Trapped Macaque in Cage

[money3030]

Do you need an Enclosure to release it as a friend? 🤔 I thought letting it go at 80% Entertainment (stress icon?) And 100% Happiness is enough.

Well it didn't work so reloaded save on experiment, Macaque wasn't anywhere after release lol.

Close to 100% soon guess I'll find out.

[Firazh]

It needs to heal fully, just like they do when you manage to capture them with a log trap or spear fighting (only they are not inside a cage then). The happyness they have is not relevant, though I suspect they are less likely to bite you when feeding when it is higher.

[money3030]

Originally posted by Firazh:

It needs to heal fully, just like they do when you manage to capture them with a log trap or spear fighting (only they are not inside a cage then). The happyness they have is not relevant, though I suspect they are less likely to bite you when feeding when it is higher.

Bruh there's no Health stat since it's locked in a wooden cage, all it has is happiness and stress aside from Thirst and Hunger 100% didn't also made it loyal, it still ran away.

Maybe an Enclosure works I don't know yet or the taming feature got lost somewhere.

Do you need a rope? 🤔

[money3030]

Well interestingly enough, the macaque broke out of the cage alone after probably reaching 101-102% stress and now a friend. Seems like a weird process lol.

[Firazh]

Well on a normally caught one the bottom right stat is health, which goes up slowly. So when I caught my one macaque with a cage so far (otherwise it's been partridges, partridges and you guessed ... partridges) I assumed it was the same and didn't really check if it was different).

However mine just stayed nicely in the cage, getting watered and fed whenever it hit 75% and eventually came out of the cage as my friend. Oh and it bit me once, no difference there to a normally caught one. *sighs*

[money3030]

Originally posted by Firazh:

Well on a normally caught one the bottom right stat is health, which goes up slowly. So when I caught my one macaque with a cage so far (otherwise it's been partridges, partridges and you guessed ... partridges) I assumed it was the same and didn't really check if it was different).

However mine just stayed nicely in the cage, getting watered and fed whenever it hit 75% and eventually came out of the cage as my friend. Oh and it bit me once, no difference there to a normally caught one. *sighs*

Yeah, it came out of the cage breaking immersion for me. (Makes you feel cage isn't secure as it seems) 😬

I mean it would have been better to manually release it once it says friend Macaque than doing magic.

[territ]

How do you lower the stress of a caged macaque? I caught one in a cage trap and keep him fed and watered inside my mud hut. He bit me once already when I tried to pet him. What makes his stress level go down?

[Firazh]

I now had a few caught that way, and I basically treat them the same way as a wounded one. Just water and feed them, be prepared to be bitten at least once and do not try and pet them. That doesn't actually help them and just tends to result in bites.

You just have to wait out the bottom right stat to go to 100%, whether it is wounds or stress or tameness or whatnot exactly.

[Neomare]

Originally posted by money3030:

Well interestingly enough, the macaque broke out of the cage alone after probably reaching 101-102% stress and now a friend. Seems like a weird process lol.

That state is how tame he is. Once it reaches 100% he is friendly and the player automaticaly lets it out of the Cage ;).

[Stormrhodos]

This needs more clarity and a proper explanation ingame.
It's very unclear what the correct way of befriending a caged Macaque is at the moment.
The bottom right stat looks like a stress or entertainment meter instead of according to this thread, a befriend meter.
There's also options for petting (which seems to serve no purpose other than get you hurt) and the option to release, which... why would anyone ever click that?
I assume it just releases the macaque into the wild, but I considering the cost and time/resource-investment, I don't really want to experiment with it.
All these things just add unnecessary confusion.

[Philtre]

Originally posted by Stormrhodos:

There's also options for petting (which seems to serve no purpose other than get you hurt)

Petting a tame macaque lowers your loneliness. I don't recall if petting a non-tame macaque does too, but in any case the petting interaction is for the effect on the player, not the effect on the macaque.