|image=Hitching Post.jpg
|active=[[wooden beam]]
|passive=another [[wooden beam]]
|group=Animal equipment
|materials=* 4x [[large nails]]
*Hitched creatures that graze will eat from the trough at the same rate they would normally graze
*If the food trough is empty or does not contain suitable food, grazing animals will try to graze the tile the hitching post is on.
*Hitched pigs will not eat corpses on the ground while there is food in the trough.
*A Hitching post can hold a maximum of 3 creatures
*Creatures that are required to be tamed before being hitched will unhitch when they are no longer tame.
*Creatures can be groomed, milked, sheared, shod etc. while hitched.
*Creatures cannot be branded while hitched.
*Creatures hitched to a hitching post will not cause disease in other hitched creatures.
*You cannot hitch creatures to a post below 10 quality. {{event|inline|The hitching post is in too poor shape to restrain animals.}}