Ranch Guide: How to Tame and Breed Animals

Starting a ranch in Once Human requires players to catch wild animals and tame them. See the basics of animal taming and animal breeding, how to capture animals for a ranch, how to tame animals, how to breed animals, and a list of all tameable animals in this guide!

How to Breed Animals

Meet Conditions to Breed Animals

As of the 1.2 update, players are now able to breed animals in their ranch. Once you meet the conditions listed above, you can begin breeding between a male and female animal.

When breeding starts, animals will consume their breed points in order to breed another animal. Do note that this does not guarantee an animal being bred as this only gives them a chance to breed another animal.

Unlock Youngling Hut With Breeding Animals Memetic

You can unlock the formula to craft the Youngling Hut by unlocking the Breeding Animals memetic. Depending on your server, this might be locked until it reaches a certain phase.

New Animal Colors Available

Aside from growing the number of animals in your ranch, the new update introduces a bunch of new animal colors and patterns for newborn animal. You can also get the chance to get rare patterns upon breeding an animal.

How to Catch Animals

Steps for Capturing Animals for a Ranch
1. Craft Tranquilizers at a Workbench 2. Lower an Animal's HP to the Indicator 3. Hit the Animal With a Dart

Craft Tranquilizers at a Workbench

To capture an animal for ranching, players first need to craft a Tranquilizer Throwing Needle at a Supplies Workbench. These are necessary for capturing animals and can be equipped to the hotbar for easier access.

How to Get Supplies Workbench

Unlock Tranquilizer Throwing Needle in Memetics

The formula for Tranquilizer Throwing Needles is unlocked by activating the Animal Capture node in the Memetics menu, under the Logistics tab.

Lower an Animal's HP to the Indicator

When aiming at animals that can be captured for ranching, an indicator will appear on their HP bar. Players need to lower the animal's health below this indicator for the Tranquilizer Needles to work on the animal.

Be careful when using powerful weapons to subdue the animal, as it may do too much damage and slay them instead. Use weaker weapons when hunting animals to avoid this issue.

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Hit the Animal With a Dart

Once the animal's HP has been lowered below the indicator, equip the Tranquilizer Throwing Needle and hit the animal with one. The needle works like a throwable weapon, and so it has travel time on the projectile.

Players may need to get closer or wait for the animal to stop moving to successfully connect with the needle. Tranquilizing an animal will subdue it, allowing players to collect it in the backpack with the F key.

How to Tame Animals

Steps for Ranching Animals
1. Build an Enclosure With a Trough 2. Place the Animal in the Enclosure 3. Raise the Animal's Tameness

Build an Enclosure With a Trough

To ranch the animal, players need to keep it in an enclosure with an Animal Trough in the base. A simple way to do this is to construct a square enclosure using Foundation and Parapets, to keep the animal contained.

Unlock the Animal Trough in Memetics

The Animal Trough blueprint is obtained from unlocking the Animal Taming node under the Logistics tab in Memetics.

Place the Animal in the Enclosure

Players can place captured animals in the enclosure by opening their Backpack and using the corresponding Animal item. This will allow them to place the animal in an area, similarly to placing structures and facilities.

Defenses Target Aggressive Animals

Aggressive animals, like boars or wolves, will be targeted by defensive structures like turrets. If ranching these animals, be sure to either de-power defensive facilities, or have their enclosures out of the firing range.

Note that aggressive animals can also still damage the player and their structures in base, even through thin structures, so it is important to space ranch animals appropriately, and to keep an eye on them before they are tame.

Raise the Animal's Tameness

All ranch animals have a Tameness value that starts at zero, and is raised by feeding the animal with the Animal Trough. Players can put food and drinks in the Animal Trough by interacting with it using F.

Maintain the Animal's Energy and Hydration

Raising Tameness will unlock more abilities from the animal, so players need to ensure that the animal's Energy and Hydration remain full. Low Energy and Hydration will hurt the animal, so be ready to feed them after placing one.

Different Animals Have Different Preferences

Different ranch animals will have different food preferences that players will need to take into account. Providing the correct food is necessary to get the animal to eat.

All Animals That Can Be Tamed

Attention!	This page is being updated as more tame-able animals are discovered. Stay tuned for more info!

List of All Tame-Able Animals

New Animals Introduced In Patch 1.2

The 1.2 update includes new animals you can catch, tame and breed namely the Capybara, Flamingo, and Leopard.

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