How to tame boars?

[kangirigungi]

I do not understand how I could tame a boar. I herded one into a pen, threw some raspberries in, then waited, slept in my house, even went for a day doing something else, but it's still frightened and is running around. What can I do for it to calm down, eat, and become tame?

[AsianGirlLover]

Sleeping does not speed up the taming process. You’ll need to throw 3 berries in there and wait an hour or two.

Edit: or mod it like I did and just wait 1 minute.

[Suzaku]

Creatures only tame in real time (sleeping doesn't help), and requires somebody to be in the area to render them during the taming process. If you run too far away, they don't bother taming.

[Crivens !!]

also make sure there are no fire sources near him, it freaks them out

[AsianGirlLover]

Originally posted by Suzaku:

Creatures only tame in real time (sleeping doesn't help), and requires somebody to be in the area to render them during the taming process. If you run too far away, they don't bother taming.

Yeah, being far enough away that they stop taming is super lame. Same reason why I sped up the process in Ark and Conan. Idk who’s idea it was to make taming such a pain.

“Hey, guys, you know what would be engaging and entertaining gameplay for our players? Let’s make them babysit an NPC and sit around doing nothing for several irl hours. That’s gonna keep em wanting to support us and play more of our future games.”

[Zep Tepi]

Don't let it see you, but stay close enough that is is loaded into the world. You can use that time to practice your sneaking skill. They used to be afraid of fire but that was patched out awhile back. (Or did that only apply to tame ones?)

[kangirigungi]

What's the distance I can go and it still being loaded into the world?

[Suzaku]

Originally posted by kangirigungi:

What's the distance I can go and it still being loaded into the world?

I don't know the exact distance. I would just say if you can see the boar, then it's close enough.

[Zathabar]

Originally posted by AsianGirlLover:

Yeah, being far enough away that they stop taming is super lame. Same reason why I sped up the process in Ark and Conan. Idk who’s idea it was to make taming such a pain.

“Hey, guys, you know what would be engaging and entertaining gameplay for our players? Let’s make them babysit an NPC and sit around doing nothing for several irl hours. That’s gonna keep em wanting to support us and play more of our future games.”

Oh Dear somebodies not got the hang of time management... Some of us enjoy the less than breakneck pace here.

Stop being so Histrionic (look it up). You build a Taming pen near to an area your doing something for a while like crafting or Cooking or maybe planting crops and you barely notice the time with Boars.

Wolves yeah a night spent on a mountain top over a Trap pit in the mountains is less entertaining but their is still stuff to beat up and farm.

Lox ah they're really slow I grant you, but same rule applies though. But unless you gotta have a Tank to ride on I never bother with Lox these days easy enough to Hunt for there meat once you get the hang of it.

If the Devs (or our Gallant Modding community) ever want to make Taming worth the effort then for the love of Mike give us a way to reliably TRANSPORT livestock by boat...

[Mods are not officially supported and may cause unexpected side effects that are nobodies fault but can also be highly entertaining!]

[AsianGirlLover]

Originally posted by Zathabar:

Originally posted by AsianGirlLover:

Yeah, being far enough away that they stop taming is super lame. Same reason why I sped up the process in Ark and Conan. Idk who’s idea it was to make taming such a pain.

“Hey, guys, you know what would be engaging and entertaining gameplay for our players? Let’s make them babysit an NPC and sit around doing nothing for several irl hours. That’s gonna keep em wanting to support us and play more of our future games.”

Oh Dear somebodies not got the hang of time management... Some of us enjoy the less than breakneck pace here.

Stop being so Histrionic (look it up). You build a Taming pen near to an area your doing something for a while like crafting or Cooking or maybe planting crops and you barely notice the time with Boars.

Wolves yeah a night spent on a mountain top over a Trap pit in the mountains is less entertaining but their is still stuff to beat up and farm.

Lox ah they're really slow I grant you, but same rule applies though. But unless you gotta have a Tank to ride on I never bother with Lox these days easy enough to Hunt for there meat once you get the hang of it.

If the Devs (or our Gallant Modding community) ever want to make Taming worth the effort then for the love of Mike give us a way to reliably TRANSPORT livestock by boat...

[Mods are not officially supported and may cause unexpected side effects that are nobodies fault but can also be highly entertaining!]

Thank you for expanding my vocabulary, but if you’re going to be condescending, you can at least try to avoid typos before submitting your response.

But yes, I’m aware you can fill your time doing other things. I still prefer faster taming times for convenience sake.

[.FrostByte]

in my opinion there is no point to taming boars, you only need them from meadows to the swamp and the pay off is very limited since you till need to get food for them which you still need to forage/farm for and its very slow. If you run out off boars to kill in an area then you should just find another place which you use portals to quickly get to. The only times when you actually might need them are if you are playing in a big group or if you are breeding wolf's aka when demand is very high not if you are solo.

[knighttemplar1960]

Originally posted by Zep Tepi:

Don't let it see you, but stay close enough that is is loaded into the world. You can use that time to practice your sneaking skill. They used to be afraid of fire but that was patched out awhile back. (Or did that only apply to tame ones?)

Wild boars (and those in the taming process) are afraid of fire. Tamed ones aren't.

Originally posted by Suzaku:

Originally posted by kangirigungi:

What's the distance I can go and it still being loaded into the world?

I don't know the exact distance. I would just say if you can see the boar, then it's close enough.

Rendering distance is 64 tiles.

Originally posted by .FrostByte:

in my opinion there is no point to taming boars, you only need them from meadows to the swamp and the pay off is very limited since you till need to get food for them which you still need to forage/farm for and its very slow. If you run out off boars to kill in an area then you should just find another place which you use portals to quickly get to. The only times when you actually might need them are if you are playing in a big group or if you are breeding wolf's aka when demand is very high not if you are solo.

You can tame boars as soon as you build a hammer and gather enough wood. You need a place that gives shelter for your first base if you want the rested bonus. You can pen 2 boars and build your first house and chop wood near them while they tame. You then have a quick and easy supply of boar meat and leather scraps through the early game and you have boar meat for the black forest and for the swamp and after that you have easy access to food for your wolves. Its very worth the time it takes to build the pen and gather the first boars.

[Foxglovez]

Unless your pants are on fire to get through the game or your Mom needs you to take out the garbage, taming is one of the fun little mini games in Valheim. It takes about 20 minutes rl time unless they get glitched. In which case just go far away or log out and start over again. Usually caused if they can see you or fire too near.

You can tell if the taming status has started as little yellowish hearts will wisp off them. If there are no hearts then they are not taming, for whatever reason. It takes a bit of time at first for them to calm down, go get a bite of food - and this is when folks get itchy, get too close and get them all excited again. Put the food in before you get the piggy and put in more food than you need to, just in case you have to restart. Not like shrooms, raspberries and carrots are scarce.

Tames are not as afraid of fire as before which leads to them walking into it and dying. Best to still keep fire away from them.

[explor]

I had a problem like that till i built a solid high wall around the pen, then they calmed right down. I think the gray-dorks had them spooked.

[kangirigungi]

What's the minimum distance they need to be away from fire? Maybe that's my problem.

Another question: do boars respawn? As I understand, monsters do respawn.

[Mharr]

Originally posted by Foxglovez:

It takes about 20 minutes rl time unless they get glitched.

A perfect summation of why the taming mechanics are not in fact fun.

It doesn't help that they're also impossible to intuit.