SlobKing

While I believe most of this to be true I'm not sure about how I feel about saying all animals are useless. Sheep can provide hide passively which is decent. Cows provide milk which gives vitamin D which is pretty good if you don't wanna fish. Bull are absolutely amazing at gathering berries. Assuming bears are similar to Ark their fiber gathering would make them very useful.

So there hasn't been any fixes deployed for it and it's worked the same since the start. The problem with it is you only have 50 seconds between feeding before it loses it's taming. So if you knock it down and feed it a bunch when it escapes Bola you must immediately Bola it again. If you wait beyond the 50 second timer you lose your taming progress and it'll show 0 again.

Assuming you have the tier 2 skill in taming under the beastmastery tree you will need to get super close to it. To the point where it is attacking you and feed it. It'll pop up but you gotta be super close.

To be able to craft a Bola you have to have beastmastery and taming 1. It's then crafted at the tannery

So I have seen a lot of false information lately on the forums about how taming works and how the systems are broken and just a lot of complaints about how it works as a whole. While I don't like all the aspects of it I have tamed a few animals without too many problems and will explain how I did so to help you. So for the first thing about taming you have to unlock the beastmastery tree and then the taming skill in order to tame. There is three levels to the skill and certain creatures require certain levels. For instance a bunny or chicken is Taming 1 and a wolf is Taming 2. Alright so now you've got the skill and are ready to tame something but how do you go about doing it? Well there is two different kinds of Taming that work different and require different things from the user. These two methods are passive taming, and Bola taming. Passive taming just like in Ark is pretty damn easy. You place the item required for taming in the last inventory slot of your hotbar and walk up to the animal with the required taming skill and just press e. It'll now display a taming complete bar under the ui for the creature as well as some other stats. It'll also trigger a cool down in which you must wait before feeding the animal the item again. Do this however many times is required and you will tame the creature. Examples of passive tames I can think of are : Bunnies, Chickens, Female Cows, and the little monkeys. Bola taming is the other type of taming and this one has the most complaints/misinformation about it. Many people don't understand how this system works and I see people post on the forums saying it's broken etc etc. That's not true so please stop saying it. Now Bola taming itself is hard. Much harder than any taming I did in Ark and requires a lot of patience and typically a lot of death. My recommendation is to create a taming pen in which you lure the animal into and close a gate behind so it cannot escape. The walls should have window holes which can be built by going to place a wall and pressing t to change type of wall. Once you have got the animal in the pen to tame it you must lower it's health to the point where it is "entrapable" via the Bola. Typically it's when the animal is in the orange health of it's health bar. You can double check by selecting the Bola from your hotbar and aiming at the creature. It'll display text in green that says "Entrapable" if you can Bola the creature. Once you are able to you hold down left click to spin the Bola and let go when you want to throw it at said animal. (If you built a taming pen you can throw it through the window at the animal) Alright so now you have got the Bola on the animal and it's on the ground and a timer that says "Bola escape in: xxx" this indicates when the animal will break out of it's Bola and recover roughly half of it's health. While the animal is bola'd you must walk up to it and with the item required to tame in your last hotbar press e just like passive taming. Things to note on this however is that unlike passive taming the animal will fight back. He will bite at you and knock you back if you get too close to the head. The easiest way to avoid this is to go behind its head where it can't attack you. Now once you feed it once it'll trigger the same stuff as passive tame with the ui and the cool down. Continue to feed it and eventually it'll escape the Bola. Once it escapes you must damage it to "Entrapable" range again and Bola it once more and rinse and repeat. Some examples of animals that require this method are: Wolves, Bears, Lions and Bulls. For the current list of animals I know how to tame or have tamed it is as follows. If you guys discover more animals and how to tame them or want me to explain further please ask. I will attempt to keep this list updated. Current tameable animals we know of: Rabbit - passive tame with carrots Cow - passive tame with rushes Bull - Bola tame with rushes Wolf - Bola tame with Bone Lion - Bola tame with Prime meat Tiny monkey - Passive tame with berries Chicken - Passive tame with Berries Pig - Passive tame with Maize Horse - Bola tame with Sugar Cane Bear - Bola tame with Honey

Yeah that's total BS. You didn't do it right. I've tamed 4 wolves and 2 bulls which were all Bola tames. Please don't spread false knowledge on the forums. For a Bola tame you have to trap it then get it low on health and Bola it. Then feed it with the item it requires everytime you can. Then once it gets unbolad you damage and Bola it again. It'll then require you to feed it again over and over. The only downside to this is as he said they will attack you while you try and feed them. To get around it feed from back of head or just out of attack range.