Tames guide, MidgardPlus

Taming, the basics

Taming: drop food the animal likes where it can reach it, stay out of its way and wait. It only tames while it is fed and calm.
Watch it: a label over the animal shows how far along it is and whether it is fed, from up to 40 m away.Setting: Show taming progress
Quicker: throw a taming rope from the workbench on it. It stands still, calms down and jumps 15% closer to tame.Setting: Taming ropes
More kinds: the game tames wolves, boars, lox, asksvin and hens. Tame any creature adds bears, seeker soldiers, drakes, voltures, fallen valkyries and big beasts from other mods.Setting: Tame any creature
Never tame: bosses, villagers, companions, faction and arena fighters, babies, and walking folk like trolls, greydwarfs and draugr.
On a server the admin decides what is on. Ask for the setting in brackets.

Drop any of these to tame it, and the same keeps it fed. The last column is what to switch on in F9, Game settings.

Creature	Eats	Ride	Flies	Saddle, and where it is made	Switch on
Boar	Carrots, turnips, onions, mushrooms, raspberries, blueberries	Yes	No	Boar saddle, workbench	`Mounts`
Wolf	Raw meat, deer meat, lox meat, chicken, fish, neck tails, sausages	Yes	No	Wolf saddle, level 2 workbench	`Mounts`
Lox	Cloudberries, barley, flax	Yes	No	The game's lox saddle, workbench	Nothing, the game does it
Asksvin	Vineberries, fiddleheads, smoke puffs	Yes	No	The game's asksvin saddle, black forge	Nothing, the game does it
Hen	Dandelions, barley and seeds	No	No	None	Nothing, the game does it
Bear	Blueberries	Yes	No	Boar saddle, workbench	`Tame any creature` `Ride any tame big enough` `Mounts`
Vile	Blueberries	Yes	No	Boar saddle, workbench	`Tame any creature` `Ride any tame big enough` `Mounts`
Seeker soldier	Almost any raw meat, fish, berries, mushrooms, roots or grain	Yes	No	Boar saddle, workbench	`Tame any creature` `Ride any tame big enough` `Mounts`
Drake	Raw meat, deer and wolf meat, fish, berries, mushrooms, carrots, turnips, onions	No	Yes	None	`Tame any creature`
Volture	Raw meat, deer and wolf meat, fish, berries, mushrooms, carrots, turnips, onions	No	Yes	None	`Tame any creature`
Fallen valkyrie	Almost any raw meat, fish, berries, mushrooms, roots or grain	No	Yes	None	`Tame any creature`

Saddle up: craft the saddle, use it on your tame, then look at the saddle and press E to climb on. E gets you off again.Setting: Mounts
Upgrade: wolf and boar saddles go up to quality 4 at the workbench, a bit faster and longer winded each time.
Riding levels: a mount gets better as you ride it, up to level 5, and a saddled wolf or boar grows bigger with it. Give it wide doors.Setting: Mount size, Mount growth with level
Jump and bite: wolves, boars and asksvin jump. On a wolf or boar, attacking makes it bite where you look.
Fight from the saddle: swing your own weapon or draw your bow while you ride, on any mount.Setting: Fight from the saddle
Carry more: you carry more while you ride, and riding with a heavy bag raises Packhorse. A fed mount gets its breath back much faster.
Whistle: press U and every mount you last rode within 150 m comes running.
Bigger beasts: any tame at least the size of a boar takes a boar saddle, bears and seeker soldiers too.Setting: Ride any tame big enough

Flying tames: drakes, voltures and fallen valkyries can be tamed like a wolf. Feed them, keep them calm and wait.Setting: Tame any creature
Riding them: not yet. A flyer fights at your side but none of them carries you. Flying mounts are on the roadmap.
Bring them along: with All tames can follow on, press E on a flyer and it follows you.Setting: All tames can follow
Big flyers from other mods count too.

Follow: wolves follow when you press E. With All tames can follow on, boars, lox, hens and the rest do too, and crouch with E pets them.Setting: All tames can follow
Lead them all: press Left Alt + H and every tame around you follows. Press it again and they all stay.Setting: Lead tames radius
Portals: tames that follow you come through portals with you.Setting: Tames follow through portals
Names: Left Shift + E gives a tame a name.

Taming rope: two at a time at the workbench from leather scraps and resin. Throw it on a wild animal you can tame from up to 6 m.Setting: Taming ropes
Stronger ropes: the strong rope from the forge tames twice as fast, the runic rope four times as fast and keeps the animal calm.Setting: Taming rope tiers
Gleipnir: forged at the black forge, it tames the animal on the spot and is used up.Setting: Taming rope tiers

Pet pack: make one at the workbench from leather scraps, deer hide and resin and use it on a tamed wolf, boar, lox or asksvin.Setting: Pet packs
Room: 8 slots on a wolf or boar, 10 on an asksvin and 18 on a lox. Look at a crate and press E to open it.
Nothing lost: the pack goes wherever the animal goes, and if it dies everything floats up in a crate beside it.

Skills: every tame grows Vitality, Strength, Swiftness, Endurance and Toughness as you ride it, fight beside it, feed it and pet it.Setting: Tame skills
Tame window: look at a tame and press Left Alt + T. It shows the animal turning, its skills as bars, its traits, generation, health, hunger and breeding.
Babies: they take after both parents, so a good bloodline gets better every generation.Setting: Tame skills pass to offspring
Traits: now and then a baby is born Swift, Tough, Tireless or Mighty, and passes it down.Setting: Tame trait mutations
Breeding: wolves, boars, lox, asksvin and hens breed when two are fed and close together. Beasts from Tame any creature don't breed.Setting: Show breeding status

Pantry: a hungry tame takes its food from a chest close by, so one full chest feeds the whole pen.Setting: Tames eat from nearby chests
Away from home: a pen keeps taming and breeding while you are out exploring.Setting: Tames live on while you are away
Safe: tames can be knocked down to 1 health, but only the butcher knife kills them.Setting: Tames only die to the butcher knife
Faster: your admin can make taming and breeding quicker.Setting: Taming time multiplier, Breeding times

Added in 1.55

Deer: tame them with berries, mushrooms, carrots and dandelions, and ride one on a deer saddle from a level 2 workbench. It runs faster than a boar and jumps higher.Setting: Tameable deer
Hares and necks: Mistlands hares and necks can be tamed and bred. Both are too small for a saddle.Setting: Tameable hares, Tameable necks
What does it eat: switch on Show tame info and looking at an animal you can tame shows what it eats, whether it can be ridden or flies, and its saddle.Setting: Show tame info
Troll shoulder ride: trolls can be tamed, and a tame troll carries you on its shoulders. Make the troll shoulder seat at a level 3 workbench from troll hide, leather scraps and bronze. Thanks tera277.Setting: Troll shoulder ride, Mounts

Creature	Eats	Ride	Flies	Saddle, and where it is made	Switch on
Deer	Raspberries, blueberries, cloudberries, mushrooms, carrots, dandelions	Yes	No	Deer saddle, level 2 workbench	`Tameable deer` `Mounts`
Hare	Carrots, turnips, dandelions, cloudberries, jotun puffs, barley	No, too small	No	None	`Tameable hares`
Neck	Fish, raspberries, blueberries, mushrooms, carrots	No, too small	No	None	`Tameable necks`
Troll	Raw meat, deer meat, raspberries, blueberries, mushrooms, honey	Yes, on its shoulders	No	Troll shoulder seat, level 3 workbench	`Troll shoulder ride` `Mounts`