Taming questions

[Granny]

I have not tried taming before, even though I have played since W6. I just found the process tedious and unfun. This world I wanted to test it out, and have managed to hitch a mouflon to a hitching post, waited 24 hours until it entered combat stance, battled it until it yielded, and hitched it up again. (All this after reading up on guides etc...)

I have checked since then from time to time, but it has not entered combat stance since. It is now passed 24 hours since the initial first round.

How long does it usually take between "rounds"? Is it 24 hours every time, or is it shorter or longer? I have checked on it multiple times, not counting sleep time, typically I might have missed the window then.

Can I reset the taming process somehow and start again on the same mouflon, or do I need to find another? How many times does a mouflon usually need? We are talking weak character here , 30UA and 39 Agility. Help appreciated, thanks!

[Granny]

After too many hours overdue, I just re-hitched it again, hoping that will reset the taming process. I have no idea if that works. This is as tedious and unfun as I thought it would be, but this mouflon will be tame or dead. Or my character will die, that is always a possibility.

Still hoping for someone to answer my questions though. I have no idea what I possibly did wrong here.

[evilboy666]

Make your hitching post near your house, so you can run in it if things do south its more or less 24 hours, its not big of a deal, just kill it if you tamed in in an inappropiate time, you will have to tame at least 2 animals of each kind either, we had to do like 5-6 aurochs to get a bull. As far as your ua and agi goes, you can only tame sheeps rn if im not wrong, need like 60-70 ua and 50 agi for horses which are the hardest to tame.

[Ufer]

most animals are soft and dont kill you but they inflict annoying wounds.

build the hitching post a bit away from a house so you can run into the house if you lose.
also do not build anything between house and hitching post cause the animals will sometimes destroy stuff between.
then aggro them from far away so you get time to build up defense.

the animals go into combat stance at random number of hours. just hitch them up somewhere and ignore them until they are ready for battle or else you stress yourself over nothing.
it takes a few days to tame one animal so you are best advised to hitch up a whole bunch of animals at once.

[Glorthan]

I'm pretty sure the taming windows are quite long, don't stress just check your animals in taming when you play, no need to log on every two hours.

[Granny]

Thanks for answering some of my questions. Good advice there regarding running inside house, but will I not break the taming then and need to start over? Same that happens if I miss a taming window? Or does it really not matter much if I miss a taming window or two? If I do not check and I miss it, seems like such a waste. Of course when I start working again this whole thing might become impossible.

Aggro it from afar also a good advice which I will be sure to follow

If I against all odds manage to tame a pair of mouflons, I think I am good. The time requirement to feed them is quite extensive, with sheep I have most resources I need. The most important of those wool to make gauze for my miner to be. I had cows and sheep in w7, and spent quite some time ingame on that.

More tips appreciated! Sometimes the beginner guides read like advanced guides to one that is very inexperienced with things.

[synaris]

in my experience if you miss the chance to tame them further and they leave their combat stance you lose some taming progress. its not much, maybe 5-10% worth. but you'll have to wait til the next day to try again. it seems after exactly 24 hours have passed they can enter their combat stance at nearly any time and it can take quite a bit, even 8 or more hours after the 24 hour mark. just because you missed a chance to tame them once doesnt mean its over, only a small bit of progress is lost.

although if you have never successfully tamed them even once, and missed 2 combat stances after attaching them to the hitching post i think thats enough for the 15% progress you get from attaching them to the hitching post to go down to 0. im not sure what happens then.

[chillfolk]

I was able to tame a horse with ~40UA ~45AGI and some average quality boots & armor. It was quite lengthy though. I had to play very defensively, maintaining blocks and shit. It KO'd me quite a few times but I managed to beat it in the end, wink. No but seriously, it was close and I nearly died so confirm need higher stats than 40ua 45agi.

So far all my taming windows are consistent with the 24hr deal, give or take. I read that rehitching will reset, but i have not confirmed.

[Granny]

in my experience if you miss the chance to tame them further and they leave their combat stance you lose some taming progress. its not much, maybe 5-10% worth. but you'll have to wait til the next day to try again. it seems after exactly 24 hours have passed they can enter their combat stance at nearly any time and it can take quite a bit, even 8 or more hours after the 24 hour mark. just because you missed a chance to tame them once doesnt mean its over, only a small bit of progress is lost. ..

Thanks for clearing that up! So I would not have needed to re-hitch at all then, good to know for next time. I will test out later if that does indeed reset something. I sure hope so.

How do you folks plan the whole taming process in relation to your RL? Work and other obligations. When do you usually start? Seems to be a need for good planning, as with steel- and silk production to work it in your RL-schedule.

You are quite tenacious chillfolk, congrats on that horse

[evilboy666]

in my experience if you miss the chance to tame them further and they leave their combat stance you lose some taming progress. its not much, maybe 5-10% worth. but you'll have to wait til the next day to try again. it seems after exactly 24 hours have passed they can enter their combat stance at nearly any time and it can take quite a bit, even 8 or more hours after the 24 hour mark. just because you missed a chance to tame them once doesnt mean its over, only a small bit of progress is lost. ..

Thanks for clearing that up! So I would not have needed to re-hitch at all then, good to know for next time. I will test out later if that does indeed reset something. I sure hope so.

How do you folks plan the whole taming process in relation to your RL? Work and other obligations. When do you usually start? Seems to be a need for good planning, as with steel- and silk production to work it in your RL-schedule.

You are quite tenacious chillfolk, congrats on that horse

Maybe like in the morning if you dont have a tight schedule, or near the time you go to bed. Tho i think if you miss horses taming window they despawn.