How to Keep Tamed Animals safe?

[Yehi'Or]

Note: This is on Open world, normal diff.

I recently dived into taming. I created a 3x3 barn and surrounded it with fortified walls with spikes and all. It's relatively a safe spot even for me. - enough to even hold off the wave event. I placed my tamed animals there. Moas and horses. Happy with the result when my moa leveled up to 3. Went back home to sleep. Woke up notified that a bear is murdering my pets. Went to the site and everything is still in tact. Doors and gates are closed and no damage to any structures... Just a big arse bear standing on top of my pets corpses. I assume it spawned there...
I'm struggling to see the point in making a secured barn... at this point, I'll probably just make an animal garage. Any tips?

[**Asa**]

Make a Creature Deterrent. It stops animals from spawning in a given area.

[Yehi'Or]

Originally posted by **Asa**:

Make a Creature Deterrent. It stops animals from spawning in a given area.

How are you so wise? xD

[The Klang Is Good]

Guard pets. And as a bonus you and your other pets get shared xp from every kill they make.

I use boars and wolves as guard pets, set to wander and be aggressive. They can kill almost everything that moves on land or water. For reference, four wolves (level 15-25 & talent points spent wisely) can kill a polar bear and survive, without any help. Just watch out your guard pets are not fighting alone, I've lost wolves when they attacked four ganged up crocs on their own..

If you go this route, it's preferable to not have spikes or brambles or cliffs nearby..

[Yehi'Or]

Originally posted by The Klang Is Good:

Guard pets. And as a bonus you and your other pets get shared xp from every kill they make.

I use boars and wolves as guard pets, set to wander and be aggressive. They can kill almost everything that moves on land or water. For reference, four wolves (level 15-25 & talent points spent wisely) can kill a polar bear and survive, without any help. Just watch out your guard pets are not fighting alone, I've lost wolves when they attacked four ganged up crocs on their own..

If you go this route, it's preferable to not have spikes or brambles or cliffs nearby..

I'm new to the game, so I've yet to try things. I'll try catching wolves. Thanks for the tip.

[Lemonjello]

I just recently watched a YT Icarus series that is really good. Lots of tips and just really creative. He starts on Olympus with a Level 0 character and wraps up on Prometheus Level 60+. Just last night I watched him tame three wolves, level them some and chose really good talents for each. Those wolves shredded jaguars, wolves, bears and a polar bear. I didn't even know you could do that in this game. I was a bit overwhelmed when I started playing because of what I didn't know, but learned a lot from him. Here's the link to that episode, since the conversation is on guard pets. Hope it helps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwL0Wypu_bg

[The Klang Is Good]

Originally posted by N7_Shadow:

Originally posted by Yerahmeel:

I'm new to the game, so I've yet to try things. I'll try catching wolves. Thanks for the tip.

That requires a DLC.

What needs dlc?

[Logovore]

Originally posted by Lemonjello:

I just recently watched a YT Icarus series that is really good. Lots of tips and just really creative. He starts on Olympus with a Level 0 character and wraps up on Prometheus Level 60+. Just last night I watched him tame three wolves, level them some and chose really good talents for each. Those wolves shredded jaguars, wolves, bears and a polar bear. I didn't even know you could do that in this game. I was a bit overwhelmed when I started playing because of what I didn't know, but learned a lot from him. Here's the link to that episode, since the conversation is on guard pets. Hope it helps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwL0Wypu_bg

Started watching the guy when he released the first episode (actually occurrence of YT algorithm doing its job), and loved every minute of it. Highly recommend watching him especially as the pets updates roll out and the choices he makes, as much of the commentary and guides out there were made before that update and are outdated.

[zombiemike814]

I currently have a tamed wolf stuck inside a cave...Seems hes stuck to a rock and cant get freed even with the tether...any way to get him unstuck?

[Rekal]

Originally posted by zombiemike814:

I currently have a tamed wolf stuck inside a cave...Seems hes stuck to a rock and cant get freed even with the tether...any way to get him unstuck?

Follow command and rubber band it out? Follow command, move away, and log out and back in? I don't think the Stuck command (in the ESC menu) works for tames but it wouldn't hurt to trigger it to see if it will then teleport to you.

You could try building a ramp under him as well, maybe that would bump him up or give him purchase to move himself. Hit the END key to unlock from grid and use the page up and page down keys to get your ramp positioned perfectly.

[N7_Shadow]

Originally posted by Rekal:

Originally posted by zombiemike814:

I currently have a tamed wolf stuck inside a cave...Seems hes stuck to a rock and cant get freed even with the tether...any way to get him unstuck?

Follow command and rubber band it out? Follow command, move away, and log out and back in? I don't think the Stuck command (in the ESC menu) works for tames but it wouldn't hurt to trigger it to see if it will then teleport to you.

You could try building a ramp under him as well, maybe that would bump him up or give him purchase to move himself. Hit the END key to unlock from grid and use the page up and page down keys to get your ramp positioned perfectly.

I just learned something. Thanks!

Now, is there a way to rotate something, before placing it? Placing, then rotating is completely backwards, and only works if you have plenty of room. Good luck replacing a Cupboard that glitched and disappeared, when it's in the middle of a bunch of Cupboards you lined up along the wall, sideways, which I do in every single one of these kinds of games.

[Rekal]

Originally posted by N7_Shadow:

Now, is there a way to rotate something, before placing it? Placing, then rotating is completely backwards, and only works if you have plenty of room. Good luck replacing a Cupboard that glitched and disappeared, when it's in the middle of a bunch of Cupboards you lined up along the wall, sideways, which I do in every single one of these kinds of games.

Nope, no rotation before placing. The initial rotation is completely locked to your player facing. All of the placement hotkeys are displayed on the right hand side of the screen when you have a building piece in hand.

So in your situation where you're trying to slip a cupboard back in between two others you placed tightly, I think your best bet is to jump up top of one of them and get the right initial angle there. Now that I think about it though I don't recall if our characters have enough negative depression to look straight down sharply enough. You might be SoL.

Things can definitely get crowded if you try to put your storage right there with all your workbenches. One solution is we can go vertical. The foundry device requires a two tile high workshop anyway right? I like to set my storage on a little half tile shelf right above the workshop level. Just look up and grab what you need. Here's an unrelated picture that has my Prometheus storage setup in the background. Have ores along one side and everything else along the other. No need for ultra-tight placement there: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3124341602

[The Klang Is Good]

Originally posted by Rekal:

You could try building a ramp under him as well, maybe that would bump him up or give him purchase to move himself.

Ramp works also for animals which are trapped under ground. I had chicken walking and wolf swimming (!) under ground last week (my base is near lake). In both cases I put ramp deep in the ground and food trough (with food in it) in front of the ramp. They popped above ground when they went to eat.

I just wonder how they got under ground in the first place? Did they walk too far some ramp downstairs?

Maybe my other disappeared animals dropped off the map completely because there were no other plane under ground?