Originally posted by pusymane:

Originally posted by knighttemplar1960:

Switch tasks to something you can do near by when you get something that needs taming. Plant and harvest crops, use the kiln to turn wood into coal for the next time you get ore or scrap, stock up on arrows, add those decorations to your base you have been putting off, fill your sconces, hearths, and other fires. Get ahead on cooking so that you don't have to stop and do that before your next big explore.

Lots of routine tasks that you have to do anyway. Just do them while you tame.

already done.... i knew someone would comment this, what if i had nothing boring to do nearby? I think being nearby is just restricting and it takes like 30-45 mins of my realtime to do so. so for 30-45 mins i just afk and do thing irl because all my tasks in game are finished. Maybe instead of telling me the obvious take time to realize what it is that I'm suggesting and think whether this is something you also want from the developers. The ability to leave the wolf/ animal and come back to it being tamed.

I once tamed some feral kittens. Strangely enough I had to be around them for them to get accustomed to me. I had a quonset hut office at a construction site. Their mother had them in the parts shack and they were starting to wander around so I set some food out and opened the back door. When I heard them start exploring around the back I went out the front door and around back and closed the door. Then I walked around and went back in the front door and they freaked out and tried to get back out the closed back door. I sat down and did paper work for about an hour and when they realized that I wasn't going to hurt them they started exploring around. I broke out some double cheeseburgers and shared them around and then let the kittens back out.

Next day I brought food and milk and when I set them out the kittens came up without any issues. By the end of the week. I could scratch on them while they ate. The week after that they would let me pick them up.

Valheim seems to have nailed it. If you don't want to spend time taming don't use tamed creatures. There are always other tasks you can do while things tame. You can even set aside tasks if you know you are going to be taming.

When I tamed boars I was still in the stone age. I made a pen, got boars inside, and built a lodge and put a stake wall around it all while the boars tamed.

When I tamed my first wolf I had a couple of extra chests of sliver ore waiting to be smelted and I did that while the wolves tamed.

When I tamed Lox. I harvested barley and flax and planted more while they tamed and I expanded my lodge so I had room for 2 more portals.

Just like the rest of the game planning ahead is the key to success. I always leave low priority tasks to do if I know I'm going to be taming eventually. Standing around doing nothing while they tame is a choice. There is always something extra you can do for at least part of the time and you don't have to tame all in one session if you don't need or want to.