BetrTame

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39 more creatures to tame, from deer, hares, necks and trolls to seekers and morgen, each with its own food and many with young of their own; tames that earn stars from what they kill, up to 30, so your wolf keeps up with the late game; wild creatures with more than two stars; tames that are knocked out instead of dying and get up again; and every tame follows you or stays on command — all of it set in one place, synced from the server, in English, German and Brazilian Portuguese.

Works with BetrValheim by DezzyCode: every setting of BetrTame in its own tab of BetrValheim's F11 window.

Made by DezzyCode.

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At a glance

Tame more creatures	39 more creatures, deer and hares among them, each with its own food; taming time grows with the biome
Young	The beasts among them have young, born tame
Tames earn stars	Every kill gives experience; stars up to 30, healed in full with each new one
Shared experience	Tames following you get half of what you kill within 30 m
Stars above two	Health, damage, size and loot grow per star, each on its own setting
Wild stars	Wild creatures can spawn with more than two stars: up to 2 in the Meadows, 8 in the Ashlands and Deep North
More monsters	Optional: the open world spawns more creatures, everywhere or per biome; off by default
Full mornings	Creatures of the day are there at dawn instead of starting to wait then
Star count	Above two stars, the bar over a creature shows a star and the number of stars
Knocked out, not dead	A tame that would die lies still for 60 s and gets up again; only the butcher knife kills it
Every tame obeys	Every tame follows or stays when you use it, not only wolves
Tames catch up	A tame that follows you and falls 50 m behind is brought to you
Back with you after death	Die, and the tames following you wait where you respawn; knocked-out ones get up there
Tames fight their own kind	Your wolves defend you against wild wolves
Taming and fed time	One setting each, for every tame including the game's own
Food of the game's tames	What wolves, boars, lox, hens, asksvin and moose eat, set in F11
Hover info	Stars, experience to the next star, and the time until a knocked-out tame gets up
Alone or together	In single player your own settings count; on a server the server's, for everyone
Any language	English, German and Brazilian Portuguese built in; every other language reads English
BetrValheim	Every setting in its own F11 tab; the server's for admins only

Every number here is a default and can be changed in the settings.

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Tame more creatures

Feed a creature what it eats and keep it calm, as you would a wolf: it eats what lies on the ground near it, and while it is fed and nothing frightens it, the taming runs. Taming time grows with the biome — the game's own wolf takes 30 minutes.

Creature	Biome	Eats	Taming	Young
Deer	Meadows	Raspberry, Blueberries, Dandelion	10 min	yes
Neck	Meadows	FishRaw, Raspberry	10 min	yes
Greyling	Meadows	Resin, Raspberry	10 min	-
Greydwarf	Black Forest	Resin, Blueberries	20 min	-
Greydwarf Brute	Black Forest	Resin, MushroomYellow	20 min	-
Greydwarf Shaman	Black Forest	Resin, Thistle	20 min	-
Troll	Black Forest	Raspberry, Blueberries, Mushroom	20 min	yes
Skeleton (every biome)	Black Forest	BoneFragments	20 min	-
Draugr	Swamp	Entrails, RottenMeat	30 min	-
Draugr Elite	Swamp	Entrails, RottenMeat	30 min	-
Rancid Remains	Swamp	BoneFragments, Entrails	30 min	-
Blob	Swamp	Entrails	30 min	-
Oozer	Swamp	Entrails, Bloodbag	30 min	-
Wraith	Swamp	Ectoplasm	30 min	-
Abomination	Swamp	Root, ElderBark	30 min	-
Surtling	Swamp	Coal	30 min	-
Bear	Mountain	Blueberries, Raspberry, Honey	30 min	yes
Ulv	Mountain	WolfMeat, RawMeat	30 min	yes
Fenring	Mountain	WolfMeat, RawMeat	30 min	yes
Cultist	Mountain	WolfMeat	30 min	-
Drake	Mountain	FreezeGland	30 min	yes
Stone Golem	Mountain	Crystal	30 min	-
Fuling	Plains	Barley, Bread, LoxMeat	40 min	-
Fuling Berserker	Plains	LoxMeat, CookedLoxMeat	40 min	-
Fuling Shaman	Plains	Barley, Flax	40 min	-
Vile	Plains	Blueberries, Cloudberry	40 min	yes
Growth	Plains	Tar	40 min	-
Hare	Mistlands	Carrot, Turnip, Dandelion	40 min	yes
Seeker	Mistlands	RoyalJelly, BugMeat	40 min	yes
Seeker Soldier	Mistlands	RoyalJelly	40 min	-
Tick	Mistlands	Bloodbag	40 min	yes
Dvergr	Mistlands	Sausages, Bread	40 min	-
Charred	Ashlands	CharredBone	50 min	-
Volture	Ashlands	AsksvinMeat	50 min	yes
Morgen	Ashlands	AsksvinMeat, BoneMawSerpentMeat	50 min	yes
Lava Blob	Ashlands	SulfurStone	50 min	-
Gammeltroll	Deep North	Lingonberry, MooseMeat	50 min	yes
Greydwarf (Deep North)	Deep North	Resin, Lingonberry	50 min	-
Captive Fuling	Deep North	MooseMeat, SealBlubber	50 min	-

Creatures marked with young have young of their own when two fed tame ones stand together: the creature itself, born tame.

Deer and hares are animals the game never lets eat or follow. BetrTame gives them just that: a hungry deer that feels safe walks to its food and eats, the taming runs while it is fed and calm, and once tame it follows or stays like any other tame. Everything else about them stays the game's.

Every list can be changed, and Other creatures takes more — creatures from other mods too — as Prefab: Food, Food; Prefab: Food. A creature needs the game's monster or animal AI to be tamed; bosses are left out.

Nothing new is created — no new creatures, no new items. Remove the mod and every creature is still one the game knows.

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Tames earn stars

A tame earns experience from everything it kills: as much as the victim's health, so a troll counts for more than a greyling. Tames following you also get half of what you kill within 30 m, so a wolf at your side grows with you even when you strike the last blow.

Each star needs more than the one before, and one kill earns at most one star — no shortcut through a single giant. With each new star the tame is healed in full, and everyone nearby sees the message. Look at a tame and you see its stars and how far it is to the next.

Young are born with their parent's stars, up to two, as in the game. The rest a tame earns itself.

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Stars above two

Up to two stars the game's own rules count. Above two, every star adds:

	Per star above two
Health	Half the creature's base health (the game adds the full base health per star up to two)
Damage	15 % of its base damage (the game adds 50 % per star up to two)
Size	2 % bigger, up to 1.4 times its two-star size; it keeps its two-star look
Loot	The base loot once more. The game itself doubles loot with every star — a ten-star creature would drop hundreds of items

These count for wild creatures and tames alike. Above two stars, the bar over a creature shows one star and the number of stars next to it.

Wild stars

A wild creature the game spawns with two stars rolls on: each further star at 15 %, up to the most its biome allows.

Biome	Most stars
Meadows	2
Black Forest	3
Swamp	4
Mountain	5
Plains, Ocean	6
Mistlands	7
Ashlands, Deep North	8

Bosses never roll, and neither does anything that is tamed, born, grown up or spawned by a command.

More monsters

The open world can spawn more creatures than the game does: 2 lets twice as many of a kind be around at once and brings new ones twice as often. One factor for everywhere, and one per biome that takes its place. Monsters and animals alike; raids, camps and dungeons stay the game's. 1, the game's own, to begin with.

Full mornings. The game counts the time a kind of creature waits for its next turn, but starts it over every second in which the time of day keeps that kind out - so creatures of the day only start waiting once the day has begun, and mornings stay empty. With Full mornings on (the default) their waiting goes on through the night, and they are there at dawn - never more at once than the game allows of that kind. The same for creatures of the night by day.

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Knocked out, not dead

A tame that would die is knocked out instead: it lies still, takes no harm, nothing attacks it, and after 60 seconds it gets up with full health. The time runs on while nobody is near, so a tame you had to leave behind is standing again when you come back.

Only a player's blow kills it — the game lets players hit their tames only with the butcher knife, so whoever does means it. Summons die as always.

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Better tames

Every tame obeys. Use any tame and it follows you, use it again and it stays — not only wolves.

Tames catch up. A tame that follows you and falls 50 m behind is brought to you, a few metres behind your back — never into a dungeon, and not while someone rides it.

Back with you after death. When you die, the tames that follow you — fighting on or knocked out at the place you fell — come back with you: they wait around the place you respawn, and a knocked-out one gets up there.

Tames fight their own kind. In the game, tame and wild creatures of one kind leave each other alone, so your wolves stand by while a wild pack bites you. With BetrTame they defend you — and leave a wild one alone while it is fed and being tamed.

Taming and fed time. One setting each, for every tame, the game's own included.

Food of the game's tames. What wolves, boars, lox, hens, asksvin and moose eat can be changed in F11 — the game's own food is set to begin with, and an empty field brings it back. Their taming time and young stay the game's.

With BetrValheim by DezzyCode, its feeding trough feeds the new tames too and tames them as it tames wolves, and tames told to follow come along through its portals — deer and hares too. (Deer and hares eat what lies on the ground; the trough is for the others.)

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All adjustable

With BetrValheim installed, press F11: BetrTame has its own tab at the bottom, every setting explained in a line. Without it, everything is in BepInEx/config/dezzycode.valheim.betrtame.cfg.

Section	What lives there
Taming	More creatures on/off, taming time, fed time, every tame commandable, young, fighting their own kind
Tame levels	On/off, most stars, experience, share with followers, heal on new star, stars passed to young
Stars above two	Health, damage, size, largest size and loot per star
Wild stars	On/off, chance per star, most stars per biome
Knocked out	On/off, recovery time, health when up
Tameable creatures	What each creature eats — empty makes it untameable — and other creatures
Display	Star count over creatures, experience on tames
Following	Catch up on/off and from how far; coming back with you after death
Game tames food	What wolves, boars, lox, hens, asksvin and moose eat
More monsters	How many creatures the open world spawns, everywhere and per biome; full mornings

The server decides for everyone. Everything that changes how the game plays is set by the server admin and handed to every player on joining and whenever it changes. Only the display stays your own.

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Worth knowing

Everyone needs it — the server and every player, in a matching version. The game refuses the connection otherwise and says why.

Run it on its own. Other mods that make creatures tameable, give creatures more than two stars or keep tames from dying would do the same work a second time. Switch those off.

Removing it. Creatures keep the stars they have; the game then treats them with its own rules. Creatures tamed through BetrTame stay tame, but without it they can no longer be commanded or fed.

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Requirements

• BepInExPack Valheim
• Jötunn 2.30 or newer

DezzyCode

BetrTame is made by DezzyCode.

• All my mods: https://thunderstore.io/c/valheim/p/DezzyCode/?section=all
• Website: https://www.dezzycode.de