TameCraft

TameCraft

A configurable Valheim 1.0 animal husbandry overhaul focused on making taming, affection, breeding, pregnancy, and offspring growth faster and more convenient while preserving vanilla behavior when disabled.

What's New in v1.1.0: Global Relative Multipliers

TameCraft now features a streamlined Global Relative Multiplier architecture:

• Proportional Species Balance: Instead of forcing every animal into identical timers, all numerical mechanics scale relative to that species' native vanilla baseline. A Lox naturally takes longer than a Boar, preserving natural biological hierarchy automatically.
• Dynamic Vanilla Baseline Caching: Original prefab values are captured at runtime before multipliers are applied. Setting any multiplier to 1.0 produces 100% pure vanilla behavior.
• Universal Creature Compatibility: Automatically scales all vanilla creatures (Boar, Wolf, Lox, Hen, Asksvin) and custom tamable creatures added by other mods with zero extra configuration.
• Dramatically Simpler Configuration: Say goodbye to dozens of repetitive per-species entries. Adjust a single multiplier once and all creatures scale consistently.
• Exploration-Friendly Pacing: Active base interactions (petting, feeding, mating checks) remain fast while you are home, while passive life stages (gestation, offspring growth) tick naturally in the background while you are away exploring dungeons and sailing.

Features

• Proportional Taming Speed: Tame wild beasts faster while maintaining natural species difficulty.
• Active Feeding Frequency: Animals get hungry and consume food faster to accelerate taming progress.
• Affection & Bonding System: Pet your tamed animals to build affection and bond with them. Configurable petting cooldowns and affection rewards.
• Affection-Gated Breeding: Creatures require mutual affection and bonding before they will breed, adding a rewarding sense of companionship to husbandry.
• Fast, Streamlined Breeding & Pregnancy: Shorter partner check intervals, higher conception chances, and accelerated gestation without desynchronization.
• Prorated Offspring Growth: Juvenile animals mature smoothly into adults with proportional growth times based on their species.
• Lineage & Parent Tracking: Offspring inherit affection and track both their mother and sire across save reloads and world unloads.
• Optional Two-Parent Star Inheritance / Genetics: Configurable Mendelian-style star inheritance from both parents with customizable mutation chances (disabled by default).
• Server-Authoritative Persistence: All custom metadata (affection, pregnancy state, lineage, genetics) is saved directly into native Valheim ZDOs—no external database or sidecar files required.
• Dedicated Server Support: Engineered for smooth multiplayer synchronization and dedicated servers.

Default Behavior & Scaling Examples

All multipliers use 1.0 as the exact vanilla baseline:

| Feature / Setting | Multiplier / Value | Boar / Wolf Example | Lox Example | Vanilla Comparison | | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | | TamingSpeedMultiplier | 3.0x | ~10 min | ~10 min | Vanilla: ~30 min | | FeedingIntervalMultiplier | 2.0x | ~300 seconds (5 min) | ~300 seconds (5 min) | Vanilla: ~600 seconds (10 min) | | BreedingCheckSpeedMultiplier | 2.0x | ~15 seconds | ~15 seconds | Vanilla: ~30 seconds | | PregnancySpeedMultiplier | 2.0x | ~30 seconds | ~60 seconds | Vanilla: 60s (Boar/Wolf), 120s (Lox) | | GrowthSpeedMultiplier | 5.0x | ~10 minutes | ~20 minutes | Vanilla: ~50 min (Boar/Wolf/Asksvin), ~100 min (Lox) | | PregnancyChance | 0.80 (80%) | 80% per check | 80% per check | Vanilla: ~33% | | RequiredLovePoints | 2 points | 2 interactions | 2 interactions | Vanilla: 3 (Boar/Wolf/Hen/Asksvin), 4 (Lox) | | PettingCooldownSeconds | 15.0s | 15s cooldown | 15s cooldown | N/A (Vanilla has no bonding) | | AffectionPerFeed / PerPet | +2 points | +2 per action | +2 per action | N/A | | BreedingAffectionThreshold | 5 points | Requires 5 pts | Requires 5 pts | N/A | | InheritAffectionPercentage | 0.50 (50%) | 50% of mother | 50% of mother | N/A | | Two-Parent Genetics | Enabled (50/50) | Balanced | Balanced | Vanilla: Mother only |

Configuration

TameCraft generates a clean, concise configuration file:

BepInEx/config/com.tamecraft.valheim.cfg

Major Configuration Sections

| Section | Description | | :--- | :--- | | [General] | Master switch and verbose debug logging toggle. | | [Taming] | TamingSpeedMultiplier, FeedingIntervalMultiplier, and AllowTamingWhileAlerted. | | [Breeding] | BreedingCheckSpeedMultiplier, PregnancySpeedMultiplier, PartnerCheckRangeMultiplier, EnclosureCheckRangeMultiplier, CreatureLimitMultiplier, PregnancyChance, RequiredLovePoints, and affection gating. | | [Offspring] | GrowthSpeedMultiplier, InheritAffectionPercentage, and JuvenilePettingAllowed. | | [Affection] | PettingCooldownSeconds, affection points per action, max cap, and tier thresholds. | | [Genetics] | Two-parent star inheritance toggle, parent weights, and mutation rate. | | [*.Advanced] | Compact per-species overrides (e.g. PartnerCheckRangeOverrides = Boar:10,Lox:4,Wolf:20 and AllowedFoodsOverrides) for power users. |

Exploration-Friendly

Recommended for players who want to spend less time waiting at their base.

BreedingCheckSpeedMultiplier = 1
PregnancySpeedMultiplier = 0.2
GrowthSpeedMultiplier = 5

• Breeding checks: vanilla frequency.
• Pregnancy: 5x faster than native.
• Growth: 5x faster than native.
• This setup is intended to let breeding progression continue while the player spends more time exploring instead of waiting at the base.