Taming & Pets

Taming is the process of obtaining a wild prey as a pet.

Taming is 100% a game of chance and thus can be a long and gruelling experience that often ends bitterly, however the rewards provide you with a pet that can fight alongside you, heal you during battle and accompany you on your journeys. More powerful pets and even boss-drop pets also can act as a status symbol, if you so choose to view it that way.

## How to Tame

*First off; due to the nature of how taming is a gamble, it is far easier to Tame a prey with help from friends or via the use of alternate accounts. The reason why will be explained below.*

**Secondly; IF YOU LEAVE THE MAP MID-TAME AND NO OTHER PLAYERS ARE IN THAT MAP, THE MAP WILL RESET AND YOUR PREY WILL DESPAWN. Likewise if you go too far away from your prey, it may also despawn (disappear).**

To tame prey, first you will need the ability *Tame*. This ability is obtainable through hunting some prey, and also from some Shaman. TheDens Shaman sells Tames at a price of 10 Tames for 1 Gemstone. Like all other abilities, you can only hold a maximum of **255** Tames on a character.

Next, go to the map that contains the prey you want to tame. Find that prey and you want to attack the prey until you get it's health as low as possible. For best results, 20 HP or below is preferred- however be careful you don't accidentally kill it! **Consider removing your weapons as you get the prey close to 1000 HP and continue attacking it with the default damage. If you already have a pet, consider putting the pet on "Stay" to stop it from damaging the prey as well.**

Once your prey is low health, it is recommended you run a bit away from your prey and click on the ground until you're no longer targeting the prey, to stop your character from automatically running back and striking the prey and potentially killing it. Then click and hold the prey (it will bring up the prey's interactive box) and let go of the cursor, this will target the prey without automatically attacking it. Now with the prey targeted (so it's health box is active) switch to F1 camera view, cycle to Tame with either 2 or 6 and then use the ability with mouse 1.

In the chat it will list whether the Tame Failed! or if the Tame was a success!

Continue to use the ability until you tame the prey (you can spam the ability, its only cooldown is the animation itself.)

Enjoy your new pet!

**Now to explain why additional players/accounts is beneficial.**

You can be having a simply unlucky day and go through a lot of Tames and still not be able to tame the prey- or you can be very lucky and tame it in only 5 uses of the ability.

We refer to this as using 'Stacks' of Tames; a full stack of 255 Tames sometimes isn't enough, so you need multiple stacks.

So what you need to do is have someone (or your alternate account) remain in the map with the prey you're taming and either stand around or follow the prey to prevent it from despawning (which it may do if no one is in viewing range of it). If everyone leaves the map, the map will reset and all prey will despawn, wasting all your time and effort.

Then as they're doing this, you can go and acquire another Stack of Tames. Return to the map and try again. Powerful prey like Dragons often require multiple stacks of Tames so don't be surprised if you have to go back and forth 5 or 6 times or more.

## Interacting with Pets

Once you've tamed a prey and it's now your pet, you'll notice it shrinks in size. This is normal and explained in the FAQ below- it's also the tell tale sign your tame was a success, if you're not paying attention to the Chat.

You can click and hold over your Pet's hitbox to bring up an interactive menu with 'Pet', 'Stay/Follow' and 'Shrink/Grow'.

Clicking Pet will make it do an attack animation as you praise it. Clicking Stay will make it remain where it is until you select Follow again. Clicking Shrink will make it become smaller and Grow make it return to it's normal Pet size.

If your pet receives too much damage it will become Wounded and you will receive a notice in the chat:

"Your pet is wounded! It will not engage in battle until you heal it."

Simply cycle to Heals, target your Pet and use the ability until you restore it's health.

There are multiple commands available for your pet as well:

* "/releasepet" will release your pet into the wild (untame).
* "/petfollow" will command it to follow you after you made it stay. Good if you ran across a map and forgot it was on Stay.
* "/petheal" will command it to ONLY use heals on you and itself. Only works for pets with heal abilities.
* "/petattack" will command it to attack prey when you do but will not heal.
* "/petignore" will make it ignore prey you attack. It also won't heal you.
* "/petnormal" will revert it back to normal mode where it will attack and heal when necessary.

## Taming & Pet FAQ

### My Pet is smaller then the prey was, why?

In the interest of not sabotaging others gameplay with massive pets (including your own), all oversized pets automatically resize to a more acceptable scale after taming. They do not lose any of their health or abilities though. You can make them even smaller by click and holding your pet and selecting 'Shrink'.

### Is my pet as strong as the prey was?

Yes! Your pet retains all of it's health, abilities and damage that the wild prey had.

### What prey CAN'T I tame?

A list of prey can be found here, untameable prey includes bosses and anything Praisable.

### This prey won't tame, I've used 8 Stacks of Tames and still nothing!

First, check that the prey you're trying to tame isn't on the above list. Second, unfortunately Taming is 100% chance and it sounds like you're just having a bad run of luck. Keep trying, you'll get it eventually.

### Are some prey harder to tame then others?

The higher a prey's default health is, the more difficult it is to tame. But at the end of the day you could spend 4 Stacks on taming a Rabbit and only 30 Tames on a Dragon, it's completely chance.

### Do I have to get prey down to <20 HP to be able to tame it?

No, but the higher it's health the greatly increase in difficulty it will be to Tame the prey.

### I do too much damage, how do I get it to <20 HP without killing it?

Remove any weapons, horns and other damage bonus items you're wearing once you get it to 1000-2000 HP and continue attacking it with the default game's damage to avoid accidentally killing it.

### My Pet wont attack/heal/follow me?

Check the *Interacting with Pets* section above for commands to fix this.

### How do I get Boss Pets?

Boss pets are drop rewards from bosses. Each boss has a chance to drop their "mini" version as a reward for slaying them. It is not a guaranteed drop and the pets are not as powerful as their boss counterparts. This means you can not Tame them.

Boss pets are dropped as an item which can be traded. To obtain the pet, equip the item, log out and log back in. When you log in, it will automatically dismiss any pet you had at the time and replace it with the new Mini-Boss pet.

### How do I Tame Praisable Prey?

You can't. Praisable Prey as pets are only given as rewards by Admins.

## Bugs

### Stop Prey from Self-Healing:

There is a currently known glitch that for prey that self-heals, if you have another player or your alternate account in the map, one at a time switch dimensions and switch back (so you switch, and switch back and then they switch and then switch back) and the prey will glitch causing it to not self-heal meaning you will not have to keep attacking it back down to <20 HP every time it heals.

In the interest of Taming being difficult as it is, we the Team are not pursuing fixing this glitch and consider it an accidental feature.

### Pet Commands Not Doing Anything

Some of the slash Commands (e.g. "/petheal") for Pets do not always work or reset when you log in, or may not work as your pet is not compatible (for example the heal command).