- "Looks like a Lancehorn... but with scarier antlers."
- ―Aloy, sighting a Fanghorn
The Fanghorn is an Acquisition Class machine in Horizon Forbidden West.
History[]
The main purpose of the Fanghorn is to convert natural resources into biofuel. Two models of Fanghorn were released: the Fire Fanghorn and the Plasma Fanghorn.
While it's unknown when they were first released, Fire Fanghorns can be found in the Daunt and the Clan Lands. The bodies of Plasma Fanghorns can be found at the Sheerside Mountains, but no active ones can be found.
At the advent of the Derangement, almost all machines started becoming increasingly aggressive towards humans, including the Fanghorns.
Horizon Forbidden West[]
Delah and Boomer had Aloy collect a Fanghorn Rib and some Charger Horns for them to build a Prototype Spike Thrower.[1]
Wanting to use Fire Fanghorn Salvage to build a set of armor, Larend hired Aloy with a contract to hunt a Fanghorn and retrieve its salvage for him, which Aloy successfully did.[2]
Fanghorns, Apex Burrowers and Ravagers were kept in a pen by the residents of Arrowhand for later looting, which Aloy and Drakka came to do.[3]
When Aloy infiltrated Cauldron MU and overrode its core, she gained access to the information needed to override Fanghorns, albeit corrupted.[4] She later restored the override using the equipment in the Base.
When Stemmur saw the reindeer in the Christmas holograms above Hidden Ember, he compared them to Fanghorns.
Appearance[]
The Fanghorn is cervine in appearance, with its wide, jagged horns making it reminiscent of an elk. The machine's chassis is nearly identical to the other grazing machines (namely the Grazer and Lancehorn), with four narrow limbs, monocular eye arrangement, a rather long neck, and a collection of canisters at the posterior end: the addition of armor plating with the "evolved" variant only increases this machine's resemblance to its counterparts.
Excluding the distinctive horns, the Fanghorn's design has two major differences from its counterparts. Fanghorns have two optical sensors (an oblong rectangular primary eye and a smaller, circular eye) arranged vertically rather than the single circular eye of the others. Additionally, it has three elemental canisters (two Blaze, one Purgewater), with a single large resource canister resting beneath them.
Behavior[]
Like most small Acquisition machines, Fanghorns are generally found in herds and are skittish around humans, fleeing as often as they fight.
Fanghorns are the dominant grazing machines in the Forbidden West, where their counterparts are comparatively rare, although they have been seen as far east as the Daunt.
Abilities[]
The Fanghorn is the strongest of the three "grazing" machines, having the largest health pool, most powerful attacks and the unique ability among them to employ ranged elemental attacks. It also possesses resistance against Fire, making it a less viable strategy to ignite its elemental canisters in combat.
Attacks[]
Name | Windup Time | Damage | Residual Damage Areas | Trigger Range | Description |
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Front Leg Kick | Short | 180 Melee | - | 1.5m - 5m | Leans on hind legs and kicks at target |
Leaping Front Kick | Medium | 137 Melee | - | 2m - 8m | Leans on hind legs while stepping forward, kicking at target |
Hind Leg Kick | Very Short | 180 Melee | - | 1.5m - 5m | Kicks backward at target |
Skyward Stab | Short | 180 Melee | - | 1m - 4.5m | Stabs upward with antlers |
Charge | Medium | 180 Melee | - | 0m - 50m | Lowers head and charges at target with antlers |
Flame Burst | Short | 151
37 buildup |
10/s
10/s buildup |
8m - 18m | Shoots a series of 3 fireballs at target. Explodes on contact and leaves residual Fire damage areas.
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Antler Strike | Short | 90 Melee
90 |
- | 15m - 20m | Coats antlers in flames and leaps at target, clapping them shut and creating a small Fire explosion in front of its head when landing.
Fire damage disabled when Drenched. Desperation Attack |
Override[]
The corrupted Fanghorn override can be obtained by completing Cauldron MU. To repair the override, Aloy must collect three Fanghorn Antlers and a Fanghorn Primary Nerve.
Components[]
Name | Image | Description | Attributes |
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Body | Hard outer casing to protect synthetic muscle and operational systems. | None | |
Antlers | Metal horns capable of clapping shut and enhancing attacks with various elements. Detach or destroy to disable the charge attack. |
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Blaze Canister | Blaze storage. Tear off to collect this resource or shoot with a Fire Arrow to detonate. |
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Purgewater Canister | Purgewater storage. Tear off to collect this resource or shoot with a Purgewater Arrow to detonate. |
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Resource Canister | Storage container for valuable resources. Tear off to collect its contents. |
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Loot[]
Body
- Metal Shards (100%)
- Blaze (100%)
- Fanghorn Circulator (41%)
- Machine Muscle (30%)
- Fanghorn Primary Nerve (27%)
- Small Machine Core (16%)
- Braided Wire (11%)
- Metal Bone (10%)
- Sturdy Hardplate (6%)
Antlers
- Fanghorn Antler (100%)
Blaze Canister
- Blaze (100%)
Purgewater Canister
- Purgewater (100%)
Resource Container
- Braided Wire (90%)
- Sturdy Hardplate (55%)
- Blastpaste (26%)
- Fanghorn Primary Nerve (15%)
- Small Machine Core (15%)