Bear

Bears are one of the non-aggressive Mammals in ATLAS.

Behavior
The bear is an animal with a defensive stance. It will not attack pathfinders or other animals unless it is attacked first.

Appearance
Can appear brown/caramel/white/dark grey and black. Polar regions generally have the lightest colors (greys and whites), tropics and temperate biomes generally have more browns and caramels, and tundra generally has more black bears.

Domestication
The bear is a very versatile and useful tame.

Utility
The bear is able to collect large amounts of and  with its alternate attack (paw swipe) in a decently large area of effect. The bear can also remove trees from its path using the primary attack, bite, however no resources are harvested from the tree. It has a naturally high weight capacity compared to other Tier 2 tameable animals, allowing transport of large amounts of items which a pathfinder normally could not carry alone. The bear has a rather fast running speed, however it requires approximately 2-3 seconds to get up to that speed. Running into rocks, trees, animals, or any other obstruction will cause the bear to reset to a slower running speed.

The bear can be equipped with a or a. The Tier 2 Cargo Saddle can have a installed, reducing the weight of items stored inside by 33% while on land. A Medium Ship Cannon or Swivel Gun may also be installed on the Tier 2 Cargo Saddle and are usable by pathfinders.

The bear can harvest corpses for, , , , , , and/or (depending on what resources are harvestable from the corpse).

Taming
Taming Tier 2 is required to tame and Riding Tier 2 and a are required to ride. After taming, Commands Tier 2 is required to use whistle commands on your bear.

Bears are tamed with the method:


 * Reduce the bear's health below 20% (the health bar will appear red-ish in color)
 * Hit the bear with a bola to trap it
 * Nestle your pathfinder next to its belly behind it's elbow and facing its mouth to safely feed it with, , or - in order of preference. CAUTION: Bear can attack you while feeding it if you approach too close to its face.
 * The bola will break, releasing the bear every 90 seconds
 * Repeat as needed until the tame is successful

Breeding
NOTE: There is a small chance your mother bear can produce twins and an even smaller chance that it will produce triplets, so ensure that you are prepared to handle this many babies at once ahead of time.

Combat
The bear has two main methods of attack. The primary attack is a bite, secondary attack is a paw swipe. The bear also has a roar, which is used by pressing C (on PC), which has no effect and is purely cosmetic.

The bite has a 1/2 second cooldown and the paw swipe has an approximate 1 second cooldown.

The paw swipe does marginally better damage against creatures and pathfinders versus the bite, so both should be used in combination when fighting.

Gallery
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