Bestiary/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.
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Ridgeback
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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.