How do you keep your new Lox alive?

[Salty]

After what feels like forever, I have tamed a pair of Lox. I new the moment they became tame because they immediately came under attack by Deathwasps and Fulings. They do not have a "follow me" option. How do I keep them alive? One minute after being tamed, one of them is already almost dead.

[The Gunsmith]

if you are tier appropriate for plains, there is a saddle that can be made. alternatively you can use a harpoon as a leash.

if you've tamed lox but haven't beat moder and don't own a harpoon then lox meat is pretty tasty yeah and i guess the new rug will be nice at home

[Mharr]

The simplest option is to tame more than two Lox, throw down some extra food and have them breed. They quickly build up the numbers to wreck random enemies.

[Cap'n Bells]

Originally posted by Mharr:

The simplest option is to tame more than two Lox, throw down some extra food and have them breed. They quickly build up the numbers to wreck random enemies.

this!!! feed em when they get hungry

[Mharr]

They will also wreck your bases in passing :D

[Bobucles]

Simply loitering around your tamed animals is the greatest danger they can have. Enemies spawn in response to the viking, charge towards them, and will destroy anything else along the way.

Go out for milk and cigs, and return to feed the lox every few hours. An elevated workbench can be safe against fulings while protecting nearby food from despawning. Look for tiny islands and corners surrounded by water. Less land means less enemy spawns and less danger for the lox.

[knighttemplar1960]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3007558384

This is my lox pen in my plains base. The walls and bridge support pillars are made of earth so the lox can't destroy them when deathsquitos fly in and they fight. Work benches are inside the roof of the bridge and at the corners of the pen (you can see one corner workbench location in the distance just to the right of the Dverger lanterns on the left side of the screen.)

This work bench coverage prevents fulings and deathsquitos from spawning inside the pen and the earthen walls keep the fulings out. A single deathsquito can't kill a lox but one stomp from the lox kills the deathsquito. The lox can heal one time per day (after they eat but they have to be hungry to eat) so sleep if its night time or leave the base and come back the next day to make sure no extra deathsquitos can kill one of your lox.

[Salty]

I can't harpoon a tamed Lox. It won't let me. One of my Lox is already dead from a couple Fulings. My plan is to craft a saddle and ride the other one to a safe place. Hopefully it won't try to go back to the hill it came from. It really feels like having tamed animals is not worth the headache. I have yet to try wolves, but the pigs die at the drop of a hat. I have to re-do the pig farm almost every time I play.

[morrokain10587]

For boars, a barn with a roof and a surrounding palisade fence with bars on the windows has kept them safe through every raid so far including bat raids and keeps the boars from startling from nearby enemies.

For lox, what I did was use a large palisade fence to keep them from wandering too far and then put a couple layers of woodworking benches both outside and inside the fence to prevent spawns in the immediate area. Then slowly corral the two loxes using the smaller fence pieces into breeding range and keep them fed. My first lox of three I tamed stampeded into the forest and died despite my best efforts (this was at night and enemies just kept spawning - aggroing the lox into more enemies, ect) but all the trees that it downed gave me plenty of wood for the fences lol.

I now have around 10 or so tamed loxes (lox?).

knighttemplar1960's method is probably the safest overall, but if you lack the stone stockpiles to do it and don't feel like grinding for it my method has worked well enough too. I haven't tested it against raids though. If the loxes stampede the fence wont keep them in I'd imagine. So the trick is to prevent that from happening.

[knighttemplar1960]

Originally posted by morrokain10587:

For boars, a barn with a roof and a surrounding palisade fence with bars on the windows has kept them safe through every raid so far including bat raids and keeps the boars from startling from nearby enemies.

For lox, what I did was use a large palisade fence to keep them from wandering too far and then put a couple layers of woodworking benches both outside and inside the fence to prevent spawns in the immediate area. Then slowly corral the two loxes using the smaller fence pieces into breeding range and keep them fed. My first lox of three I tamed stampeded into the forest and died despite my best efforts (this was at night and enemies just kept spawning - aggroing the lox into more enemies, ect) but all the trees that it downed gave me plenty of wood for the fences lol.

I now have around 10 or so tamed loxes (lox?).

knighttemplar1960's method is probably the safest overall, but if you lack the stone stockpiles to do it and don't feel like grinding for it my method has worked well enough too. I haven't tested it against raids though. If the loxes stampede the fence wont keep them in I'd imagine. So the trick is to prevent that from happening.

You can use just a moat instead but there are issues with the moat. The fuling spear throwers can still hit the lox, all the deathsquitos will see and be able to attack the lox, and even though a lox wont walk into the moat of its own accord one of the other lox in the pen can push one of its friends into the moat and you won't be able to get them back into the pen.

[HOUSE_D]

Originally posted by Frogman:

I can't harpoon a tamed Lox. It won't let me. One of my Lox is already dead from a couple Fulings. My plan is to craft a saddle and ride the other one to a safe place. Hopefully it won't try to go back to the hill it came from. It really feels like having tamed animals is not worth the headache. I have yet to try wolves, but the pigs die at the drop of a hat. I have to re-do the pig farm almost every time I play.

Yeah once they are tame you can't use a harpoon. Only a butcher knife can really do any damage to a tame lox other than the deathsquitoes and fulings.

What I did first was build the Lox saddle and a pen to put them in. I then dug a pretty deep hole and tried to trick them into coming in after me. When that didn't work I harpooned them and drug them into the hole and began the taming process. I got two of them to tame so I could start breeding them.

I then threw on the saddle and rode each of them to the pen and put them in. Once in there I fed them to breed up some Lox. After I get two more they stop breeding. I then ride two of them out into the open. After I did that a couple times I kept the original pair in the pen and let the others out. Where I had holes in the structure I used the iron cage to keep the deathsquitoes out of it. This way my breeding pair is safe.

I have lost a few Lox along the way. Due to bugs and fulings but then I replaced them and added a couple more out there. Usually at night time is when the fuling activity is worst and they come out to fight my lox. I go out in the mornings on occasion to heck on their health and if they are low I drop them some cloudberries to heal them. My plains base is near a black forest so they are constantly killing deer and boar which is nice cause I get extra meat. Lox are like fulings in that they pretty much hate everything (except me when they are tame). Occasionally a troll comes out and they aren't having it. They make quick work of trolls and their buddies from the black forest. (sorry I know that is off topic)

My suggestion to you is to keep a breeding pair in a fairly secure structure perhaps with a outer wall around it. Check on your Lox in the wild occasionally and throw them some food to heal them. I'm not sure why your pig farm is having problems but if you have it in the plains or after a certain level a roof is almost a requirement due to raids with drakes and bats and deathsquitoes if you are in the plains. You would have to describe that situation a little more to figure out what is happening.

[Kursor1]

You make a saddle, saddle it, and ride it to safety. Preferably you load it onto a longship (make sure its centered in terms of port and starboard or you boat will have a nasty list) and saill it slowly (speed 1 unless the ocean is glass-smooth) back home. For preference, build a lox breeder on a large piece of fairly flat land and surround it with max-height raised earth walls. Because of bats you will need to fully enclose it at a large radius of the lox will wreck it trying to deal with the bats. In terms of practicality its probably better to just do pits for the loxes and roof the pits instead, although you will have to do several of them and you cant autobreed.

[adritheonly]

Originally posted by Frogman:

I can't harpoon a tamed Lox. It won't let me. One of my Lox is already dead from a couple Fulings. My plan is to craft a saddle and ride the other one to a safe place. Hopefully it won't try to go back to the hill it came from. It really feels like having tamed animals is not worth the headache. I have yet to try wolves, but the pigs die at the drop of a hat. I have to re-do the pig farm almost every time I play.

You can harpoon them if you enable friendly fire.

[Zep Tepi]

Moats don't work very well because they push each other in, and if they breed in one the offspring could end up outside. Might as well make it a pit, but even then watch out for the lox cheerleading squad with their living pyramid escape plans. But yeah, earth walls of some type are a must if you want to try to keep them contained.

[Salty]

The pair that I tried to tame were near a Black Forest on the edge of a Fuling camp. I turned the hole camp into a crater and drug the Lox in it. That didn't work because the Lox never calmed down, they were stuck in the frightened state and I think it was because I had pulled them too close to Black Forest and they were getting agro'd constantly. I had to dig them out of there and let them go back up onto their hill then tame them in the wild.
The thing with the pigs is because I play with my kids and they hang around my main castle all the time so it gets hit by raid. Even just normal nights, I get skeletons with bows come and pluck them all off.
,thanks for all the tips. It seems like the answer is to just keep trying.

[HOUSE_D]

I would keep the pigs in a pen with a roof also for the same reasons I do my breeding pair of lox. Otherwise yes the raids from the skeletons will pick off the pigs. I tamed my lox on the edge of a black forest as well and didn't have as much trouble. I had cleared out the fulings in the nearby tower and set up a bed and a fire in it for me to shelter in. I just made sure that the lox didn't see me cause they will aggro if you are spotted I found somewhere close to sit and gave them their time to tame. I still had to deal with a couple of fulings coming by tpo investigate at night but that was it. You also got to be careful for the raids that send ooze. They get right up next to your fence and love on it and it will slowly kill your pigs with poison