Once Human is a game that has pretty much everything. Players can customize their characters, build homes and decorate them, fight monsters known as Deviants, collect resources and Deviations, fish, grow and harvest crops, hunt wildlife, and even tame and raise animals. In Once Human, taming animals is called Ranching.
Ranching wasn’t always an option in Once Human, but with the 1.1 update, it became a new relaxing activity for players to enjoy. After a long day of fighting Deviants and looting, there’s nothing like coming home to a fortified base and being greeted by a pet deer, rabbit, or even a crocodile. Before opening the door to these tameable creatures, there are a few requirements that must be met.
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How To Tame Animals In Once Human
Capture And Tend To Animals At Your Base
To tame animals, you’ll need to unlock two specific Memetics: Animal Capture and Animal Taming. Head into your Memetics menu, and you’ll find them under the fourth tab. Unlocking the Memetics is only step one. Next, head to your 
Supplies Workbench and craft the Tranquilizer Throwing Needle using Steel Ingot , Engineering Plastic , Rubber , and Stardust Source .
With the Animal Capture and Animal Taming Memetics unlocked, you’ll have access to a feeding trough, as well as recipes for different feeds that can be cooked at a stove or other cooking station.
With the Tranquilizer Throwing Needles in your inventory, head out and look for an animal to tame. To easily tell whether an animal can be tamed, check for a white line on their health bar. Animals with white lines can be caught, while those without cannot. Once you find a tameable animal, attack it until its health is below the white line. Be careful not to kill it, but if you do, you can always try again.
When its health is below the white bar, you can throw the Tranquilizer Throwing Needles at it to put it to sleep. Approach the animal and press F to capture it. You can then place your new pet down in your Inventory just like any other item by heading into your Inventory and selecting it under Tools.
Animals start with a Tameness level of 0. Unlock your animal’s resource output, behavior, and traits by increasing the Tameness level. To increase the Tameness level, keep it happy, energized, and hydrated.
Where To Find Each Tameable Animal In Once Human
Explore Different Regions To Get Different Animals
Not all animals in Once Human can be tamed. Currently, there are 16 types of animals that can be tamed, with more to come in future updates. For now, the 16 animals that can be tamed can be found throughout different areas, including Dayton Wetlands, Broken Delta, Chalk Peak, Blackheart Region, Iron River, and Red Sands. To make it easier to travel, make sure you have your motorcycle unlocked and on hand. Here’s where you can find each animal:
Dayton Wetlands | Buck, Doe, Deerling, Rabbit, Small Rabbit |
Broken Delta | Buck, Doe, Deerling, Rabbit, Small Rabbit |
Chalk Peak | Buck, Doe, Deerling, Rabbit, Small Rabbit, Bear, Small Bear, Boar, Small Boar, Crocodiles, Small Crocodiles, Wolf, Small Wolf |
Blackheart Region | Ewe, Lamb, Ram, Wolf, Small Wolf |
Iron River | Buck, Doe, Deerling, Rabbit, Small Rabbit |
Red Sands | Ewe, Lamb, Ram, Rabbit, Small Rabbit, Wolf, Small Wolf |
Chalk Peak has the most tameable animals. So, if you’re looking for an easy place to catch critters to bring home, head to Chalk Peak and look around — you might even find a Mystical Crate. Most of the animals at Chalk Peak can be found all over the area, but for the Bear and Small Bear, check around the Monolith of Thirst, and for the Crocodiles and Small Crocodiles, check in the rivers. If there are too many players around competing for animals, you can always change worlds.
Eclipse and Corrupted animals are untameable.
While it’s nice to be able to have pets in Once Human, these tameable animals provide more than just company. Each tameable animal gives resources, like meat and rawhide that can be used to cook and craft with. More aggressive animals can also help protect your base, giving you another line of defense in the hostile world of Once Human.
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Once Human
Survival
Shooter
Open-World
- Released
- July 9, 2024
- Developer(s)
- Starry Studio
- Platform(s)
- PC , Android , iOS
- Publisher(s)
- Starry Studio , NetEase, Inc.
- Multiplayer
- Online Multiplayer , Online Co-Op
