Med-Ved Taiga: Musk Ox Update (Fur types, New mechanic, Need Zones, Etc)

[dense bough]

So… a cool backfill idea for Med-ved taiga could be musk ox. imagine walking through snowy forests and seeing a herd of musk ox feeding. these massive creatures mainly live in canada and greenland, but they also live in Russia (med ved) their massive size and cool fur would be one of the top animals to hunt.
They would be class 9 and the furs they can have are:

Brown (common)
Light Brown (Common)
Dark (common)
Piebald (rare)
Albino (very rare)

Drink time: 8:00 - 12:00
Feeding: 4:00 - 8:00 | 16:00 - 0:00
Resting: 0:00 - 4:00 | 12:00 - 16:00

Musk ox are herd animals which contain 5 up to 30

New mechanic : Dueling: Males in the group might duel, the duel will be a new mechanic that happen between the largest males to show dominince in the herd.

Here are some Pictures of An Albino musk ox with its herd. And a Male duel for dominince.

[leaden dirge]

Best recommendation

[cursive blade]

They don’t really live in the area medved is set (and haven’t for a few hundred years)

And Medved doesn’t really have the environment for them.

[glad relic]

The best other near map that fits the Muskox is the Taymyr Peninsula. There the population is increasing.

[dense bough]

Thank you

[dense bough]

Yeah

[dense bough]

Here is Musk ox range map. also the northern areas of Medved would be a very good place.

[tight glen]

Medved taïga is here ( is the purple circle )

The circle isn't exactly perfect, but basically the point without the purple circle is where COTW says Medved is, so where there is no musk ox.

[glad relic]

Yes, Medved-Taiga is inspired by the northern part of the Ural Mountains.

[glad relic]

The subspecies Greenland Muskox or White-faced Muskox.

[tight glen]

but so finally can we have it or not the musk ox on medved taiga

[shut merlin]

I see some green in that purple circle, just saying…

[tight glen]

as I explained below it circled wrong, Here is another map where the dark green represents where the medved taiga is located, it is called the Yamal peninsula

[glad relic]

No, because The Yamal Peninsula is mostly flat.
Website: https://www.besttravelreview.com/nenets_of_siberia/expedition_to_yamal_peninsula/06_arctic_russia_landscape.htm

[tight glen]

I was always told that it was there, otherwise on the game it is written that it is inspired in any case from around this peninsula I don't remember anymore, I remember that to have the information you have to go to the game, go to the place where you want to buy the maps etc... go to that of medved taiga and there will normally be a writing that will tell you a place which is precisely the Yamal peninsula plus the other peninsula opposite. And they say that it is inspired by this

[cursive blade]

It is supposed to be the Yamal Peninsula but EW did major creative differences (as they usually did back then)

[tight glen]

like Vurhonga Savannah which looks nothing like Botswana or the Cascades Mountains of Layton Lake District which don't look much like real mountains

[glad relic]

At first, you said that Medved-Taiga is inspired only by the Yamal Peninsula, but we know that’s not the case. The landscape there is too flat to represent Medved-Taiga. I said that Medved-Taiga isn’t inspired solely by the Yamal Peninsula, but rather by the broader Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug region.

A northern part of Ural Mountains.

[tight glen]

if you remember what I said when going into your game it will tell you a place which is both this peninsula there towards the south of this place there is what seems to be a mountain range and another place which is the place in front of this peninsula but Ayoliam always told me that it was the Yamal peninsula. I personally believe it even if I have already seen photos and this place looks more like what is to the north and northwest of the map

[dense bough]

Western part has musk ox in it, look inside the circle

Or maybe it can be a Mission animal if they dont live there. just like Moose in te awaroa.

Example is Level 9 Piebald musk ox that migerated to the reserve due to climate change.

Or maybe make them really rare or can only be found in northern parts

[tight glen]

How many times do I have to tell you that the circle is not placed correctly? I put a map where in dark green, it represents the place in question that the circle should have surrounded but which only did it halfway.

[dense bough]

Oh i didnt know medved is set there. but even if they are not added to medved yukon would be a better place

[tight glen]

Yes it's the Yamal peninsula

[dense bough]

ok

[junior trout]

In 1975, another 40 musk oxen were brought to the USSR, this time from Nunivak Island (Alaska). Half of them went to the Taymyr settlers, while the other half went to Wrangel Island in Chukotka. By the early 1990s, musk oxen had spread across Wrangel Island and northern Yakutia and they were then brought to the Yamal Peninsula.

but i dont think musk ox would fit in medved tho

[tight glen]

Musk Oxen in Yamal peninsula. I know that is here. I've wanted to have them for a long time

[junior trout]

yamal

[tight glen]

There is no real tundra area, in summer it would have been possible because it prefers plateaus and hills but in winter it is plains and valleys. There are certainly some very open and large plains but it is not enough to be the habitat of this animal. I see it more in a Greenlandic or Canadian map

[junior trout]

medved is too forested for musk ox

[dense bough]

Maybe yukon valley

Btw i still do not get why Yukon valley is based in alaska when yukon is in the name 😡

[cursive blade]

Map of the Yukon River.

And most of Alaska’s muskox range isn’t even in this map!