Reputation System

Unlike most games, Rain World has a complex reputation system that runs through all creatures that is most prominent in Scavengers, but can also be found rather easily in Lizards and Vultures. The Reputation System controls things the aggressiveness of a creature towards you in relation to your past experiences with you, along with how hard it is to befriend certain creatures.

Basic Reputation System Functions
The most commonly implemented function of the Reputation system is simply the Aggressiveness Gauge. All creatures by default (except for Scavengers, who have individual personalities) have a set aggressiveness level. Red Lizards will relentlessly pursue prey for very long distances, whereas simply moving out of a Green Lizard's view is usually enough to get it to give up. This Gauge can be altered by positive or negative experiences that creature has had involving you. If you throw a rock at a Vulture or injure it, it will be more inclined to attack you over other prey if it has a choice. If you knock a Pink Lizard out of a Vulture's jaws with a spear it will almost immediately become passive and may even follow you around or attempt to protect you!.Some creatures, like Dropwigs, will always attack you regardless if you have helped them due to their abush-predator nature. Other creatures, like the pack-hunting Orange Lizards, do not have individual reputation levels and any negative or positive actions towards them will be shared throughout the entire pack.

Vultures and Lizards
Vultures have an interesting rung on the Reputation ladder. Like any creature, they will tend to have a preference to attack you if you have injured them (whether in self-defense or through a random act of aggression). However, as stated on their page, Vultures wear masks that can be knocked off with a well-placed spear to the head and used by the slugcat. However, other, masked Vultures will then see unmasked Vultures as prey and will speedily kill them without much resistance, suggesting some sentience and culture between them.

Lizards can be tamed by feeding them things like Squidcadas and Scavengers, with stronger, rarer lizards requiring more to tame (with the mighty Red Lizard needing 9-12 and the meek Blue Lizard needing 1-3). However, previous actions towards the Lizard will affect how easy it is to tame; injuring the lizard will cause it to require more food to trust you than one that had been left alone.

Befriending the Scavengers
Scavengers are unique in that they possess a far more advanced Reputation system than other creatures. Reputation can be gained by paying at Scavenger Tolls, giving scavengers spears, bombs, vulture masks, and most importantly, Pearls.