Finally got one in a pit far from drakes and am currently in the taming part!! Lol I aint moving, Ill share screenshot. Very happy :D

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Originally posted by Nascarman:

Originally posted by retsam1:

If you get a 2 star boar farm going where you have your 2 star wolves(seperate pins mind you and done right) you'll have tons and tons of meat for them.

If you also set same said farm in the meadows near the ocean, creek etc where you also see deer and or boar spawn, it'll be a good place for necks too so you can get other meats in a pinch.

But its also usually a good spot for berries in a pinch for boars until you get a good crop farm going in the same place(sans plains stuff mind you since flax and barley cant be groun except in the plains biome.)

I recommend going on yt for some good boar/wolf breeding pens. Most are pretty easy to make so you can produce tons in no time.

Also another benefit of seed hopping and setting up a non combat farm seed is that you'll be only getting the first event to ever spawn so its free meats basically too and you'll not have to eventually worry about aerial event raids against your farm.

For the combat seed that you do for 1 tier each its also not a problem(just breeding tames to build up needs for say killing moder or yagluth or similar if you use the wolf fast kill pack method). Prior to a boss, on such as seed it'll just be the neck/boar event too.

You definitely don’t want to put your trophies on a seed different from your main one. It’s far better to keep them on the same seed so you can get fuling spawns everywhere at night for easy blackmetal near your base. Plus most raids are only designed for Black Forest/swamp level gear so late game they are just free resources. The initial raid is the most useless since boars are tameable already and easier to farm than other mobs. Late game you’ll definitely be gladder you kept the spawns rather than remove them.

If you more carefully read what I said, I have seeds for each boss fight. Once the boss is -killed- per seed the events upgrade.

Hanging boss trophies is NOT how you trigger the next tier of events. That is factually not how the mechanics of it work. Killing the boss on a seed is how events shift.

Thus I've seeds for each boss completed as I wish.

Nothing lost as you seem to perceive. Multi seed methods as discussed was so that, the OP can in a pinch if needed get other meat if they didnt need/want to deal with higher tier events. Farming seeds thus and boss fighting seeds. So again if resources from a specific tier of events are wanted, one just simply goes and spends time at a base on said tier.

Nothing lost.

Speaking of events, if someone's farms are not carefully done, the bat event can wipe out a boar farm in no time. Thus more planning and building is required for that (ie roofing everything over or using lots of windmills(excessive but some do), and other things.

Nothing wrong with that for someone who wishes to do that, but everyone has different play styles and I was giving suggestions/options for the OP to consider.

And in the post you quoted, I started off about the taming 2 star boars for meat resources. I supplemented that information with the other resources and choices from there...

Originally posted by retsam1:

Originally posted by Skylar:

I have to admit that Ive not paid attention to spawning other than boar runes (shame you cant get a starred one to spawn), its an interesting thing to think about thats for sure. Ive played maps galore and this is the first time ive tried the star wolves. I like the idea of map hopping for farming mats, I'll keep that one in mind as my current population of wolves are eating me out of house and home lol.
Yeah one of the things I love about Valheim is that there is no rush to do anything :D

If you get a 2 star boar farm going where you have your 2 star wolves(seperate pins mind you and done right) you'll have tons and tons of meat for them.

If you also set same said farm in the meadows near the ocean, creek etc where you also see deer and or boar spawn, it'll be a good place for necks too so you can get other meats in a pinch.

But its also usually a good spot for berries in a pinch for boars until you get a good crop farm going in the same place(sans plains stuff mind you since flax and barley cant be groun except in the plains biome.)

I recommend going on yt for some good boar/wolf breeding pens. Most are pretty easy to make so you can produce tons in no time.

Also another benefit of seed hopping and setting up a non combat farm seed is that you'll be only getting the first event to ever spawn so its free meats basically too and you'll not have to eventually worry about aerial event raids against your farm.

For the combat seed that you do for 1 tier each its also not a problem(just breeding tames to build up needs for say killing moder or yagluth or similar if you use the wolf fast kill pack method). Prior to a boss, on such as seed it'll just be the neck/boar event too.

You definitely don’t want to put your trophies on a seed different from your main one. It’s far better to keep them on the same seed so you can get fuling spawns everywhere at night for easy blackmetal near your base. Plus most raids are only designed for Black Forest/swamp level gear so late game they are just free resources. The initial raid is the most useless since boars are tameable already and easier to farm than other mobs. Late game you’ll definitely be gladder you kept the spawns rather than remove them.

I got my 1* boar farm starting as of yesterday so im hoping that helps with the meat. Thankfully Deers are an abundance in this game lol.
@ Estyn Im currently doing the killing of all the low ones I can find (ive marked where any wolves spawn and if I find a 1* it gets marked as well. The amount of wolf meat and hides is crazy but Thor loves me and gifts lots of coal haha

I have to admit that Ive not paid attention to spawning other than boar runes (shame you cant get a starred one to spawn), its an interesting thing to think about thats for sure. Ive played maps galore and this is the first time ive tried the star wolves. I like the idea of map hopping for farming mats, I'll keep that one in mind as my current population of wolves are eating me out of house and home lol.
Yeah one of the things I love about Valheim is that there is no rush to do anything :D

There are specific spawning spots for wolves, but as for the two star ones, you just need to keep re-killing the lower level ones until a two star spawns. I've found that you find the spawn spot(s), kill the wolves, exit the area (doesn't have to be too far), and when you go back, the spawn will have regenerated new wolves in just a couple of minutes.

RNG is RNG. I've done the wolf taming on several of our worlds.

The best one? Finding a 2* the second night of hunting.

The worst one? 186 night hunts before finding a 2*. Yeah, we were swimming in pelts/wolf meat by the end of it. And had a correspondingly low level of sanity, lol.

EDIT: And as someone else mentioned, once you get the 2*, protect it with your life until you get several bred, and keep a couple of them well protected at your base to use as "breeding stock" in case something happens to your 'adventuring' packs.

Originally posted by Skylar:

I have to admit that Ive not paid attention to spawning other than boar runes (shame you cant get a starred one to spawn), its an interesting thing to think about thats for sure. Ive played maps galore and this is the first time ive tried the star wolves. I like the idea of map hopping for farming mats, I'll keep that one in mind as my current population of wolves are eating me out of house and home lol.
Yeah one of the things I love about Valheim is that there is no rush to do anything :D

If you get a 2 star boar farm going where you have your 2 star wolves(seperate pins mind you and done right) you'll have tons and tons of meat for them.

If you also set same said farm in the meadows near the ocean, creek etc where you also see deer and or boar spawn, it'll be a good place for necks too so you can get other meats in a pinch.

But its also usually a good spot for berries in a pinch for boars until you get a good crop farm going in the same place(sans plains stuff mind you since flax and barley cant be groun except in the plains biome.)

I recommend going on yt for some good boar/wolf breeding pens. Most are pretty easy to make so you can produce tons in no time.

Also another benefit of seed hopping and setting up a non combat farm seed is that you'll be only getting the first event to ever spawn so its free meats basically too and you'll not have to eventually worry about aerial event raids against your farm.

For the combat seed that you do for 1 tier each its also not a problem(just breeding tames to build up needs for say killing moder or yagluth or similar if you use the wolf fast kill pack method). Prior to a boss, on such as seed it'll just be the neck/boar event too.

Originally posted by Skylar:

Originally posted by retsam1:

Again its rng. If you also happen to be doing it on a shallow mountain and not a large one, you might want to consider a better mountain just for the number of potential spawn points.

But again its just random.

True, Im going to move deeper into this mountain, its a pretty big one and ive only searched a bit of it. Thank you :)

My play style tends to be seed hopping style. I have 1 boss trophy hanging server. Then I have 1 seed for one specific biome (difficulty tier if you will) farming and exploration. I have then another seed for specifically fighting the boss of that teir/biome(usually easily accessible).

Thus I've tamed wolves across multiple seeds and my experience has been that its very random in when how they'll spawn except that to date I've never has one spawn as just a lone wolf. Not to say it couldnt happen as I believe its a dice roll on spawn at night.

Most have been 2-4 spawns of wolves. Some of the spawn spots also have been in rotation with(and not with) the night spawning werewolves too. I think (again could be wrong) that the devs set specific spawn table types(ie rotation of single multiple werewolve) or other combinations there of. It makes sense as you can also see this with locations that are specific to boars and ones that are able to rotate between boars necks etc and depending on conditions(like there are more neck spawns/respawns during storms).

All in all its just being patient. Good thing is you just need to get one and breed it with your other wolf/wolves until you get a second 2 star to exclusively do 2's only.

All in all patience is one of the key's to Valheim.

Originally posted by Skylar:

So im hunting for the elusive 2* wolves, Ive managed to catch one before but of course it got shot down by a drake. I built the trap (earthwalls) to close to the drake nest. Now im searching the mountains again so my question is, besides where wolves show up, is there an actual visual item like a large stone or a rune stone? I cant find any pictures of any so thought Id ask fellow players :D

2 Star wolves only spawn at night. Finding at night where you encounter wolves, especially packs of them simply increases the chance you'll have a 2 star spawn with them.

Best suggestion is to make a note of the places you notice them at night, kill any spawns just as night is about it hit(this way spawns respawn at night, then kill off spawns asap at night that dont have 2 starts. It may take you many in game nights or just one. Its RNG.

Originally posted by Bobucles:

A later patch supposedly stops them from despawning after starting to tame them.

No supposedly. If you trap them and they eat once from food you drop, they'll not despawn.

Yep I know about the night one, Ive tamed a 1 star (now have heaps of em) but they are not showing up. Ill just keep night raiding, Ive marked where the wolves are during the day as the night ones spawn there too. No luck so far, Happy Hunting as they say hehe

Originally posted by Skylar:

Yep I know about the night one, Ive tamed a 1 star (now have heaps of em) but they are not showing up. Ill just keep night raiding, Ive marked where the wolves are during the day as the night ones spawn there too. No luck so far, Happy Hunting as they say hehe

Again its rng. If you also happen to be doing it on a shallow mountain and not a large one, you might want to consider a better mountain just for the number of potential spawn points.

But again its just random.

Originally posted by retsam1:

Originally posted by Skylar:

Yep I know about the night one, Ive tamed a 1 star (now have heaps of em) but they are not showing up. Ill just keep night raiding, Ive marked where the wolves are during the day as the night ones spawn there too. No luck so far, Happy Hunting as they say hehe

Again its rng. If you also happen to be doing it on a shallow mountain and not a large one, you might want to consider a better mountain just for the number of potential spawn points.

But again its just random.

True, Im going to move deeper into this mountain, its a pretty big one and ive only searched a bit of it. Thank you :)

High level wolves freely spawn at night and flee/despawn during the day.

A later patch supposedly stops them from despawning after starting to tame them.