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Hi, and welcome to this tutorial on taming. By the end of this tutorial you will have learnt how to prepare yourself for taming, how to carry out the taming procedure and how to take care of your new pets.
Having equipped yourself with a whip you will also need to ensure that you can survive long enough to tame. Conditions may arise that you are swarmed by the type of mobs you are trying to tame, as has happened to me. Also it is not always possible to tame the creature quickly, therefore you need to be able to absorb some damage. It is recommend for snabblesnot tamers to equip themselves with goblin armour, and pixie for daikaba and exarasaur tamers.
Now for the most important thing(yes, more important than a whip). Nutriobars. Without these your wasting your time. Each successfully tamed creature will require 200 nutriobars, in order to be given commands. Any less than this and the creature will even refuse to move. Do not tame a creature unless you can give it 200 nutriobars.
1) Find your target for taming. Ensure that it is a tamable creature by checking that is has a yellow bar above its health. This bar is known as the creatures SPIRIT.
2) Its a good idea to make sure that you drag it away from any other creatures that might harass your efforts, so give it a whack with your whip and lead it somewhere safe.
3) Now your ready to make your attempt at taming, and by hitting it you will have noticed a red bar appear above the yellow bar. This is its respect for you. This will increase for every time you hit the creature, until it is full. Allowing yourself to be hit by the creature, will result in a loss of respect.
You'll also have noticed that the spirit bar has dropped, indicating you have damaged its will against you.
4) Your objectice in taming is to bring the creature to the following state: Extremely low spirit, full respect, and critically low health. Only in these conditions can a creature be tamed. Attempting to tame before this will only fail and inform you that one of these factors is missing.
5)It can be very difficult, especially with higher damaging whips, to empty the spirit bar without killing the creature. There are two important steps in counter-acting this. The first, is to choose a creature of larger maturity. Olds and above make good taming targets. Secondly, if the creature becomes weak, allow it to regenerate its health, while running around it to avoid being hit(for loss of respect). By doing this the process of taming becomes relatively easy. Just be careful not to take a chance, you might do high damage and kill your target. Also be aware of critical hits.
6)Once the conditions are right, before the creature runs away or hits you more click the Attempt Tame button in the actions book(I highly recommend you hotkey this button). The spirit and respect bars will disappear as you attempt to tame the creature.
This will result in one of the following scenarios.
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You fail, and the creature has not been tamed. If this is the case do not fret! You are free to try again. A failed attempt results in the creature regaining some of its spirit, so you will have to allow it to regenerate before making another attempt. However after a failed taming attempt, the creature will not be hostile until attacked again, allowing you to stand and wait without being attacked.
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Congratulations, if you see this notification it means you are now the proud owner of your target creature.
To aid you in keeping track of your pets condition I will describe the 3 NEW bars that have appeared. The Spirit and Respect bar are gone, replaced by(from top to bottom)Trust(Green), Food(Violet/Purple) Experience(Blue).
The first thing you'll have to do with your new pet, is to feed it. In order to give a pet basic commands you have to feed it with 200 nutriobars. To do this, simply select 200 nutriobars from your inventory and drag them onto your pet. Your pet will consume the bars and convert them into energy. Note that if you release your pet into the wild, the remaining energy on the pet will be converted back into nutriobars and placed within your inventory.
An item has been released to improve the TRUST your pet has in you. This item is a brush, I haven't personally seen the brush looted yet but know that it exists. At this time I can't really tell you how to use it but I guess its fairly obvious Trust is important in your pet, the level of trust your pet has will determine whether or not it will perform your commands. While you can perform low level commands with little or no trust, asking it to impress people with tricks requires high trust to do.
Experience is gained from asking your pet to perform challenging tasks. Commands such as MOVE, and STOP will not give XP, instead you should train your creature by asking it to GREET. The Greet command tells your creature to greet the person they are looking at. Snabblesnots have been seen to bow and to raise their snouts in a wave like gesture.
Once your experience bar is full you will hear a nice little sound that will inform you that your creature has gained a level, the first time I heard it I thought my pet had hoffed. Each level your creature gains will unlock new features of your pet, including the ability to impress people with tricks, of which I have seen Snabblesnots doing Handstands, and the ability to name your pet and command it to follow you. Remember that doing tricks will use of your pets energy faster. A pet that is not being used can have as much as 3 or 4 months of use from 1000 nutriobars, however performing tricks and gaining XP will drain your pets energy faster. Be aware of this.
Of course, as much as you love your new pet you will not always want it hanging around you. You could leave it sitting in the wild but this is a BAD IDEA. If you neglect your creature you will incur penalties to Trust, Energy and XP. Therefore you need to ensure that if you are logging out, or leaving the area, or simply do not wish to have your pet around that you place it into the care of a stable.
To do this, take your pet close to the stablemaster, stand beside the stablemaser yourself, and click the Stable command. Your pet will now safely transfer into a deed in your inventory, with which you can keep track of all your pets statistics(can also be done by scanning live pets).
To get your pet back out of the stables simply goto ANY stablemaster, and double click your deed. Your pet will appear in front of your very eyes.
NOTE: All commands performed on a pet, require that pet to be targetted(selected) for them to work.
MOVE: Presents you with a targeting cursor, clicking the cursor on a piece of land in view will make your pet move to that place.
STOP: Does exactly what it says on the tin.
FOLLOW: A level 3 skill that lets the pet auto-follow you much like the player ability.
STABLE: Allows your creature to be stored for safe-keeping. Creatures in stables can last long periods of times on minimal food.
GREET: Commands your pet to greet someone.
IMPRESS: Commands your pet to do a trick for someone.
Tamers should be aware that pets move painfully slowly. In order to move them over large distances simply give them the move command, and then go to wherever you want them to go, even if they are no longer on screen. Then click where you want them to go. You won't have to worry about your pet, eventually it will reach where you have told it to go(be mindful not to leave it out of your sight for over 10 minutes though). I found this very handy. Whenever I tame a creature I simply goto the stable and get it to move there, I can then go about some other business and come back to stable it in 5-10 minutes.
It is possible to have multiple creatures being tamed at once. That is, you can whip more than one creature to weaken it to be tamed. And if it fails you can attempt to tame one of the other ones. This allows you to tame much faster than waiting for a single mobs health to regenerate.
If you are intending to become a professional tamer, I would highly suggest you invest in buying a Viper limited whip. These whips are designed to do low damage specifically for the taming process. If your wondering if there is a profession for tamers then yes there is. Not everyone can tame because not everyone has a whip or the required skills to tame, therefore professional skilled tamers could provide those people with pets at a reasonable price. I myself sold a snabblesnot young for 15 ped, at full trust, no xp and no energy.
Concerns for selling pets should be. A) To cover the cost of 200 nutriobars lost in the sale. B) To cover the cost of your whips decay over all your attempts. C) To cover a cost of your time spent doing this, and to cover providing a service for those unable to do it themselves.
LIST OF KNOWN TAMABLE CREATURES:
Snabblesnots
Exarosaurs
Daikaba
KNOWN ISSUES: At this time there is a bug that when you first tame a creature you may be unable to stable it, after attempting to stable the creature you will no longer be able to feed it though it can stick do tricks and move. I have reported this issue to MA in the hopes of a quick resolution.
SKILLGAINS FROM THE TAMING/TRAINING PROCESS:
Animal Lore, Zoology, Animal Taming, Courage, Intelligence.
I hope that this tutorial has given you all the information you need, constructive critism is welcome and if I've missed out any information that you discover, please feel free to post it up here.
BEING PREPARED
The first thing you have to do, is make sure you have chosen a good whip. For the purposes of taming lower damages whips are more important than higher damage whips because you will not want to kill your target. The new Viper(L) in auction does 3 damage and is designed soley for whipping. While these are atm very rare and expensive, it is the recommendation of this guide that any serious tamers invest in one of these at some stage.Having equipped yourself with a whip you will also need to ensure that you can survive long enough to tame. Conditions may arise that you are swarmed by the type of mobs you are trying to tame, as has happened to me. Also it is not always possible to tame the creature quickly, therefore you need to be able to absorb some damage. It is recommend for snabblesnot tamers to equip themselves with goblin armour, and pixie for daikaba and exarasaur tamers.
Now for the most important thing(yes, more important than a whip). Nutriobars. Without these your wasting your time. Each successfully tamed creature will require 200 nutriobars, in order to be given commands. Any less than this and the creature will even refuse to move. Do not tame a creature unless you can give it 200 nutriobars.
TAMING YOUR CREATURE
1) Find your target for taming. Ensure that it is a tamable creature by checking that is has a yellow bar above its health. This bar is known as the creatures SPIRIT.
2) Its a good idea to make sure that you drag it away from any other creatures that might harass your efforts, so give it a whack with your whip and lead it somewhere safe.
3) Now your ready to make your attempt at taming, and by hitting it you will have noticed a red bar appear above the yellow bar. This is its respect for you. This will increase for every time you hit the creature, until it is full. Allowing yourself to be hit by the creature, will result in a loss of respect.
You'll also have noticed that the spirit bar has dropped, indicating you have damaged its will against you.
4) Your objectice in taming is to bring the creature to the following state: Extremely low spirit, full respect, and critically low health. Only in these conditions can a creature be tamed. Attempting to tame before this will only fail and inform you that one of these factors is missing.
5)It can be very difficult, especially with higher damaging whips, to empty the spirit bar without killing the creature. There are two important steps in counter-acting this. The first, is to choose a creature of larger maturity. Olds and above make good taming targets. Secondly, if the creature becomes weak, allow it to regenerate its health, while running around it to avoid being hit(for loss of respect). By doing this the process of taming becomes relatively easy. Just be careful not to take a chance, you might do high damage and kill your target. Also be aware of critical hits.
6)Once the conditions are right, before the creature runs away or hits you more click the Attempt Tame button in the actions book(I highly recommend you hotkey this button). The spirit and respect bars will disappear as you attempt to tame the creature.
This will result in one of the following scenarios.
[br]Click to enlarge[/br]
You fail, and the creature has not been tamed. If this is the case do not fret! You are free to try again. A failed attempt results in the creature regaining some of its spirit, so you will have to allow it to regenerate before making another attempt. However after a failed taming attempt, the creature will not be hostile until attacked again, allowing you to stand and wait without being attacked.
[br]Click to enlarge[/br]
Congratulations, if you see this notification it means you are now the proud owner of your target creature.
TAKING CARE OF YOUR PET/TRAINING YOUR PET
To aid you in keeping track of your pets condition I will describe the 3 NEW bars that have appeared. The Spirit and Respect bar are gone, replaced by(from top to bottom)Trust(Green), Food(Violet/Purple) Experience(Blue).
The first thing you'll have to do with your new pet, is to feed it. In order to give a pet basic commands you have to feed it with 200 nutriobars. To do this, simply select 200 nutriobars from your inventory and drag them onto your pet. Your pet will consume the bars and convert them into energy. Note that if you release your pet into the wild, the remaining energy on the pet will be converted back into nutriobars and placed within your inventory.
An item has been released to improve the TRUST your pet has in you. This item is a brush, I haven't personally seen the brush looted yet but know that it exists. At this time I can't really tell you how to use it but I guess its fairly obvious Trust is important in your pet, the level of trust your pet has will determine whether or not it will perform your commands. While you can perform low level commands with little or no trust, asking it to impress people with tricks requires high trust to do.
Experience is gained from asking your pet to perform challenging tasks. Commands such as MOVE, and STOP will not give XP, instead you should train your creature by asking it to GREET. The Greet command tells your creature to greet the person they are looking at. Snabblesnots have been seen to bow and to raise their snouts in a wave like gesture.
Once your experience bar is full you will hear a nice little sound that will inform you that your creature has gained a level, the first time I heard it I thought my pet had hoffed. Each level your creature gains will unlock new features of your pet, including the ability to impress people with tricks, of which I have seen Snabblesnots doing Handstands, and the ability to name your pet and command it to follow you. Remember that doing tricks will use of your pets energy faster. A pet that is not being used can have as much as 3 or 4 months of use from 1000 nutriobars, however performing tricks and gaining XP will drain your pets energy faster. Be aware of this.
Of course, as much as you love your new pet you will not always want it hanging around you. You could leave it sitting in the wild but this is a BAD IDEA. If you neglect your creature you will incur penalties to Trust, Energy and XP. Therefore you need to ensure that if you are logging out, or leaving the area, or simply do not wish to have your pet around that you place it into the care of a stable.
To do this, take your pet close to the stablemaster, stand beside the stablemaser yourself, and click the Stable command. Your pet will now safely transfer into a deed in your inventory, with which you can keep track of all your pets statistics(can also be done by scanning live pets).
To get your pet back out of the stables simply goto ANY stablemaster, and double click your deed. Your pet will appear in front of your very eyes.
COMMAND DESCRIPTIONS
NOTE: All commands performed on a pet, require that pet to be targetted(selected) for them to work.
MOVE: Presents you with a targeting cursor, clicking the cursor on a piece of land in view will make your pet move to that place.
STOP: Does exactly what it says on the tin.
FOLLOW: A level 3 skill that lets the pet auto-follow you much like the player ability.
STABLE: Allows your creature to be stored for safe-keeping. Creatures in stables can last long periods of times on minimal food.
GREET: Commands your pet to greet someone.
IMPRESS: Commands your pet to do a trick for someone.
HINTS/ISSUES/OTHER
Tamers should be aware that pets move painfully slowly. In order to move them over large distances simply give them the move command, and then go to wherever you want them to go, even if they are no longer on screen. Then click where you want them to go. You won't have to worry about your pet, eventually it will reach where you have told it to go(be mindful not to leave it out of your sight for over 10 minutes though). I found this very handy. Whenever I tame a creature I simply goto the stable and get it to move there, I can then go about some other business and come back to stable it in 5-10 minutes.
It is possible to have multiple creatures being tamed at once. That is, you can whip more than one creature to weaken it to be tamed. And if it fails you can attempt to tame one of the other ones. This allows you to tame much faster than waiting for a single mobs health to regenerate.
If you are intending to become a professional tamer, I would highly suggest you invest in buying a Viper limited whip. These whips are designed to do low damage specifically for the taming process. If your wondering if there is a profession for tamers then yes there is. Not everyone can tame because not everyone has a whip or the required skills to tame, therefore professional skilled tamers could provide those people with pets at a reasonable price. I myself sold a snabblesnot young for 15 ped, at full trust, no xp and no energy.
Concerns for selling pets should be. A) To cover the cost of 200 nutriobars lost in the sale. B) To cover the cost of your whips decay over all your attempts. C) To cover a cost of your time spent doing this, and to cover providing a service for those unable to do it themselves.
LIST OF KNOWN TAMABLE CREATURES:
Snabblesnots
Exarosaurs
Daikaba
KNOWN ISSUES: At this time there is a bug that when you first tame a creature you may be unable to stable it, after attempting to stable the creature you will no longer be able to feed it though it can stick do tricks and move. I have reported this issue to MA in the hopes of a quick resolution.
SKILLGAINS FROM THE TAMING/TRAINING PROCESS:
Animal Lore, Zoology, Animal Taming, Courage, Intelligence.
I hope that this tutorial has given you all the information you need, constructive critism is welcome and if I've missed out any information that you discover, please feel free to post it up here.
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