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Interacting with Tamed Animals Transferring Pets Mounts Pet Limit Pet Bonding Pet Resurrection Pet Training Pack Instincts Stables Stable Slots
If successful, the animal or monster accepts you as master. If you hide, or come under the effect of the invisibility spell while using the taming skill, you will automatically become visible. Except in the case of paralysis, if an animal cannot path-find to the person trying to tame it, the taming attempt will fail. This limitation includes situations where placed objects, walls, energy fields, and any other such objects block the creature. An animal cannot be tamed while it is being damaged in combat or by any other means. It is concentrating on what's hurting it and won't pay any attention to your words. Additionally, you must maintain a line of sight with the creature you are taming or the taming process is aborted. Pets will suffer 10% skill loss the first time they are tamed, but have full potential for training. In other words, if you release a pet, it will not receive skill loss if you or another person tames it again. Pets will also suffer an additional 4% skill loss if they are paralyzed during the taming process. While this means additional training time to get your pet back up to its full potential, it may be safer for some of the more dangerous creatures. When a player logs out, followers (pets, hired NPCs) will be auto-stabled, returning to the player upon login.
Interacting with Tamed Animals Before you start commanding your new pet, you’ll want to establish a strong bond with it. A newly tamed pet may have only a tenuous bond with you. To improve this, you must improve upon the pet’s loyalty to you. You may measure a pet’s loyalty and discover its general mood by using the Animal Lore skill. This skill gives you important clues to making your pet happy, including information on its preferred food, as well as the creature's skills and stats. To feed a pet, drag and drop food onto the pet. You’ll also need to decide on a name for your new pet before giving it commands. To name it, left-click the creature and drag your cursor to open the pet’s character window. Left-click on the current pet name (such as, “a dragon”) in the character window. You may then backspace over the current name to replace it with your chosen pet name. Once you have established the loyalty of your pet and provided it with a name, you may begin commanding your pet. In some cases, you may give all your nearby pets orders by prefacing your commands with the word “all.”
Transferring Pets Once a pet has been tamed, you may transfer ownership of the pet to another player. Certain requirements must be met for the transfer to be successful: If these requirements are met, the pet transfer is successful and the pet responds to its new owner. To attempt to transfer a pet to another player: Both participants must click the agreement gems to trade. If the transfer is cancelled, the deed deletes itself and all other items are returned to their original owner. Note: You must be able to perform beneficial acts on a player in order to transfer a pet to that player. If, for example, you are in a guild, you may not transfer a pet to a member of the rival guild. The pet continues to remember any previous owners for the rest of its life. Should the pet ever go wild, a previous owner always succeeds in re-taming the pet. However, the more previous owners a pet has, the more difficult it is for a non-owner to tame it. Mounts Horses, llamas, ostards, ridgebacks, swamp dragons, unicorns, nightmares, and ki-rin are special types of pets. They provide another method of transportation in Britannia. Be sure that you are not in "war-mode" or you will attack the mount instead of riding it. You will appear astride it and your normal walking/running movement will control that of your mount. All mounts can become tired and run out of Stamina. Should this happen, you need to dismount from the animal and wait for it to rest, or feed it. Mounts who lose all loyalty buck off their masters. When you wish to dismount, simply double-click the mount again, and you will appear standing beside the animal. Note that you must dismount in order to feed your mount. You can also be knocked from your mount by another player using a special weapon called a bola. Pack Animals Certain horses and llamas can be bought, and certain types of beetles can be tamed, to act as beasts of burden. Pack animals can extend the amount of weight you can safely carry and allow easier transportation of your hard earned goods. Remember, pack animals cannot be stabled if they have items in their packs, so remember to unload them before you log off! Pet Limit You will only be able to control a number of pets based on your pet control slots. Every player has 5 pet control slots. Most pets only require 1 slot, with the following exceptions: 2 control slots: hirelings, fire steeds, unicorns, ki-rin, nightmares, drakes, and imps 3 controls slots: white wyrms, dragons, and golems Summoned Creatures 2 control slots: air and earth elementals 3 control slots: water elementals 4 control slots: fire elementals 5 control slots: daemons You must have the required control slots available for your mount. Ethereal mounts will require 1 control slot as well. This means that if you go hunting with a dragon (3 control slots) and a drake (2 control slots), you'll have to go on foot. Pet Bonding After a real-time week of ownership, pets may bond with their owner. If the animal requires more than 29.1 minimum skill to tame, you must have the minimum skill to tame it before it will bond with you. Examples of animals with 29.1 or lower are horses, ostards, dogs, cats, pack horses, etc.
When a bonded pet dies, it turns into a "pet ghost." This ghost can still obey the movement commands (follow, come, etc.). The pet ghost will not dissipate or lose loyalty, and cannot be stabled. Any player can attempt to resurrect the pet with bandages if they have at least 80 Veterinary and 80 Animal Lore. The pet owner or a friend of the pet must be nearby to confirm they want the pet to be resurrected. Resurrected pets suffer skill loss, but pets resurrected by their owner receive less of a skill penalty. Pet Training Pet will learn skills at an accelerated rate compared to players, although they do not use GGS (Guaranteed Gain System). All creatures, including pets, will have a faster Mana regeneration rate if they have the Meditation skill. Just like players, they will be able to gain in Meditation when they regain Mana. All pets will be able to gain skill in Anatomy, Resist Spells, Tactics, and Wrestling through combat. Spellcasting pets will be able to gain Magery and Evaluate Intelligence through casting spells in combat. The maximum for any trained stat is 125. A pet's swing speed is equivalent to a human using the Wrestling skill, with a base speed of 2.5 seconds. Pets with Natural Poison will automatically learn the Poisoning skill through combat. The Poisoning skill is used to determine how often they inject poison. Pets with 99.0 or greater Poisoning skill will sometimes inject a poison 1 level more potent than their normal level. The chance to poison is given an additional boost at 100.0 Poisoning. Pack Instincts If you have at least 2 pets with the same pack instinct under your control, each of those pets gets a bonus to their damage, including spell damage. Use Animal Lore to determine what pack instincts your pet has. Some typical pack instincts are: Arachnid, Canine, Feline, and Ostard.
Stables If you leave the game with a pet out in the open or in your house, the pet shortly returns to its wild state. If you wish to keep your pets for longer than a single game session, you need to stable them. Stables are found in several towns throughout Britannia. To stable a pet, walk up to an animal handler and say, "stable" or choose that option from the NPC's context menu. To claim the pet, walk up to the same animal handler and use the "claim" option. You can claim all of your pets by saying "claim", or you can claim a specific pet by saying "claim" followed by the pet’s name. Stable Slots All characters are allowed to store 2 pets with an NPC Stablemaster. In order to stable more, your total combine skill in Animal Taming, Veterinary, and Animal Lore will need to be a certain amount.
You will be awarded another stable slot for each of the following skills at 100.0, 110.0, and 120.0: Animal Taming, Animal Lore, and Veterinary. Additional Information Professional Title: Tamer Skill Used by: Skill List Trainers: Animal Trainer, Fur Trader, Ranger Primary Stat: Strength Secondary Stat: Intelligence Handy Additional Skills for Tamers: Animal Lore — A useful skill for tracking your animal’s mood, needs, loyalty, stats, and skills. Knowledge of animal lore also enhances your taming skills. Veterinary — Keep your pets in the best of health by healing them with your veterinary skill! |
