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Just like prime meats, raw mutton dosnt stack bit the cooked lamb chops do. Keep in mind that if the dino likes mutton, the cooked stuff is still going to be very effective and the cooked stuff will last much longer too. Just be careful if you put cooked mutton in a preserving bin with oil because it will become prime jerky. Actually many people don't realize that prime fish also becomes prime jerky, and cooked fish becomes normal jerky. DONT let that tasty sheep meat go to waste. For thoes who live closer to the coast, pretty much all of the sheep spawn locations are inland and kinda scattered in the south. But the sheep are highly concentrated in the snow biome and on top of a mountain in the redwoods. If you play ragnarock, if you spawn in the highlands you WILL see sheep at some point. In the highlands their spawn chance is the same as a moschops, but they will spawn in herds. Also there is a sheep with 4 horns like the ovis in real life that lives today, it's called a Jacob sheep, they have 4 long horns just like the ovis. For some reason the ovis is not in mobile, and I think I know why. Mobile has microtransactions that allow you to by soothing balm and other items that speeds up taming, and mutton is specifically used to speed up carnivore taming. I'm not completely sure if this was the case, but it definitely makes sense. The second theory I have is that if you have the ovis you need the shears, and mobile dosnt include any player or creature painting, and hair cuts are selected on character creation, so it's quite possible that the ovis wasn't included due to the absence of that.
This has been another excessively long review by SloppyCrow
Due to recent updates, Raw Mutton no longer tames faster than kibble, but won't drop the efficiency as much as before either.
Still, it is completely superior to Raw Prime Meat, taming faster, with higher efficiency and lasting 4 times as much before spoiling.
To collect the highest possible amount of Raw Mutton and Pelt from a dead Ovis, use a Chainsaw high in damage. Therizinos and Direwolves provide fast and material-free collection of those resources respectively, but won't gather a fraction of what a Chainsaw will from a single carcass before it disappears.