Animal taming
Description
Taming is a skill used to make an animal a pet. You can only have one pet at a time, if you have a pet and you tame another, your first pet will become untamed. Pets that become untamed will return to their normal hostile / non-hostile stance; ie if the animal is normally hostile it will begin attacking guards and players.
There is a penalty to taming for Blacklighters; taming is still possible but with a higher level of difficulty.
Only animals can be tamed; for monsters you need to be a Priest/Priestess and a follower of Magranon or Libila.
- A Priest/Priestess of Libila at 40 faith can cast Rebirth to raise the spirit of a slain animal, monster or player as a zombie pet.
50 taming skill gives the title "Animal Trainer".
Method
You can use tame by activating an item the animal will eat. For some animals its seeds, for others its meat/fish.
Taming skill and status of animal
- 0-10 Upset
- 10-20 Nervous
- 20-30 Submissive
- 30-40 Calm
- 40-50 Tame
- 50-60 Loyal
- 60-70 Trusting
- 70-80 Loyal to death
- 80+ still unknown
Note: Status does unknown things to tamed animals, if you have any information, please edit this
Edit: The taming status can be used to know when your animal will go untame. Here is an explanation on how taming seems to work. When you tame an animal numerous times, at a 42 taming skill, for example, your animal will have a max "tamed level" of [42]. Over time, this value will decay, and examining the animal to check its status can tell you on average how high this "level" is, with "upset" being the least reliable status, as your animal could go untame without further warning.
A pet can be ordered to go somewhere or to attack other animals/people. You can also lead a pet with a rope.
A pet can't be tamed by another person while it's your pet. A higher taming skill will probably make the animal stay longer as your pet.
You can decide if your pet should go offline or stay online when you log off. Right-click something and select Pet > Go (off/on)line.
You can give your pet to another person (if they do not already have a pet). Right-click on person and select Pet > Give away pet.
The QL of the taming item speeds up the taming action. It is about 1 second less per 20 QL.
A good guide to raising Taming skill
You'll need:
1x cauldron
1x meat
1x pig
1x pottery flask
and
water
1. Fill the cauldron with the water and put the meat in and cook it till it makes a soup.
2. Get the pig and if you haven't done so already, walk it off deed.
3. Get the pottery flask and drag the soup from the cauldron to the flask and tame the pig off deed, you'll only take .25 of the soup into the flask from the cauldron.
4. Tame the pig using the soup in the flask and once its tamed, repeat the process over and over till you have no more soup.
