Taming #2

[APXEOLOG]

I engaged combat and disengaged, engaged again, hit it 2 times and disengaged, then I was able to feed it a clover in combat stance and rope it.

yes, but according to jorb, if you hit it when it is already non-agressive, you will loose all taming progress

[jorb]

People seem to have lots of problems with taming in general. We are going to look at it.

[Okocim]

It's just bugged...
It should be possible to rehitch an animal after beating it(making it run) if you won't reset the taming, but animals trashes wildly all the time.

To save your animals hit it one more time after animal yields, to reset the taming process, than when you drop agro you can feed it with clover and rehitch.

[Yasgur]

Actually IMHO, it seems silly that the animal should become untethered when you aggro it.
Most tamers are just going to block it with stuff anyway, so why not just leave it tethered.

To save your animals hit it one more time after animal yields, to reset the taming process, than when you drop agro you can feed it with clover and rehitch.

This does not always work. There is a either an RNG element or a bug, but it seems every animal may refuse clover/rope at any time.

[CaptainMidget]

Necro; My friend who has higher UA and attributes decided he'd be nice enough to engage a cow in OPEN combat with no obstructions. He fought the beast, but it knocked him out. It never yielded, but when he was knocked out a 45 appeared under the beast and I was able to re-hitch him to a hitching post. Is the 45 appearing under the cow a sign of the taming process?

Edit; as soon as combat ended I was able to rehitch it, no clover needed.