Animal taming

[ʋǟɛʟօʀ]

So I've been playing 76 since open beta, and TIL you can tame animals that will hang around your camp? I stumbled across this Reddit thread
( https://www.reddit.com/r/fo76/comments/1cc6aks/how_to_tame_a_pet_in_fallout_76_updated_april_2024/ ) while looking up something completely unrelated, and now I know why I've seen a few camps with a friendly monster hanging around. However I don't quite understand how it all works.

I've equipped the level 3 Animal Friend Perk Card, but I can't quite make sense of which animals spawn where. I want to befriend a cat or a dog, but I don't understand how to read this map the poster included ( https://imgur.com/gallery/fallout-76-taming-location-photos-uRMJopP ). The rest of the links in the Reddit thread are broken.

Could somebody please explain to me in idiot proof terms where I need to go to tame a cat or a dog? I found some cats east of Beckwith Farm but I could only Pacify them, not Tame then - which I'm guessing is because that location isn't a valid tame spawn location? But I don't know what is.

Thanks in advance for any advice you can give. 😸

[schambron]

to tame an animal you need to have high charisma along with the perk card equipped ,above 8, but its still chance it will work... i believe that is what i read on other posts

[ʋǟɛʟօʀ]

Originally posted by schambron:

to tame an animal you need to have high charisma along with the perk card equipped ,above 8, but its still chance it will work... i believe that is what i read on other posts

If I have charisma above 8 can I tame any animal (so long as the RNG is in my favor)? I got the impression from that Reddit post that only animals found in the locations on that map are tamable. Not sure if I interpreted that right or not.

[Mooman]

Yeah, only animals that spawn at fixed points have a chance of being tameable.

At the spawn points they'll be on their own and one of a range of animal types. Not all will have the tame tag.

You have to have the cards slotted before they spawn/you fast travel or they'll never have the tame prompt.

It's hit or miss and chances are they'll be killed at your base due to glitches, other players, hostile mobs etc.

It's a half finished feature and tbh worth ignoring.

[SeBassMann]

you need animal friend 3 and need to look at random encounter locations for random spawning creatures, those can be tamed and sent to your camp.

got myself a megasloth that way

[SmallSheriff]

It works for a while then they are lost or dead. Then you get to do it all over again. And again and again.