This is a simple review of care of tamed animals in the game on any planet. The care and feed of these animals is pretty simple, so in review. This is a work in progress I wanted to share, which is subject to updates. This guide is based on my experience of 600+ hours of game play on all 3 planets. This guide is subject to change and updates.

Obtaining Animals:

• Tamed animals can be bought in the in-game store with the special currency, and called down from orbit. Animals can also be tamed, or trapped while on the planet. Baby animals can be tamed and be of use once they reach adulthood.

Animal Care & Survival:

• Levels: Animals can level up and unlock their talent tree, which has various benefits for your camp according to the type of animal it is. Chickens, for example, can have increased egg production and improve coziness to your camp, while moa get better stamina and resistance to various things. The talent trees will vary by animal. Even the dogs and cats have their own trees.
  
• EXP: Tamed animals gain exp based on activities by the players around them, benefitting from shared exp. They also gain exp when fed by the player, or a player-related activity such as food from a trough.
  
• EXP Buff: There is an option to pet tamed animals, which gives them a bonus exp modifier. So if you are around camp a lot and want to level your animals, keep them with food and water and pet them all before starting chores and other tasks.
  
• Food: Tamed animals can eat pretty much anything you can. Foraged food, farm food, cooked food, etc. Cooked food is more filling than raw foraged or raw farmed food. They can not eat rotten or spoiled food. Even if an animal seems like they would be a vegetarian, they can and will eat cooked or raw meat. Yes, you can feed your chicken some interesting food XD
  
• Starvation: Tamed animals can not starve to death. However, they suffer penalties like reduced stamina and slower movement.
  
• Water: Water is odd. The animals will sometimes drink from a body of water like a river and the next day stand next to an empty water tank next to a driver, dehydrated. You can give tamed animals water from a container on your character, such as a canteen or water bladder. If benefits players to keep their animals hydrated during travel.
  
• Dyhydration: Tamed animals can not die from dehydration, but they are penalized for it, which impacts their overall stamina and well-being. On long trips, plan for hydration options.
  
• Filtered Water Versus Unfiltered: Tamed animals can drink water from any source and not get sick. So don't waste precious filtered water if you are low, just refill at the nearest river or pond and give it to them if they wont drink from the water themselves. You, however, can get very ill from unfiltered water.
  
• Healing: Animals can be healed over time through their passive health regeneration or with healing potions crafted by players. Healing times benefit from the tamed animals being fed and having water.
  
• Saddles: Saddles and mount equipment do very much enhance your mounts performance based on your needs. For cargo hauling carts are a must. For desert travel, a desert saddle greatly helps, and so on. Saddles are made at the husbandry bench.
  
• What's up with Daisy?: This animal is found on a more advanced planet, and currently is not yet implemented in the game as a mount. If you level her, she has nice passive defenses that can benefit your settlement by tanking aggro from hostiles while she stands around. She is a tank with serious hit points, level her up and let her take the hits instead of your other animals. We love Daisy, and can't wait until she is fully implemented. #FreeDaisy
  
• Wolves / Hyens / Etc: I don't use them. If you get an animal deterrent, hostile animals won't go near your settlements. When travelling, I found them annoying with weird clipping and follow-up problems. When travelling, I don't leave my mounts vulnerable to easy attack, and am nearby to defend them if something goes wrong. My play style doesn't include the use of these animals. They are obtained by using baits and traps.
  
• Overweight Cargo: If a player is overweight and carrying a ton of stuff, it won't impact the mount and the mount speed. Mount speed is only impacted by the inventory in the mount slots. So stock yourself up, and ride your mount to sweet prospecting glory.

Best Tamed Animals For Various Things:

• Fastest Animals For Travel: Moa and Arctic Moa. The Artic Moa is best for cold / artic settings because they don't suffer from the cold the way the normal moa will. The normal moa is best for all other zones and do well in hot zones where they have a buff in their talent tree to their speed in desert areas. Moa do not have a lot of hit points, and do not carry a lot of things on them. They are light weight and fast, able to outrun everything in the game I have encountered.
  
• Hauling Animals For Travel: Buffalo and Tusker, both do great in all zones and have great cargo capacity. Their only drawback is they move slowly.
  
• Best All Around Animal: Terrenus, this horse pig hybrid is a good general all around animal until you want something specialized for needs. They are easily acquired by killing an adult and taming the baby. Their speed is slower than a Moa, but faster than Buffalo. They can carry more than Moa, but less than Buffalo. They have good hit points and generally do good in most zones.
  
• Best Animal For Food Production: Chickens. Once upgraded they give great coziness to your settlement, and need very little food to produce eggs. Their eggs can be cooked into a variety of foods with minimal effort. Two chickens is all I need to support myself most of the time so long as I keep them with food and water. TIP: Chickens are delicate, and because they are so small they can clip into weird places, be certain your chickens are well protected without little areas they can weirdly clip and glitch into.
  
• Best Animal For Passive Food Production: Fish, get a fish trap out into water and get fish to eat without any effort. Don't waste time fishing, just use fish traps. As soon as you can craft the very large fish traps, convert to those for good passive food production. The fish traps also sponges which hold water your animals can drink, and spoiled plants which can be put into the food processor or composter.