Animal Taming

Taming | Veterinary | Taming and Bards | Pet Commands | Taming List

Taming

To tame a creature walk up to it, use your Animal Taming skill and target the creature. Not all creatures of the realm can be tamed. Of those that can be tamed, some are easier than others.

Another thing that you will need to do is keep the creature fed. If you don't keep the creature fed it will go wild on you. This may not be a big deal for a horse or cow, but if your dragon goes wild you don't want to be standing in it's way.

It is accepted practice to stable your pets when you aren't around. When you stable your pet you are assured your pet will get the utmost care in the world. Stabling pets, especially the dangerous ones means you do not have to begin the task of re-taming them later. The cost of stabling a pet will vary based on the pet. Dragons will cost more to stable than bunnies.

If you log out with out stabling your pet or loose connection your pet will go into hiding and wait for your return. If you do not return for 30 days your pet will be deleted.

Tamed and summoned creatures are like henchmen, you can only have so many. Because some creatures are more powerful than others, various creatures have different values. You may be able to run around with 9 cute bunnies hopping at your heals but may only be able to have 1 dragons running around with you. The number of pets you can have is based on your taming skill (data not available). The "pet value" is based on difficulty of taming the pet (data not available). Summoned creatures will not count against your taming points. Your magery skill will determine the number of summoned creatures you can have.

Using Veterinary

The veterinary skill is the primary offset to Animal Taming.

Veterinary skill gives you a greater understanding of the creature you are trying to tame. While it does not improve your chances to actually tame the creature, it will decrease your chances of angering the creature. The last thing you want to do is anger a dragon you are trying to tame. Long is the list of tamers who have become a piece of toast because they angered a dragon while trying to tame it.

The higher your veterinary skill is, the faster your healing on your pets takes effect. For every 15 points of veterinary you will reduce your healing time by 1 second. This means 60 veterinary skill will reduce your time by 4 seconds and at 100 skill you reduce the healing time by 6 seconds.

The veterinary skill also allows you to determine a pets hunger.

There is a discrepency with veterinary and healing; in some systems the actual healing skill is used, and in some the vet skill is used.

Taming and Bards

Trying to tame an angered creature takes time to calm the creature and get it to listen. If you are a bard and can pacify the creature with music you can get it to listen to you faster. This can also be effective if your animal lore doesn't prevent you from angering the creature.

Provocation can also be used against the bigger creatures. For example, provoke a dragon defender on a dragon and then tame away. If you anger the dragon, run, heal and try again.

Pet Commands

Add ALL to the front of the command and all of your pets with you will do that command.
Add the NAME of your pet to the front of the command and only the named pet will do the command.

Command

Effect:

Kill / Attack
Tells the pet to attack the target that you select.

Stop
Your pet will stop all other commands. If in combat, you may have to repeat this command several times.

Follow
Your pet will follow you or the target that you select.

Transfer
Changes ownership of the pet. The new owner must have sufficient skill to tame the creature themselves. You can't transfer ownership of a totem animal while it is in animal form. You have to shrink it to totem form and hand it to the new owner.

Release
Allows a tamed creature to go wild. This command can not be a part of a sentence. If you release a high level creature, you will be prompted to make sure you really want to release it.

Guard
Your pet will guard the target and attack anyone aggressive towards that target.

Fetch / Get
Tells your pet to go and get an item and then come back.

Drop
Tells your pet to drop any items that they are carrying.

Speak
Your pet will say something if capable or make noise if they can't talk.

Stay
Useful only after the stop command is issued, stay prevents your pet from wandering around.

Battle Orders
[creature's name] battle orders: This Works only on creatures that have breath weapon capabilities. Will bring up a menu which allows you to turn it their breath weapon on and off. Magic using creatures like some Dragons will use their magic automatically in combat. Please keep this in mind in group situations as many of these creatures use area of effect spells.

Taming List

This is a general guide only! There is a variance of about 10 skill points on most creatures. This means that at lower levels of taming you may get the chance to tame. However you will find it much more difficult and your chance of "enraging" the creature is much higher. Keeping your animal well fed is important and if you are going to ride dangerous animals you should ensure you have the appropriate food in your main backpack. If your druidry is 70 or above you will auto feed an animal that you are riding at the time, otherwise you must dismount and drop the food on the animal and it will eat. You can just drop a stack on it and it will only eat one, not the whole stack. All pets can be fed in the same manner.

Example:

Rodney the Ranger with 85 taming wanders into Baskerville to get himself a Nightmare. After a half hour of "enraging" the beast no end, Rodney succumbs to the Nightmare's brutalty. In comes Tania the Tamer with 100 taming, steps over Rodney's crispy body and calms and controls the creature in minutes. She waits till Rodney gets up then "transfers" the creature to him and Rodney is able to ride off into the sunset.

A few days later Rodney is in town on his lovely new Nightmare that he has forgotten to feed. Suddenly, while chatting to friends, it disowns him attacking the most vulnerable target in the vicinity. Rodney tries desperately to bring the animal into order but alas just manages to yet again annoy it and with no higher skilled tamer on hand the poor critter is put down by the others gathered for the entertainment. Because the Nightmare is no longer "owned" it cannot be ressurected either.

Creature

Average Difficulty

Food

Alligator 55 raw meat

Amazon War Horse 75 raw meat

Bird 5 veggie

Black Bear 55 raw meat

Blood Llama 60 raw meat

Blood Ostard 60 raw meat

Blood Steed 60 raw meat

Brown Bear 50 raw meat

Bull 70 veggie

Bullfrog 10 veggie

Cat 20 raw meat

Chicken 10 veggie

Cloud Giant 105 raw meat

Cow 25 veggie

Dark Ostard 60 veggie

Deamon Steed 95 raw meat

Deer 33 veggie

Desert Llama 60 veggie

Desert Ostard 55 veggie

Desert Steed 60 veggie

Dire Wolf 80 raw meat

Dog 1 raw meat

Dragon 95 raw meat

Drake 80 raw meat

Drow Steed 88 veggie

Dwarven Pony 88 veggie

Eagle 33 veggie

Elven Steed 88 veggie

Emerald Steed 60 veggie

Fey Steed 88 veggie

Fire Giant 105 raw meat

Fire Lizard 75 raw meat

Fire Ostard 55 veggie

Fire Steed 60 veggie

Forest Ostard 55 raw meat

Frost Drake 90 raw meat

Frost Giant 105 raw meat

Frost Wolf 70 raw meat

Giant Flaming Spider 75 raw meat

Giant Frost Spider 80 raw meat

Giant Rat 45 raw meat

Giant Rock Scorpian 80 raw meat

Giant Rock Spider 80 raw meat

Giant Scorpian 63 raw meat

Giant Serpent 80 raw meat

Giant Spider 60 raw meat

Goat 25 veggie

Golden Phoenix 60 veggie

Gorilla 40 veggie

Great Dragon 105 raw meat

Great Hart 60 veggie

Gremlin 55 raw meat

Grizzly Bear 57 raw meat

Hellhound 77 raw meat

High Elf Steed 88 veggie

Hildisvini 62 raw meat

Hill Giant 105 raw meat

Horse 45 veggie

Ibn'Najm 88 veggie

Imp 75 raw meat

Indigo Llama 60 veggie

Indigo Ostard 60 veggie

Indigo Steed 60 veggie

Lesser Wyrm 80 raw meat

Llama 47 veggie

Mongbat 47 raw meat

Nightmare 95 raw meat

Panther 62 raw meat

Phase Spider 77 raw meat

Pig 20 veggie

Polar Bear 57 raw meat

Praetorian War Ostard 65 raw meat

Purple Haze Ostard 60 veggie

Purple Haze Steed 60 veggie

Rabbit 5 veggie

Rat 17 any

Rock Lizard 75 raw meat

Royal Fey Steed 88 veggie

Shabooli War Horse 70 raw meat

Sheep 20 veggie

Snake 15 raw meat

Snow Leopard 55 raw meat

Snow Pony 88 veggie

Storm Giant 105 raw meat

Sun Ostard 70 veggie

Swamp Steed 60 veggie

Tarn 60 veggie

Underdark Ostard 55 veggie

Walrus 50 raw meat

War Tarn 90 raw meat

Wolf 55 raw meat

Special Thanks go to Lord Frey for helping with the Taming list. This is still a work in progress.

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