Happy replied to pig breeding October 8, 2022 @ 11:02:16 pm PDT
I know I'm a bit late here, but I made a new character for a new world to start in not long ago, and the very first thing I did was construct a boar pen, because I found a 2 star boar at the very start area, as soon as I landed almost. (well it was sort of close to the start anyway) near a boar runestone.
Anyway, I built a pen as soon as I saw the 2 star & capitalised on it. Made it sturdy as possible (stake walls, sunken half way down using beams as guides, with roundpole fencing on the inner layer of the fence) with a single door with a small roof cap over it to protect it from weather. I also built it around some raspberry bushes so they are always near food at the pen.
Early game need for leather scraps is fairly important and has many uses I find, as finding & hunting boar can be both time consuming & could be better spent doing other important things.
Once I have a boar pen sorted out with a few bits of food chucked inside it, I kite the boars I want into the pen, with hammer equipped so I can isolate them with round pole fences, (inside the pen) so they don't escape while I round up the second one.
The second I capture 2 of them, I wait for them to calm down, and wait for the taming to begin, stick around, and wait for the ''animal is tamed'' chime to kick in. Once that is done, I make sure they have enough food in the pen or if they have too much, I build a chest in the pen to store their food.
Once the first small pig is born, I wait for only 2 stars (or 1 star if that is what I catch) to be born, and wait til they grow. then I kill off the no star boars with pvp mode on, and feed the star boars, until they breed again, so I get a pure bloodline of star boars. Once the pen is at capacity usually 5 or 6 boars or so, I will try to relocate them after that. and then have seperate breeding pens in different parts of the map, so I have something to fall back on if I lose a breeding pair of boar, there is always another pair somewhere else.
Also, I have been recently building and incorporating boar pens & vegetable patches in with my newer player builds, including a friends server they just started, so I helped them tame their first 1 star boar. I try to keep the boar pen close to whatever house I am building so that while I build, the boars have a chance to breed while I am doing something else around the house (farming, repairs, crafting, cooking etc)
Anyway, I built a pen as soon as I saw the 2 star & capitalised on it. Made it sturdy as possible (stake walls, sunken half way down using beams as guides, with roundpole fencing on the inner layer of the fence) with a single door with a small roof cap over it to protect it from weather. I also built it around some raspberry bushes so they are always near food at the pen.
Early game need for leather scraps is fairly important and has many uses I find, as finding & hunting boar can be both time consuming & could be better spent doing other important things.
Once I have a boar pen sorted out with a few bits of food chucked inside it, I kite the boars I want into the pen, with hammer equipped so I can isolate them with round pole fences, (inside the pen) so they don't escape while I round up the second one.
The second I capture 2 of them, I wait for them to calm down, and wait for the taming to begin, stick around, and wait for the ''animal is tamed'' chime to kick in. Once that is done, I make sure they have enough food in the pen or if they have too much, I build a chest in the pen to store their food.
Once the first small pig is born, I wait for only 2 stars (or 1 star if that is what I catch) to be born, and wait til they grow. then I kill off the no star boars with pvp mode on, and feed the star boars, until they breed again, so I get a pure bloodline of star boars. Once the pen is at capacity usually 5 or 6 boars or so, I will try to relocate them after that. and then have seperate breeding pens in different parts of the map, so I have something to fall back on if I lose a breeding pair of boar, there is always another pair somewhere else.
Also, I have been recently building and incorporating boar pens & vegetable patches in with my newer player builds, including a friends server they just started, so I helped them tame their first 1 star boar. I try to keep the boar pen close to whatever house I am building so that while I build, the boars have a chance to breed while I am doing something else around the house (farming, repairs, crafting, cooking etc)
8:13 am, October 9, 2022