Personally, this is one of my favorite features in Valheim. You want more boars than wolves and since you are butchering some of your boars, you will really need to start early to have more boars. This is why the boar farm is critical because of their raw meat.

They reproduce faster when they are not hungry. These wolves are the defenders of your base and you will have to feed them if they are thinning in numbers. Once you have your wolf farm, they will reproduce like crazy as well and you will need to feed them if possible. The uses of raw meat goes from eating it cooked in the early game to using them for sausages (mid-tier food) or feeding them to wolves for taming. You want them to reproduce as much as possible and have a big pen to house more boars inside it. They give you an ample amount of raw meat depending on how big your boar farm is. It will be important all the way up to the end. Best Uses for a Boar FarmĪ boar farm is the most essential food farm you should be striving towards to in the start of the game. You can do this while the other boars are watching so it does not matter to them. You will start to see more boars popping up inside your pen and you can dispose of them anytime you want for materials.

The newly-born boars will automatically be tamed and you will not need to do the process all over again.

This can be seen when you see purple hearts floating around the boars. Once you have at least 2 boars, they will start reproducing which is your main goal for taming them. Keep feeding them until they start to love you and do this to other boars in the area. They will start following you and you can lead them to the small pen you built. There will also be a notification or message like in the picture shown above. You have to be near the boars you are taming without frightening them so it will be faster to tame. Keep feeding the boar mushrooms until you see their status change from “wild” to “tame” when you hover your cursor around them. They can only eat one at a time when they are hungry and sometimes they do not even notice it. Once the pen is completed, find a boar and grab all the mushrooms you have, and feed it by dropping them 1 by 1. The next step is to build a small pen to shelter your boars so that they cannot escape when they are frightened or untamed yet. The quickest way to tame boars in the early game is to get as many mushrooms as you can and stockpile them in a chest. They are not dangerous and provide a good amount of raw meat and leather scraps. This makes it easier to find and tame boars as they consistently spawn around your base. The area is the safest place compared to all the other biomes and this is where you would want to build your base. Wolves, for instance, need to be in the mountain biome.Most of the boars are found in the Meadows biome.

If they are hungry or frightened they will not produce young.Īnimals will breed if they are in the biome natural to them. Note: The animals must be tame and happy in order to mate. Many breeders are using a smaller pen attached to a bigger pen method: They let the animals breed in the small pen so they are in close proximity to each other and then push the babies out to the larger pen. Once you have around 5-6 animals you should extend your pen to be larger so your animals can keep breeding. When a baby is born you will see red around your animals, a baby will emerge, and a squeal will be heard. It took a few different tries for them to mate in order to produce piggies. When both of the boars I wanted to breed ate, they would go close to each other and light pink hearts would rise above them. I did this by keeping the animals in a small pen and kept food in the pen for them at all times. Once you have tamed two adult animals you can start breeding them.

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