Originally posted by Dracoco OwO:

Yeah the issue was the lack of workbenches, you can also put a ward instead. Higher radius and it protect your walls as well as everything else constructed.

You're right about the radius, but it doesn't protect anything from damage by creatures. Maybe in the future we'll be able to build something like the protective bubble Haldor has at his camp.

Thanks for the advice! I didn't know about the work bench preventing enemy spawns

Yeah the issue was the lack of workbenches, you can also put a ward instead. Higher radius and it protect your walls as well as everything else constructed.

Are you near the swamp? possibly a blob or oozer came over & released a poison attack on the boar through the wall perhaps?

Maybe a Campfire was placed & the boar ran over it or freaked out & burnt to death?

Did you stay within render distance of the boars during taming? (I ask because sometimes the boar will render in before structures will from a distance, and hence the boars would basically just walk ''through'' the wall before it loads in when you get closer to it) Hence why it is a good idea to simply stay closer to the boars, but not too close as to startle them.

Was the enclosure adequately sealed off from the outside? No gaps in the walls etc?

Did the bat raid happen recently? Boar a prime targets in a bat raid.

Only other thing I can think of is there might have been a world generated beehive in the building you put them in, and they wandered too close to it, and died.

Could be that your area isn't covered by workbenches and you're getting Grey Dwarves spawning in and killing the boars during the night.

I don't tame boar in covered structures so I'm not entirely sure what is going on. With the Drake / Bat event I may have to experiment with barns.

Assuming that no work benches were removed the barn structure would have to be inside a work bench radius to construct. If a gray dwarf spawned outside the workbench radius it would have broken at least one wall to kill the boar. I suspect the boar didn't eat and died of starvation because the taming process hadn't started.

I use a covered barn for tame creatures (except for Lox. Those get an earthen walled pen that I access by earthen stairs).

Barn with isolation pen (for when i finally find a 2 star boar on this island).
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2853688746
Inside the barn with the tame animals.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2853688768

The covered barn protects the animals from thrown rocks and flying creatures at least until I can handle the attackers.

Animals of a particular type will not attack each other. Tamed boars do not attack wild boars, tamed wolves do not attack wild wolves and vice-versa. It sounds like your boars are dying while you're away. The most likely culprit is a skeleton or greydwarf. Make sure they are fully enclosed by a good fence. A fully-enclosed barn will work for Boars and Wolves. You need a really high roof to enclose Lox. A too-low roof will prevent animals from eating.

If you got the boars that are clustering all from spawns at 'boar stones' - then they're just trying to get back there. Otherwise, unless they are frightened by something?

As far as finding dead boars, it looks like you aren't keeping wild boars being tamed separate from all other boars (in their own tiny pen)? Maybe some aggression between untamed and wild boars?

Hope that helps.

1. Lure boar into pen. (In your pen you probably need to make a smaller "containment" pen)
2. Throw food that a boar can eat into the pen so that it lands in front of the boar.
3. Boar will detect your presence and attack the pen trying to hit you.
4. Back away until the boar stops attacking the pen.
5. Sneak (left control) back to the pen.
6. Boar should eat and heart icons should start coming up from the boar to indicate that taming has started.

Once taming has started you can sneak away and taming will continue as long as you are within about a workbench radius of the boar and the boar does not detect you. (You can spend your time planting, harvesting, building or smelting).

The boar doesn't have to be tamed all in one session (it takes about 1 1/2 game days).

Once the boar is tamed let it out of the small pen and into the larger one. Then reset the small pen for the next boar and repeat the process. Once you have the 2nd boar tamed dismantle the small pen so they are in the same enclosure and make sure they are fed.

Stop back every game day or 2 to make sure that they are fed and you will soon have lots and lots of boars.