TameableAnimals

TameableAnimals

Ever wanted a herd of deer on your farm, a bear you can ride into battle or a seal colony at your harbour? TameableAnimals makes the animals that can't be tamed in vanilla Valheim tameable, using the game's own taming system, and adds a bear saddle, colour choices for every saddle and feeding bowls your animals eat from.

Features

• Vanilla taming: feed the animal by dropping food on the ground, stay out of sight and wait for the taming bar to reach 100%.
• Breeding: two tamed, fed animals close to each other build up love and have offspring.
• Their own offspring: each species gets offspring that use the same model, smaller and in a different colour tone. The seal uses the game's own seal pup model. Offspring grow up into tamed adults over time.
• Ride your bear: craft a bear saddle, put it on a tamed bear and ride it like a lox. The saddle moves with the bear's body, and the bear fights nearby enemies while you're on it.
• Saddle colours: every saddle (lox, moose, asksvin and bear) can be crafted in blue, red, green, black, white, yellow or orange with the style button at the crafting station, just like capes and shields. The reins and head straps are dyed to match.
• Pet and command any tame: press E to pet ("loves you") and hold E to make it follow you or stay put. Works for this mod's animals and for vanilla tames too (boar, lox, hen, moose, asksvin...). Wolves keep their vanilla single press.
• Travel through portals: tamed animals that are following you go through portals with you, including vanilla tames.
• Sensible behaviour: passive animals stop fearing you once tamed and are not scared of other passive animals or pets. They still flee from monsters that come close. A ridden animal stays where you dismount and defends that spot.
• Translated: in-game text follows the game language (English by default, Spanish included).
• Feeding bowls: build a small or a large feeding bowl with the hammer, fill it with animal food like a chest, and nearby animals eat from it as if the food were on the ground. The food shows up in the bowl, more the fuller it is.
• Fully configurable: choose which animals can be tamed, what they eat, how long taming, breeding and growing up take, the bear saddle and feeding bowl recipes, and whether the follow command and saddle colours are enabled.

Included animals

| Animal | Food | Type | |---|---|---| | Deer | Raspberries, blueberries, carrots, turnips, cloudberries | Passive | | Hare | Carrots, turnips, onions, cloudberries, raspberries, blueberries | Passive | | Seal | Raw fish and whole fish | Passive | | Bjorn (bear, rideable) | Raw meat, deer meat, raw fish, honey, berries | Aggressive | | Unbjorn (disabled by default) | Entrails, raw meat, deer meat | Aggressive | | Bat | Berries, entrails | Aggressive |

Aggressive animals are tamed like wolves: they attack you until they're tamed, then fight by your side.

The mod also automatically detects any other passive animal in the game. You can add more creatures by hand from the config: the TameableAnimals.adrirf7.AvailableCreatures.txt file lists every compatible creature.

Vanilla tameables (boar, wolf, lox, hen, asksvin...) can't be disabled and keep their vanilla taming. They only gain the hold-E follow command, saddle colours and portal travel, which can all be turned off.

Saddle colours

Bear saddle

• Recipe (default): 4 bear hides, 8 leather scraps and 2 bronze at a workbench level 2 (configurable).
• Look: a brown leather saddle with a bear paw on its icon, so it doesn't get mixed up with the lox saddle. Available in the 7 colours too.
• Use: put it on a tamed bear, aim at the saddle and press E to ride. Alt + E removes it.
• Fine-tuning: if you want the saddle higher, lower or bigger, use the console command ta_bearsaddle <x> <y> <z> <scale> and it's saved to the config.

Feeding bowls

• Two sizes, in the hammer's Furniture tab (a workbench is needed nearby):

| Bowl | Storage | Recipe (default) | |---|---|---| | Small feeding bowl | 1 slot | 6 wood | | Large feeding bowl | 3 slots | 10 fine wood, 4 bronze |

• Use: press E to open it like a chest. Only animal food goes in: anything a tameable animal eats (this mod's animals and vanilla tames such as boar, wolf, lox, hen or asksvin).
• Animals eat from it just like food dropped on the ground: hungry animals nearby walk to the bowl and eat one item at a time. It works for taming wild animals too, and food on the ground nearer to them is eaten first.
• You see what's inside: the food lies in the bowl, mixed, and the pile grows as you add more.