Why YOU Should Be Taming In Valheim (Simple How-To)

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

Did you learn something new? let me know down below in the comments!

[@pikachun2160]

Im not sure but if i recall correctly a brazier counts as near fire too

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

@@pikachun2160 yes there are a few different sources that give the 'fire' effect

[@maxwellsimon4538]

@@SpazzyjonesGaming I did not know that animals could still be tamed after they become aggressive. This changes my entire world. I've been trying to grind sneaking for eons.

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

@@maxwellsimon4538 yessir! glad the video helped!

[@SupraSav]

Everyday I play valheim I pick a video of yours to watch and I always learn a new strategy or something I previously didn't know. Thanks~!

[@kocurowskyy39]

I will never forget how me and my buddied tried to tame a 2 star wolf, we dig a hole and left him there for the night with his food, next morning we had "tamed" stone golem in that pit

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

oh no! hahaha

[@Ulvehunden1970]

Chicken are also "escapeartists", i have observed them gathering in corners and jump up on top of eachother, and the top one can then escape

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

yeah they sure are. I often keep them in closed rooms

[@Ulvehunden1970]

@@SpazzyjonesGaming : 1 thing that worked well for me, was to have an open enclosure with high walls, out of reach of the fire, and a chicken coop that was roofed with a fire outside covering it and connected to the open part. That way some eggs get hatched and some stay cold, without me having to tend to them myself. Only to feed and harvest occasionally

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

@@Ulvehunden1970 inice thanks for sharing

[@MrJimbobaggins]

I've seen boars do the same thing lol

[@tonyh8166]

Wolves- the "lead them onto a bridge over a pit then trash the bridge" trick does indeed work, and is a good use for empty silver pits. But digging a rectangular pit with a cubbyhole made of wood along the center of one side of the pit that forces a wolf to walk along the edge of the pit to get to you, at which point you can kick, parry or (my personal choice) fungo them into the pit with a circle-swing by your trusty atgeir. The placing of the cubbyhole ensures that the knockback of the wolf cannot miss the pit. Of especial importance in the mountains is that drakes and golems will kill your tame wolves, I recommend roofing your taming pit once you have wolves taming it, and spend some effort ensuring your route off the mountain is clear of them if you want to take any home with you. I strongly recommend breeding your wolves up to at least 4 2-star wolves before attempting to move 2 off the mountain so you have spares to recover from if things go wrong. (I usually do 2 covered pits with 4 wolves each before I attempt to get 2 wolves home, but you can do it with 1 pit if you prefer. (When the first pit reaches 2 wolves and 2 puppies I lead the 2 adults to the second pit to start breeding there once the route is clear, which should only be 12-15m away.) Two-star wolves do indeed only tame during the night, and you should do your best to ensure that they eat at least once before dawn on that first day. However, while they will indeed attempt to despawn during the day if they havent started taming yet, attempt is the word. They can be prevented from despawning by hanging around near the taming pit till nightfall. It is also possible to keep even untrapped 2-star wolves from despawning, if you can stay close enough to it so it tries to attack you. If it gets more than 10-15 meters away from you it will escape and despawn, and a fleeing wolf is fast so you have little time to react. And of course if you do react in time you now have a 2-star wolf trying to kill you, and you have to keep this up all day till night falls again without letting it get too far away or dying yourself. But it CAN be done- I've done it myself (once) when I was attacked by one as I was building a 1 stone block high perimeter wall around a friends mountain base. Jumping onto the wall was sufficient to make it try to run because it couldnt get to me, and immediately jumping off the wall was enough to make it turn around and come back after me. A small natural boulder would probably do too, but trickier due to the uneven surface to land on. Tame wolves no longer howl, but wolf puppies didnt get that memo... :P Loxes- Loxes tend to be soft-anchored to wherever they spawned. So you can sneak up near them, through packs of 8-10 cloudberries (or other lox food) at them and and assorted places nearby and run away. Once you're far enough the lox will lose aggro and tend to wander back to the general area you found them, and with enough food scattered around they'll find it and start to eat/tame.

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

thanks for the insights! you must have a LOT of valheim hours put in haha

[@nelsonhemstreet3568]

Boars - decent in early game, afterwards only good for feeding wolves. Wolves - if they are not starred, it's not worth the effort. Lox - too much work Chickens - Heck, yeah!

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

Chickens are definitely the best., their meat and eggs are ingredients in excellent foods!

[@nelsonhemstreet3568]

@@SpazzyjonesGaming Tru dat! In my first shared world, I was the chicken man. I had four hatcheries running - three of them in troll caves.

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

@@nelsonhemstreet3568 in troll caves! Cool idea

[@keithjones894]

Will the trolls not kill them? ​@@nelsonhemstreet3568

[@westerxxx9220]

@@nelsonhemstreet3568Wait. Did you have chicken farm in a troll cave? 💀

[@_panand_]

I like how you showed 64 meters, one can relate to it more easily than extrapolating corewood horizontal log multiplied.

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

Im glad you appreciated that! It definitely helps visualize just how far a distance 64 meters is in game!

[@tobirudin918]

i tamed yesterday a 2 star wolve and forgot to put the meat in... at day he didnt despawn but he didnt move or reakting to myself. next night he eat and everthing was fine :)

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

Interesting. did you have a workbench nearby maybe? i'm thinking maybe the workbench prevented the despawn. Good to know though!

[@tobirudin918]

@@SpazzyjonesGaming yes thats possible, i need the workbench to remove the "woodbrigdetrap"

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

yeah that make sense. I bet that was it!@@tobirudin918

[@Deezymeister]

Night wolves don't despawn immediately if the player is within the 64m zone. They will try to flee when it turns to day time but if they have no clear path (such as being in a pit) then they will stay there as long as the player stays within the zone. Once it turns to night the wolf will not try to flee and will be able to be fed and tamed as usual. If the player leaves the zone during the day before taming commenced then the wolf will simply despawn

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

@@Deezymeister really god comment. i'm going to pin this. Do you know if laying down a workbench near them prevents them from spawning as well or does the player have to be present?

[@SamDeCam1]

Great video, solved a boar mystery for me with that anchoring fact!

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

Thanks dude. Appreciate you Sam!

[@thomasr7129]

@@SpazzyjonesGaming - they will try to return, but they will also mate and give offspring. Their offspring isn't anchored, so just "harvest" the annoying pig when they have made enough starred piglets, and all is well. ;)

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

@@thomasr7129 spot on. yeah you got it. Once you have the offspring no more need for the original anchored piggy

[@Roelgast]

Great videos, keep them up!

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

Thanks so much. I wilL!

[@zizilioziz4532]

MC/Valheimy yada yada, lot of guide videos out there, rarely are they this well chopped up and direct. Very well done.

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

glad you found it that way. I try to deliver the information in the shortest amount of time thats still easy to digest!

[@Hammerite]

Plays with friends. Tames wolf while in copper age. Brings wolf home. Wolf gets pancaked by a troll. Cries. Tames another wolf. Bring it home. Tames another wolf. Breeds a pack of about 6 wolves. All die due to poison during a swamp raid. Cries again. Stops taming wolves.

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

man thats the valheim experience if I've ever heard it

[@BeezerGutlr]

Here’s a couple tips: Loxen are weird because they have the same pathfinding model as the troll. So they won’t be able to breed if you build them into an enclosed space that isn’t high enough for a troll, they can’t breed because it’s technically saying they’re model is clipped through the roof. Inversely, chickens will struggle to breed in fenced off fields, they are far more efficient when they are inside buildings.

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

Oh nice, I knew the first one but not the second. Thanks for sharing!

[@Tendonitis123]

Uses the word 'inversely', but doesn't know the difference between 'they're' and 'their'. Amazing.

[@BeezerGutlr]

@@Tendonitis123 Bruh is fr gonna shit his pants because I made a singular spelling mistake. Too bad I don’t have someone with your stellar level of intellectualism, to proofread random comments I make on KZbin videos.

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

@@Tendonitis123 grammar police!

[@PulledPurk]

"Is this an out of season april fools joke?" I had no idea it was that complicated. I tossed a boar a mushroom and I thought I was done

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

yeah theres a lot of nuance to it. But I mean just by doing what you've done should work

[@opethmike]

I feel like you should be able to tame more animals. Necks are adorable, I'd love those.

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

agreed

[@candybetta4061]

Ngl I hate how tamed animals can deal damage to your structures running into them when alerted to something. I made this really pretty Asksvin area from grausten walls and iron fences and it required maintenance every half an hour. Gave up and dug a hole, lol.

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

yeah digging a hole is a good strategy because they can't damage earth

[@Werewolfboy_GT]

4:09 Why you dropp dandalion for boars?

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

if I did that, its a mistake. They don't eat dandelions, only chickens

[@sherwpinkhair]

your videos are so informative thank you

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

Im glad you enjoy them! I try!

[@Mohamed88Hassan]

Thanks but can u tell me please how can I calculate the space in the game by meters ??

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

Yes, you can lay down beams. The beams come in 1m and 2m dimensions. you can use them to measure

[@Mohamed88Hassan]

@@SpazzyjonesGaming thank u so much♥

[@Elite_Santa]

good video learned a lot. Can you make a video cowering all of the arrows in the game?

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

Glad you learned a lot! I could make an arrow but it would be a short one. What are you looking to learn?

[@Elite_Santa]

@@SpazzyjonesGaming I would like to learn which of the arrows are better for each biome and which ones are worse. For example black forest, plains etcetera. Or owerall best and cheapest arrows to make in the game.

[@Elite_Santa]

​@@SpazzyjonesGaming I will wait for your short 😅

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

@@Elite_Santa ill see what I can do haha

[@TravisBell-q1w]

Will the taming thing reset if it takes more than one in-game day and night cycle

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

nope

[@larpera960]

Is there a good way to lure a tamed boar back into it's home if it escaped? Like in minecraft, luring cows using wheat.

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

Enable PVP and harpoon them with the abyssal harpoon and drag them in. Thats the most effective way IMO

[@slayerdude18]

do you have to feed the tamed animals every now and then or only when they have taken damage? also,.... do you need to tame a starred animal in order to get a starred baby? or can you get a normal one with the chance of getting a starred baby? @SpazzyjonesGaming

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

The tamed animals won't starve without food but they also won't heal if they aren't fed. Feed them and they will heal over time. Yes, you need to tame starred versions to get starred babies. A pregnant 1 star always gives birth to a 1 star baby and a pregnant 2 star always gives birth to a 2 star baby

[@tomekhome]

In my opinion chicken are the only worthwile, maybe also the Askvin, since eggs can be transported easily and their Hide are pretty valuable and scarce. Boars are useless, by the time you find and tame a 2 star, you'd be much better off killing a bunch of boars. You don't need that much boar skin and meat anyway. Same with wolves, during a normal mountain run, you get so much wolf hide and meat, you won't even get the chance to use it all. Once you get to plains, it's the same story with Lox. Lox meat is super easy to farm, hide isn't that useful until you get to ashlands, and you want to farm them manually for bow/spear skill anyway. It's cool to ride Askvins in the ashlands, but it's not very practical once you dismount to fight. They can be easily killed and it's hard to keep them in place. Without the ability to store it in inventory and summon on demand(wow style), it's a waste of time.

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

I agree. if I were to make a tier list I think it would be Chickens > Wolves > Asksvin > Lox > Boar

[@Daniel1985CT]

The game needs pet equipment added. A single slot to add armor with pierce resistant so they dont die so easily. Nothing worse than to bring your new tamed Lox for a ride, only for it to almost be OHKO from a Deathsquito...

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

I would love that. great call

[@gawdej]

This game is crazy😮

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

an amazing game!

[@Elite_Santa]

Spazzy does boars found near Draugr willages also count as anchored boars? Because it is my Swamp outpost near so I desided to make a boar farm there.

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

I would guess yes but I'm not 100% sure. I would think the draugr villages behave the same as non-draugr villages

[@AntonsVoice]

I hope they update portals to allow tames through. It would help plenty

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

no luck so far :(

[@Th3GDC]

Would have been interesting to do so with the new portal, as metals can be ported now. The new portal is also huge. Wasted opportunity in my opinion

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

@@Th3GDC yeah shame it doesnt work

[@ikizlergemini28_3]

I like wolves' howl. I wish there was a setting to turn it on and off

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

i do too

[@simplycinclair8979]

I always wanted to tame boars when my boyfriend introduced me to the game. I didn’t manage it I had no idea how to get them unalerted at the time ;-;

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

I hope you know now! GO tame yourself some boars!

[@simplycinclair8979]

@@SpazzyjonesGaming I learned awhile ago! My first tamed creature was lox tho lol, I didn’t concern myself with taming until way late game. Now I’ve got everything, my boyfriends so proud :3

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

@@simplycinclair8979 lovely! I too never bothered until very late game

[@rachelkubacki1642]

I didn’t know wolves ate sausages. I had a two star wolf and had to wait for someone to bring me food and if I had known about the sausages I could have started taming immediately

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

yessir! The more you know!

[@desolation1821]

Will your animals die if not fed, or do they just stop reproducing while hungry?

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

they just stop producing :)

[@desolation1821]

@@SpazzyjonesGaming thx for the answer!

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

@@desolation1821 I gotchu

[@MikeGrau0hr]

thank you!

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

I gotchu

[@MotudGotHacked]

amazing video even tho im kinda late with the commenting

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

glad you enjoyed it Motud!

[@tuliecowboy4681]

I wish there was a horse-like mount that you could attack off

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

that would be a great addition. its a shame you can attack while Lox riding

[@nelsonhemstreet3568]

There is a mod for horses. I tried it and did not like. First, you had to capture and tame it. Second, a tamed horse was very vulnerable to mob attack. Third, the terrain is seldom favorable for riding until you get to Plains.

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

@@nelsonhemstreet3568 oh cool they actually added a horse. I NEED to check out some of these mods

[@12463trf]

Can animals starve? I had a boar that i neglected and it died, and i hadnt had a raid or have the fence broken.😅 Now that im further ahead in the game i want ro try again.

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

No they can't starve. Was it tamed when it disappeared? An untamed creature could despawn I believe if you don't have a structure like a workbench nearby

[@a.hs.k5376]

​@@SpazzyjonesGaming I think they do starve to death if u don't feed them I teamed boars twice and when I don't feed them for a long time they die They need a lot of food and they don't give much in return??

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

@@a.hs.k5376 interesting. ive never heard of animals starving

[@joelkorhonen3170]

@@a.hs.k5376 It is possible that Greydwarf Shaman used its poison attack throught the fence and killed your boar. Tamed animals can't starve to death.

[@Deezymeister]

Greydwarf Shaman's can attack tamed creatures through walls with their poison attack. That's how I learned to not put my animals close to the edge of my base walls

[@moparchargergang2050]

Does this work for Xbox series X console?

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

Yep!

[@mumbles4763]

Might be me. But I made a coop after my first "the earth is shaking" and they went after my nuggets. Only two survived.

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

i love that you called them your nuggets haha

[@romebenny7041]

I tamed a lox two days ago and it died. Know i now it needed a house lol

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

RIP. A house definitely helps. Especially with raid events

[@AntoniDardziński]

My first boar in valheim was named like my brother 😂

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

thats hilarious. nice one!

[@MikeGuarino69]

6:21 "herth" lol

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

I mispronounced a word 🤭

[@AntoniDardziński]

I enjoy your every video ❤

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

Thanks so much! Glad you enjoy them. I will keep making them!

[@Hattie2m]

Wolves no longer howl when tame? Huh I guess I never noticed that.

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

Its true! Functionally, it doesn't make much of a difference though

[@thomasr7129]

@@SpazzyjonesGaming - I swear I've seen cubs howl, tho...

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

@@thomasr7129 the cubs? perhaps!

[@bronchiel]

the tamed cubs indeed howl, but i haven’t noticed adults doing the same

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

@@bronchiel good to know! A few people have said that now

[@Marquploads]

good game good video

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

Hell yeah! thank you

[@marketablegruntplush]

Idk I love chickens so I watch this video

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

Chickens are A tier tameables

[@stevebreedlove9760]

I tamed everything last playthru. Only thing I bothered with this time was chickens. We had a boar stone near our early game main base so we just hunted for what we needed. I dont find raids to be too difficult when they happen and they are less frequent than needing to always feed AND be in proximity. If I could go out adventuring and all the breeding was automatic so long as food was available I might reconsider.

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

@@stevebreedlove9760 fair enough. I like taming everything except boars. Boars I get little value from

[@apocrising2758]

Not really it's kinda useless for lox they'll just destroy your stuff. Two star wolves can't even damage me before I have them gone. Seen what they can do against mobs pretty sure it's been nerfed by now cause its taking more hits but they could be missing. I find it useless when you can fight your own battles. The wolves will be dead in seconds without food littered about. And finally ask are the only ones worth it now way stronger than the 2 star wolf ever was broken level's as they dunno what balance is. That's pretty clear. Since a fallen valkyries hitting for over 150 sometimes up to 250. It's practically impossible to deal with everyone I see runs or gets a cheat weapon I hate fighting them it's not fun its tediously annoying. But that's what they wanted obviously. Things more powerful than half the bosses yet is only a mini boss. That should of replaced the fader.

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

I respect your opinion

[@apocrising2758]

@@SpazzyjonesGaming even if you wanted to debit it a little don't blame you it's just what I've noticed.

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

@@apocrising2758 completely fair brother

[@apocrising2758]

Fair enough then

[@Koldfusion77]

As an IT guy… You really should activate your copy of Windows. 😂

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

Never ! :p

[@secretsauce202]

Taming should rake 10 minutes at most its not worth the effort. Or they should at least let you sleep

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

yeah its a very long process as is

[@theoriginalfluff5317]

It is not worth it at all. The food they produce is never top tier, you have to waste tons of time and food to even get the proper amount of animals, I could go on and on. What’s the benefit? Why fight a troll with my wolves and risk them dying when I can one shot a troll with whatever bow. They definitely don’t do enough damage to bosses and again they’ll die and you’ll have wasted tons of time/resources

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

Wolves are worth it for battle companions, lox are worth it for riding, and the eggs from hens are HUGE for really good food. Thats just my opinion though. Its that you disagree

[@ringofasho7721]

Tame chickens. Skip the rest

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

@@ringofasho7721 chickens are most important i agree

[@thomaz3235]

Are you kidding a boar farm is essential in the early to mid game, having a good supply of sausages has saved my life more times than I can count

[@sproge2142]

​@@thomaz3235just kill any wild boars you see? You only need 1 meat for 4 sausages. Like, just by doing that I'm supplying myself and 2 other players with enough meat for sausages.

[@Delta_Tesseract]

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

Stars on stars on stars!

[@prototypesend7075]

I'll save any new players their time. Taming is not worth it at all, its just a gimmick.

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

I agree and disagree. I think there are benefits to doing it (especially for chickens) but the effort to set it up probably doesn't offset the benefits. That said, I think its going to be critical in the ashlands actually

[@RBDderz]

Actually.... it's fun. Hunting with wolves or riding lox is a new experience. And text that animal love you is kinda cute)

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

@@RBDderz lox and wolves are for sure the best creatures to tame

[@MrSpaceMees]

activate windows

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

Nevaaa

[@buhbuhh2464]

Activate windows

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

Neva!

[@spectralspace8866]

Breeding is fun until the blow of the mountain begins 🫠

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

been there man

[@allisona4500]

I just started taming after playing this game for 1000 hrs… it’s a huge advantage but it is devastating when they die 😭🤌

[@SpazzyjonesGaming]

is it ever! Your poor little buddies