sneaking up on animals

[hammerspace]

I am having real trouble on sneaking up on animals to recruit them.
the only things that have allowed me to recruit animals have been flukes.
getting blasted close enough to animals by enemies, stroking larger animals through blocks.
Am I missing some trick or are there settings I need to adjust?

[Echsrick]

you need to hold control to move slow and you need to come from behind if you see the animals run away fast you need to wait a bit before you try

[Jhenox]

As Dr. Medic said it's important to hold Ctrl to move slowly then approach from behind then it should be easy,

[AI Sin || SinNoAria]

If you want to try normally, understand that animals have a view range. Basically, imagine a circle around the pet. Never be in the front 180 degrees of the circle unless you know the exact view range of the animal. Hold the walk button (ie. ctrl) and try to follow from behind. Wait for the animal to stop moving before you pet it.

If the animal notices you, you should see an animation on the animal showing it is alerted. Let it run away and then you can try again when it calms down.

There are a few tricks if you aren't able to do it normally.

If you have a flying mount, you can literally drop onto the animal and pet as you land. With a golem, there is a semi-glitch where your position is off, which means animals will sometimes fail to detect you until you dismount. Again, you can sometimes pet the animal as you land.

Another trick is to build a trap (if you have say infinite wood, you can build wood blocks and you basically just make a trap that forces the animal into a small 2x2 spot, leave (such as via a ladder) and then wait for the animal to calm down. Jump down once it stops and pet it.

[hammerspace]

the problam was that I wasn't using the ctrl button.
little stuff like that is easy to overlook