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Vintage Story includes a number of game mechanics that allow the domestication of some of the animals that roam the world. To domesticate animals, players must capture at least one male and one female so that offspring can be bred in a place where these animals don't have a chance of being hunted and killed by predators. The animals behavior changes after multiple generations - you can't change aggressiveness and fear of a specific animal, only their offspring will be less fearful and aggressive towards the player. Even after reaching high generations, {{ll|boar|boar}} and {{ll|bighorn sheep|bighorn sheep}} will still become aggressive when attacked.  

* Animals can be {{Using|pet}}. Petting causes the animal to stand peacefully. <br>

* Animals can be {{Using|killed}} in one hit with the {{ll|cleaver|cleaver}}.<br>

* Aggressive animals will become neutral, i.e. only attack when provoked.

Version 1.18.15 and previous:<code>/debug setgen [number]</code> - with number being the generation the player wants the animal to be.

Version 1.19rc8: <code>/entity cmd l[] setgen [number]</code> while looking at the animal.

# '''Craft:''' Create a Reed basket trap and bait it.  Small animals might enter the trap.  The player then has a window of time to transport the captured animal to an enclosure and release it before it dies inside the basket.

# '''Active:''' Provoke the boar or bighorn sheep with a weak attack. In return, the animal will try to attack the player. If the player then runs away from them, they will follow for a short distance. This behavior can be used to guide them into carefully prepared animal pens. If you encounter a group of animals together, try only antagonizing the males, as the females will automatically follow their male counterpart. Wild hens will always try to flee from the player, while wild roosters will occasionally try to attack; again, use this to your advantage by chasing them into a pen.  

# '''Passive:''' In an area nearby the animals to capture, dig a pit at least 2 blocks deep and place a {{ll|Trough|trough}} with food portions in it. Wait for the animals to fall into the pit trap, and convert the pit into the animal pen. Players can also chase wild chickens into this pit trap.

Therefore, as an alternative to the above mentioned methods, a funnelling technique can be employed to move animals or even separate them if need be, for instance to cull lower generations.<br>

To archieve this, the player needs:

*At least one trough

*Plenty of fence

*The appropriate food for the animals.  

Another useful moving technique is water. Be careful, water also lifts animals up, so they can climb fences of single height.

All animals must consume portions of feed in order to breed. {{Using|Placing}} 8 [[dry grass]] or 2 {{ll|grain|grain}} into a trough players can feed animals. Both male and female animals must eat until they become saturated. The {{BlockInfo}} shows the level of saturation when a player looks at an animal. It will also show the creature weight, generation, whether an animal is ready to breed, to milking and if it may disappear due to darkness.<br>

Animals can consume food from 0.6 blocks away and mate at a distance of up to 10 blocks away.<br>

Males don't show their saturation, but they need a saturation value of at least 1.0 to mate. Since their satiation slowly goes down, in average they need to eat at least twice (food portion gives 1.0 satiation), to be able to mate with a female. After mating, the male animal lose 1.0 satiation and the female loses up to 10 saturation, depending on the type of animal.

{{ll|Pig|Pigs}} eat animal feed placed in a {{ll|Trough|large trough}}. Once the sows are ready to mate, they need to eat 10 portions before they can become pregnant. After a pregnancy of 25 ingame days, sows bear litters of multiple piglets (4-6) at a time, so be sure the pen is large enough to accommodate a "pigsplosion", which may occur when breeding multiple females simultaneously. Piglets take 158 hours to grow up, with a chance of 75% to be female and 25% to be male. Sows will have 6-11 days of "cooldown" time before they can breed again.<br>

{{ll|Sheep|Sheep}} eat animal feed placed in a {{ll|Trough|large trough}}. Troughs hold portions of dry grass or grains and sheep will consume either grass or grain. When the {{BlockInfo}} says ewes are ready to mate, they need to eat 10 portions of food from a large trough. After a pregnancy time of 20 days, ewes bear one lamb at a time, chances for male or female are 50/50. Lambs take 336 hours to grow up, and the ewes will need 4-11 days break before they are ready to breed again.<br>

Note that male sheep (and sometimes the females) always attack players when in close range, but they will stop doing so after 10 generations of breeding.

=== Goats ===  

Goats eat from a large trough.

{{ll|Chicken|Chickens}} will only eat grain placed in [[Trough|small troughs]]. Although hens will lay eggs on their own every 8-15 days, a hen needs to reach a satiety of 4 and have a rooster close before they can mate to produce fertile eggs. Once ready, a henbox will be necessary, as hens will lay eggs in them by preference and will need to sit on them to start the incubation. If every henbox is occupied, hens wanting to lay will start laying eggs on the ground, from where they can be picked up (with a 2 day limit before they disappear). Once the henbox has 3 eggs, a broody hen will sit on them periodically for 5 days until they hatch. If a player or other hostile entity gets too close they mighr get spooked and prolong the incubation period. Once the eggs hatch, a chick will appear, which will grow up after 168 hours (7 days), with a 90% chance to be a hen and only a 10% chance to be a rooster. Once a hen has laid an egg, they will have a cooldown period of 1-2 hours before they're ready to lay again.

Female goats can be milked after giving birth.

The {{BlockInfo}} shows a property called "Creature Weight" which can range from good, decent, low, and starving. A lower creature weight causes fewer items to be dropped when it is killed. This is an issue over winter, or in cold areas, as it can significantly reduce the yield of livestock. Keeping animals well-fed prevents their weight from decreasing.

Deer (and other species in the goat family, such as moose) will eat from troughs but not become pregnant after 10 portions, even with a male nearby.

{{ll|Fox|Foxes}}, {{ll|hare|hares}}, {{ll|hyena|hyenas}}, {{ll|gazelle|gazelles}}, {{ll|raccoon|raccoons}}, {{ll|Wolf|wolves}} and {{ll|bear|bears}} cannot be domesticated and will have to be trapped and/or hunted down in order to reap the fruits of their dead bodies.

 

Foxes, hares, hyenas, gazelles, raccoons, wolves and bears can be hunted for their {{ll|meat|meat}}, {{ll|fat|fat}}, {{ll|hide|hides}} and {{ll|bone|bones}}.