Taming guide - alpaca, llama, jaguar, elephant and Shifting Sands mounts

Most mounts are caught in traps: a Medium Trap for alpacas, llamas and jaguars, a Large Trap for giant elephants. Young animals can be picked up and raised with food. Equip a saddle to ride. By default you can own 10 animals, your tribe 50, and 3 can follow you at once.

Capture method by animal

Animal	Map	How
Alpaca, llama	Cloud Mist Forest	Medium Trap; or pick up a young one and feed it
Jaguar	Cloud Mist Forest	Medium Trap
Giant elephant	Cloud Mist Forest	Large Trap
Capybara, turkey	Cloud Mist Forest	Farm animals for pens and coops
Monkey, scarlet macaw	Cloud Mist Forest	Shoulder pets; monkeys gather fruit into a Monkey Storage Nest
Snow leopard, ostrich	Cloud Mist Forest	Mounts with a saddle; ostriches hatch from eggs
Hound, mule	Shifting Sands	Capture the pups in the River Delta
Camel, cat, fennec fox	Shifting Sands	Domesticate; cats live in the eastern Death Desert oasis
Rhino, wild donkey	Shifting Sands	Mounts (patch 9 reduced their fall damage)
Mammoth	Cloud Mist Forest	Cannot be tamed

Wheat no longer works as bait for capybaras, alpacas and llamas; that exploit was fixed after launch.

Trapping and raising

1. Build the trap at the right size and bait it with food the animal eats.
2. Wait out of sight until it is caught, then interact to claim it.
3. Young animals can be carried (hold E) and fed until they mature. Alpacas eat Alpaca Feed, corn, banana, potato, quinoa or thatch.
4. Saddles are made at the Armor Forging Table. The Early Access alpaca saddle took 10 Coarse Cotton, 15 Leather and 10 Leather Rope.

Breeding and farm animals

• Breeding needs a male and a female plus food and water in a trough.
• Capybara Pens give feces for fertiliser and meat. Turkey Coops (renamed from Chicken Coop in 1.0) give eggs, feathers, feces and meat.
• A tribesman at a Breeding Farm feeds and manages pens and coops; the Breeder title gives +50% breeding proficiency growth.
• Server settings scale breeding speed, growth speed (up to 100x), incubation and produce yield.

Elephants as moving bases

Since July, the Elephant Deck Saddle carries large loads, and any floor component can be placed on it to build structures on the elephant’s back.

Animals in combat

The Nature Enlightenment mask’s level-10 skill, Nature’s Heart, summons a nearby beast for two hours; it absorbs 25% of the damage you take (40% with Ascension). Its Mimicry also stops small and medium wild beasts from attacking you. See the mask reference.