Megasloth

The megasloth is a giant, ancient sloth. Megasloths can be found in 
== Summary ==
Tamed megasloth can be sheared for () every days for of work. Note that yield and shearing time are modified by the shearer's Animal Gather Yield and Animal Gather Speed respectively. 
== Analysis ==
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. It should be noted the Megasloth has the highest filth of any animal in the game, tying the elephant for first place.
=== Early armor ===
Megasloths can spawn from the very start of the game, and provide large quantities of meat and heavy fur, the 5th most protective textile in the game. The protection offered by a heavy fur duster can provide a significant buff to the combat staying power of your pawns at a time where they're most vulnerable, especially if a skilled crafter is available. Hunting megasloths this early is not simple however, as they are faster than most pawns, and have high and large health pools. 
However by kiting it with one pawn as the others attack, trading off colonists for it to target as needed, and allowing it to bleed out if necessary, both Crashlanded and Lost Tribe starts can successfully hunt them from day one. Avoid wearing encumbering armor, and ideally use any pawns with move speed bonuses, such as those with the jogger trait or fast runner gene, as the primary bait.
=== As an attack animal ===
If it can be tamed, it makes for a good 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 	 	 	 	 	
Megasloth 	 	 	 	 	
Elephant 	 	 	 	 	
Rhinoceros	 	 	 	 	
Bear 	 	 	 	 	
As attack and hauling animals, megasloths face heavy competition with elephants. Elephants have less wildness, which means they produce less filth, are easier to train, and need to be trained less often. In addition, elephants are pack animals, and won't go manhunter on a failed taming attempt. However, elephants can only be found in . They eat more food than megasloths, but as grass is free, this usually isn't a problem.
Note that megasloths are the only combat animal that produces wool. All other wool-producing animals are pen animals and cannot be used in combat.
=== Wool ===
Megasloths produce megasloth wool, though they are the worst animal for wool quantity per nutrition consumed. 3 alpacas eat less than 1 megasloth, and produce wool at 13.5 alpaca wool per day. A megasloth produces 10 wool per day. Biomes that provide adequate grazing make this consideration irrelevant however.
Megasloths are theoretically the most work efficient animal for wool, however, since megasloths are not pen animals, they need to be re-trained constantly. This is less of a concern when training is already accounted for in its role as a combat animal, as all combat animals require training, but even there it consumes more time than others. Combined with their difficulty to tame in the first place, their wool is usually a secondary consideration unless its insulative properties are desperately needed.
As compensation, megasloth wool insulates well against the cold, being the 2nd best textile for cold protection. Unlike their fur, megasloth wool is not physically protective - while significantly superior to all other wools in that regard, it places slightly worse than plainleather when compared to textiles as a whole.
== Training ==
== Health ==
== Gallery ==
Megasloth east.png|Megasloth facing east
Megasloth north.png|Megasloth facing north
Megasloth south.png|Megasloth facing south
Dessicated megasloth east.png|Megasloth decaying
== Version history ==
* 0.16.1393 - Renamed from Megatherium to Megasloth.
Category:Animals
Category:Wild animal