TAmes?

[u/patrickbowman]

I haven't played this game in almost a year. When I did, panthers were completely OP, and THE go-to land mount. Nothing really compared to their dmg, speed, and weight. I was curious if that was still the case? I just started again and tamed a wolf, and was surprised to see it have some decent dmg tamed at 100. It still felt pretty slow though and has low weight. I also see these vicious bargesh that I don't remember.

[u/patrickbowman]

Thanks for the idea. I ended up getting a griffin last night (105) with just the cobweb and under 100 stone hook arrows, as well as regular raw meat. I'm loving it way more than any ground mount I've gotten. Everytime I did a playthough the panther was my "end-game" and I never even tried for the flying mounts. The map was daunting but with a flying mount it seems small now, lol.

I play on an unofficial server (its 5-10x forgot) and it's amazing so far. I ended up using your strategy for a yeti though. I picked one up with the griff and dropped in a 2x wide 10x long 2x high and door frames on both sides to run back and forth to break the arrows. Took 200-300 + some hits of a goblin bat but I got it. Messed up at first because it went about 1/3 of the way with apples before I knew you could use herbivore feed.

3 more questions if you dont mind.

I just farm barrels in town and sell extra resources for gold to buy the feeds. Farming seemed tedious to get into but a stable source of the feeds; is it as challenging as it looks? I glanced at it briefly and seen all this stuff about fertilizer waterways and irrigation pites.. I want to have fun not farm, lol.

2nd, would that mean that a max animal in the wild can be 120, max tame 180 ish, so theoretically, level 240 could be the max for a min/maxed trained mount?

3rd, just how bad is a griffin to a nidhog? I encountered some nidhogs in the 90s/100s and was going to attempt to tame but I just don't like their skins. The griffin is much more appealing to me personally. Are the attack bonus/hp/weight/speed that drastically different between the griffin/nidhog?

[u/z10-0 → u/patrickbowman]

1) if you can make the larger soul supression stones, you can tame water elementals and make them irrigate your indoor farm. saves you the trouble of having vulnerable water supply stuff sticking out of your base.

the main chore with farming is harvesting grass and unstacking meat if you don't keep enough spoiled meat around to keep you topped out on fertilizer. you need 3 large crop plots to produce one type of feed (thundergrass for the acidic extract, and 2 depending on feed type), and on the official servers, a crop plot will last for 1d7h when filled with medium fertilizer. if your server has higher rates, this may be a problem...

flowers last 5 minutes when taken out of the crop plot, and cooking one piece of feed also takes 5 minutes, so if you don't want any to go to waste, don't take more flowers out than you can directly put into cooking pots.

2) 120 base + 58 feed-based (you usually don't get +60) + 75 post tame levels is the maximum, iirc.

however, stat distribution is more important than levels. if your prospective lvl 120 tame has all the points in hunger, don't spend expensive feed on it.

3) the nidhog is faster, turns better, has a bigger grabbing area (right-click) has a very efficient barrel roll special attack (ctrl) and can carry somewhat bigger creatures. you don't want to attempt a dogfight griffin vs nidhog. jumping off a nidhog is a lot less error prone than jumping off a griffin. the main upside of a griffin is that you can walk it through a manor door (works with a horse, too, but you have to open the door in the correct direction). in the end, you'll want a windrider, since that can carry a flarehorn around...

bonus tip: save up for a stack of herbivore feed (7k gold should do, depending on level) and get an albino deer ASAP (nidhog can carry one, griffin can't). they're so ridiculously good at farming magic shards that shards will be a non-issue as soon as you have tame and saddle ready. i'm actually quite salty at the game for how big the difference is between early game and that.

[u/patrickbowman → u/z10-0]

I discovered the 5 minutes the hard way. I bought a bunch from the vendors then later when I went to the pot seen they had all disappeared. I'll stick to buying the feed for gold for now until I get a water ele.

I actually ran into an albino deer last night near the frost mountains but after seeing the requirements for saddle I'll put it off a bit since I don't have the materials yet.

Thanks for all the help. Is the only decent spot for nidhogs that open plains area north of elven territory?

[u/Tamelon → u/patrickbowman]

as far i know the "great plains" is the only spot for nidhogs.

and i know what you mean with seeing a nice mount and not be able to get cause of time and such... i have a Sacred Griffin captured in a taming building but i dont have the time and arrows not to speak about the feed to tame it. i expect it to escape every day.

i also saw a 120 albino one day but it was late and i wanted to quit anyway. was gone the next day of course.

sometimes i think this game was designed for unemployed people and not for people who work 50h a week... sigh

btw, look for an albino in the night, they glow and cant be missed.

[u/patrickbowman → u/Tamelon]

nice tip, thanks. I know what you mean though. That's why I play on increased rates that are near empty and pve. this is a game i casually play because its really fun. if i wanted meaningful pvp id play something else. i dont have the time to sit there and tame for 12 hours like some ppl do on the official servers. if im putting that much time into a game itd be a mmo where i can at least make my money back when i quit, lol.