Taming questions

[DaewenWinter]

with 50 UA , and 40 Agility you should be able to tame all the types of animals easily.. I just did it myself.. Now the hard part of keeping them all fed =)

You could relocate your farm to a grassland biome ^^ Then they get fed on their own, no?

[Hasta]

You could relocate your farm to a grassland biome ^^ Then they get fed on their own, no?

AFAIK, cattle eat "grass" off any biome within their reach, turning tiles into Dirt, then they starve and die when there are only dirt around.

[MagicManICT]

Not to mention grass only counts as q10 fodder. Not an issue if your herd is all q10, but if you've bred for better, you need to feed them properly.

Can you shoot an animal to tame it? I really don't want to be battered by the thing.

How you going to do this if the answer is yes? (The answer is yes, but archery has a higher probability of killing the animal.)

Get yourself some leather armor. You might burn up a few pieces in the process, but it will cut down on the damage you take overall. If the leather is good enough, it might have enough soak to just prevent damage from mouflon and aurochs, at least, if not boars.

[DaewenWinter]

How you going to do this if the answer is yes? (The answer is yes, but archery has a higher probability of killing the animal.)

Get yourself some leather armor. You might burn up a few pieces in the process, but it will cut down on the damage you take overall. If the leather is good enough, it might have enough soak to just prevent damage from mouflon and aurochs, at least, if not boars.

I was planning on walling in the animal, and when it aggroes just pummel it with rocks.
I don't think the leather armor is good enough with AC of 3/4 and 4/4, whatever that means. It doesn't sound good enough at least.

[MagicManICT]

http://ringofbrodgar.com/wiki/Category:Armor

All pieces are cumulative. No, base quality isn't going to be as great, but if you have skills and can get high quality bear skins to make armor with to get q40-60+ armor. Or if you can trade for some steel armor, you may just need a breastplate.

[DaewenWinter]

if you have skills and can get high quality bear skins to make armor with to get q40-60+ armor.

If I had the skills to get bear skin, I wouldn't be scared of a cow.. Also, my survival and dexterity are much too low to get me any good skins or armor.

[MagicManICT]

You can clover a wild horse or use a boat to get a bear. It's tricky, but doable.

[InvaderDoom]

You can clover a wild horse

Question about this. So I gave a couple horses a clover, I've hitched them posts, but how exactly to I turn the horse to a permanent tame? Do I have to clover them every time? I don't have the ability to fight them is seems to get them to yield.

I have them in a fenced in area with some fodder and a couple hitching posts with planted grass at their feet. Does it just take a certain amount of time to get them to tame permanently?

Update: So I can't apparently feed it another clover as holding the clover and right clicking does not do anything. Also, is the rope supposed to stay in the inventory when you hitch an animal? I hold the rope, right click the horse and it says "leashed animal", then I right click the hitchpost and it says "Tethered Animal". Do I just put the rope back into my inventory? How do I unhitch the animal? There doesn't seem to be a graphic of the rope.

[DaewenWinter]

is the rope supposed to stay in the inventory when you hitch an animal? I hold the rope, right click the horse and it says "leashed animal", then I right click the hitchpost and it says "Tethered Animal". Do I just put the rope back into my inventory? How do I unhitch the animal? There doesn't seem to be a graphic of the rope.

There is no graphic of the rope, no. But if you remember from making the hitching post, you use a piece of rope. In my mind you leash the animal with the rope in your inventory, and then transfer the animal to the rope on the post, meaning you still have the rope. If you drop the rope you leashed the animal with while it is leashed, the animal will walk free. So to unhitch the animal, you leash it, and drop the rope.

[InvaderDoom]

There is no graphic of the rope, no. But if you remember from making the hitching post, you use a piece of rope. In my mind you leash the animal with the rope in your inventory, and then transfer the animal to the rope on the post, meaning you still have the rope. If you drop the rope you leashed the animal with while it is leashed, the animal will walk free. So to unhitch the animal, you leash it, and drop the rope.

Thanks for this! I was very confused by it. Now my other question is what I seem be having the other issue with is being able to ride it again.

I gave it the clover last night, rode it around for a little bit, then hitched it. Today I came out, unhitched it(and made sure it wasn't leashed), and I can't ride it. It doesn't even give me the "Giddyup" option. I can't give it another clover as it will not take one. Am I doing something wrong?