You can explore the world of Valheim and start your journey to become the strongest player in this open world sandbox game. With each new update, there are new features added, and now you can tame wild boars and add them to your farm. In this guide, we will see how to capture, tame, and breed wild boars in Valheim. Besides keeping them in a pen, you also need to know how to take care of their needs if you wish to breed more of them.
How To Tame Boars In Valheim
You can tame Boars by first capturing them, putting them in a pen and finding the right food to feed them. Once this happens, you will see the Tameness meter appear to give you a sense of how close you are to taming it. Lets have a look at how to go through each of these steps.
How To Build A Pen To Tame Boars In Valheim
Before you can start gathering boars, you first need to build a pen for them to stay in. The easiest method to build a pen is to use Roundpole Fences and build them in a circle, leaving a gap where the boars will enter. Sometimes during your exploration, you might also find ruined enclosures that you can repair instead, saving you time in building one from scratch. Make sure that there is a gap that works as an entrance.
Later on, when you get the chance to craft stone enclosures, use that to lure in higher level boars. The tougher the boar, the easier it gets for them to break down a wooden enclosure. You can check the health of your fence by heading into the build menu and hovering your mouse over the walls.
Pro-Tip: Make sure there are no torches or sources of fire near the pen or it might aggravate them further
How To Capture Boars In Valheim
Place food like Berries, Mushrooms & Carrots as bait inside the pen to lure boars into the structure. After that, locate a boar and try to grab its attention – if that does not work, hit it once and that should do the trick. Then, quickly run inside your pen and lure the boar to follow you. Once it is inside the pen, head outside and block the entrance with another fence. Congrats, you have now successfully captured the boar!
While you can try your luck with groups as well as a single boar, it is best to start out with a single boar till you are experienced, and the enclosure is strong enough to lure and keep more in. Boars can be found all over your starting area, which is the Meadows.
Most of the food items can be found within the Meadows biome, especially mushrooms. Carrots can be farmed from the Black Forest biome by harvesting the seeds. So farm and gather as many as you can and place them inside the pen.
How To Feed Boars In Valheim
You are now the proud owner of a boar, but you need to tame it before it is friendly towards you. Like most animals, the only way to tame it is to feed it. When you first have your boar in your enclosure, you should stay out of sight or it will stay aggravated. Once it has calmed down, you can feed it mushrooms, carrots, and berries like blueberries and raspberries.
To feed the boar, all you have to do is open up your inventory in Valheim, select the food you wish to feed it, then click on the area outside the inventory where you wish to place it. If the boar is interested, it will start nibbling on it. You will know the boar likes the food if you see yellow hearts appearing over it.
If you step up to the boar, you will notice the “Acclimatizing” text appear over the boar. There is also a new meter that measures the Tameness of the boar. The more you feed the boar, the closer you are to taming it. If the boar is tamed, you can enter its enclosure and interact with it, even getting a chance to pet it!
Pro Tip: If you are trying to find ways to farm points for your Sneak Skill in Valheim, then just before taming the boar, sneak around the pen. This is an effective and safe way to farm sneak skill points by sneaking around a wild boar.
How To Breed Boars In Valheim
It takes two to tango, so you need a second boar in your enclosure for them to breed. Repeat the process of luring another boar into the same enclosure where you have your first boar. Then feed the new boar to tame it. Be sure to keep an eye on their status, as they shouldn’t be left hungry. Keep feeding them till they are happy together inside the pen. Eventually, you will notice pink hearts appearing around the boars, meaning that they are in the process of mating. Come back after a few days to find a new baby pig within the enclosure
Tips To Keep In Mind For Breeding Boars In Valheim
- You can lure more boars into the enclosure to mate and breed more piglets in a short amount of time.
- Or you can create more enclosures and have a boar farm.
- You should note that if the enclosure is overcrowded, then they will stop breeding till they have some space.
- To create space, you need to cull any existing boars- you get Raw Meat and Leather for doing that.
- The key takeaway to keep your boars happy is to keep them fed and keep them away from fire.
- The happier your boars are kept, the more piglets you will get to see, and those will grow up into more boars and continue the cycle.
That’s all there is to know about taming boars in Valheim. If you like this guide you can check out our other Valheim guides like How To Get Royal Jelly In Valheim and How To Get Thunderstone & Use The Obliterator In Valheim
