Originally posted by GunsForBucks:

Originally posted by Polonius Ulf:

Crops grow, but boars do not reproduce. There should be something like a dungeon master that is responsible for calculating what plausibly happened while you were away. When Valheim is finished, the calculations it does will become more sophisticated. If the plants can grow, the pigs should reproduce.

I think it is an intended mechanic to keep you chained to them in order to reap the benefits from them....

For me it is enough so that I don't even bother anymore... the few times I did tame it was never worth the time investment or loss from attack etc.

If they bred normally and tamed when absent I would probably use them, the only possible use now I can fathom is if you are feeding an army or role playing as a farmer or something.

I don't think the mechanic is intentional. I keep boars and wolves together in the dry moat surrounding my inland base and grow carrots for the boars. When they are ripe, it is sufficient just to pull them up.

Down the hill a couple of ks, my port is completely open, defended only by wolves. The boars have their own pen in that base. (I turned a few boars loose to see what would happen and they just wandered off and forgot where their food was.)

You can drag tamed boars with a harpoon to get a breeding pair to your main base. Better is to get the wild ones to chase you there.

"The horde is attacking" has not struck either of my bases.