Taming

Atlas provides the ability to tame wild animals and pet or domesticate them.

Most of the creatures in are tamable via either the passive or  methods (described below). You will need to unlock the Beastmastery  discipline skill tree. You cannot tame on Freeport servers, nor can you tame any creature on a Golden Age Ruin.

Dragons can only be tamed for a limited period of time using a tame token which can be purchased from a Merchant Ship or on the Vendors in Freeport for 40,000.

Methods
To be tamed it must be given its preferred food. Feed the animal by placing the food it desires in the last slot of your Hotbar and pressing the action button while standing close enough for the feed prompt to appear. To succeed, approach the head of the animal and walk around it until you see the prompt. Smaller animals such as the Seagull commonly have the prompt appear anywhere on their body due to their smaller size, however, some players may experience better success with larger animals such as a Giraffe or Elephant by approaching its belly and staring towards the head to feed it. Regardless of the choice of food, you must wait 20 seconds before feeding again.

Increasing the affinity skill in the Beastmastery tree will reduce your taming time substantially. Once the affinity bar reaches 100%, you will have succeeded and you may name your newly tamed pet.

Passive
Simply approach the animal and feed it as described above.

Aggressive
For animals that cannot be tamed passively (see list below), the animal must be damaged to below 20%, then a will be able to be used on an Animal. When the Animal is Bola'ed they will be knocked to the ground. You will need to approach the mouth of the animal and feed it with the action button with its favorite food. Animals will attack if you are too close, but you need to be close to the mouth to get the option to feed it. Try crouching or going prone to reduce your aggro visibility'''. Repeat damaging and trapping with the —then feeding—until the animal's taming meter is full. When the Bar at the bottom of the nameplate fills to 100% the animal is tamed and you may name them.

Too long of a gap between feedings, and the taming progress starts to decline. This is indicated by the feeding dialog switching to red lettering. Watch out if you change the food because the taming process may be reset.

It seems to be best to approach the animal from the back in order to feed it. There is a "sweet spot" where you probably can't be hit by the attack, but terrain or structures can make this approach difficult.

Bola Taming
Build a "taming trap" using wooden billboards and wooden signs after you trap him with bola, make sure to surround the animal from 4 corners(square) and leave a space so you can attack with bear After you get the animal in the trap you will safely feed without getting hit. Be fully fed and hydrated, with a large supply of bolas, and for fast taming use appropriate food to be effective and fast. It would also be a good idea to have someone watch your back and deal with the roaming predators as you work.

For both types of taming, be aware that you can pick up and carry animals that are unconscious, although they can be very heavy. This can be a boon if you need to get either a passive or hostile target into a corral and away from roving predators.

Also remember to Destroy any Billboards or Cages that you create to tame a creature so that others can build in the area to tame animals later.

Wooden Cage Taming
Some players experience the greatest success in taming birds by crafting a Wooden Cage and, once the target has landed on the ground, using a Grappling Hook to place it in a cage you have placed on the ground. Once inside the cage, release the grapple hook and then attack it with anything that does minimal damage. This ensures that the target will not fly away.

Pet-Assisted Taming
With taming larger creatures that may knock you back or in general, hit so hard that it makes taming impossible, take a pet with sufficient health and use that to attack your target. This will cause the target to become aggressive to your pet, and you may hop off your pet and throw a bola at the target. Of course, be careful not to hit your pet. If your pet starts attacking the creature, as it is still being attacked by your target, whistle it to passive by pressing and holding or by pressing. You will be able to freely approach the target with no fear of being hit.

Leveling
Your pets will level if you kill animals or if you take them with you on your ships. Watch out, it's sometimes buggy. Sometimes your pets will glitch from your ship or fly away if your drive through a storm. If you're lucky you find your pet - pressing will highlight all pets of your current tame order - otherwise, you lose them. If you find a tamed pet on the sea you'll be a lucky pathfinder if you can claim him after the countdown goes down.

You can fast level your pet if you used it to defeat some treasure. It is suggested to bring enough pets and players so that you are not overrun by any hostile NPC.

Level Gain on Taming
When you successfully tame a creature, it immediately gets a bonus to its wild level. The best bonus (at 100% taming efficiency) is an additional 50% to its current level, minus one. So a Level 5 Cow tamed perfectly will start its career with its new master at level 7. From there your pet can earn experience and gain additional levels, just like the player characters and ships.

Maximum Tame Level
Every Tame can get a minimum of 30? tame level-ups put into it, plus however many base levels it had immediately post tame. So for example, a level 5 post-tame wolf would get 35 tame level-ups to apply, whereas a level 40 post-tame wolf would get 70 tame level-ups to use. Formula: Maximum Tamed Level = post-tame Wild Level + 30. Maximum level = post-tame Wild Level + Max Tamed Level.

Currently, Max Wild found is level 30. So 74 is the current max level at perfect tame. Post-tame Wild Level = (30 Wild + 14 Bonus Taming Proficiency) = 44 wild levels. Max Tamed Level = 44 + 30 = 74. Max level

For a level-dependent count of resources needed, try an external taming calculator.


 * A-Calc Taming & Companion Tools

Patch History
Taming/de Taming