Keeping tamed animals

[walentaz]

Hi, I didn't play Valheim since mid 2021, so I'm now new to animal taming.

So I tamed two wolves - Mountains were pretty close to base and by the time we ran home from mountains, they already got a baby wolf. So I have two questions:

1) how do I stop them from breeding into infinity without keeping them in separate cages? (and no, I don't want to grow pets for slaughter - that's not cool).

2) My base is separated from mainland by open water from one side and moat from the other - so technically they should not get out (as mobs can't get in either). Is it safe to keep them like this? (I don't want to keep them in cages).

[avatar.zero]

1) Animals won't breed if there are already 5 others within 20 meters, so if their roaming area is limited then so is the number they can breed up to.

2) If you effectively have them on an independent island that has proper anti-spawn coverage then, yes, they should be safe.

3) You don't need to put them in cages, but you should eventually put them indoors. At a certain point in the game, you'll start getting raids by flying creatures that will ignore the waters separating your farm island and can completely kill all of your animals before the raid is finished. Barn will need to be completely enclosed as said flying creatures can get in from any small hole, including chimneys.

[Gregomoto]

Just don‘t feed them and they stop breeding.

[walentaz]

Originally posted by avatar.zero:

1) Animals won't breed if there are already 5 others within 20 meters, so if their roaming area is limited then so is the number they can breed up to.

2) If you effectively have them on an independent island that has proper anti-spawn coverage then, yes, they should be safe.

3) You don't need to put them in cages, but you should eventually put them indoors. At a certain point in the game, you'll start getting raids by flying creatures that will ignore the waters separating your farm island and can completely kill all of your animals before the raid is finished. Barn will need to be completely enclosed as said flying creatures can get in from any small hole, including chimneys.

I mean so far - raids don't even spawn (I seed red circle but I don't see any mobs) spammed wards from the mainland and dug extra moats along shoreline so that regular spawns don't swim around. I warded the hell out of it because had like 10 raids in first three days of playing and that annoyed the living hell out o me, so spend another day (I mean few hours in evening) to prevent that crap from happening (so didn't extra moats, farming surtling cores, etc)

[Sarcastro]

Originally posted by walentaz:

(and no, I don't want to grow pets for slaughter - that's not cool).

Feel the same way about carrots.

[Lucifronz]

You're feeding them. Stop doing that. That's the only way they breed.

Feeding exists exclusively for that reason. I have three wolves in my creative-build world in my mountain home and none of them ever produce more wolves.

[walentaz]

Originally posted by Lucifronz:

You're feeding them. Stop doing that. That's the only way they breed.

Feeding exists exclusively for that reason. I have three wolves in my creative-build world in my mountain home and none of them ever produce more wolves.

I didn't feed them outside of taming. I dug a deep ditch, parried two wolves into that ditch (because they won't otherwise go in) - dropped 10 boar meat and went AFK to watch FIFA WC final. At half break - both were tamed, so I dug'em out of the ditch and brough home. As soon as I crossed the gate - baby wolf appeared, lol.

So ok, I won't give them anything to eat which is even better - more nom nom for me, lol. Hopefully stuff remains under control and they won't steal meat of a cooking station when hungry :))

[knighttemplar1960]

You can feed them all you want and then release tamed wolves into the wild. They will hunt boar, neck,and deer to feed themselves (if you are within spawn distance) and all the off spring they produce will be tame.

[ShiZniTe]

Originally posted by Sarcastro:

Originally posted by walentaz:

(and no, I don't want to grow pets for slaughter - that's not cool).

Feel the same way about carrots.

lol