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Rabbit

Rabbit
Rabbit
Class Farming and Animals
Type Livestock
Life Stages
  • Baby Rabbit (Kitten)
  • Female Rabbit (Doe)
  • Male Rabbit (Buck)
Breeds
  • Swamp
  • Appalachian
  • Cottontail
Pregnancy 43 days
Food
  • Animal Feed
  • Grass
  • Hay
  • Vegetables
  • Fruits
Old Age 570 days

The Rabbit is a small animal that gives a survivor meat, a hide and a fast growing food supply. It lives both in the wild and on a few farms, so it can be hunted, trapped or raised.

Wild rabbits roam the forests and fields of Knox Country. They bolt the moment they notice a person. A rabbit that is caught and picked up stops being wild, and it can then live in a pen like any other livestock. Young rabbits are Kittens. A female grows into a Doe, and a male grows into a Buck.

The game has three breeds, the Appalachian, the Cottontail and the Swamp rabbit. Their differences are in looks only. All three share the same body, the same habits and the same strong mothering genes.

Rabbits matter because they breed quickly and need very little. A Doe carries her young for only about six weeks, and each litter holds several Kittens. A pair of captured rabbits can grow into a small colony in a season. Rabbits are also harmless. They never attack, so they are a safe first animal for a survivor new to Animal Care.

How to Raise Rabbit

Captured rabbits live inside a livestock zone. The zone helps them find food and water and keeps them from straying. Rabbits stay easy to frighten even after capture.

Rabbits graze on usable grass inside the zone. They also eat animal feed, hay, vegetables and fruit from a feeding trough. Water goes in a separate trough. Kittens feed from their mother.

Being kept above ground level stresses rabbits. Nearby zombies, gunfire, crowding and slaughter in sight of the colony add more stress. Petting a rabbit raises its trust and lowers its stress. Petting also trains the Animal Care skill. Bucks never fight each other, so a pen can hold more than one.

Rabbits are light enough to pick up and carry. Hay, Grass Cuttings and Carrots all lure a rabbit closer. Carrots work best. Rabbits can also ride in a livestock trailer for longer trips.

How to Hunt Rabbit

Wild rabbits leave tracks wherever they go. Footprints, droppings, broken twigs, grazed herbs, flattened plants and tufts of grey fur all mark their path. A survivor with the first level of Tracking can tell a rabbit track from the sign of any other small animal. Wild rabbits move in small groups, often with young among them.

A rabbit flees as soon as it notices a person. Luring is the gentle way to catch one. Hay, Grass Cuttings or Carrots draw it in close enough to grab. Once it is picked up, the rabbit is no longer wild.

Trapping is the other way. Rabbits walk into traps at night, from evening until before dawn. A Cage Trap works best. Snare Traps, Box Traps and Crate Traps also catch them. Deep forest is the best place to set a trap, followed by other woods and open vegetation. Towns and trailer parks are poor ground. Carrots are the best bait. Lettuce, Bell Peppers and Cabbage come next, then common fruit and vegetables such as Apples, Corn and Potatoes.

A trap can hold a live rabbit. A trapped rabbit starts trying to break free after about a day, so traps need checking often.

Rabbit Breeding

A Kitten grows into an adult in about four months of game time. Does and Bucks can breed from about six months of age. Rabbits mate at any time of year.

A pregnancy lasts about six weeks. The pregnancy time can be changed in the sandbox settings. Each litter holds between three and seven Kittens. After giving birth, a Doe rests for about three weeks before she can carry again.

Newborn Kittens feed from their mother. Genes pass from both parents. They shape size, meat, weight, lifespan, milk, strength, fertility and temper. Rabbits live for about a year and a half before they reach old age. That short life makes steady breeding the key to a lasting colony.

The rabbit grows through these stages, each one taking the days shown to reach full size.

Stage Image Grows For Becomes
Baby Rabbit (Kitten) Baby Rabbit (Kitten) 120 days Female Rabbit (Doe), Male Rabbit (Buck)
Female Rabbit (Doe) Female Rabbit (Doe) 60 days -
Male Rabbit (Buck) Male Rabbit (Buck) 60 days -

Rabbit Breeds

Each breed of rabbit, with how much milk the game sets for it.

Breed Image Milk
Swamp Swamp High
Appalachian Appalachian High
Cottontail Cottontail High

Rabbit Butchering

A rabbit carcass gives Rabbit Meat, Bone Pieces, a head, a skull and an unprocessed Rabbit Hide. Adults may also give an Animal Bone or two. Kittens give a smaller share of meat and their own small head and skull.

A Butcher Hook improves the yield and is needed to recover the hide. The final yield also depends on the animal's size, its meat genes, the age of the carcass and the Butchering skill. Butchering in front of living rabbits stresses them, so the work belongs out of their sight.

What a butchered carcass gives at each life stage, one tab per stage.

Name Image Amount Breed Spawn ID
Bone Pieces Bone Pieces 3-6 All /additem Base.SmallAnimalBone
Rabbit Hide (Unprocessed) Rabbit Hide (Unprocessed) 1 All /additem Base.RabbitLeather_Full
Rabbit Kitten Head Rabbit Kitten Head 1 All /additem Base.Rabbit_Kitten_Head_Appalachian
Rabbit Kitten Skull Rabbit Kitten Skull 1 All /additem Base.Rabbit_KittenSkull
Name Image Amount Breed Spawn ID
Bone Pieces Bone Pieces 4-8 All /additem Base.SmallAnimalBone
Animal Bone Animal Bone 0-2 All /additem Base.AnimalBone
Rabbit Hide (Unprocessed) Rabbit Hide (Unprocessed) 1 All /additem Base.RabbitLeather_Full
Rabbit Head Rabbit Head 1 All /additem Base.Rabbit_Head_Appalachian
Rabbit Skull Rabbit Skull 1 All /additem Base.Rabbit_Skull

Rabbit Locations

Wild rabbits roam forests, fields and open country across the map. A few farms also keep rabbits. Small rabbit farms hold a few Does and no Buck. Standard rabbit farms keep several Does with one Buck, and their Does come with Kittens.

The farms that start with rabbit, by size, and how many females and males each one holds.

Farm Size Females Males
Standard 3 to 7 1 to 1
Small 1 to 4 0 to 0

Notes

  • Carrots are the best lure and the best trap bait.
  • Set traps in deep forest and check them every day.
  • Picking up a wild rabbit turns it into livestock.
  • Rabbits never attack, so they are safe to keep.
  • A Doe can carry a new litter about three weeks after the last one.


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