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Pets are tame monsters that follow along and fight beside you.  With the right attention and care, they can make a great addition to the adventuring life!

==Overview==
''Offer food'' or ''items'' on various ''monsters'' to tame them.  Feed them in the same way to keep them ''happy'' and gain their ''loyalty''.  Let them kill other monsters to ''gain experience'', grow stronger and even ''evolve''.

==Taming==

Pets are generally acquired by taming [[Bestiary|wild creatures]]. Many critters are tamable; maybe about 70% of non-undead. 

Offer food ('''shift e''') to attempt to tame a creature. Start on rabbits and cows, then move on to rats and other weak dungeon critters, then goblins and other humanoids.

Some creatures require you to use an item ('''shift u''') on the creature instead.  Think of it as ''offering the item'' to the creature.

Players are allowed to only have one active pet at a time.  If you currently have a pet and attempt to train another, your current pet will disappear shortly after you tame a new pet.  You stable a pet, and then train a new one.  You can swap active and stabled pets for 500 gp.

Note: the taming skill will only increase if you are within 5% of the minimum skill to tame a creature and no more than 15% over the minimum skill.  If your taming skill isn't increasing, then go tame something harder! Your taming skill will also increase when you feed your pet.

===Diet===

Having gotten a pet, it must be kept fed in order to keep it happy. To feed, simply offer food or items to the pet just as you did to tame it in the first place.

All creatures have a preferred diet. Most creatures are carnivores, some are herbivores (e.g. rabbit) and some are omnivores (e.g. rat). Some critters have a favourite food (a treat), which makes taming easier and boosts loyalty. E.g. rats prefer cheese, and rabbits favour carrots.

The Zorn is the only metalivore (metal eater) in EUO. Offer ('''shift u''') to feed your zorn metal items. It doesn't have a favourite food but will eat any metal ingot, any medium or heavy armour, metal ores, etc. It will not eat weapons or shields though.

Some pets will only eat one type of food, specific to that creature. Some examples of specific foods:
* sulphur for hellspawn
* clear potions for water demons

Finally, pets digest food and get hungry a little faster than players do.

===Loyalty & Bonding===

Look ('''l''') at a pet to see how happy (loyal) it is. Talk ('''t''') to the pet to see how hungry it is. If you stay with your pet and feed it, it will become loyal. If you starve it or leave it alone, it will become disloyal. A disloyal pet will eventually go wild, and may even attack you!

A pet will bond with its owner after 60 real life minutes spent with the pet (the pet has to be able to see you!).  Once a pet has bonded, it can be resurrected with a [[Inscription|'raise pet' scroll]].  A non-bonded pet that dies cannot be raised and is lost forever.

===Getting Stronger and Growing Up===

Pets gain experience for all kills that they make, this gains them levels with appropriate HP and Mana bonuses.  Some creatures will 'grow up' (similar to Pokemon evolution) at level 25 and possibly again at level 50. The best example of this is the ''drake to dragon'' 'evolution'! You can't tame a dragon; only a drake, and then you have to go level your drake up to turn it into a dragon.  It will take 100% skill to tame a drake. Drakes are carnivores but are fond of gold nuggets.

===Slash commands and Pet commands===

Once you have a pet, use:

 /petname newname

to name it. use the following commands to order it around:

* '''stay''' : pet will stay and not follow it's owner at all
* '''follow''' : normal follow and attack mode - the pet is rather aggressive
* '''heel''' : pet will follow but not attack unless provoked
* '''guard''' : pet will follow but only attack enemies that are attacking you
* '''heal''' : pet will heal you

A warning about 'stay' : a pet will slowly lose loyalty if you tell it to stay and it's on a different map level to its owner. It will of course get hungry and may starve.

===Pet Transfers===

'''Pet transfers are currently disabled.'''

To transfer a pet, use

 /transferpet playername

to move the pet to a new player. Warning! this will reset the pet's bond to you, and will have to rebond to the new owner before it can be resurrected. Also, the target player will need to have a '''pet transfer deed''' in their inventory before the transfer may proceed.

===Stables===
There are stables located in [[Strangiato]].  For the modest sum of 500 gp, you can leave an active pet in the stables.  You can thus have two pets tamed at once, one pet in the stables, and a second pet active.

==LaughingCoyote's Animal Taming Guide==

If you happen to have reasonably high defence (50+) then getting the pet dragon that you want is pretty easy if you're willing to invest the time into it. The aim of the game is tame your way up to 100 taming using monsters that only melee and can't hurt you because of your defence. This lets you semi-macro taming - just keep pressing f9 while you read the paper or something. Sometimes this means squeezing as much training as you can out of a monster - remember that you can train up to 15 lvls past the monster, it is just slower that way. I find it is also easier to semi-tame (grey) a bunch of monsters first, then go through them again so that you can use shift-f9 instead.

So here is a list of the monsters with the skill level required:


 0-5 : Rabbits, cows. Find them randomly around the continent map.
 5-10: Rats, giant rats. Nord jail should have plenty, as well as the old mine.
 10-15: Bats.
 15-20: Gremlins. There's a whole bunch of them in a mine in Mountain Pass.
 20-25: Goblins, orcs, goblin veterans.
 25-30: Orc brutes, goblin elites.
 30-35: Half orcs.
 35-40: Fel orcs.
 40-45: Trolls, Mongbats.
 45-50: Hill giants, cyclops.
 50-55: Ogres.
 55-65: Snow ogres.
 65-80: Minotaurs.
 80-85: Ice ettins, imps.*
 85-90: Crocodiles. Crocodiles found in and around Pride's Fall
 90-95:Werewolfs. Werewolfs are hidden in Snowy Island.
 95-100: Hydras. For Fighters and Rogues, unless you are willing to use a lot of pots, it's probably better to stick with Werewolfs until you reach 100. For Mages who can Vas Mani, Hydras should be quicker.
 100: Drakes!

<nowiki>*</nowiki>The only level where you can't avoid ranged monsters.

Thanks to ChildProdigy, Gulnar and Aile for the tips.

Happy taming.


If you get bored or disheartened by the process (and you will, it takes DAYS and days of training), this is why it is worth the effort. A loyal black dragon can summon up to 16 demons for your disposal.
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