Valheim Taming Guide: Boars, Wolves, Lox, and the 1.0 Moose

Taming is Valheim’s quiet system — no quests, no interface, just penning an animal and letting it get used to you. The payoff is real: steady food, renewable crafting materials, and (in 1.0) actual mounts.

How does taming work?

Trap, feed, wait. Pen the animal in with stake or wood walls, drop its food inside, and stay close enough that the “tameness” percentage ticks up — but not so close you spook it. Hungry animals eat, eating raises tame, and a fully tamed animal has a yellow heart instead of aggression. They stay penned if fed and protected; leave a gate and a roof so raids and wolves don’t undo your work.

What can you tame, and with what food?

Every tameable has a specific diet:

Animal	Food	Rideable?	Biome
Boar	Mushrooms, carrots, turnips, berries	No	Meadows
Wolf	Raw meat	No	Mountain
Lox	Barley, cloudberries	Yes — Lox Saddle	Plains
Asksvin	Vineberry clusters	Yes	Ashlands
Moose	Lingonberries	Yes — Moose Saddle	Deep North (1.0)
Seal / Baby Seal	Fish	No	Deep North (1.0)

Boars are the starter — tame one for leather and pork. Wolves are the mid-game workhorse. Lox haul you across the Plains once you’ve built a Lox Saddle. Asksvin are the Ashlands’ fire draughts. And the Moose is 1.0’s flagship tame.

What’s new with Moose in 1.0?

The Deep North’s Lingonberry-fed Moose is the game’s first rideable tameable that isn’t a draft animal. Moose and Moose Calves spawn across the Deep North’s forests; tame them with the wild Lingonberries scattered through the biome, then craft the Moose Saddle at a Black Forge (Bloodgold, Seal Pelt, Timberwood, Linen Thread — per the Deep North guide) to ride it. Calves grow into rideable adults, so a pair of pens is a moose farm.

Is taming worth the effort?

If you want the materials or the mount, yes — if you want speed, no. The creatures bestiary covers what each tameable drops when you eventually cull them; the Deep North creatures page covers the 1.0 additions in detail; and for everything past the Plains tier, the weapon tier list matters more than your stable.