Beast Taming Reference

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This page is a practical quick-reference for Beast taming.

Required Items

• Tranquilizer Potion
• Tranquilizer Arrows
• Tranquilizer Shortbow
• Preferred food (see table below)
• Combat Beast Flute (Recommended)

Beast Taming Steps

1. Brew Tranquilizer Potion at Alchemy bench.

   • Note: Glowing Purple Mushrooms can be cultivated via Farming Workbench.

2. Craft Tranquilizer Shortbow and Tranquilizer Arrows at Weapons bench.

3. Weaken beast by attacking until its health is 20% or less.

4. Shoot beast with tranquilizer arrows until it falls asleep.

   • It doesn't matter if you build the tranquilizer stacks or get it below 20% first.

5. Once asleep, feed its preferred food to complete the taming process.

   • You can F interact while beast is asleep to check its preferred food.

6. Left-click with Combat Beast Flute to link your newly tamed beast!

You can press F on a tamed Beast to quick-toggle simple modes (Follow, Hold, Idle), just like livestock and neutral animals..

Tranquilizer Shot Math

• Tranquilizer duration per hit: 30 seconds
• Hits stack duration
• Shots needed: ceiling(tranquilizer threshold / 30)
• Values below assume steady hit pressure without long gaps

Beast Taming and Feeding Table

Once tamed, animals can be fed their preferred food listed below, or Carnivore Kibble via Feed Trough.

Beast	Preferred	Food	Threshold (seconds)	Shots Needed
Larva Silk		Egg	20	1
Rat		Raw Pork	20	1
Fox		Raw Chicken	50	2
Molerat		Egg	50	2
Slug Magma		Raw Wildmeat	50	2
Snake Cobra		Egg	50	2
Snake Marsh		Egg	50	2
Snake Rattle		Egg	50	2
Spider		Raw Chicken	50	2
Spider Cave		Raw Chicken	50	2
Fen Stalker		Raw Fish	80	3
Hyena		Raw Wildmeat	80	3
Leopard Snow		Raw Wildmeat	80	3
Raptor Cave		Raw Chicken	80	3
Scorpion		Raw Chicken	80	3
Wolf Black		Raw Wildmeat	80	3
Wolf White		Raw Wildmeat	80	3
Bear Grizzly		Raw Fish	110	4
Bear Polar		Raw Fish	110	4
Crocodile		Raw Fish	110	4
Emberwulf		Raw Wildmeat	110	4
Snapdragon		Raw Beef	110	4
Tiger Sabertooth		Raw Wildmeat	110	4
Toad Rhino		Raw Fish	110	4
Toad Rhino Magma		Raw Beef	110	4
Yeti		Raw Beef	140	5
Rex Cave		Raw Beef	170	6