Game Development: Animal Domestication

[sabinati]

I still think it is important to find pregnant/lactating status somewhere!

agreed

[TheUser]

Can someone tell me how much unarmed/melee skill and armor protection is enough to be able to tame a cow/sheep without too much problems? The "newbie in the bronze plate" style doesn't seem to work, as I am loosing too much combat advantage from getting hit.

[sabinati]

the answer is always "MORE"

[ReaperSWE]

[...]Within the span of about ten minutes, it will try to break its shackles.[...]

It took about 34 minutes between the first quelling, and the rebellion.

I did enter my house on a claim in between though. But should that really matter?

Also, without hitting it once, it only reached 38 tameness. And yes, it's an Auroshen, whatever, I'm taming.

Edit:
2nd Rebellion, almost precisely 10 minutes inbetween. 58% tameness.

Here I went afk for a few mins, then quelled it again.

3rd rebellion, after nearly 2 minutes.

4th rebellion, about 12 minutes after quelling.

[ElGato]

[...]Within the span of about ten minutes, it will try to break its shackles.[...]

It took about 34 minutes between the first quelling, and the rebellion.

I did enter my house on a claim in between though. But should that really matter?

Also, without hitting it once, it only reached 38 tameness. And yes, it's an Auroshen, whatever, I'm taming.

Edit:
2nd Rebellion, almost precisely 10 minutes inbetween. 58% tameness.

Here I went afk for a few mins, then quelled it again.

3rd rebellion, after nearly 2 minutes.

4th rebellion, about 12 minutes after quelling.

I just tamed a cow in less than 15 minutes =o

[mamesh]

ive found out that if you tame an animal and you hit it, you will lose tameness, but if you are lucky enought to tame near some deer , the deer will heal the animal and give you back the tame points you lost

[Tacheron]

Ok, didn't read through ALL the posts here, but since this is a rather old feature and I still have a couple of questions and suggestions about this, I'll post here.

First of all, can you tell me if a calf can feed from any lactating cow or does it have to be it's mother.
If it CAN'T feed from any cow, could you please add some marker or something to mark which newborn calf belongs to which mother. I have a rather large pen and sometimes more than 1 cow gives birth overnight, making me unable to discern which calf belongs to which cow. And I want to know that cause I wanted to off a few cows but was afraid to do so in case the calves starved if their food source was killed.

I guess if you add at least the above mentioned tick for cow pregnancy, we could build more pens for each pregnant cow to give birth in and keep check that way. Imo, I'd rather not have to do that, I like them all penned up together

Another question - what about motherfuckers? I mean, I had a male calf grow up and hump everything in sight lol. I guess I should've penned him separately immediately (didn't know about calf telefeeding as well at that time), but it still seems kinda awkward.

Oh, and something I've found annoying - the other day I took a leashed bull through a pen with some non-pregnant cows just to reach another pen, so it was just a couple of seconds. The bloody bull jumped a cow in the instant it took me to open the gates. He was still leashed afterward, so it wasn't something like me unleashing him by accident or nothing like that.

[Potjeh]

Calves can drink milk from any cow.

[Tacheron]

Thanks, that'll save me some time. Although, I still have to be sure that the cow can produce enough milk to feed the calf/calves...

[Anomaly]

Also, they can drink from barrels filled with milk.