BabyTames

Baby Tames

Treats tamed baby creatures like full tames, and lets you keep them small.

Features

• Keep as baby: look at a tamed baby and press Left Alt + E to stop it growing up. Press again to let it grow. Its age is frozen, so it picks up where it left off.
• Pet, follow and rename: babies get the same prompts as grown tames. E pets them or toggles follow/stay, and the rename key names them.
• Invincible: tamed babies take no damage. A butcher knife still works on them. Both are configurable.
• Grows up with its name: a baby that grows up keeps its name, and keeps following you if it was.

Applies to these prefabs by default (case sensitive, configurable): Boar_piggy, Wolf_cub, Chicken, Lox_Calf, Asksvin_hatchling, Moose_calf

Better Tames

Works alongside Better Tames and is loaded after it. Better Tames uses Alt + E for its Protection toggle; on babies that key belongs to Keep Baby instead, and the Protection prompt is hidden for them. Better Tames' follower teleport, portal and Follow/Stay All keys only work on creatures with a MonsterAI; most babies use the simpler AnimalAI, so those features don't reach them. The "Grows up in" timer shows "Staying a baby" while kept.

Configuration

BepInEx/config/taylor.babytames.cfg, or in game with Configuration Manager.

| Setting | Default | What it does | | --- | --- | --- | | Baby Prefabs | see above | Which baby prefabs this mod applies to. Needs a restart | | Babies Follow | On | E makes a tamed baby follow or stay | | Keep Baby Key | Left Alt + E | Toggle staying a baby for the one you are looking at | | Keep Name And Follow On Grow Up | On | Grown tame keeps the baby's name and follow target | | Invincible Babies | On | Tamed babies take no damage | | Butcher Knife Still Kills | On | A butcher knife can still hurt an invincible baby |

Multiplayer

Every player should install it. A creature is run by the player nearest to it.

Safe to remove: a kept baby's age is saved in its spawn time, so it carries on growing from where it was frozen.