video Everything you need to know about the Otter

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Welcome to Unevolved Gaming, today we are going to take a closer look at the Otter

The Otter is a very small mammal with an appearance that shows great resemblance to the modern day Otter.
It has a narrow stretched body and a long tail that is covered in a thin but insulating layer of fur.
Otters are mostly aquatic animals, they have short limbs that are equipped with powerful webbed feet to propel them trough the water.

The Otter is a friendly creature that poses no threat to survivors or tames unless provoked.
Otters can be extremely hard to spot due to their small size, they are mostly found in shallow parts of the rivers in the south east region and in the rivers surrounding the Islands redwoods.

The Otter has a very low health and can be killed fairly easy by using any melee or ranged weapon.
When killed the Otter can be harvested for raw meat, hide and pelt

Survivors will have to keep in mind that the area the Otter lives in is also the home of predators like the Baryonyx and Piranha, This can make taming an Otter in the wild extremely dangerous, it is therefor recommended to make use of a taming pen.

Due to the Otters small size it can be picked up by all fliers and dropped in a taming pen on a location of choice. Players that don't have access to a flier or play pve can also make the Otter follow you into a pen by punching it once. Keep in mind that the Otter has low health so it is not recommended to use any weapons. Because of its small size the Otter will fit through a normal door frame, make sure to close the door as soon as it is in the pen.

The Otter can only be tamed passively in a manner similar to the Hesperornis. Fish must be killed, and their corpses dragged to the otter. While still holding the fish, press the y button on your controller to feed the fish to the otter. Feeding the Otter larger fish can be somewhat tricky due to game mechanics, A taming pen situated in water might prove very useful in order to approach the Otter without the dragged fish blocking the feeding option

Larger fish, and fish killed by the Ichthyornis, provide a higher taming percentage per fish

Once tamed an Otter can be equipped with a hat and carried on a survivors shoulder.

While carrying an Otter it will provide a survivor with extra insulation. Leveling the Otter's Melee Damage increases the amount of insulation provided, hypothermic insulation or protection against the cold is about 75 to 82% of the Otters melee damage while hyperthermic insulation or protection against heat is about 34 to 38%. This will allow survivors to travel to colder regions that otherwise would be hard to reach without freezing.

Otters can also be used to collect small amounts of silica pearls and sometimes even black pearls from fish that they kill
Hold the left bumper and press up on the d-pad while looking at a fish to make the Otter attack it. It is possible to make use of ranged weapons when cross hairs are enabled on a server for better targeting.
Survivors will have to keep in mind that the Otter uses oxygen. Using the Otter to hunt fish in area's with large fish spawns or area's with obstacles that prevent it from surfacing can cause the Otter to drown.

In my opinion the Otter is a very useful companion for starting survivors. It's ability to gather silica and even black pearls can be of great value for survivors that don't have access to aquatic mounts.

The Otters insulation bonus can be very helpful in area's on the Island where a survivor would normally freeze, however when playing on Ragnarok temperatures can be so extreme that survivors will still freeze even when carrying an otter with high melee damage.

Attacking larger groups of Piranhas or Sabertooth salmons is not advised due to the Otters low health.

That concludes our spotlight on the Otter.
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[OneWithNoSkills]

Anything that has a diet of only fish can stay wild. I have no time to make additional meat run just for fish.

[Killbolt]

thanks

[yazzi87]

onewithnoskillsx whats the prob ? u wanna tamed an otter alone ?