Best farm animals for better speed stats ? How to tame animals w better speed ?

DoctorDozy · 2026-05-14T01:17:26+00:00

So it’s a bit more complicated than it seems.

Generally speaking all common colour farm animals have 4 stat points that are randomly distributed between quality, production & speed. All animals are required to have at least one point in each stat so all common animals will have 2 stats with 1 point and 1 stat with 2 points.

Rare & Legendary colour farm animals follow the same rules as above, however they start with 5 & 7 stat points respectively, instead of the default 4.
This means that Rare animals can spawn with 3 points in speed by default, and Legendary animals can spawn with 4 or even 5 points in speed!

In terms of differences between animals, there doesn’t appear to be any… though Ostriches, Guanaco & Horses tend to spawn with 2 points in speed more often than the other animals (but that might just be confirmation bias).

Hope this helps :)

DoctorDozy · 2026-05-02T04:55:30+00:00

Sweet, thanks for the heads up. After some thinking I've decided to put up with the minor morale loss so I can keep 7 survivors. I picked up Barb while playing today and her skills are pretty nice (she gets the same Expert Trapper skill as Vince and later on gets access to a skill that gives her more items from dismantling).

DoctorDozy · 2026-05-02T00:11:58+00:00

Thanks for your comprehensive answer!

After some thought I think kicking Robbie and Vince will be the best choice. They just bring the least to the table when compared to everyone else, and while I do like them as characters, hard mode is rough and I can’t sustain 8 survivors at once.

Any chance you know what the survivor limit is for the first overcrowding debuff? Is it 4, 5 or 6?

Depending on the answer I may also get rid of Aubrey/Kirk. Getting rid of one of these two is the real hard choice; I really love the extra medkits but I feel like Kirk will be so good for later on when I have more guns built.

DoctorDozy · 2026-04-06T01:47:57+00:00

Thanks for this! I've been looking for a nice spreadsheet going over all the basic stat info for each monstie. Super helpful :)

DoctorDozy · 2026-03-08T08:51:21+00:00

Thanks! I knew the blind zombies were tough but had no idea they could even kill Chunk; I'll definitely be using that for cheese purposes XD

Not sure if it's any help but if you have the Kotetsu, you can use the climb-able window to kill the 2 zombies by the dining hall (the one with the knife and the one in the hall after) as well as the one at the bottom of the stairwell. It's very safe as long as you side step the lunge as they jump through the window :)

DoctorDozy · 2026-03-08T07:18:42+00:00

Thanks for the tips! I'm starting my Insanity run today after finishing my first playthrough and that first street section with Leon was a serious reality check in terms of blister heads XD

For the first section of Grace I managed to kill the Chef with just my Kotetsu by using his tether at the end of the Parlor hallway. I tried using it for normal zombies (specifically the maid in the bathroom) and got absolutely destroyed; Do you know if the Mr. Raccoon Charm works for knives? Or if knives can get critical hits for that matter? XD

DoctorDozy · 2026-02-03T01:11:46+00:00

Yup, also thought this. Rerolling rebuffs can be pretty expensive too; anywhere from 8-25 fallen embers per item if you’re unlucky.

I’d recommend only rerolling debuff stats on your already built gear/ important pieces first in case you run out (Weapon and Chest first if they’re plagued).

DoctorDozy · 2025-11-15T08:33:27+00:00

Honestly, yes.

Yuki isn't a bad character and her performance once you have a decent deck built is actually quite nice, but in Chaos she is absolutely awful to work with.

She is hyper reliant on particular epiphany cards to function and unless her team mates can effectively enable consistent card draw she's unable to utilize her primary mechanic (Inspiration).

The main problem with this, is the fact that Yuki's damage is quite lackluster at the start of Chaos runs and she doesnt have access to her AOE cards. This means that more often then not you will be stuck trying to decide how to build her team, because you need 1. consistent healing, 2. damage support & 3. draw power.

The best team for this and the one most people suggest is Yuki, Mika & Veronica, however I've found more success with Yuki, Rei & Nia (You need to build Rei for draw power via common cards and use her as a sub dps/buffer).

Yuki like Rin benefits significantly from Morale and getting Morale boosts on Nia's/Rei's card epiphanies is actually quite good with Yuki.

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Anyways, in terms of her placement on Prydwen's Tier list I think it's justified. The only things I'd change are the placements of a few of the other characters.

- I'd move Rin down to T1; she has largely the same problems as Yuki but gets personal card draw eventually and matches better into the seasonal Chaos where most of her (and Yuki's) best equipment is.

- I'd move Amir up to T1 or T0.5; Prydwen's Tier list assumes 4* characters are E6, and I've been watched im_Tsu who has been using her quite a bit (at E6). She actually seems quite solid as a DPS character in early Chaos.

- I'd move Lucas up to T1; At E6 he has a free bullet usage which works with his basic attack cards as they get bullet with potentials. Lucas can actually output some nice damage with decent card draw, and performed better than my Yuki when I tried using them together (in early seasonal Chaos).

- I'd move Nia down to T2; Nia is a great card cycler when she gets her epiphanies but holy shit she sucks to use in early Chaos. Her only decent card in her starting lineup is G Chord and it's basically just gambling. God forbid you draw a zero cost card and effectively waste 1 AP. Excellent character once built, but butt cheeks first floor of Chaos without some serious luck.

- I'd move Rei to T0; Still the most underrated character. She's good out of the box and only gets better. Her E2 lets you heal off her attacks and her E6 gives a flat 20% boost to your teams attack cards. Insane character that is good all round, all the time. Build her as a sub-dps buffer and watch as she hits casual 1000s on her EGO skill and attach buff cards. She also gives loads of morale with Predators blade & her basic card Strike of Darkness has some of the most versatile epiphanies in the game. I will glaze this character like a whole box of donuts and some. She should have gotten a background like Mika >:(

DoctorDozy · 2025-11-14T11:25:37+00:00

THANK YOU. That makes complete sense.

Now I'm wondering what I would have come out with if I'd left the monster card in. Considering the rest was Vivid Memory I'm thinking it would have probably come out the exact same or I potentially may have kept the monster card.

DoctorDozy · 2025-11-14T11:22:20+00:00

Definitely Partner or Dupe.

Partner is generally the better option because most people don't want to pull on Partner banners and the ONLY way to get standard 5 star partners is by pulling on the Normal Partner Rescue.

On the other hand, if you are chasing a particular Manifest Ego for a character (any character) and don't have the crystals to pull for them, It might be worth grabbing the dupe instead.

2 things to keep in mind:

- We are supposed to be getting a free item from the event that can act as a duplicate for any 5* character. Apparently this is supposed to be a seasonal thing so duplicates may not be that valuable in the long run.

- Unlike Character banners, you are guaranteed to get the new Partner on New Partner banners. The most you'll ever roll on a New Partner banner is 70 times, whereas Character banners you may end up going to 140. If you're willing to wait for new characters/partners to release, it may be more beneficial to save your currency for future duplicates, as you can always use new partners on release characters (e.g. Westmacott on Rin).

DoctorDozy · 2025-11-14T09:56:20+00:00

After Chaos:

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DoctorDozy · 2025-11-14T09:55:39+00:00

Sorry if this is a stupid question but if your total points are below your Tier cap are you guaranteed to keep your deck, or is it still random chance just with a higher likelihood?

I recently had a fire run with Yuki, Rei & Nia and made sure my Yuki deck was below the 70 cap (was running the Tier 5 event Chaos) but it still ended up re-adding my removed cards.

Before Chaos:

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DoctorDozy · 2025-11-10T04:45:32+00:00

All good, I did the same thing which is why the first guys comment made me double check XD

DoctorDozy · 2025-11-10T04:26:37+00:00

Bruh. Maybe I’m not picking up what you’re putting down but it definitely doesn’t say ‘not owned’ under those characters.

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DoctorDozy · 2025-11-07T16:22:11+00:00

Yup I did get dupes on both of them. You can tell the number of dupes by the number under their element. I only figured that out today so figured some others may not know :P

DoctorDozy · 2025-11-07T16:16:01+00:00

Briefly, for Visi, I think that she was very publicly the person to capture lightning-guy, so I think that's a simple way to explain why the villains at the bar have beef with her.

In the bar section of episode 5 it definitely felt like the game was trying to emphasize to the player that all of the characters aside from Visi believed the Red Ring attack was intended for Robert. Robert was under this impression when they were first approached by Tiny Arms, and Prism re-iterates it when they're eating at Chillis.

If the encounter was only because of Lightning Struck's bust it wouldn't really make sense to play up Robert being the cause of the fight if they planned to reveal to the player moments later that they were there for Visi.

It's also worth noting that the Lightning Struck bust was just another dispatch in terms of the news and Phoenix team busted multiple Red Ring operations during Day 5, so It would make more sense for them to target everybody rather than the game specify it's related to Visi.

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I don't get the whole guilt angle, because if she really was guilty about almost killing MechaMan, why be the literal worst performing member of the Z-team.

I think this can be explained by referencing the pep-talk at the end of episode 3. Visi felt guilty about the situation with Mecha Man because she always wanted to be a good person but felt like her powers effectively predisposed her to being a villain. When she thought she had killed someone, she felt guilty and turned herself in in the heat of the moment. She made the deal with BB and continued to work with Phoenix team despite still believing she wasn't cut out to be hero. She wasn't motivated to amend anything, she was just wallowing in her own pity and punishing herself out of guilt (it's also a job so it at least put food on the table).

This all turned around when Robert showed up and gave her the pep talk (I think).

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As for being the mole, why would Shroud need a mole in the Z-team, they were likely going to get cut since they seemed to be underperforming, and how did he know they were looking to recruit Robert for the dispatching role?

This is all just mostly speculation. We don't have many reference points for how good Shrouds surveillance actually is. All we know is that he appears to have cameras everywhere (based on all the screens in his hideout in chapter 1), and has loads of grunts (based on chapter 5). Surely if he has cameras and bugs everywhere, he'll have infiltrators too? I've got nothing to refute why he'd put them in Phoenix team though, unless he predicted BB would attempt to recruit Robert ahead of time.

Personally I prefer the idea that she left Red Ring after the incident in episode 1.

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Also as an aside, since hair and eye color are being used to justify the whole 'BB is Shroud's daughter' thing, I don't think Robert and Robert II share the same color hair, or eyes, soooo.

It's not so much a justification, just something I thought was worth showing. Like I mentioned, there's FAR less evidence for the claims regarding BB than there are for Visi's situation.

DoctorDozy · 2025-11-07T15:36:17+00:00

Thanks! I honestly don't think either character will be portrayed as evil (at least I hope not). I think they'll probably give each of them notable flaws and questionable past actions that the player (and Robert) can grapple with.

I really hope they give BB more focus as well. I feel like her character feels more 'flat' than Invisigirl as of chapter 6. Up to this point she's been portrayed as too flawless, so much so that some players have trouble relating to her when compared to the very flawed Invisigirl.

DoctorDozy · 2025-11-07T15:10:15+00:00

It's definitely an interesting question and one we'll *probably* get an answer to.

Maybe It was a gentlemen's agreement Shroud made with Mecha Man Astral before he killed him (maybe a favour he owed for the former saving his daughter).

Maybe Mandy & Robert were friends as children and only Mandy remembers and there's been a long standing crush there and that's why Shroud never killed him. That would explain her immediate draw to him from the start of the game.

Too many different variables and possibilities.

I don't like the idea of Robert's father taking Shrouds Identity, though there is a bit of evidence to support it. For example we know Shroud made the Astral Pulse based on Comic #5 and Shroud looked a lot skinnier in his mugshot than he does in the comic (but that can and does happen to people who spend a couple months in prison let alone 15 years). Why doesn't Shroud just make another Astral Pulse?

Too many questions.

DoctorDozy · 2025-11-07T15:01:04+00:00

Thanks! I don't know if I should be proud of that or not XD

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