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Taming — turning a wild animal into your pet

Taming is how you gain a pet in Beastwhispering. You cook a species-specific food and use it next to a wild animal of that species; the wild creature becomes your companion. You keep one pet at a time.

The taming loop

  1. Get the recipe. Every tameable creature drops a recipe scroll for its taming food when it dies. Read the scroll to learn the recipe. (By default the drop is guaranteed, though the rate is configurable.)
  2. Cook the taming food. Each tameable species has its own food — its "chow" — cooked at a cooking pot from a handful of ingredients. One craft yields a few chow.
  3. Use the chow near a wild one. With the chow in your inventory, use it while a wild creature of the right species is within taming range (15 m by default). The chow is consumed and the wild creature becomes your pet.

The tamed creature keeps its own look and its own combat stats — see Combat & companion.

No-waste rules

The chow is only consumed on a successful tame. Using it when you already own a pet, or with no wild target of that species in range, does nothing — you get a short on-screen message and keep the chow.

Which creatures, which chow

Chow matches by species name, so a variant tames with its base species' food — a wild Armored Hyena is tamed with Hyena Chow, and a Pearlbird Cutthroat with Pearlbird Chow. See Creatures for the tameable roster and Feeding & diet for what each chow is made of.

Note on cooking: Outward's freeform cooking matches recipes you haven't formally learned and auto-learns them on a successful cook. The recipe scroll is the intended discovery path, not a hard gate — a lucky cook can teach the recipe too.

Recall

Your pet follows you automatically across zones, doors, resting, and reloads. If it ever gets stuck, misplaced, or fails to reappear, press F9 (Recall). Recall warps the pet to your feet and re-forms it if its body was lost. It is the in-game remedy for any wandering or missing pet.

Release

Releasing a pet frees it and clears its saved bond — you can then tame a new one. Release is available through the release dev command (see Dev verbs). Abandonment (letting loyalty fall to nothing) also ends the bond permanently — see Loyalty & bonds.

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