Bestiary/Ridgeback

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Ridgeback

The regular ridgeback. Infobox values apply to both kinds.
General
Type	Animal / mount
Category	Mounts
Alignment	Neutral
Karma	0
Fame	300
Behavior	Only when attacked
Speed	Medium
Stats
Strength	58–100
Dexterity	56–75
Intelligence	16–30
Hit points	41–54
Stamina	56–75
Mana	0
Damage	3–5
Armor	0
Taming
Tameable	Yes
Min. skill	83.1
Control slots	1
Bondable	Yes
Rideable	Yes
Favorite food	Fruits and vegetables or grain and hay
Resources
Carving	1 raw ribs, 12 spined hides

The Ridgeback is a riding lizard that only fights when attacked. There's also a savage ridgeback with a different look and the same stats. Both need 83.1 Animal Taming, but once tamed they always obey and any owner can bond with them.

Overview

• In-game name: a ridgeback (a ridgeback corpse) or a savage ridgeback (a savage ridgeback corpse).
• Looks: the ridgeback uses body 187 and the savage ridgeback body 188.
• Behavior: both leave you alone unless you attack them. The ridgeback fights in melee with the animal AI; the savage ridgeback uses the melee AI.

• 
  Ridgeback
• 
  Savage ridgeback

Stats

Stat	Ridgeback	Savage ridgeback
Strength	58–100	58–100
Dexterity	56–75	56–75
Intelligence	16–30	16–30
Hit points	41–54	41–54
Stamina	56–75 (same as its Dexterity)	56–75 (same as its Dexterity)
Mana	0	0
Melee damage	3–5	3–5
Armor rating	0	0
Fame / Karma	300 / 0	300 / 0

Skills

Skill	Ridgeback	Savage ridgeback
Wrestling	35.1–45.0	35.1–45.0
Tactics	29.3–44.0	29.3–44.0
Magic Resistance	25.3–40.0	25.3–40.0

Taming

Requirement	Ridgeback	Savage ridgeback
Minimum Animal Taming	83.1	83.1
Control slots	1	1
Maximum owners	5	5
Bonding	Yes	Yes
Rideable	Yes	Yes
Favorite food	Fruits and vegetables or grain and hay	Fruits and vegetables or grain and hay

Below the minimum Animal Taming you have no chance. Each previous owner makes it harder to tame.

• Success chance. For a first-time tame, your chance of success at the end of an attempt is about 34% at 100.0 skill, and it improves as your skill rises. Every previous owner adds 6 points to the difficulty.
• Don't hurt it. If it takes any damage during your attempt, taming fails with "The animal is too angry to continue taming."
• Stay close. You must stay within 6 tiles of it and keep a clear path to it.
• Obedience. Once tamed, both always obey their owner; they never refuse a command, whatever your skill.
• Re-taming. If you've owned this one before, taming it again always succeeds ("That wasn't even challenging.").
• After its first tame, its skills drop to 90% of their wild values, or 86% if it was paralyzed while you tamed it. Its stats don't drop.

Bonding

Only the owner can bond with a ridgeback, and there's no skill requirement, so any owner can bond with it. Feed it to start bonding, then feed it again after 7 days to finish. When you see "Your pet has bonded with you!", it's done.

Riding

Double-click your tamed ridgeback to ride it. It can run 4,480 steps before it gets too tired to move, compared with 3,840 for a horse. Only running counts (walking doesn't tire it unless you're overloaded), and it recovers 1 step per second while it isn't running.

Loot

It carries no loot.

Carving

Use a blade on the corpse to get:

• 1 raw ribs
• 12 spined hides

Tips

• Taming is the hard part: at 100.0 skill each attempt has about a 34% chance.
• After that it's easy: it always obeys, and you can bond with it whatever your skill.
• It can run 4,480 steps, more than a horse.
• It's fragile for its taming level (41–54 hit points, 3–5 damage), so treat it as a mount, not a fighter.
• Carve the corpse for 12 spined hides.