Giraffe

Giraffes are one of the docile Mammals in ATLAS.

Behavior
Giraffes are neutral animals commonly found in desert biome. They favor wild beets as a food source.

Giraffes are 5 walls tall 6 to be safe

Utility
A is a great  harvester, with a 6x harvesting bonus and a 25% reduced weight. Giraffes also harvest a lot of and, but only a small amount of. They cannot, however, harvest, or  (except ).

They have a few other nice benefits:


 * They can seat a driver and two other passengers, one on each side.
 * Their height provides a fog of war buff while riding.
 * They are fast.

Speed
In-game speed testing shows a Giraffe can sprint 500 meters in 30 seconds.


 * That is 60 KPH which is 37 MPH.
 * That is equal to a ship moving at 32 knots*.

Of course, your actual sustained travel speed will be determined by your mount's stamina and the obstacles in your path. While a Giraffe isn't the most agile animal out there, it's long legs can walk right over obstacles that would block shorter animals. They also allow it to walk right through some shallows that a shorter animal would have to swim through. Its heft will also allow a to knock down trees and  that might stop a lighter animal. And its stamina drains fairly slowly and it recovers its stamina extremely quickly. * To see your ship's current speed in knots as a comparison, obtain a  Sextant buff.

Taming
 Tier 3 Taming 

Taming a Giraffe can be tricky because of their long, cleaving horizontal attacks while they are trapped in a bola.

You may feed the Giraffe a wild beet every 20 seconds when you approach their face. In most approaches, the Giraffe will swing his neck and try to headbutt you. The impact will cause a manageable amount of damage and knock you back.

Try to make sure you don't have any other wild, aggressive animals around. Sometimes the knockback from the Giraffe will hit you into an aggressive animal in the area which could potentially ruin your tame.

You will need either farmed Beet (best), Wild Beet or other Farming crops to tame it.

August 2020 : I was able to feed the Giraffe coming slowly up of her left side aiming for the mouth till I can feed it.

Here's a picture I took of the position I fed her.



Stats
Lvl 1 Giraffe have these stats in patch V17.11

Health       287.6

Food         3000

Oxygen       150

Weight       1540

Stamina      380 (Increased to 440 in patch 18.84)

Damage       112.5

Combat
Giraffes can attack with long sweeping headbutts (Left Mouse Button), or with a stationary trample attack (right mouse button). They also possess a "trample" effect that will deal very slight damage to smaller animals you walk/sprint over.