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'?

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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.