breeder's animal husbandry skill level affects the number of traits that donwill appear in a horse. Bred animals can also have no traits.**Traits have point values which influence their chance to pass on and how many traits a bred animal recieves. **Players are capped at their animal husbandry level't count against s worth of points for creatures they have bred (80AH= 80 points of traits, for example).**Inbreeding will now cause the max point value to be divided by 1.5.**There is still a cap of 10 traits per creature (this does not include 0 point traits like ''bred in captivity'').* Traits fall into several categories:**Speed: These traits will increase the speed of a creature when riding on them. These traits do not affect the speed of hitched animals. **Draft: These traits will increase a creature’s carry weight. They will also now act as speed traits when hitched and give a speed bonus similar to having the regular speed traits.**Combat: These traits increase how tough a creature can be and how well it can fight.**Negative: These traits all have negative effects that are generally unwanted.**Output: These traits increase results from butchering output, shearing, and milking. **Miscellaneous: These traits don’t fit any other category. They may be positive or neutral traits pool.
Inbreeding ===Inspect Animal===*The ‘Inspect animal’ ability is mating with the father gained at 10 Animal Husbandry skill.*Players can see information about if an animal is hungry, breedable, and/or mother or when the two animals have the same father or mothergroomable.*Use ‘Inspect animal’ on bred creatures to see traits. Basically if **This displays all traits of a creature that you only can find two horses see with your Animal Husbandry skill level. It also displays the categories of the traits you'll can’t normally see. With higher skill, you’ll be ok able to see other details in three generationsthe Inspect animal window, such as time until a creature can be bred again, time until a creature can be groomed again, or whether a creature is hungry, or age of the creature. But it might *Players seem to be better able to see when the animal is hungry, breedable, and groomable at an AH level below 50.*At AH level 50, players can see if an animal is ready to mate your horses with your neighbors horsesshear wool and/or ready to milk and a more accurate pregnancy timer.
====Important to note====
Players {| class= "wikitable sortable"!! width="50"| Category !! width="200" | Trait name !! width="200" | Effect!! width="50" | Base Skill ([[Epic]] Curve Skill) !! width="50" | Value |-| '''Combat, Rare'''| ''It seems extremely tame'' | Aggressive animals become passive | < 43 (24.50)| 0|-| Combat| ''It seems more friendly'' | Easier to tame | 34 (18.76)| 5|-| Combat| ''It will fight fiercely.'' || Higher fighting skill <ref name="unknown">Traits are either unknown or unconfirmed.</ref>| 20 (10.56)| 10|-| Combat| ''It looks more friendly than normal'' | Less likely to be attacked by aggressive creatures when tame| 48 (27.89)| 15|-| Combat| ''It is a tough bugger.'' || Withstands more damage |22 (11.68)| 15|-| Combat| ''It seems especially loyal'' | keeps loyalty to its tamer longer, loses less when taking damage| 49 (28.59)| 20|-| '''Draft, Rare'''| ''It seems stronger than normal'' | Carry weight bonus| 32 (17.54) | 0|-| '''Draft, Rare'''| ''It seems more nimble than normal'' | Increased maximum rideable slope <ref name="nimble"> Increases rideable slope from 40 to 43. Two hitched animals must have observed that dead parents donthis trait to work with a vehicle (whether cart or wagon).</ref>| 32 (17.54) | 0|-| Draft| ''It is easy on its gear'' | Equipped gear takes less damage| 40 (22.54) | 10|-| Draft| ''It has a strong body.'' || Bonus to hauling weight limit |23 (12.25)| 15|-| Draft| ''It can carry more than average.'' || Major bonus to hauling weight limit |25 (13.40)| 20|-| Draft| ''It has strong legs'' | Carry weight bonus| 38 (21.26)| 20|-| Miscellaneous| ''Bred in captivity.''t | Informational, will not count towards toward the max number of traits | 53 (31.44) | 0|-| '''Miscellaneous, Rare'''| ''It has a chance to produce twins'' | Chance to birth twins (only present on female creatures)| 44 (25.17) | 0|-| '''Miscellaneous, Rare'''| ''It seems immortal'' | Will never die as if cared for | 29 (15.74) | 0|-|Miscellaneous| Horse's color is considered a trait. | Does not count against the trait limit |0|0|-| Miscellaneous| ''It has been corrupted.'' | Grazes on [[mycelium]] instead of grass <ref name="corrupt">[[Bless]]ing the animal with a [[Libila]] [[priest]] will create this trait, and blessing with a [[Vynora]], [[Fo]], or [[Magranon]] priest will remove it.</ref> |43 (24.50)|0|-| Miscellaneous| ''It looks unusually strong and healthy.'' | Has a higher resistance to disease | 40 (22.54) | 10|-| Miscellaneous| ''It has a certain spark in its eyes.'' | Lives 50% longer than normal | 41 (23.19)g| 10|-| Miscellaneous| ''It has a slow metabolism'' | Eats half as much as a normal animal| 45 (25.84)| 10|-| Miscellaneous| ''It looks stationary'' | It will stay put as if saddled| 50 (29.29)| 10|-| Miscellaneous| ''It seems to be a graceful eater'' | Less chance to reduce the growth stage of a tile when eating| 39 (21.90)| 10|-| Negative| ''It looks extremely sick'' | Has a very slim chance to pass away when it receives a hunger tick <ref name="genesis">Traits may be removed by casting [[Genesis]].</ref> | < 50 | 5|-| Negative| ''It seems shabby and frail'' <ref name="genesis"/>| Reduces output of resources such as milk and wool| 42 (23.84)|5|-| Negative| ''It seems to dislike steep terrain'' <ref name="genesis"/>| Decreases ridable slope | 43 (24.50) | 5|-| Negative| ''It has malformed hindlegs.'' || Minor speed penalty <ref name="genesis"/>|28 (15.15)| 5|-| Negative| ''The legs are of different length.'' || Major speed penalty <ref name="genesis"/> |29 (15.74)| 5|-| Negative| ''It seems overly aggressive.'' || Random chance to bite <ref name="genesis"/> |30 (16.33)| 5|-| Negative| ''It looks very unmotivated.'' || Major penalty to mounted weight limit <ref name="genesis"/> |31 (16.93)| 5|-| Negative| ''It is unusually strong-willed.'' || Will stop being led at random <ref name="genesis"/> |32 (17.54)| 5|-| Negative| ''It has some illness.'' || Body strength will slowly reduce over time eventually making the animal unrideable <ref name="genesis"/> <ref name="illness">Genesis cast on animals with this trait will cause it to slowly regain strength up to its original level.</ref> |33 (18.15)| 5|-| Negative| ''It looks constantly hungry.'' || Becomes hungry twice as fast as normal <ref name="genesis"/> |34 (18.76)| 5|-| Negative| ''It looks feeble and unhealthy.'' || Prone to catching a disease <ref name="genesis"/> |39 (21.90)| 5|-| '''Output, Rare'''| ''It has very good genes'' | Increased amount and quality of resources like milk and wool | ? | 0|-| Output| ''It seems to pick stuff up''| Chance to dig something up when eating, drops items on the ground| 37 (20.63)| 5|-| Output| ''It seems vibrant'' | Increases the output of resources| 46 (26.52)| 5|-| Output| ''It seems prize winning'' | Gives better products when butchered| 35 (19.38) | 10|-| Output| ''It gives more resources'' | Increases output of resources such as wool and milk| 33 (18.15) | 10|-| Output| ''It looks plump and ready to butcher'' | Gives more products when butchered| 36 (20.00)| 20|-| Speed| ''It has fleeter movement than normal.'' || Minor speed boost|21 (11.12)| 10|-| Speed| ''It has lightning movement.'' || Major speed boost |24 (12.82)| 20|-| Speed| ''It has very strong leg muscles.'' || Movement speed bonus |26 (13.98)| 15|-| Speed| '' It seems accustomed to water'' || Moves faster in shallow waters|27 (14.56)| 10|-| '''Speed, Rare'''| ''It is unbelievably fast'inbreeding' check:| Always on speed bonus similar to hell horses| 51 (30.00)|0|}
"I have often used it as a method of breeding, to kill the old parents when I had too many horses that had a parent in common. After the parents are dead, you can breed and get normal horses. Leave the parents alive and you get lots of bad traited animals." [http:<references//forum.wurmonline.com/index.php?/topic/65441-split-off-from-animal-congestion-fix/page__st__20#entry643716 Source]>
To prolong venerable animals from dying of old age you can care for them. To start caring stand next to the animal, right click the animal and select ''Care for''. If you start caring for that animal you'll get the message:
You now care specially for Aged fat Tearbabe, to ensure longevity. You may care for 1 more creatures.
The amount of animals you can care for is limited by the animal husbandry skill of the player. If you can't care for more animals you'll get the message You may not care for any more creatures right now. You are already caring for 1 creatures.'NOTES'''
You can care ''Care for 1 animal and 1 extra animal for every 10 skill in animal husbandry'' does '''NOT''' prevent the creature from dying from any causes except old age. So at 40 Animal husbandry skill you can care for 5 animalsThis includes deaths due to miscarriage, starvation, disease, or violence, whether from starving beasts, legendary creatures, or general combat, even if the creature is tamed.
To stop caring * Hostile creatures must be tamed first before they can be ''Cared for all cared animals type the command ''/stopcaringor branded.* The corpse of a ''Cared for'' in creature can be hovered over with the mouse to see the chat windowcreature's cause of death. You* A list of all the creatures ''ll get the message You no longer care Cared for '' may be listed by using the one creature you used to.command ''/caringfor''
To stop caring for a specific animal, you will need to right click the animal and 'care for' again.==Skills & Characteristics==* [[Nature]] > Animal husbandry* [[Soul]] > [[Soul strength]]* [[Soul]] > [[Soul depth]]
Reworded the statement about what deaths caring for prevents because it didn't make sense. And there was no context to why the other types of deaths were listed after the first sentence. →Caring
== Description ==
==Grooming ==Characteristics gained====Soul / * Grooming is a way to reduce the risk of disease in animals. It gives Animal Husbandry skill.** Activate a [[Soul depthgrooming brush]]and select ''groom'' while right-clicking on a groomable creature. This can be done to each animal once per hour.** Grooming can be done while moving (and while mounted), so long as you do not move too far away (two tiles) from the tile you are currently working on.** At AH level 40, players can see exactly when an animal can be groomed, e.g. {{event|inline|You can groom her again in 44 minutes.}}
== Method Fly catching==*Both A small bit of the [[animalshoney]] you wish to breed must be not hungry. One must be a male and the other one a female. Lead one of them with in a [[ropepottery jar]] (note can be used, on animals that some animals must be require grooming, to catch [[animal tamingfly|tamedflies]] to be led) and move it close to the other one. Right-click on the animal you are '''not''' leading and select the "Breed" optionfrom them.*Grooming also gives animal husbandry skill gains. Activate a *Flies can be used as fishing [[grooming brushbait]] and select ''groom'' while right-clicking on a groomable creature. You can groom animals once per hour.
== Notes Shearing==* Animals must be of the same species.* If breeding fails, you will receive a message that the male "shys away and interrupts the action".* If breeding fails or Shearing is successful and you attempt to breed again, the male animal will show that he's "not in the mood" until 45 real life minutes pass.* Females will not breed while they are pregnant. Once the female another activity which gives birth, the animal can breed againhusbandry skill.* Animals do not have to be "fat" to breed, only "no longer interested in food" (when trying to feed them). Grass eaters will typically be in this state after a minute or 2 on grass or crops.* Activate [[Agescissors]] is and select ''shear'' from the right-click menu on a factor in breeding: [[calves]] or [[foalsheep]]s will not breed, neither will young/early adolescent animals.* Breeding increases a player's * [[soul depthWool]]bundles are put directly into your inventory upon shearing.* Pregnancy times varies from 5-11 wurm [[Time|weeks]]** Sheared wool weight seems to vary depending on age: Young 0.1kg, Adolescent 0.2kg, Mature 0.3kg, Aged 0.4kg, regardless of speciesOld 0. * Examining the animal will show the remaining wurm weeks left until birth5kg, Venerable 0. eg6kg. ''She will deliver in about 4''* Animals can have a miscarriage.* If too hungry or low on fat animals Shearing can die when giving birth.* Breeding female animals with [[animal conditions|conditions]] such be done while moving, so long as Champion will provide a chance that the offspring will also have that characteristic. This chance is dramatically increased when breeding you do not move too far away (two animals with tiles) from the same condition together. (Two Champions for exampletile you are currently working on.)* Breeding two animals with the same trait greatly increases the chance that the offspring will have the trait* Shearing can not be done while mounted.* Longer blood lines will support more traits. (For example: A 4th generation dog At AH level 50, players can have up see if an animal is ready to 6 shear wool and/or so traits where a 1st generation dog (the first offspring from wild dogs) usually only have 0-3 traitsready to milk using Inspect Animal.)* The name is determined at birth, the traits are determined at breeding (noticed on a server revert on 2011-03-01)
== Traits Breeding==Bred * To breed, lead one animal with a [[rope]] (or any item should it be wearing a [[bridle]]) and approach the second. When they are close enough together right click on the second animal and select the "Breed" option.** Neither animal should be hungry.** Animals do not have to be "fat" to breed, only "no longer interested in food" (when trying to feed them). Grass eaters will typically be in this state after a minute or 2 on grass or crops.**If too hungry or low on fat animals can die when giving birth.** Animals can have miscarriages which may kill the mother with no offspring spawned. Starvation, being off-deed, or being on a deed with an animal-to-tile ratio of 15 or less (see character > settlement > info to see current deed ratio) are known as the reasons for miscarriages.** The creature ratio outside of deeds is always considered to be 10 which means more miscarriage and disease.** Both animals should be of the same species, except in the case of horses and donkeys. When breeding a chance female [[horse]] and male [[donkey]], the foal is a [[mule]].** Some animals require [[Tame|taming]] before being led; this does not apply to the second animal.<!-- *Males will only breed once every 45 real minutes regardless of having traitsoutcome. -- commented this for now as there could have been a silent change or bug -->** Females will not breed while they are pregnant. Once the female gives birth, she will not be in mood for breeding for 24 real hours.** [[Age]] is a factor in breeding: Juvenile animal types (Enhancement[[calves]], [[foal]]s, [[lamb]]s, and [[seal cub]]s) will not breed, neither will young/Deformityearly adolescent animals. (Horses will breed at 25 rl days old)** Pregnancy times varies from 5-11 Wurm [[Wurm Universe|weeks]], regardless of species. Animals can have multiple traits*** Examining the animal will show the remaining days left until birth; for example, {{event|inline|She will deliver in about 4 days.}} This is approximately 4 days, or 4 [[Wurm Universe|Wurm weeks. Examining an ]]** At higher AH skill levels, examining the animal will show traitsa more and more precise pregnancy timer. *** Below AH skill level 45, it shows e.g. {{event|inline|You make an educated guess that she will give birth in 2 days.}} *** At AH skill level 45, the timer becomes slightly more precise, e.g. {{event|inline|You predict she will give birth in 4 days.}}*** At AH skill level 50, if one has the required timer includes approximate hours, e.g. {{event|inline|You predict she will give birth in 6 days, 9 hours.}}*** At AH skill level:63, the timer becomes more exact, e.g. {{event|inline|You feel confident she will give birth in 5 days, 5 hours.}}** Breeding female animals with [[animal conditions|conditions]] such as [[Champion]] will provide a chance that the offspring will also have that characteristic. This chance is dramatically increased when breeding two animals with the same condition together. (Two Champions for example.)** Breeding two animals with the same trait greatly increases the chance that the offspring will have the trait.** The horse name is determined at birth, the traits are determined at breeding.** The horse's color from birth is determined based on a combination of the mother's color, father's color, and random chance, similarly to traits.** Breeding can be done while moving, so long as you do not move too far away (two tiles) from the tile you are currently working on.
=== Inbreeding ===
* Inbreeding occurs when an offspring is bred with either of its parents or a sibling. Inbreeding has an increased chance to pass bad traits if the parents have bad traits, but does not inherently create a bigger chance for bad traits in the offspring. Inbreeding may be unavoidable in small herds; it's advised to seek neighbours to begin a herd if one wishes to avoid inbreeding.
* Inbreeding does '''not''' occur past 1 generation. You can breed grandchildren of the same grandparents together with no inbreeding penalty.
** '''Important note:''' if an animal's parent is dead, the parent's name will no longer show up on examining the creature. The game, however, still keeps track of who the parent was.
===Messages===
; {{event|inline|'''''animal'' shys away and interrupts the action'''}} : breeding has failed, the male will not breed again for some time.
; {{event|inline|'''''animal'' doesn't seem to be in the mood right now'''}} : the male will not breed again for some time.
the animal may be hungry - feeding the animal will put it back in a breeding mood if this is the case
<!-- Changed the 45 minute suggestion due to this thread: http://forum.wurmonline.com/index.php?/topic/112669-not-in-mood-cooldown-ah/ --- Need more information. -->
== Caring ==
To prevent Venerable creatures from dying of old age they may be ''Cared for''. The creature will then live indefinitely at the Venerable stage.
'''To ''Care for''''' a creature, stand next to it, right click, and select ''Care for''.
When you start ''Caring for'' a creature this message will appear:
{{event|inline|You now care specially for Aged fat Tearbabe, to ensure longevity. You may care for x more creatures.}}
If the character is unable to ''Care for'' more creatures this message will appear:
{{event|inline|You may not care for any more creatures right now. You are already caring for x creatures.}}
The total number of creatures subject to ''Care for'' is limited primarily by the Animal husbandry skill of the character.
* 1 creature may be ''Cared for'' plus 1 additional for every 10 points in the Animal husbandry skill.
* 1 additional ''Care For'' slot may be purchased from the [[Loyalty program]] for 22,500 Marks ''(for a total adjusted Max of 12.)''
* 1 additional ''Care For'' slot may be purchased from the [[Silver store]]
'''To stop caring''' for a specific creature right click the creature and select ''Care for''.
You can also stop caring for a specific creature by right clicking on your inventory or body, then ''Manage>Animals''.
The chat command ''/stopcaring'' will stop the player from caring for all creatures. This message will appear:
{{event|inline|You no longer care for the one creature you used to.}}
'''Non-Premium''' characters can only initiate ''Care for'' on 1 creature regardless of their Animal husbandry skill.
If premium expires, the number of ''Cared for'' creatures remains static. ''Cared for'' creatures remain ''Cared for'' but the character may not change or initiate a new ''Care for'' until they re-premium.
==[[Titles]]==
* Drover at 50 skill
* Granger at 70 skill
* Rancher at 90 skill
* Zoologist at 100 skill
==See Also==
* [[Nature]]
** [[Animal husbandry]]
** [[Animal taming]]
** [[Botanizing]]
** [[Farming]]
** [[Fishing]]
** [[Foraging]]
** [[Forestry]]
** [[Gardening]]
** [[Meditating]]
** [[Milking]]
** [[Papyrusmaking]]
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[[Category:While_moving]]
