Well personally, I went up to the mountains and broke the wolves to myself, and now the wolves work for me.

First wolf I tamed was one star wolf. I kept it safe in one of my mountain outposts, away from harm somewhat, until I could find it a mate at least.

They will follow me when commanded.
They protect the outer perimeter of my many houses & strongholds.
They kill the local wildlife and self sustain themselves.
They repopulate at an alarming rate, I usually have to go out every few days & cull their numbers down a bit, just to help with how laggy it gets.
They truly are great allies, and loyal ones at that.

When I first went at night time, to the mountains, when you generally find more of them, and tougher wolves at that. I waited endlessly night after night for many nights on end until I found what I was looking for. A two star wolf. I fired a single wood arrow near it, enough to draw its attention and aggro.

And the pursuit began. He ran, fast as he could at me, I ran like hell, and after a few close calls I was able to dodge and evade some of his lunges, with sword & shield equipped but slung, I ran to the pit I dug during the day, I lured that wolf straight to it. This is it, I began thinking to myself, he is so close, I just have to start taming him.

So there I was, large pit, full with raw neck tails and boar meat.

The wolf ran to the edge of the pit, and I quickly as I could let it strike me one time, as I positioned myself to set myself up for a block parry. The parry was successful as I watched the wolf stagger in a momentary daze, with enough time to allow me to push him as I simply held my shield up, and then proceeded to push him into the pit with shield drawn.

I had him. I had my 2 star wolf, captured, in a pit with fresh raw meat from the day prior hunting but he was wild and angry, it took a moment to let him settle down back to a calm state. I was not going to budge or leave until this wolf was tame, I told myself, be patient.

And I watched that 2 star wolf like the one remaining eye of Odin. And patiently waited like a roaming hawk.

He started eating, finally, not long before the sun had started to come up, and the night was fading to day. And I waited. he was still eating. I waited some more. It felt like forever, really. I stayed up in a little sheltered platform I had built the day before, with a fire for an easy rested bonus, And a deer rug for extra comfort, as well as a good helping of food, and my harpoon on hand, ready for the moment this wolf would tame I would retrieve him out from the tame pit.

And then the ''animal has been tamed'' jingle sound echoed across my ears. It was bliss. I was truly blessed by Freya at that moment. The gods were smiling that day I am sure of it.

I harpooned my wolf out of his pit, carefully setting him to follow, equally nervous & excited at the same time, I led him to his mate that I had captured earlier, quarantined off from the rest of the mountain, hidden away in safety. I pulled him up hill with the harpoon, and he was at the outpost, he was there.

I led him into the outpost to familiarize him with his new mate. Set them to stay, I threw the pair some remaining neck tails & boar meat. These two wolves would go on to then provide me with an army of wolves so great they have taken over 3 very large biomes in total.

I can freely walk anywhere I please at night in some of the wildest enemy ridden biomes at times without even a scratch, because I released the tame wolves I have into the wild. Just like that, no pens, no pits, no cages, just let them go wild. And they did.

Now, op. Still want a refund?

Because you now know how to break wolves and make them work for you.