Animal Lore¶
Identify and evaluate creatures and their abilities.
Overview¶
Animal Lore allows you to examine creatures and pets, revealing detailed information about their stats, skills, resistances, and abilities. Essential for tamers and useful for all players who interact with creatures.
Active Use¶
When you actively use the Animal Lore skill on a creature:
- Target Range: 8 tiles
- Cooldown: 1 second
- Requirements:
- Must target an animal, monster, or sea creature
- Cannot target dead creatures
- At skill < 90.0: Can only lore tamed creatures
- At skill < 100.0: Can only lore tamed or tameable creatures
- At skill 100.0: Can lore any creature
- Success: Opens detailed gump showing creature information
- Failure: "You can't think of anything you know offhand."
Information Displayed¶
The Animal Lore gump shows comprehensive creature details across multiple pages:
Page 1: Attributes¶
- Hits / Max Hits
- Stamina / Max Stamina
- Mana / Max Mana
- Strength
- Dexterity
- Intelligence
- Barding Difficulty
- Loyalty Rating (for controlled pets)
Page 2: Combat Ratings¶
- Wrestling skill
- Tactics skill
- Magic Resistance skill
- Anatomy skill
- Poisoning skill
Page 3: Lore & Knowledge¶
- Magery skill
- Evaluating Intelligence skill
- Meditation skill
Page 4: Misc Information¶
- Preferred Foods (Meat, Fruits/Vegetables, Grains/Hay, Fish, Metal, Eggs)
- Pack Instincts (Canine, Ostard, Feline, Arachnid, Daemon, Bear, Equine, Bull)
Skill Display
Skills below 10.0 are displayed as "---"
Healing Synergy¶
Animal Lore is used as the secondary skill when healing animals and monsters with bandages:
- Functions like Anatomy does for healing players
- Used in healing amount calculation
- Used in resurrection success chance
- Used in poison curing success chance
See Veterinary for detailed healing formulas.
Training¶
Active Training¶
Use Animal Lore skill on:
- Wild animals (requires 90.0+ skill for untamed)
- Tamed creatures (works at any skill level)
- Monsters (requires 100.0 skill if untameable)
- Other players' pets
- Your own pets
Passive Training¶
- Gains while taming creatures
- Improves alongside taming skill
Quick Training
Macro the skill on nearby animals. Each use provides a gain chance when you successfully use the skill.
Related Skills¶
Essential Pair:
- Animal Taming - Control creatures
- Veterinary - Heal pets
Tamer Template:
- Animal Taming: 100
- Animal Lore: 100 ⭐
- Veterinary: 100
- Magery: 100
- Meditation: 100
- Resisting Spells: 100
- Wrestling: 100
Uses¶
Information Gathering¶
- Assess threat level before combat
- Identify creature resistances
- Plan attack strategies
Pet Management¶
- Monitor pet stats
- Track loyalty changes
- Evaluate taming candidates
Trading¶
- Appraise pet value
- Verify pet quality for buyers
Importance¶
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (Essential for tamers) ⭐⭐ (Useful for non-tamers)
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