How to Tame Any Creature Instantly in Valheim

Taming in Valheim is slow on purpose — drop food, wait, hide, wait some more, hope a fuling shaman doesn't ruin everything. If you'd rather skip the wait, the tame command instantly tames every tameable creature near you. This guide covers what it does, what counts as "tameable," and how to avoid the common mistakes.

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The tame command

No arguments. The command checks every creature within roughly a 20-meter radius and converts the tameable ones to your team. Hostile, untameable creatures are unaffected. Full reference: tame command page.

What's actually tameable

The base game's tameable creatures, by biome:

Meadows. Boar (fed mushrooms, carrots, or any berries).
Mountains. Wolf (fed raw meat). Wolves need to be tamed at night when they're neutral rather than during the day when they're hostile — unless you use tame.
Plains. Lox (fed cloudberries, barley, or flax).
Meadows / built coops. Chicken and Hen (fed seeds, grain, or carrots). Hatched from eggs.

Wolves, fulings, greydwarves, draugr, and bosses are not tameable through the normal mechanic — and the tame command respects that. Standing next to a troll and typing tame does nothing.

Spawn-and-tame workflow

The fastest way to get a breeding pair of anything:

Two boars appear, both immediately tame. They'll start producing piglets once you drop food nearby.

Wolf pair, ready for a Mountain base:

Lox calves for milk/leather farming:

Star-level tames

The tame command preserves the creature's star level — so spawn high before you tame:

Result: one 2-star wolf, tamed. 2-star tames are the strongest combat pets in the game, useful for base defense or boss-fight pet roles.

Bred offspring can occasionally inherit star levels, but starting with star-tier parents biases the odds.

What "tame" does not do

It doesn't make hostile creatures friendly. Greydwarves, fulings, deathsquitos, and bosses can't be tamed — the command silently skips them.
It doesn't auto-follow. Tamed creatures stand around eating until you whistle. Set follow with an interaction key on each one individually.
It doesn't make tames invulnerable. Your freshly-tamed boars still die to a troll. Use a fenced area or god mode on yourself + adjacency to keep them alive.
It doesn't tame other players' creatures. Wild creatures only.

Cleaning up tames you don't want

Accidentally tamed every chicken in a coop and now they're all following you? Quickest cleanups:

killtame kills every nearby tamed creature (wild ones survive). Use carefully — works on every tame in range, not just the ones you just made.

killall kills tames and hostiles. Nuclear option.

Common gotchas

Tame range is small. The 20m radius is roughly the height of a stone tower. Get close before running the command.
Tames you don't claim with food can despawn. Tamed creatures need at least one feeding to stick around long-term; freshly-tamed ones with empty food bars can wander and disappear.
Tamed bosses don't exist. The data field says tameable: No for every boss, and the tame command will not touch them regardless of what mod tooltips may say.