Rune Factory 4: How To Tame and Use Monsters

[@Braveknight4000]

Years later and you should know these videos are still helpful. thanks man :)

[@Technocolor00]

you inspired me to tame a dead tree and name it Jerry. Best monster in the game

[@JohnEBoyVideos]

Amy Rose I love its silly walking cycle, cracks me up every time XD

[@flameshana9]

How to tame a monster: 1. Brush them about 15 times (the music note 🎵 will stop appearing) 2. Hit them with a "love atk" weapon like the Elvish Harp. 3. Throw pretty much any worthless item at them repeatedly. Wait for the heart bubble to finish first. 4. The higher your level is compared to theirs the easier it'll be. I haven't seen a monster hate any item, and there's very few ones that they love. Only bosses have specific item requirements.

[@genostelar2879]

Love attack?there are no weapons like that.

[@Mimip18]

That was amazing!! hahaha! It's hard to find an entertaining and informative video!! Can't wait to see the crafting tutorial! I'll have to wait until I'm there in the game!

[@JohnEBoyVideos]

+Mimip18 If you're talking about the how to make powerful weapons and armor video then you dont have to wait, you can do that method at almost any point in the game. the only video that explains something you can't do until end game is rarity forging. and thanks watching :D

[@Mimip18]

+John E Boy Thank you! I meant I'd like to wait. Since I've never played the RF games I am wanting so I can take it one piece at a time and really figure it out!!

[@JohnEBoyVideos]

+Mimip18 Yep :) thats how i like to play through them as well

[@Mimip18]

+John E Boy If i get stumped on something I'll ask you! Thanks!!

[@ark8898]

You know what. I like you. You get a like and a support. Keep up the good work buddy!

[@JohnEBoyVideos]

+Ark Salazar Thanks :D !

[@ashlayconner9418]

I agree. I don't subscribe to any channels on here but i found you . . like he said . blah blah blah but like I was talking to an old friend. I gave you both and will check other videos. Thanks John. 👍

[@MarcBridie]

I wish I had started playing while you were making these! I just started several weeks ago, I love this game!!

[@sashimiart2214]

This has been so helpful. Just picked up the game yesterday.

[@Shinarock]

1 small thing i have to say... the wool/drop size actually depends on monster level lvl 100 -> large product

[@JohnEBoyVideos]

Thanks for watching She Devil :) that's definitely something I plan on doing this month.

[@trevorr5524]

mobbing downtown with jerry XD...... 0_0

[@teddyflowers2798]

I thought this game would be boring but the fact that it has so much you can do change my opinion completely I love it now ❤️

[@ravenengelhardt9457]

that song was from the final boss fight in Final Fantasy 10 lol subbed.

[@belushes]

I just got this game over the past weekend. I loved this video and will be watching your other ones. You have a new subbie, keep up the good work!

[@JohnEBoyVideos]

+belushes Thanks for watching! :)

[@Mr061678]

Btw if you comb the monster pretamed it increases the chance of taming

[@onionknight3331]

Great video! I was having such a hard time figuring this out. I had no idea I could tame bosses haha.

[@JohnEBoyVideos]

+Onion Knight yeah i didnt figure that out for a while either lol

[@maddiebat8892]

I died when the metal music played. Top 5 bachelorettes /bachelors? :D

[@JohnEBoyVideos]

+Madison Barber I died editing that scene XD. and yeah i can do that.

[@BakaLaVie]

You can have more than 3 rooms per barn. The next room would be "behind" two of the first rooms then. Just tried it out again to make sure I don't tell anyone wrong stuff and the maximum would probably 5 rooms per barn. I don't have enough materials to try out the maximum right now though, sorry. And btw, was that "The black mages" when riding the apple tree? xD

[@JohnEBoyVideos]

It's jecht's boss theme at the end of final fantasy X but yes the black mages did do a cover of this :)

[@BakaLaVie]

Hm, I never was able to play FFX but I thought I heard the song once with a less... rough voice. So I thought this one would have been the Black Mages version. Guess I mixed that up then.

[@doertekripp197]

If you kill 25 Woolies with an absolute freshly tamed monster you'll get a permanent +50% HP mod. After that you can go for +25% ATK or 25% DEF killing 25 proper enemies like the ones with the rigid horns or the bugs. A tourist gave a hint to me the other day to feed them with steamed food for the stats.

[@Splatsuma]

i have a question. the fodder bins are supposed to feed the animals, right? i have a ton of fodder in there, but i'm still having to take half a day to feed up all my animals that work on my farm. is the fodder meant to feed them? or it is just for their happiness? it's so tedious having to feed them half of my farm every day.

[@ghettosandbox]

Fodder is used to feed them and restore health if they're at 0. They will also do daily drops. Think of the item you give them otherwise as a gift but it can restore them. If they are in critical condition, the fodder will restore them to 100%. Naturally if you give them a restore item/food they won't be back up to 100% the next day. check your farm and see if you have any withered crops you care about it and manually water them and then simply go to the next day if you want. Hope that helps.

[@schleepy6362]

Recently I tamed a random Weagle (purple bird thing) at the beginning of one of my playthroughs, and I don’t know what I did, but that thing is a BEAST. I’ve been taking him with me for almost every battle, and even in the boss fight against Terrable, he deals twice the damage I can and takes about half. The pet appraiser guy says he has a lot of vitality, so maybe that has something to do with it? Idk maybe I’m somehow raising some sort of steroid fodder for my pets O_o

[@JohnEBoyVideos]

Pets in general get stronger everyday you have them, even more so if you take them with you, brush them, and feed them everyday. if you had this weagle with you since the water ruins then i can see why it is very strong.

[@schleepy6362]

John E Boy ah, interesting! Yeah the Water Ruins is about the time I tamed him. I fed him _sometimes_ but did brush him about everyday. Now he’s even stronger than my UPGRADED Dylas, who I also always take with me. Really he doesn’t even need us, he’ll beat the game on his own XD (If he was smart enough to not spam his wind attack that does zero damage, that is.)

[@Mczprosvids]

i miss rune factory :I

[@zalmora_395]

I had a REALLY hard time taming my Siren I was in around lvl. 210 and she was near lvl. 300 I soft resetted for 10 times because of her attacks but she's a great monster to tame but a real pain in the ass to get. Amirite?

[@Nao-po3dx]

Has anyone tamed sarcophagus? I've never seen a video on KZbin where they've tamed it only of the other three.

[@JohnEBoyVideos]

You need Gold Juice, Mixed Juice or a Mixed Smoothie.

[@Nao-po3dx]

John E Boy Thank you!

[@asra-5180]

I think remakes of these videos would be nice.

[@lostchild1791]

How do you get the friendly rod

[@austinjames9487]

Rune factory 4 fastest way to get level 10 crops

[@VoidTime]

I just noticed you named one of your cows cowsep lul

[@JohnEBoyVideos]

I was a Yi main back in the day and watched plenty of the cowman for tips lel.

[@corinawhite6457]

are you going to be playing rune factory 5 and make videos of it at all?

[@JohnEBoyVideos]

yes and yes

[@corinawhite6457]

@@JohnEBoyVideos ty for getting back to me yay not many utuber do I have only two get back to me so far and that make me happy feel a tinny bit better and I keep an eye out for it

[@bloodhound2995]

Good question I trim my tame wooly fur will it fur come back?

[@SaSa-km4sv]

Once I accidently gave a weed to an ant and by that I tamed him....

[@JohnEBoyVideos]

It happens to the best of us...

[@NewLamarBazaar]

Good Job! Subscribed!

[@Sly-Moose]

I'm like an expert with giving monsters gifts. Give them that rare shit at high qualities.

[@Makidei-su]

that pokemon background music though

[@lloyd2226]

And how you know what item the boss is tamed with?

[@RenoKyrie]

The answer is really simple, and that is *Internet*

[@lloyd2226]

@@RenoKyrie thanks. Hey you know if the raccoon is tamable?

[@manybalby1724]

I ordered a third new monster barn but I can't find it anywhere. Does anyone know where it is?!

[@Sly-Moose]

Check in the other farm fields. If you haven't expanded your actual farm yet, do so.

[@latoyahill3454]

VERY VERY VERY HELPFUL!!!👌

[@tucker579]

AMAZING vídeo

[@midnightmooncrazyness1920]

How do you make friends with them?

[@moonjaxluna2052]

You should do a top 5 hardest bosses to beat :)

[@JohnEBoyVideos]

ehh was that a typo? because i already did it.

[@koolredfoxplays8052]

Is there any way of knowing which item each boss monster accept?

[@kanaoxo6138]

KoolredfoxPlays there's a list in gamefaqs. just google "Boss Taming Items" and it will show up

[@Kisaki_AkiRa__.]

Do you know how to make crops big? Huge crop?

[@JohnEBoyVideos]

you need 4 of the same crop in one plot and to put giantizer on it, after the crops fully grow and they are looking larger than usual, just water them everyday and eventually they will merge.

[@rauchschwalbelp7693]

I really hate to tame Cluckadoodles....I don`t know why, but these Chickens just drive me up the wall. I always tame 4 of every "regular" item dropping monster (Wooly,Cluckadoodles,Buffamoos,Bees). And usually the first two chickens are very easy to tame. The third is a bit tough. But I swear, that the fourth Cluckadoodle is ALWAYS so hard to tame, that I nearly want to quit having Cluckadoodles at all. The last time I failed, I brushed it until no more happy-sign apeared, smacked it with a very weak love weapon (basket) and gave it a gift...then smacked it again....gift....and so on. I was at Level 20. And this silly chicken ate all my items (~50) and still showed me that skull! After I had no more items left and I wasn`t able to tame it, I just killed it. But I really wished, that there were a way to punish it. Very hard.

[@JohnEBoyVideos]

+RauchschwalbeLP if you want to punish it, tame it, then take it to the final boss and just let it try to fight him, then when he fails keep healing him. sounds cruel but i needed some stress relief lol

[@rurounigirl20]

will there ever be a rune factory 5?

[@JohnEBoyVideos]

i'm not sure but there is a good chance of it. best i can say is if they were working on it, that it wouldnt be released in awhile. maybe next year or the year after

[@rurounigirl20]

John E Boy That's good to hear. Btw, great videos you've got on this channel. I recently started playing again after a year or so. Your vids are quite helpful so thank you ;)

[@MarcBridie]

Wait, what? Why do you think there is a good chance? Everything I have seen is that the company went bankrupt.

[@themellowjello5206]

Marc Bridie The company did, but since the people out there are still alive they can make a RF5 if they wanted to.

[@renokyrieliumgodofvoid8330]

2018 and still no Rune factory 5..... Well i guess just like the Harvest moon games it died for some reason.....

[@AnxiousGary]

Giant chicken loves recovery potions. Tamed it at lvl 20ish, but omgwtf you can't ride it ;_;

[@JohnEBoyVideos]

+AnxiousGary its weird that you cant ride a giant chicken but you can ride a tiny sheep

[@sadaesashington7255]

I wish u explained how to capture other boses. Like the horse and Dragon u showed..

[@ghettosandbox]

Pretty sure it takes a giant carrot to tame the horse. If you can handle it, brushing the monster 15 times helps too. I don't know the dragon from memory but the information is out there.

[@ezzaty53]

can we tame monsters that higher level than us?

[@JohnEBoyVideos]

+Riku Nagahara Yes, it's not easy but yes. just follow the steps I explain in this video and you have a better chance. :)

[@JohnEBoyVideos]

+John E Boy Actually a better example of taming higher lvl monsters is in the typhoon video lol.

[@ezzaty53]

John E Boy oh yeah. Thank you and another question. Does it also work on higher level bosses that havent been defeated yet?

[@JohnEBoyVideos]

+Riku Nagahara im actually not sure if you can tame bosses you havent defeated yet but maybe if you have their taming item, i guess theoretically you could but i havent tested it yet.

[@ezzaty53]

+John E Boy oh okay. Thank you. And do you know how to level up our rune abilities? I kind of have the dialogue with Leon that he can level up our rune abilities with a price but I don't know how to do that.

[@randomlolpie]

lmaooo this is great !

[@UtopianMagic1408]

What if you kill a boss monster though is there a chance that you might be able to befriend it if it appears again???

[@JohnEBoyVideos]

Boss monsters always respawn in the same spot after you defeat them so yeah you can

[@UtopianMagic1408]

@@JohnEBoyVideos thanks for the reply but how do you figure out what to give them to tame them and what happens if you tame them but your barn is full?

[@JohnEBoyVideos]

@@UtopianMagic1408 you can't take monsters if your barn is full, also boss monsters take up two slots in the barn. As for what you need to take them. The only ones I remember are greenifier plus for the tree and a royal carrot for the horse, everything else I don't remember but you can probably find it on the tune factory wiki

[@UtopianMagic1408]

@@JohnEBoyVideos thanks for tellin me

[@propes64]

Actually I upgraded the barn to 5 recently

[@redbush5483]

Legend

[@claire4710]

can someone help me please? I'm trying to tame hinoe & kinoto and I lost about 38 salted char without any results. I don't know why it doesn't work. I had already brushed it, until the score in their head dissapeared, attacking them with low damage love weapon, and then I gave them the dish, but it doesn't work. Right now, I'm at level 206 with taming level 36. Please help me T_T

[@JohnEBoyVideos]

+Caren Forensa you've done about as much as you can do, the rest is just luck. when i was taming typhoon, i had to soft reset 43 times before i got him. just persevere and you can do it :D

[@claire4710]

+John E Boy Ok if you say so. Btw, does taming level and the dish level affect the process (I used lvl 1 salted char)? Wow, 43 times? :v what did you use to tame typhoon? I tamed by giving it 3 lvl 2 strawberries ._. Man, this game is really random, and thank you for replaying, I really appreciate it \^_^/ suscribed.

[@JohnEBoyVideos]

+Caren Forensa i think it is better to give them higher leveled items but i wouldn't worry to much about that, just soft reset whenever you use all of your items. and i tamed typhoon by giving it iron ore, i had about 20 in my bag so i just kept chucking them at him until he listened to me lol

[@claire4710]

+John E Boy, Lol. That typhoon guy had no choice then... Ok, I'll keep trying and thank you.

[@healfire6713]

How do i get a villager companion?

[@JohnEBoyVideos]

you ask them to go with you, but their friendship level has to be at level 3 or higher.

[@healfire6713]

Thanks! :)

[@Sly-Moose]

Soft resetting can glitch your game, so I hard reset.

[@Lily-vs3us]

Where is grass seeds or fodder??

[@JohnEBoyVideos]

you can buy grass seed from blossoms general store and you can get fodder from the cluck cluck cave just south of town

[@Sly-Moose]

Sadly, some monsters you can't tame. I wanna tame Ragnarok. ; Π ;

[@jiribu6819]

now i need to know where did u get this game and where can i get it too :V

[@JohnEBoyVideos]

+ji ribu Depends on where you live, if you are in the European region then you can get it on eshop or if you are from America or japan you can just buy it at your local game store (unless they stopped selling it but last i checked they still did) or buy it on eshop.

[@jiribu6819]

can u suggest any shop for eu ?

[@JohnEBoyVideos]

+ji ribu as far as i know the only way to get rune factory 4 in EU is to buy it in the 3ds virtual shop, im from the US so i couldnt rightly say

[@jiribu6819]

i just dont get why all so awesome games that ever made , never make it to eu , they make any shit games that no ones buys but decent as this one... always fails. ty for info , seems gonna wait another year till i get my hands on 3ds if it exist till then , and after this buy it from eshop

[@ShapeShifterKibayo]

AWESOME!

[@JohnEBoyVideos]

+ShapeShifterKibayo I KNOW RIGHT!!!

[@lizzymarlow5208]

they only give items if ya have food in the barn.🤨🤨🤨 interesting you 'forgot' that bit of info

[@andreadeltoro987]

jajajajaajjaaja i love intro

[@cyncynshop]

The green fairy is so strong, she deals 700 damage when I only deal around 300 with the best gear I have. Her body orbs magic insta-kill bosses.

[@penjelajahyt6943]

Lol, i tamed typhoon with turnip seed

[@lizzymarlow5208]

🤨 proof?

[@ButterflySimmer]

I just got the dead tree monster

[@ericksonvasco3500]

Thanks!!

[@k1m.c7]

Could you do how to grow a relationship with people in Rune Factory 4? I WANT A BOYFRIEND ON IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -Ahem- Hehe sorry

[@JohnEBoyVideos]

+Glitter Girls It's actually the same as getting a monster but the only difference is that every villager has a favorite item and that you cant get them to travel with you until their friendship level is at 3. other then that it's exactly the same.

[@k1m.c7]

How do you check their friendship level?

[@JohnEBoyVideos]

+Glitter Girls it's in the pause menu, like one of the last tabs

[@k1m.c7]

I'm a starter so I have NO idea what that it xD

[@JohnEBoyVideos]

+Glitter Girls ok, you press start, that should bring you to the item menu. then after that, if you look at the top of the bottom or top screen (can't remember which one it is) there should be a few tabs you can chose from. the tab you are looking for should be one of the last tabs. from there, you should see a menu that shows the names of the villagers you have met, hover over the name of the person whos friendship level you want to check.