Taming Wolves !!!!

[ĐrαGoɳS' uK / Inactive]

Any advice please ?
We have captured wolves at least 4 times over and every time they escape !!
Watched videos ... build pen, get them to chase you then pen them in ...
Did all that ... even built double spiked walls around them but still they get out !!??
Cant even see where or how they have escaped. Have a small snow biome near the meadows so no dangers there other than the odd greyling which cant get in.
seriously what is the best way to do this ?
Any help as always appreciated ;)

[ChrisMartin]

Dig a hole (8x8 and 4-6 deep, should do), build wood floor over the part of it, lure the wolves over it and destroy the flooring. Now you have wolves in a hole. Feed it boar or deer meat, and wait within range to them are tamed. It can take a day or two.
If you leave for to longe of a period, they will de-spawn, and not get tamed.

[ĐrαGoɳS' uK / Inactive]

Will try that - Thank you!

[Complaintdesk]

The preference of course, is if one is going to commit 2-3 days of game time to taming wolves, take the time to commit oneself to taming a 2 star wolf. Once one has the gear to survive in mountain biomes, find a convenient place to dig a taming pit. Preferably near where the mountains border the Black Forest or meadows & an appropriate shelter, and where there is little or no danger of the wolf being attacked, especially by drakes. Once a wolf is captured in the pit, it is important to have enough food to feed it over the course of a couple of days, and important not to lose Line of Sight (LoS) with it until the following day cycle begins. Taming pits work best as player constructed pens can easily be destroyed, especially by starred wolves. I once had a 2 star wolf despawn in the short time period it took me to turn around (while at the edge of my taming pit) and in two hits kill a Fenrig.

While taming the wolf, it is also important to be able to maintain LoS, while weaponless and crouching and to be able to move far enough away for the wolf to lose any agitation it may have. Being crouched and weaponless, helps to facilitate a calming effect on wild animals. Wolves can tend not to eat offered food when they are agitated. The taming pit should be deep enough, with sides steep enough, that it takes a couple of running jumps for the player to exit. Once the first evening after capture has passed while never losing LoS, the pit can be covered by floor boards to prevent it being seen or attacked by drakes.

Starred wolves only seem to appear after the evening cycle begins (6:00 pm game time). They also tend to only appear when being attacked by a group of 3 or more, so be careful to identify the starred wolf so as not to kill it.

[GunsForBucks]

Night wolves despwan if you leave the area before they are tame.
Make sure if you are going for night wolves that you have plenty of meat on you since you can't leave to get it once you have them penned.

[Polaris]

My favorite method is to build a stone wall oven near the mountains, with a stonecutter just outside to repair as needed

Wooden gates facing the mountain left open

A stone staircase inside that stops before getting to the outer wall, but is close enough to let you jump it.


You get the aggro of the wild you want, run to your kennel, run in, the wolf will follow you, you then run up the stairs and jump the wall, the wolf will not be able to jump it.

In a group, a friend can shut the gate trapping The wolf, if your alone, you need to run around and shut it quick, you then throw meat in, and wait :D

(It's easier if you have stairs from the other side too)

While waiting, you can level up your sneak skill, walk normally ever once in awhile, then sneak while the wolf is looking for you :)

[Bored Peon]

Originally posted by Complaintdesk:

While taming the wolf, it is also important to be able to maintain LoS, while weaponless and crouching and to be able to move far enough away for the wolf to lose any agitation it may have. Being crouched and weaponless, helps to facilitate a calming effect on wild animals. Wolves can tend not to eat offered food when they are agitated.

This applies to all taming.

If the animal being tamed has the exclamation point above it's health bar then it is not gaining ground on being tamed.

While remaining within a certain distance there is a constant gain of being tamed. If you leave that distance then the gains stop.

Staying crouched and hidden also prevents you from doing things like chopping, mining, etc that can attract mobs, when the mobs are nearby the tamed creatures start acting afraid and gain the exclamation point above them.

[ĐrαGoɳS' uK / Inactive]

Thank you for all the advice!
I made another wooden enclosure just slightly off the snow biome and at the edge of the meadows. (slightly further away than the last enclosure). Stayed there for one night and the wolf was 'tamed' by the next day! So 2 days basically.
We made sure food was in the enclosure before we trapped him and checked on the wolf maybe just twice while he was there.
Though when walking him back to our base which isn't too far he was attacking everything in sight, which is normal i guess, tho his 'red bar' was slighlty down & it said wolf was also 'frightened' ?? why would that be ?
There is a small area of black forest we had to pass thru where there were a few greylings which he was killing and i killed also ... would that be why he was frightened maybe ?
Also is it ok to leave the wolf at our base while we go off to other biomes in the portal ? we are currently in a large snow biome getting silver.

[Bored Peon]

Originally posted by DrαGoɳ$' uK:

Though when walking him back to our base which isn't too far he was attacking everything in sight, which is normal i guess, tho his 'red bar' was slighlty down & it said wolf was also 'frightened' ?? why would that be ?

When being attacked or there is mobs nearby tamed creatures show frightened.

Feeding them restores their health.

I would also try to have a roof on your enclosure simply because drakes will aggro anything on the ground, having a roof will keep a drake form slaughtering your wolves.

[ĐrαGoɳS' uK / Inactive]

Originally posted by Bored Peon:

Originally posted by DrαGoɳ$' uK:

Though when walking him back to our base which isn't too far he was attacking everything in sight, which is normal i guess, tho his 'red bar' was slighlty down & it said wolf was also 'frightened' ?? why would that be ?

When being attacked or there is mobs nearby tamed creatures show frightened.

Feeding them restores their health.

I would also try to have a roof on your enclosure simply because drakes will aggro anything on the ground, having a roof will keep a drake form slaughtering your wolves.

Thanks Bored Peon :)

[Bored Peon]

Originally posted by DrαGoɳ$' uK:

Originally posted by Bored Peon:

When being attacked or there is mobs nearby tamed creatures show frightened.

Feeding them restores their health.

I would also try to have a roof on your enclosure simply because drakes will aggro anything on the ground, having a roof will keep a drake form slaughtering your wolves.

Thanks Bored Peon :)

No problem, I went through this learning experience myself last week taming Loxes and creating boar farms. Neither the wiki or any of the Steam guides had updated information. Most the guides said healing only happened when eating and only every twenty minutes, which is partly wrong. It gets a food buff and as soon as it calms down it will heal if the food buff is still active.

I think it took a week in game to tame my first Lox because none of the guides said to stay close. Then trying to get a second one it died like five days in at like 80% because it ran out of food or moved too far away from the food.

Half my problem was also because I refused to make a cheesy pit to keep the loxes in (also was a coastal area. Any structure simply can not hold them when they start sprinting and leaving a tamed riding lox in your base is a bad idea because it gets afraid and breaks too much @#$%.

[ĐrαGoɳS' uK / Inactive]

Originally posted by Bored Peon:

Originally posted by DrαGoɳ$' uK:

Thanks Bored Peon :)

No problem, I went through this learning experience myself last week taming Loxes and creating boar farms. Neither the wiki or any of the Steam guides had updated information. Most the guides said healing only happened when eating and only every twenty minutes, which is partly wrong. It gets a food buff and as soon as it calms down it will heal if the food buff is still active.

I think it took a week in game to tame my first Lox because none of the guides said to stay close. Then trying to get a second one it died like five days in at like 80% because it ran out of food or moved too far away from the food.

Half my problem was also because I refused to make a cheesy pit to keep the loxes in (also was a coastal area. Any structure simply can not hold them when they start sprinting and leaving a tamed riding lox in your base is a bad idea because it gets afraid and breaks too much @#$%.

Ooooh .. well i'll take that onboard when/if i get around to taming the loxes
Thanks again for all the advice ! Gonna try get my second wolf now .. shouldn't be too much of a problem i hope !!
Cheers all!

[Enoch Root]

You can use a hole in the ground, or a stone wall enclosure. Build stairs down into it, and lure the wolf in, then delete the stairs, and jump out.
I suggest building a roof to keep drakes from attacking the trapped wolf.