BetterTames

A taming overhaul. Tames recover instead of dying, teleport back to you when they get lost, gain stars from kills and eat from your chests. Adds follow/stay all keys, taming, breeding and growth timers, and settings for taming time, growth time and breeding. Works with every tameable creature, modded ones included, and syncs with ServerSync.

Features

🛡️ Protection

• A tame that would die lies down and recovers instead [Configurable]
• It gets up at full health after 60 seconds [Configurable]
• While recovering it takes no damage, enemies ignore it, and it doesn't eat or breed
• A butcher knife still kills it
• Left Alt + E turns protection on or off for the tame you are looking at [Configurable]
• The name above its health bar is blue when protected, yellow while recovering

❤️ Healing

• Tames heal from empty to full in 1 hour [Configurable]

🌀 Teleport

• A following tame teleports to you when it falls 30m behind [Configurable]
• When you die, every tame that was following you teleports to where you respawn
• Left Alt + H teleports every follower to you [Configurable]

🐺 Commands

• Left Alt + F: tames within 30m follow you [Configurable]
• Left Alt + G: tames following you stay [Configurable]
• Any tame can be told to follow or stay, not only the ones the game allows [Configurable]

🥩 Taming

• Every creature takes 30 minutes to tame, modded ones included [Configurable]

🐣 Breeding

• A tame gets pregnant after 3 love points [Configurable]
• Breeding stops when 6 of the same kind are within 10m [Configurable]
• Offspring grow up in 30 minutes [Configurable]
• A newborn has a 25% chance to be one star above its parent, up to 2 stars [Configurable]
• A recovering tame doesn't breed, and doesn't count as a partner

⭐ Stars

• A tame that kills an enemy has a 10% chance to gain a star, up to 2 stars [Configurable]
• +5% for each star the enemy has over the tame [Configurable]
• A tame that gains a star is healed to full [Configurable]

🍖 Feeding

• Hungry tames eat from player-built chests within 10m when there is no food on the ground [Configurable]
• Creatures you are taming do the same [Configurable]
• Only eat from chests that hold nothing but food they eat [Configurable]
• Dungeon and world chests are never touched

⏱️ Timers

• Time left to tame, shown as paused while the creature is hungry or frightened [Configurable]
• Time left in a pregnancy, or the tame's love points [Configurable]
• Time left before offspring grow up [Configurable]
• Time left for a recovering tame

⚔️ Tames fight their own kind

• A tamed wolf fights wild wolves that are attacking. The game normally keeps them on the same side [Configurable]
• Calm wild ones, and ones you are taming, are left alone

Installation

Install with your mod manager, or drop BetterTames.dll into BepInEx/plugins.

Configuration

Everything below can be changed in-game with Configuration Manager, or in BepInEx/config/xtav1m.BetterTames.cfg.

General

Setting	Default	What it does
Lock Configuration	On	Only server admins can change the settings
Tames Fight Their Own Kind	On	Tames fight wild creatures of their own kind that are attacking

Timers

Setting	Default	What it does
Show Taming Timer	On	Time left to tame
Show Breeding Timer	On	Time left in a pregnancy, or love points
Show Growth Timer	On	Time left to grow up

Taming

Setting	Default	What it does
Taming Time	30	Minutes of feeding to tame a creature

Breeding

Setting	Default	What it does
Love Points Needed	3	Love points before a tame gets pregnant
Growth Time	30	Minutes for offspring to grow up
Crowd Limit	6	Breeding stops when this many of the same kind are nearby
Crowd Range	10	Meters the crowd limit counts
Offspring Star Chance	25	Percent chance a newborn gets an extra star

Commands

Setting	Default	What it does
Command Any Tame	On	Any tame can follow or stay
Follow All Key	Left Alt + F	Tames near you follow you
Stay All Key	Left Alt + G	Tames following you stay
Follow/Stay All Range	30	Meters those keys reach

Teleport

Setting	Default	What it does
Teleport Lost Tames	On	Followers teleport to you when they fall behind or you respawn
Teleport Distance	30	Meters a follower can fall behind
Teleport Tames Key	Left Alt + H	Teleport every follower to you

Leveling

Setting	Default	What it does
Gain Stars From Kills	On	Tames can gain a star from kills
Star Chance	10	Percent chance per kill
Bonus Chance Per Star	5	Percent added per star the enemy has over the tame
Heal On New Star	On	Heal to full on a new star

Health

Setting	Default	What it does
Full Heal Time	3600	Seconds to heal from empty to full
Protect All Tames	On	Tames recover instead of dying
Recovery Time	60	Seconds a tame recovers before getting up
Protection Key	Left Alt + E	Turn protection on or off for one tame
Show Recovering Tames	On	Show a recovering tame's name and health bar when you look at it

Feeding

Setting	Default	What it does
Wild Creatures Eat From Chests	On	Creatures you are taming eat from chests
Tames Eat From Chests	On	Tames eat from chests
Chest Range	10	Meters a creature reaches for a chest
Only Food Chests	Off	Only eat from chests that hold nothing but food it eats

Compatibility

• Requires BepInExPack Valheim 5.4.2350 or newer.
• In multiplayer, every player should install it. A creature is run by the player nearest to it, and only gets these features if that player has the mod.
• Install it on the server to sync settings with ServerSync. The server's values win while Lock Configuration is on.
• Safe to remove. Tames keep their stars, and everything else goes back to vanilla.

Planned for 1.0

• 🏰 Tames follow you into dungeons
• 🚪 Tames go through portals with you
• 🎯 A key to send your tames after what you are looking at

Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md for version history.

Credits

• ServerSync - server-authoritative configuration syncing, merged into the plugin DLL.

License

This mod is provided as-is for the Valheim community.