How to make a tamed boar follow you!

[Kolya]

He began to breed pigs far from home. I want to build pens for pigs near the house, and transport the pigs to new pens. How do I get the tamed pigs to follow me?

[Jaunitta 🌸]

Traditional weapons won't hurt our animal companions now.
Valheim's butcher knife was added in the Hearth and Home update specifically for killing the animals who have fallen in love with us.
https://valheim.fandom.com/wiki/Butcher_knife
The Hearth and Home update requires you to turn friendly fire on or your weapons will do zero damage to tamed creatures.
And since most people play with friendly fire off, you might want to craft a butcher knife for when it's time to harvest your flock.
Recipe is
2 wood
4 tin craft in A forge
Friendly fire on can and will do damage to friends in co op leave it off.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2676446234

https://steamcommunity.com/games/892970/announcements/detail/5527595439289052713

[Ryzilynt]

There is also another way to make "tamed boar follow you"

Construct a half wall channel from the boar current location to the location of it's/they their new home.

Get behind them, and use a torch or craft a standing torch. They will shoot down the corridor you crafted. you will likely need to continue with the fire until you get them where they need to be..

opposite of follow, but to the same end

[us271934-Слава Україн]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Colin Cold:

He began to breed pigs far from home. I want to build pens for pigs near the house, and transport the pigs to new pens. How do I get the tamed pigs to follow me?

It's likely easier to get a wild boar to chase/attack you and you lead it to your base - if there is a land route with just small rivers. Use a shield to block their attack. They will circle around and attack again and again so keep moving to your base but don't get too far ahead of them.

I believe the evil devs made it especially frustrating to move tamed boars around without a harpoon. I expect they spent extra time to code 'cat behavior' into the AI. I can almost hear them laughing (as they should, it's a genius prank on the players)

[pipo.p]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Jaunitta 🌸:

pat them occasionally they love you lol

Sometimes, when they don't breed, I... pat them fast so that both make hearts that blend together, in hope to arouse them, and I push them one onto another to drive them into action...

Now, it's confusing.

[PakaNoHida]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από GunsForBucks:

They don't seem to take any damage from the harpoon. Just dragged a few into a pit. The only one that took damage was one I let drop from the top and the fall damage hurt them. Dragging them down then releasing them did no damage to a 0 star.

I just laughed so hard reading this.

[y-man]

Is it better to breed 2 star pigs ? What's the advantage ? More loot ?

[Estyn]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από y-man:

Is it better to breed 2 star pigs ? What's the advantage ? More loot ?

Significantly.

[Complaintdesk]

You cannot harpoon a tamed boar. The harpoon is considered a weapon, and the only weapon that will work on a tamed animal is the butcher's knife. I transported my boars by boat, then pushed them. I was able to push them a hecuva long way with very little problem.

[us271934-Слава Україн]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Complaintdesk:

You cannot harpoon a tamed boar. The harpoon is considered a weapon, and the only weapon that will work on a tamed animal is the butcher's knife. I transported my boars by boat, then pushed them. I was able to push them a hecuva long way with very little problem.

Read Jaunitta's comment above.

[Complaintdesk]

Ahh, okay thanks for that. I never thought to turn on friendly fire. I will definitely try to harpoon home 2 star boar when I find them.

[us271934-Слава Україн]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Complaintdesk:

Ahh, okay thanks for that. I never thought to turn on friendly fire. I will definitely try to harpoon home 2 star boar when I find them.

From what I've seen on youtube they don't recover from the wound very fast and it's easy to kill them. If possible I'd still let a wild one chase me to base if there was a land/shallow river route. I don't have a harpoon yet so it's just a foot race for me.

[GunsForBucks]

You only do damage to the boars if your spear skill is up. With a zero spear skill you do no damage... unless that changed post H&H.

I could harpoon them and drag them around without issue. But I never used a spear with that character.

[Mharr]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Estyn:

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από y-man:

Is it better to breed 2 star pigs ? What's the advantage ? More loot ?

Significantly.

Plus they're more capable of defending themselves if something gets into the pen.

[Husker_85]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Mharr:

Plus they're more capable of defending themselves if something gets into the pen.

HOWEVER if you defeat bonemass and your pig pen has no roof, you WILL lose all of your pigs to the raid that occurs between Bonemass and Moder. They will ignore you and all of your stuff until they've killed your pigs.

[us271934-Слава Україн]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Isaac_Clark:

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Mharr:

Plus they're more capable of defending themselves if something gets into the pen.

HOWEVER if you defeat bonemass and your pig pen has no roof, you WILL lose all of your pigs to the raid that occurs between Bonemass and Moder. They will ignore you and all of your stuff until they've killed your pigs.

I'd guess that would apply to tamed wolves as well?