how do i tame the pigs?

[.FrostByte]

so i saw the rune stone that read that if you have fire in your hand and roots on the ground the boars would get tamed but i don't know were to get the roots i have progress to bronze can i get some tips.

[Marksman Max]

Originally posted by Soren:

Too me, the runestones that spawn boars semi-regularly is what makes taming them obsolete. Chests full of meat and leather scraps are to be had right away if you live near a boar runestone or two.

Also, if you try to tame the boars at said runestones, they'll attempt to path back towards them iirc, adding another pain in the ass to an already painful process.

[shadain597]

Originally posted by Complaintdesk:

After they were tamed and I had a decent size singular of boars, I let them roam the meadow area freely. The raid event "Eikthyr Rallies the Creatures of the Forest" happened. Wild boar will not attack tame boar and vice versa, so the only threat to my livestock were the necks. The necks managed to kill 2 of my one star boars, but my 2 star boar were unscathed. 2 star boar can easily kill regular necks, Greylings & deer. Even the 1 star boar almost always come out the winners in battles against those foes, but regular boars die nearly every time.

Fair warning to you and/or other new players reading this: the raids get harder as you progress, and even a small army of 2-star boars will not fair well against the later raids, so I strongly recommend securing at least 2 of the boars in a safe location, even if you want to leave most of them "free range." I know I'm basically repeating myself, but I don't want anyone to have the frustrating experience of having less than 2 tamed animals survive, after all the initial work they put into it.

Originally posted by Marksman Max:

Also, if you try to tame the boars at said runestones, they'll attempt to path back towards them iirc, adding another pain in the ass to an already painful process.

IIRC, the wiki suggests taming them, getting offspring, then slaughtering the originals. The offspring won't have the same weird behavior. But yeah, undeniably a pain.

[knighttemplar1960]

There is no issue with taming a no star boar. You can tame them very early in the game (before you even enter the black forest) and once tamed you have a steady supply of boar meat. All you have to do is throw in a handful of surplus raspberries every time you walk past the pen. Walls that are tall enough to prevent them from seeing you while they are taming are sufficient.

When I do a new start, one of the first things I do is find a nice large flat space and build a small boar pen with standard walls and a door on each end and then build another one right next to it so that the pens share the center wall. I leave all the doors open and then find a boar and lead it to the pen. I pass through the doors and shut the last one after I pass through it and then circle around and shut the front door, then do the same thing with a boar and the other side of the pen. As long as the work bench(s) are out side the pen there is no work bench issue with the boars. You can build a ladder and throw food in if you forgot to drop enough food in before you went looking for boars.

Then all you have to do is move far enough away that the boars stop being frightened. I then spend the taming time building my first lodge near the boar pen and build a stake wall fence around the perimeter of both. By the time I'm done building all that the boars are tame and I can walk into the pen and remove the center wall and let them start breeding. I start out with a consistent and dependable source of boar meat before I even kill the first boss or have any armor. You don't need the tin knife to cull them, you can just turn on PVP mode and use what ever weapon you have handy.

This will save you having to pick up the leather scraps when hunting (and save you an inventory square) because you have an endless supply back home. You can start taming boars as soon as you have a hammer and stone axe.

[Complaintdesk]

Originally posted by shadain597:

Fair warning to you and/or other new players reading this: the raids get harder as you progress, and even a small army of 2-star boars will not fair well against the later raids, so I strongly recommend securing at least 2 of the boars in a safe location, even if you want to leave most of them "free range." I know I'm basically repeating myself, but I don't want anyone to have the frustrating experience of having less than 2 tamed animals survive, after all the initial work they put into it.

Very sound advice shadain597. I do not suggest letting tamed animals roam freely around a base. Every 46 minutes there is a 20% chance for a random event, while the player is within 40 meters of at least 3 base structures. The cheapest and least time consuming to construct security strategy, to prevent one's animals from getting slaughtered in my experience, is to make a farm where crops are grown and tamed animals are kept; separate from a base containing event triggering structures. which is what I do now on my main solo player world. I have a very large earthen walled farm containing crop plots along with my 2 star boars and wolves. The only thing at that location is a portal and a large dark metal chest. I intentionally avoided making a bed, fire and workbenches to limit the amount of base structures to cancel the conditions that trigger enemy incursion events.

There are a few strategies that work well to protect one's base from damage during incursion events when they occur, but in my experience the most effective one is to have roving packs of 2 star wolves patrolling the area surrounding one's base. On my main multiplayer server, I have probably in excess of 200 two star wolves in packs surrounding my base. They are so effective at protecting our base, its buildings, the farms and tamed boars, that when an incursion occurs I actually have a hard time engaging with the enemies before they are killed by wolves.

[Ben]

Originally posted by Marksman Max:

Originally posted by shadain597:

To each their own, but each star a boar has doubles the drops, aside from trophies. No star boars? Yeah, better off hunting. Two star boars? Depends on how much boar drops you want, and whether you prefer spending a little extra time hunting vs the long-term investment of putting together a farm.

Two-star Boars might be worth the merit; provided, you can find one. But I just can't stand the hassle of attempting to move boars, since they can't be set to follow the player, and to make matters worse, other mobs can kill said boars. Even two-star boars only have thirty health, making them little more than cannon fodder against even Black Forest hostiles.

If the 2* boar is not too far away, you can harpoon them and drag them home. If you have two people you can have one person sail the Karve, while the other person drags the bacon. Tedious but it works.