Land animals of the home world.

How land animals behave

Every land creature has a temper, which decides what it does when it notices you. Some run away at once, some ignore you until you strike them, and some come looking for you.

• Skittish animals run when you come within a few metres, or when you sprint towards them. Horses, goats, sheep, hens and burrowkits are all skittish.
• Neutral animals leave you alone until you hit them. Then they fight back, and they stay angry for a while. The Pinewood Bear is neutral.
• Hostile animals go after you whenever they are awake and you are close enough. Land hunters notice you from about 15 metres away.

Some animals keep to the day and sleep at night, others come out only in the dark. Predators also hunt the animals that are their prey, so a lion may chase a horse across the grass while you watch.

The land animals

Health is the number of hits your full health takes off. Groups show how many are found together.

Animal	Found in	Temper and hours	Health	Group	Drops
Meadow Horse	Sunmead, Pinecrest Highlands, Saltstrand	Skittish, by day	40	2 to 5	Raw Meat 2 to 4, Raw Hide 1 to 2
Crag Goat	Skyreach Peaks, Pinecrest Highlands, Rustmesa	Skittish, by day	25	2 to 4	Raw Meat 1 to 2, Raw Hide 1, Bone 0 to 1
Pinewood Bear	Pinecrest Highlands, Emberwood, Hoarfrost Flats	Neutral, any time. Hunts goats and burrowkits	90	1	Raw Meat 3 to 5, Raw Hide 2 to 3, Bone 1 to 2
Dune Lion	Brightsand Expanse, Rustmesa	Hostile, any time. Hunts horses, goats and dune hens	70	1 to 3	Raw Meat 2 to 4, Raw Hide 1 to 2
Frost Wolf	Hoarfrost Flats, Pinecrest Highlands	Hostile, any time. Runs in packs. Hunts goats, horses and burrowkits	45	2 to 4	Raw Meat 1 to 2, Raw Hide 1 to 2, Bone 0 to 1
Mire Croc	Mirefen	Hostile, lies in wait. Hunts horses, goats, hens and burrowkits	110	1 to 2	Raw Meat 2 to 4, Raw Hide 2 to 3, Bone 1 to 2
Sand Raider	Brightsand Expanse, Rustmesa	Hostile, walks on two legs	60	2 to 3	Gold 0 to 2, Leather 1 to 2
Gloamstalker	Dark caves and the surface at night	Hostile, out at night. Hunts burrowkits and dune hens	45	1 to 3	Bone 1 to 2, Raw Hide 1
Burrowkit	Sunmead, Mirefen, Verdance Tangle, Emberwood	Skittish. A tiny creature	6	1 to 3	Raw Meat 1, Wool 0 to 1
Dune Hen	Saltstrand, Sunmead, Brightsand Expanse	Skittish, by day	8	2 to 5	Raw Meat 1, Feather 1 to 3
Meadow Cow	Sunmead, Verdance Tangle, Pinecrest Highlands	Passive, by day	40	2 to 4	Raw Meat 2 to 4, Raw Hide 1 to 2
Woolly Sheep	Sunmead, Skyreach Peaks, Pinecrest Highlands	Skittish, by day	25	3 to 6	Raw Meat 1 to 2
Mud Pig	Mirefen, Verdance Tangle, Emberwood, Sunmead	Passive	30	2 to 4	Raw Meat 2 to 4

Things to know

• Cows, sheep, pigs and hens are the farm's animals. You can win them over and keep them. See livestock and husbandry.
• Burrowkits and gloamstalkers can be tamed too, and burrowkits make good first pets. See taming and pets.
• Bears and wolves are the most dangerous for an unarmed explorer. Carry a blade or a spear.
• Sand Raiders carry gold, which makes them worth the fight in the deserts.
• Caught in deep water, a land animal swims for the nearest dry ground, and small ones will not wade at all.

Other worlds

Every other kind of world has its own wildlife, and none of it turns up on the home planet. Jungle worlds have puffgrazers, coilnecks, thornmaws and lanternmoths. Desert worlds have prism skinks, dunestriders, ribhounds and sunkites. Ice worlds have rimebacks, shardhorns, hoarmaws and frostwisps. Volcanic worlds have cinder beetles, ashcrawlers and emberbats. Acid worlds have waxhides, corroders, stiltgazers and several creatures that never attack. Each one is found only on its own world.

See also the animals and fishing guide for a quick overview, and sea life for what lives in the water.

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