CorneliusReport
English：Cornelius · Characters
The only goat in the entire game with a name of his own, living in the Settled Nomad Village in the Dreg; his stats are slightly better than an ordinary goat's, but he takes almost twice as long to grow up — what you are paying all that money for is essentially a goat you can call by name.
Cornelius is a goat. He is also the only goat in Kenshi written into the list of unique recruits, and he lives in the Settled Nomad Village in the Dreg.
Ah, he seems to like you well enough. He's a clever one, ought to get out and see the world instead of being cooped up in an old town like this. Want to buy him? I'll give you a special price. — The Goat Man
Two sellers, one price?
The Nomad Animal Trader in the village asks 15,000 Cats. But if you first go to the nearby hideout house and find his real keeper, the Goat Man, this honourable fellow will offer you half that price once he approves of you.
How he differs from an ordinary goat
Honestly, hardly at all.
| Item | Cornelius | Ordinary goat |
|---|---|---|
| Base stats | Melee Attack/Defence, Strength, Dexterity, Toughness and Athletics all 15; Martial Arts 1.5 | Slightly lower |
| Animal Skin drop | 1 | 2 |
| Raw Meat drop | 7 | 7 |
| Time to Elder | 44 days | About half that |
His growth curve runs: Juvenile (×0.40) 16 days, Adult (×0.60) 24 days, Elder (×1.10) 44 days. Which is to say, what you have bought is a goat that takes longer to become strong and drops one skin fewer than the rest.
As with every animal, the unused rows on his skill sheet are pure decoration: they neither affect him nor can they ever be trained.
Attack power and death items
A goat's "weapon" has three quality variants internally (moving him around in the squad, or saving and reloading, may roll a different one). All three variants deal cutting damage of 18 + coefficient × (Martial Arts + Dexterity), the coefficients being roughly 0.780, 0.839 and 0.899. The base 18 comes from a minimum cutting damage of 13 plus the 5 points of harpoon damage common to all goats.
His death items are 1 Animal Skin and 7 Raw Meat — and taking these off him kills him instantly. That is the general rule for animals in Kenshi, but it is worth remembering especially for a goat you have just paid five figures for.
An easy trap to fall into
The area around the Settled Nomad Village is full of wandering gaunt Cannibals, Starving Bandits and squads of runaway Holy Servants, and Cornelius will go and attack them of his own accord. He wears the "unique" label but is in no way capable of holding off a crowd alone; worse, once he leaves the hut he will not return to his keeper by himself, and he very easily bleeds out somewhere in the open.
Plenty of players' Corneliuses have died exactly like this, before ever being paid for.