With the Mistlands Update, Valheim now allows you to tame and breed boars, wolves, lox, and chickens, each offering unique benefits. Whether you’re looking for a steady supply of food, materials, or combat companions, this guide will help you master the taming and breeding process for all four animals.

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Taming Basics

Finding Your Tameable Animals

• Boars – Found in the Meadows
• Wolves – Found in the Mountains
• Lox – Found in the Plains
• Chickens – Purchased as eggs from Haldor, the merchant (available after defeating Yagluth)

Capturing Wild Animals

For boars, wolves, and lox, taming is easier when you trap them first:

• Boars: Use Roundpole fences or Wood walls.
• Wolves: Use Steak walls or Stone walls.
• Lox: Use Stone walls or dig a steep ditch.
• Chickens: Skip capturing—eggs are already tamed.

Use the Abyssal Harpoon to drag an animal into an enclosure if needed.

Taming Conditions

For taming to progress, three conditions must be met:

1. Animal must be inside the active area (64 meters from a player).
2. Animal must not be alerted (no red exclamation mark above its head).
3. Animal must not be hungry (must have food nearby).

• Avoid fire near boars (keep it at least 6 meters away).
• Wolves must start taming before dawn, as night-spawned wolves despawn in the morning.
• Raid-event creatures cannot be tamed, as they remain permanently alert.

Once all conditions are met, the animal’s status will change to “Acclimatizing” and yellow hearts will appear.

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Speeding Up Taming

• Taming progresses every 3 seconds, requiring 600 successful ticks.
• If uninterrupted, taming takes 30 minutes.
• A single food item keeps an animal fed for 10 minutes—drop at least 5 to be safe.
• Sleeping resets hunger, so don’t sleep while taming.

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Taming-Specific Foods

Each animal eats different food types:

• Boars – Mushrooms, Carrots, Turnips, Berries, Onions
• Wolves – Raw Meat, Neck Tails, Sausages, Fish
• Lox – Cloudberries, Barley, Flax
• Chickens – Barley, Dandelions, Beech Seeds, Birch Seeds, Carrot Seeds, Turnip Seeds, Onion Seeds

Once fully tamed, you’ll see a message on the screen and be able to pet and rename your new companion.

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Breeding Mechanics

Tamed animals can be bred for sustainable resources. Breeding follows the same three taming conditions:

1. Active area: A player must be within 64 meters.
2. Not alerted: No hostile creatures nearby.
3. Not hungry: Food must be available.
4. Partner needed: Two tamed, non-pregnant animals nearby.
5. Population limit not exceeded:
   • Boars: Max 5 within 10 meters
   • Wolves: Max 4 within 10 meters
   • Chickens: Max 10 within 10 meters (eggs count)
   • Lox: Max 4 within 20 meters

• Eggs must be picked up regularly to allow further breeding.
• Animals gain Love Points every 30 seconds, with a 33% chance per check.
• Boars, Wolves, Chickens need 3 Love Points to get pregnant; Lox need 4.

Breeding Timelines

• Boars, Wolves, and Chickens: Offspring spawn after 1.5 minutes.
• Lox: Offspring spawn after 2.5 minutes.
• Young animals mature after:
  • Boars, Wolves, Chickens: 50 minutes
  • Lox: 100 minutes

Star Levels & Offspring

• 1 or 2-star boars/wolves pass down their levels to offspring.
• Lox and Chickens do not have stars, but chickens inherit their parent’s color.

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Harvesting & Butchering

Tamed animals drop valuable resources:

• Wolves – Wolf hides (for Wolf Armor upgrades)
• Lox – Lox meat (for Lox meat pies)
• Chickens – Chicken meat (for Honey Glazed Chicken, one of the best healing foods)
• Boars – Raw meat and leather scraps

Use the Butcher Knife (4 Tin, 2 Wood) for a clean kill.

• Baby animals do not drop loot.
• Lox and chicks occasionally drop materials when butchered.

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Animal-Specific Uses

Wolves – Combat Companions

• Press ‘E’ to command wolves to follow or guard an area.
• Wolves cannot use portals, but creative transportation methods exist.
• Feed them food to heal injuries.

Lox – Rideable Mounts

• Craft a Lox Saddle (10 Leather Scraps, 20 Linen Thread, 15 Black Metal).
• Equip the saddle to ride:
  • W = Move forward
  • S = Stop
  • Shift = Sprint (Uses stamina)
  • Right Mouse Button = Steer
• Riding skill improves speed and stamina efficiency.

Chickens – High-Value Food Production

• Egg-based foods include:
  • Cooked Egg (Basic food)
  • Mushroom Omelette (High stamina food)
  • Honey Glazed Chicken (Second-best healing food in the game)

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Final Thoughts

Taming and breeding animals in Valheim provides valuable resources, combat advantages, and fun mechanics. Whether you need a fearsome wolf pack, a herd of Lox mounts, or a chicken farm for top-tier food, managing animals efficiently will greatly enhance your survival experience.

Start taming today and build your own thriving Viking homestead!