Trying to keep a tamed animal alive

[Swiftstylus]

I get my place built. It's over 10 squares away from any mountainous areas so that they can path to their food bowls and beds (that's a weird bug). I've built a nice home and finally caught a baby moa. Leave the area for a bit and come back to see a wall broken down and a dead moa.

This happens over and over. I don't even have to leave the area. Wolves, boars, and wild moas will all attack a pinned in creature on sight, even if they have to go through walls to manage it. I tried placing the hedgehog barriers thinking that they would defend the walls and kill the predators.... Nope. The hedgehogs die so stupidly fast and have such a high cost that they are most definitely not worth placing.

Can we just make it so that tamed animals are simply not attacked by predators unless they have already began to attack players?

I've literally just been crafting in my main house and lost a buffalo minutes after it tamed. It's so annoying.

[Pach]

I suspect part of the taming mechanic is the tamed animal actually has predators spawn in around it for the sole purpose of attacking it, so you MUST defend it.

It's on par with how the other mechanics of the game work...

[Spaceminnow]

Welcome!

To the Icarus "Ranch" version!

(Where is that monkey... )

[ocfourie01]

I can't even get my animal tamed. Shed built, bed, food and water there and the animal is just standing there unhappy. What am I missing?

[AverageShadow]

I've experienced something different, tame the animal, ride on it, provide food and water and then the animal dies of hunger or thirst, they just don't want to eat or drink even when putting the darn feeder right in front of them

[Martino_ch]

Originally posted by ocfourie01:

I can't even get my animal tamed. Shed built, bed, food and water there and the animal is just standing there unhappy. What am I missing?

ME too, when the food and Water is not touch the animal, they dont find or use it. Dont sleep too....... the end... die :-(, my animals not happy live in stall. When they eat, i cant delivery so quick how they hungry, i work only for that with 20 foodbox..... its need to fix

[Martino_ch]

Sometimes i wounder, what puplisher do it....need 20min time to check to work, twenty minutes only .......... im sad about the quality of work for Icarus

[Swiftstylus]

Originally posted by Pach:

I suspect part of the taming mechanic is the tamed animal actually has predators spawn in around it for the sole purpose of attacking it, so you MUST defend it.

It's on par with how the other mechanics of the game work...

The thing is that those animals walk around each other without attacking one another constantly. I see wolves and boars next to buffalo and moa all the time. They never attack one another.

[Swiftstylus]

Originally posted by ocfourie01:

I can't even get my animal tamed. Shed built, bed, food and water there and the animal is just standing there unhappy. What am I missing?

Make sure you are at least 10 floor squares from any rocky outcropping. (no mountains nearby)

There is a known bug where they can't path properly to the bed/food when they are near mountains and stuff.

[Swiftstylus]

Another thing that I should add,

WHY DO TAMED ANIMALS DESPAWN FOREVER WHEN SHUTTING DOWN THE SERVER???

If no one is on the server the animals will despawn, even with time in-game paused because no one is playing.

[ocfourie01]

Originally posted by Swiftstylus:

Originally posted by ocfourie01:

I can't even get my animal tamed. Shed built, bed, food and water there and the animal is just standing there unhappy. What am I missing?

Make sure you are at least 10 floor squares from any rocky outcropping. (no mountains nearby)

There is a known bug where they can't path properly to the bed/food when they are near mountains and stuff.

That might be my problem, I am pretty close to a mountain, thanks!

[Martino_ch]

Originally posted by ocfourie01:

Originally posted by Swiftstylus:

Make sure you are at least 10 floor squares from any rocky outcropping. (no mountains nearby)

There is a known bug where they can't path properly to the bed/food when they are near mountains and stuff.

That might be my problem, I am pretty close to a mountain, thanks!

Me too, im testing imedetly :-)

[Ben Stiller]

Build a ramp to a mountain ( a height that is unreachable by hostile animals) and then build a hut connected to the mountain. If you put your animals in the hut then they wont be killed by hostile creatures, but my problem is that they don't drink water or eat food and then they kill themselves. This isn't because it is close to a mountain, it's just bugged.

[Martino_ch]

Originally posted by Martino_ch:

Originally posted by ocfourie01:

That might be my problem, I am pretty close to a mountain, thanks!

Me too, im testing imedetly :-)

Its true and solution for the problem. Away from Mountain work it all, Animals walk, sleep and eat. Thanks guys.

[Swiftstylus]

Originally posted by Ben Stiller:

Build a ramp to a mountain ( a height that is unreachable by hostile animals) and then build a hut connected to the mountain. If you put your animals in the hut then they wont be killed by hostile creatures, but my problem is that they don't drink water or eat food and then they kill themselves. This isn't because it is close to a mountain, it's just bugged.

It's because your pathing will be weird as I doubt the AI can handle a tactic like this. If it confounds predator AI, it will likely confound mount AI.

[Cucu]

Originally posted by Ben Stiller:

Build a ramp to a mountain ... This isn't because it is close to a mountain, it's just bugged.

Height does not count as distance, you need to stay away from mountains. The full FAQ:

Frequently asked questions:

Cured leather?
Drying rack!

My juvenile / tamed mount does not eat/drink/sleep
When troughs, beds or animals are placed close to a mountain or in a cave, they do not work. The animal cannot find a path then, even if everything is placed on an elevated floor. Keep a distance of 6,7, maybe 10 floor tiles to the mountain. That also means that if you hop off your already tamed mount close by a mountain, it will not find the path to a well placed trough.
Another reason might be the trough placed too close by a wall or another obstacle. To move a water trough, better fill your canteen from the trough, move the trough, fill it with your canteen again, and maybe also lead your animal close to it. If nothing helps, it's said it helped to smack it with bare hands!

I left my juvenile at home within fences and it disappeared!?
A Juvenile's measurements become slightly larger at the moment it grows up. Because they sometimes stand by the fence, they suddenly stand upon it when they grow mature (I saw it happen for a buffalo at least), and so they're free to leave for a walk and may get killed somewhere (they like to drink from rivers). Prepare for this to happen if you're not around when taming finishes.

How to feed while on a journey?
Yes, you need to take a food trough, food (wild berries or similar), water trough and (your) canteen to fill it with you (or let it drink by a river, that should work too). A bed is not required once taming has finished.