Bammoth math

[Mariolo]

A Bammoth consumes 9% growth of plume squash. Domestic plume squash grows at a rate of 11.11% per cycle, so one Bammoth consumes needs .81 plume squash plants. To feed a full ranch of 6 you'd need 4.86 plants (5 domestic, or 20 wild)
This takes 75kg/cycle of ethanol

With a happy mood, reproduction is 8.3% per cycle, or one egg every 12 cycles
200 cycles of life - 5 cycles of baby 195 cycles. A happy Bammoth Will lay 16 eggs over its life time, although a more realistic estimate is 15 unless you can keep the critter groomed constantly. 15 eggs per 200 cycles or .075 eggs per cycles or one egg every 13.3 cycles
25,600 kcals of meat per egg * .075 egg per cycle = 1920kcals of meat per cycle, or 2400kcals of barbeque or 3360kcals of deep fried steak.
A full ranch of 6 can sustain 14.4 dupes or 20 if you cook it into deep fried steak. For contrast, a ranch of 8 hatches sustains 4.8 dupes. This makes them the best critters for meat unless you starvation ranch shove voles

In terms of reed fiber, a tamed Bammoth with the "just ate" buff can be sheared every 10 cycles.
First shearing in cycle 10, one Bammoth can be sheared 19 times in its lifetime for 95 reed fiber, assuming you can keep the buff constantly. 95 fiber per Bammoth in 200 cylces or 0.475 per cycle. This is similar to a domestic thimble reed which produces .5 per cycle. A ranch of 8 drecko makes around 10 fiber per cycle, which is almost 4 times higher than the 2.85 of a Bammoth ranch.

TLDR: for the price of 75kg/cycle of ethanol, you get barbeque for 14.4 dupes and while they aren't nearly as good as dreckos for reed fiber they are probably good enough for most of your needs

Let me know if I missed something or got something wrong

Please klei don't nerf I love these little guys

[asurendra]

Dont forget about bammoth poop, as it more than 10kg per animal per cycle. Thats extremely much...

[Tigin]

The reed fiber production numbers look off for both bammoths and dreckos

[Mariolo]

3 hours ago, imazined said:

Bammooths mature to shorn adults so you can't ranch the unfed surplus eggs.

you are right, I've corrected this in the calculations

1 hour ago, Tigin said:

The reed fiber production numbers look off for both bammoths and dreckos

I had a brainfart and typed 270 instead of a170 for some reason. I've corrected it and it turns out you can't shear the overflow eggs so the numbers are much worse than I initially calculated

[imazined]

The numbers aren't really bad. You get one reed fiber per fed bammoth which is double the production compared to one thimble reed.

[Tigin]

48 minutes ago, Mariolo said:

you are right, I've corrected this in the calculations

I had a brainfart and typed 270 instead of a170 for some reason. I've corrected it and it turns out you can't shear the overflow eggs so the numbers are much worse than I initially calculated

2.85 looks right for bammoths. For dreckos, they're still slightly off from my figures. 8 dreckos realistically produce 15 eggs each in 150 cycles. With starvation shearing 4 times before starving, at best it would be 2 x 8 x ((14 x 4) + 20) / 150 or 8.1 reed fiber/cycle

[Sinistrem]

They now eat 44% growth per cycle and give 22,400 kcals of meat.

Which means you need 4 plants per blammoth, 24 per a full ranch.

You can't even fit that many in a 4 tile high ranch and still have space for grooming and shearing station, not to mention the crazy amount of ethanol needed. I think they are basically "farm 1bammoth to get reed fiber for atmo suits, then move to dreckos in the future" now.

They definitely aren't worth the trouble when farming for food. Harvesting those plume squashes and frying them with tallow is probably much better than ranching for meat and turning into pemmican.

It's funny how nerfing them actually makes spigots worse since supporting bammoth ranches with ethanol was basically their sole purpose. And it actually makes floxes a bit better since meat isn't as easy to get now and you don't need to warm the ranch up akin to pips or hatches and they are available from the start.