Lox also make good training dummies, beat on them to level skills, then let them heal up ;D

The cloudberry patch is already tagged :-) and it's located on a steep plains slope at the base of a Mountain along the seashore. Fortunately my finebow allows my Deathsquito needle collection to steadily grow along with a pile of black iron. At this point stockpiling lox meat and hide makes the most pragmatic sense. The other even smaller mini-Plains with an occasional lox spawn is at the other end of this island sandwiched between Swamp and Black Forest. With no local Fuling village (I've only found one on a far island) I don't have a viable source of flax & barley yet.

Thanks again for the tips.

...as long as you have a spawner in the biome; no real reason to tame them yet. Use the hides and meat for now, ride them to glorious battle later on!

You could also creep around and try to nab some of the farming resources and begin a small patch on your micro biome...that's how I started Plains activity, while being under armored.

It's a good idea to tag those cloudberry patches with a map icon. I use the circle then write underneath "CB - 36" or however many I find in the patch. There always seems to be large patches along the hills that border Black Forests, but take care as Deathsquitos do tend to hover over the larger patches. One advantage to taming lox is once tamed in an area, wild lox tend not to spawn. Naming them helps to distinguish between tamed and untamed.

Thanks to everyone for your responses and especially to those that observed I am Bronze Age with all those lox related restrictions. The lox hide is what I'm currently benefiting from for the comfort buff. I guess practice is all I'll get from breeding them at this time. My cloudberry supply is pretty limited so I think I'll just stockpile them. The mini-Plains biomes look to have 3 lox spawn points between them and that keeps me in lox hide. The lox meat will also continue to stack up until I move to the appropriate level.

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Originally posted by Complaintdesk:

Taming the lox should open up the saddle recipe, even if it doesn't lox can be moved by pushing them closer so they breed while feeding. Lox are excellent allies against any foes, and can be a real asset during invasions, especially "You Are Being Hunted" when one is attacked by wave after wave of wolves. Taming them early means by the time you can really use them you should have a decent sized cabinet of lox, not only to assist you during future invasion events, but as a source of reagents for Baked Lox Pie. There really is no downside to taming lox at any point in one's progression.

Having a large cabinet of lox near the Black Forest biome, will clearcut all the trees and shrubs, making hunting deer a breeze. Tamed lox will also kill deer. When I am in need of meat for my tamed wolves, I head to our lox island. This was an island with a small Plains biome, a small Swamp biome and a large Black Forest biome. It is now nearly void of any flora and is a great place to hunt deer. On many occasions the lox have already done most of the work for me, and all I have to do is pick up deer bits and parts laying about, not to mention a plethora of Greydwarf reagents.

But again opening the saddle recipe doesnt have any bearing in the bronze age because:

1. You need dark metal bars and linen to craft.
2. You cant craft dark metal bars or linen without the blast furnace and spinning wheel respectively.
3. You cant craft the blast furnance or spinning wheel without crafting an artisan table.
4. You cant craft the artisan table without getting moder's tears.
5. You cant get moder's tears without defeating moder.

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As for moving a lox, you can only push a full grown lox when sprinting and only a very small amount.

If the lox moves, its movement is strong enough to overcome your sprint push, so maneuvering them is not necessarily easy.
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"You are being hunted" Event will not trigger during the bronze age. Its a post bonemass killing event thus iron-silver age.
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Having lox "clear trees" usually is only optimal while riding/charging or when they attack and aoe everything around them. Since the above mentioning how they're hard to control without a saddle, their effectiveness is more random to the context of the situation since you cant have a lox "follow" you (which I think is a shame).

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Lox pies can't be baked until post moder killing due to the mats required to make the oven. Barley (from plains) can't be turned into flower either until post moder with the artisan table making the windmill.

If the OP wants to tame them Im certainly not saying they shouldn't Im just saying the effectiveness in using them is much more situational/random.

There is a point in doing so and there is an easy way to do it, however you will need plains crops to feed the lox(es). Thus you need a farm in the plains.
So incase your interested:
Build a giant deep pit and make stairs going into it, lure the lox down the stairs and they will destroy the stairs, you have a pen with lox(es) in it. Feed and hide until tame and make the stairs again to take them out for a stroll.
They are apparently so stupid they will go down and destroy the stairs, entrapping themselves and you can jump out.

Originally posted by joane_jett:

There is a point in doing so and there is an easy way to do it, however you will need plains crops to feed the lox(es). Thus you need a farm in the plains.
So incase your interested:
Build a giant deep pit and make stairs going into it, lure the lox down the stairs and they will destroy the stairs, you have a pen with lox(es) in it. Feed and hide until tame and make the stairs again to take them out for a stroll.
They are apparently so stupid they will go down and destroy the stairs, entrapping themselves and you can jump out.

You can also use cloud berries from the plains.

Since I'll not be crafting a saddle (as noted above) due to not having the upgrades required is there any other way to get the lox to do one's bidding - like the wolf commands? Unlike boars they don't appear to be very pushable lol.

lox are only really good for 2 things.
1) meat
2) flattening everything. Just park it in a forest and hit a tree or a rock. This will spawn about 30000 grey dwarves within moments, all headed toward you. The lox will become agitated and destroy every rock, tree, shrub, dwarf, troll, ... etc in a 2 mile radius. Repeat as needed.

2 lox = infinite delicious food. I think that's worth it.

Originally posted by us271934-Слава Україн:

I'm in Bronze Age but have a couple of available small Plains biomes that spawn the occasional lox. I've killed a number of them but now that I've discovered a patch of cloudberries I'm thinking about taming. I'll not be able to craft a saddle for a while so I'm thinking a tamed lox will just be hanging out where it was tamed - subject to mob attacks.
Is there any usefull purpose to taming one at this point other than 'practice'?

In case the devs are looking.....
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A lox early usually means you cant have access to a saddle. This means controlling the lox becomes alot more difficult. Most everyone else is talking about riding it and doing x(which one thing in that regard not mentioned is there is no over encumbered restrictions if you're riding them) but if you dont have access to the smelter to make bars to make the saddle or the linen processing(all requiring killing moder) then riding is out of the question.

Having 2 for breeding means meat but in the bronze age, you cant cook the meat either because you dont have access to the iron cooking stations.

So overall, no, there really isn't any benefit to having them early unless you just want a wandering on its own damage dealer that'll eventually die.

Taming the lox should open up the saddle recipe, even if it doesn't lox can be moved by pushing them closer so they breed while feeding. Lox are excellent allies against any foes, and can be a real asset during invasions, especially "You Are Being Hunted" when one is attacked by wave after wave of wolves. Taming them early means by the time you can really use them you should have a decent sized cabinet of lox, not only to assist you during future invasion events, but as a source of reagents for Baked Lox Pie. There really is no downside to taming lox at any point in one's progression.

Having a large cabinet of lox near the Black Forest biome, will clearcut all the trees and shrubs, making hunting deer a breeze. Tamed lox will also kill deer. When I am in need of meat for my tamed wolves, I head to our lox island. This was an island with a small Plains biome, a small Swamp biome and a large Black Forest biome. It is now nearly void of any flora and is a great place to hunt deer. On many occasions the lox have already done most of the work for me, and all I have to do is pick up deer bits and parts laying about, not to mention a plethora of Greydwarf reagents.

Well if you are only in the Bronze age a Lox pet would devastate your opponents.

Tame them, ride one and have a flock of 2 star wolves follow you into battle and unleash the true Viking animal you are. Raiding villages is a blast, just make sure you have extras at home for breeding since you will take losses. Now go forth! Cheers.