when is taming creatures useful?

[battledroll]

I thought I'd try taming for the first time on a new game and it'd be a shortcut to upgrading the bench and bow to level 3 but it can't contribute to that at all. You wouldn't need much skin by the time you have the butcher knife and have spent 30 min (wow) hanging around the boars. The wolves can fight but you could use that time investment to defeat Modurr instead. Seems like animal taming is just a side quest unrelated to the game...?

[FDru]

I was having a hell of a time finding boars so I decided to figure out how to tame/breed them. After some frustrating trial and error I eventually got 2 normal (no star) breeding boars and rubbed my hands waiting for my bountiful harvest of meat and leather.

LOL, nope. It was so slow I was wondering why I even bothered. The time I spend collecting stuff to feed them could be just as easily spent killing some more wild boars.

Though I have to say that once I got a 2-star boar and the 2-starred ones drop 4x as much stuff, it seems like it was worth it.

[adritheonly]

Origineel geplaatst door FDru:

I was having a hell of a time finding boars so I decided to figure out how to tame/breed them. After some frustrating trial and error I eventually got 2 normal (no star) breeding boars and rubbed my hands waiting for my bountiful harvest of meat and leather.

LOL, nope. It was so slow I was wondering why I even bothered. The time I spend collecting stuff to feed them could be just as easily spent killing some more wild boars.

Though I have to say that once I got a 2-star boar and the 2-starred ones drop 4x as much stuff, it seems like it was worth it.

Yes, eventually one stop feeding the 2* to stop getting boar meat.

[Thornwood]

I tried taming boars twice and set up a farm. It was fun to try once or twice.

However, the boar farm only works if you are nearby. It is completely different from farming crops which are on a timer and do not require your physical presence.

I have seen some youtube videos of tamed 2 star wolf packs killing bosses. However, I have yet to play a world where the 2 star wolves have a mountain area on the same island as the boss I want to fight. Since you cannot take tamed animals through portals, can you take them into dungeons? Probably not.

[adritheonly]

Origineel geplaatst door Thornwood:

I tried taming boars twice and set up a farm. It was fun to try once or twice.

However, the boar farm only works if you are nearby. It is completely different from farming crops which are on a timer and do not require your physical presence.

I have seen some youtube videos of tamed 2 star wolf packs killing bosses. However, I have yet to play a world where the 2 star wolves have a mountain area on the same island as the boss I want to fight. Since you cannot take tamed animals through portals, can you take them into dungeons? Probably not.

If you have the boar close to where you sleep and work, being close is not a problem. I used to feed them when I get home and then would hear the sound of piglets being born during the night.

No, tames don't go through portals but you can take them on boats with a little prep. Wolves are easier since you just tell them to follow and don't go too deep in the ocean. I always kept the original taming pit with some wolves in case something happens that killed the ones with me. Once you get two home you can basically breed them with the pigs, same mechanic applies.

[slayerdude18]

Origineel geplaatst door adritheonly:

Early game, in particular, having tame boars on hand for meat and skin leave you free to do other things. Same principle as growing veg instead of hunting for them. Tamed wolves make great base protection, better than spikes IMHO. Tamed lox is great to ride into battle and for base protection and to harvest other creatures like squitos/hares/black metal.

i just do my thing and kill every boar i happen to come across XD works fine without the taming for me ^^ but i do wonder why the wolves do follow you but the boars just roam like they have no brain at times

[adritheonly]

Origineel geplaatst door slayerdude18:

Origineel geplaatst door adritheonly:

Early game, in particular, having tame boars on hand for meat and skin leave you free to do other things. Same principle as growing veg instead of hunting for them. Tamed wolves make great base protection, better than spikes IMHO. Tamed lox is great to ride into battle and for base protection and to harvest other creatures like squitos/hares/black metal.

i just do my thing and kill every boar i happen to come across XD works fine without the taming for me ^^ but i do wonder why the wolves do follow you but the boars just roam like they have no brain at times

Probably something to do with a game mechanics decision at the time. I have often wished the ask or lox could get a follow/stay command. Talk about mindlessly running away with your only saddle...

[blackphoenixx]

Origineel geplaatst door adritheonly:

Origineel geplaatst door slayerdude18:

i just do my thing and kill every boar i happen to come across XD works fine without the taming for me ^^ but i do wonder why the wolves do follow you but the boars just roam like they have no brain at times

Probably something to do with a game mechanics decision at the time. I have often wished the ask or lox could get a follow/stay command. Talk about mindlessly running away with your only saddle...

Would definitely help to make them more usable as mounts. It's not AS bad for lox since they're mostly blind and deaf at least... but asksvin are pretty much gone if there's any enemy at all in the vicinity.

[adritheonly]

Origineel geplaatst door blackphoenixx:

Origineel geplaatst door adritheonly:

Probably something to do with a game mechanics decision at the time. I have often wished the ask or lox could get a follow/stay command. Talk about mindlessly running away with your only saddle...

Would definitely help to make them more usable as mounts. It's not AS bad for lox since they're mostly blind and deaf at least... but asksvin are pretty much gone if there's any enemy at all in the vicinity.

At my barley farm I had to go and round up the lox security every now and then since the black forest next door held great attraction for them. It did feel like real farming then but boy!, does it get old fast. With the ask I simply stopped farming them since the wild ones deliver meat every day.

[fuhnetic]

I had come by the forum to post about the massive difference in my play style when solo or in a group. Solo, I love finding unique solutions to interesting problems, and that often includes taming animals in the wild.

I love to kite Fuling Barbarians to the tar pits, kite trolls into the swamp, lure abominations to dragur villages, lure growths to fuling villages, lure lox to the black forests (even better leaving a tame pair in the woods near your base)...

Right now I am taming the three lox next to a tar pit. Just sneak in and litter the area with bundles of 3 or 4 cloudberries. When they get aggroed by growths or fulings, I run down and do the same to the area where they seem to regroup. Then, I go out of visual range and sit. Just sit. I listen to podcasts or scroll Reddit on my phone. Once tamed, they smash the growths that spawn, and I can walk right up and collect the tar.

I have massive packs of wolves in the woods around my base. They handle the random greydwarves and other mobs that normally wander up and get annoying. They are close enough to self populate, as they kill deer, boar, and neck and feed themselves, which turns to reproduction. They get involved in most raids as well so I can handle a swarm of whatever with the support team of wolves. One bonus is I get to just walk through the woods to collect tons of wood, stone, bones, boar, eyes... all the materials. Zero effort.

For me, taming animals gives me the tools for some really fun approaches to game play.

[TheCrane]

Origineel geplaatst door fuhnetic:

... I have massive packs of wolves in the woods around my base. ... They are close enough to self populate... I can handle a swarm of whatever with the support team of wolves.

That is so cool!