For anyone wondering, this still works for Mistlands PTS. Built one myself and still working perfectly with boars. Have not tried with wolves yet, will edit when I get there. EDIT: Yup, still works with wolves too. Absolutely no problems with either. Happy breeding! EDIT#2: Back for another playthrough and this absolutely still works wonderfully in the Ashlands update. :)
THANK YOU SO MUCH, just built the version that stopped working and was so frustrated that all the work had gone to waste. Now I'm adapting to this new design.
Optional (only if you have visited the frostcaves): I would enclose the top platform protecting the piggies, as you now will get the "you stirred the cauldron" event. You dont want to get that event while feeding the pigs, or when pushing them up the ramp. Had the event at my base the other day. The bats killed almost all of my piggies as i was around the boarpenn when they showed up. They also killed three 2 star wolves, so yeah.. the bats are dealing lots of damage..
I learned that the hard way. My first try at taming piggies ended with one escaping and jumping into a ditch. The second one got deytroyed by a troll event. The third one finally worked.... Till a cold wind from the north blew over abd the drake sorta homed in on the open pig shed....
Just now tried to move my one star boars into their new home when the cauldron event occurred. I was half way up the ramp. Now I have to search for new boars. This sucks!
PSA to all those who it is not working for: I just did this but I had to replace the Wood wall with the round pole fence. The boars were not eating/reproducing with the wood wall but I lined up the round pole fences a close as possible. Once I destroyed the wood walls they were eating and I got the reproduction heart animation. TLDR: replace full sized wood wall with round pole fence
Thanks I used a half wall instead of the full one to get them to eat. My question is do I have to keep feeding them stacks of carrots, raspberries etc to get them to reproduce?
@@77Musicnut once you capture them you have to tame them before they will breed. You can do this by feeding them mushrooms, blueberries, raspberries, and carrots. Once they are tame you can pet them and also see if they are happy or hungry. If they are hungry, feed them carrots to make them happy. Two happy pigs will breed once near one another. I read/heard somewhere that tame pigs can only be fed carrots. I’m not sure if this is true but I have a carrot farm so that’s what I feed them.
@@77Musicnut I don't think they answered your question: yes you have to keep feeding them every so often for them to reproduce once they're up there. I drop a full stack every time I feed them. That's why you want a portal to them.
This is a great boar farm and a nice easy step by step video. It seems some changes in the recent patch make it not work properly as is. Boars don't eat through walls or breed through walls now? I think. I made some slight changes to this design and got it working again. remove the pen divider so the pen is a wide "U" shape, instead on an "M" shape. make the back wall, and side walls twice as high. Place a 26degree roof over the boars heads, opening forward. Run a 1m beam from left to right walls up high, so that when you throw food INTO the pen, it hits the beam and then falls at the boars feet. Hope this helps. Edit: Oh, I forgot to mention - change the front wall to a half wall - so you can throw food in.
If people are having issues with their boars and breeding. Try putting a fence instead of the full wall. It seem to work for me when my boars weren't fully pushing their heads into the wall.
@@CharlesChristena The trick is to throw the food perfectly against the wall (as close to the boars as possible). I found a way to do this consistently: stand behind a wood wall half exactly 4 meters away from the target and throw it. It's the perfect amount of space to get the perfect throw every time. Hope this helps!
2 almost 3 years later, and I did it yesterday using 26° steps instead of roofs. The animals won't walk off steps. Was really easy. I'm surprised this still works! Cheers.
I found it easiest to push the boars up while blocking with a shield. Doesn't require any stamina. If they started walking in the opposite direction down the ramp, just hold your ground (stop pushing) while blocking with your shield until they stop walking or turn around.
@@Xeadriel no, itt doesn't need to be that high but there's a few reasons for it. The first and most important is that the boars are out of most mobs' aggro range and therefore less likely to make you do all this again. The second is that it's a function of how much ramp one needs to get the hogs up there. Hope this helps
@@Jimmo-hl1vy im asking because I already have a barn and I was wondering whether I could just put it just below the ceiling. like how does the game register the amount of "nearby" boars? by boar 2 boar range?
For some strange reason my boars were not reproducing when there was just two of them in a giant playground sized space, thanks to this build now they are multiplying rapidly, best thing about this build is that it isn't complex and didn't take much time.
They were probably too far away. A tamed boar needs another tamed boar within 3 meters of it. There are a handful of factors, and builds like this are all about looking at the numbers, and making sure that the breeding boars are always meeting the right conditions. The only thing the breeders can't design a way around is making sure that the boars stay "active" in the game. So you do need to bein the same general zone.
@@thewyj If you're not within 64m of the area, it becomes "inactive". Many things require the area to be "active" (a player within 64m) for them to happen. In concern to breeding: Animals will NOT breed if they are not active (no player within 64m). HOWEVER. Young will become full adults while inactive. So if you want to slaughter everything in your pen without worrying about wasting resources by killing the young; Just stay far enough away from the breeding structures until all young have grown up. Then you can quickly slaughter them all for easy gains without killing the young on accident.
This was the second video I watched about an unlimited boar farm... the first one took me about an hour and a half to build and didn't work. This one took me about 10 minutes to build and works like a charm. Thank you!
I Just bought this game about a week ago and am trying this, DID THEY NERF IT!? my piggies dnt eat the mushrooms or berries when up there :( If They did Nerf this strategy how many pigs can i breed in a particular area? Like how do i make more pigs?
@@CrusaderLarry Yep, or edit it to say it doesn't work now and put the link to this one in the description. No need to remove it when it's interesting and attracting views to THIS one! :)
This method still works so anyone who cant get it working is probably not getting the food centered enough on the boars head or put too much space for the boar to not glitch its head into the wall.
@@TheSpaniard96 Yep this is the one that works, we're talking about the previous video of a method that no longer works, that brought us to this one because it's mentioned in the comments :) We watched the other one and only by checking the comments did we realise it wouldn't work and to check this updated one instead...if we hadn't checked the comments we'd have been trying a method that's been patched :)
I’ve been waiting for this sooo long cuz the other hearth and home unlimited boar farms require so much space and resources. Amazing video and very good instructions!
I managed to squeeze in 2 boars on each side and boosted the production, after doing everything as in the video just add 2x wood floor 1x1 behind each boar and wait for the piggys, after some time piggys will move from the back of the big boar to the side, then just destroy 2 pices of 1x1 wood floor behind boar and wait till piggy grows, if they dont move to the side on their own try to jump on them and push them a bit, also putting a roundpole fence infront instead of half wall is much easier for them to eat, 2 boars on same side can eat from one stack of food if placed correctly, this allso works with wolves
This works really well with a multi level watershed type farm. If you build a long stretch down a hill of crop farms and terraform a cliff, you can grow the carrots right next to the boars to keep feeding them. If you're able to get the cliff to be tall enough, no need for log beams or a ramp. You can also go fishing or make a fish farm on the shore at the bottom, so crazy amounts of food. I haven't gotten to the plains yet, but if you spawn proof it, you could probably do the same and grow those crops too.
Harpoons can also be used to move boars around. Just enable pvp and the harpoon will hook them. I’ve only tried it with 2 stars and the harpoon never did enough damage to kill them.
February 7 2024 The farm works, tested on wild boars, most likely on wolves too. If the animal does not eat food, then instead of a half-wall, install 2 vertical 1 meter beams so that the animal’s face sticks out
Just finished building this. Two things I would like to add that maybe obvious to others but weren't to me. First when placing the 1st roof, make sure to attach it to the back of the 1m beam. When I placed it, I attached it to the front of the beam and it took me a while to figure out what I did wrong. Second, I didn't notice that you had flipped the portal around. I place the portal when I still had the ramp in place so my portal was facing the wrong way. Good thing I tested it before removing the ramp, otherwise when I entered the portal, it would have launched me into the air and to my death.
I will say, I watched some of your old tutorials or at least videos *I can't remember if they were tutorials or just your "lets play" of valheim where you showcased different farms* but your overall tutorial presentation and walkthrough is very professional and well done. Good job!
Problem with getting boars to eat solved: The trick is to throw the food perfectly against the wall (as close to the boars as possible). I found a way to do this consistently: stand behind a wood wall half exactly 4 meters away from the target and throw it. It's the perfect amount of space to get the perfect throw every time.
I just started playing again like a week ago and thought to my self i need to make a automatic boar farm. And then you post this. What a coincidence. Brw love your vids man keep it up😁
Thanks so much for this! I love it! Just wanted to add an accidental discovery... you can actually fit a total of four boars in here. Not sure how it happened, but through some odd turning or something I had 2 that grew but the rest were falling out correctly. Double output!
Great video. I have a tip for anyone having problem with getting animals up the ramp. Use a newborn boar or wolf they're a lot easier to maneuver and use less stamina going up the ramp.
@@bakeakate4498 not unless you push them out. Let them grow into an adult before you push them into their stall. Using the newborn is just to get up the roof ramp
dem piglets rainin like little turds and surfing on the backs of other boars until they fall off the other side of the fence and be free - something poetic about all of this
This is still the best boar/wolf farm I have found. Still works today in Ashlands. Just started a new seed and got lucky on a 2 star wolf before I killed the 1st boss. My farms are producing and it is so easy. I do modify the top with another 2 pieces of floor for the portal. I find it easier for me to throw the food. Just add another 3 beams of core wood where the 1st support is for the ramp. Thank you Broadbent as this is such a time saver.
We might have to try this ,but would have to do another thing to your pin on the top. Need to have them in closed due to other mobs like bats or Drakes killing any thing that moves.
Amazing build! I have a drake issue, so have had to enclose everything. The boar farm worked perfectly, but one of my wolves turned and wouldn't stick his head back through the wall. I tried resetting him and he ate the other wolf's food when he was out and they finally bred. Back in the pod, he still refused to turn and stick his head through the wall. I tried moving the food so many times it's ridiculous. After a couple hours, I finally gave up and replaced him! Now the farm is working fine. I used a covered pit for the offspring and completely enclosed the structure. The only difference was having to use 45% angle roofs over the wolves as they block the 26.5% roofs.
If anyone is having problems with the boars eating, and the wall nor the fence works, I found a way that will always work, your gonna wanna use the Wood Door instead, the door is tinner and their head comes thru alot more.
Anyone who routinely comes back to this, you can just make the Abyssal Harpoon and drag them up instead of dealing with the AI and pushing them up. Thank me later!
I just built the boar farm and can confirm it works, I hadn't even finished and they already spawned a baby. I can't confirm that it will keep working yet, but I will try to remember to edit this and update it after a few in game days. Update 1: I haven't finished taking the ramp down and there are 3 babies, I have not fed the boars or built the portal yet. Update 2: I can't seem to get the boars to eat through the wall. Update 3: I have finally gotten both boars to eat through the wall. Throwing the food is definitely the hardest part of this build. Update 4: Several in game days, 8 boar offspring. I demolished the ramp and replaced support pillar nearest to the raised platform with stone and core wood, then I built an extension of four wide by six long for more walking space. The sweet spot for getting the food where the boars could eat was the second core wood/stone platform where the core wood support snapped into the floor.
Instead of taming the boars on the ground, then taking them up the ramp, let them chase you up the ramp. Double fence the platform initially, and put a door at the top (and bottom) of the ramp. The boar will run up the ramp, then you can tame them up there. They don't seem to tame well in the final small pen, so I used the whole platform. Tame before you put the portal in as the portal's "fire" will frighten the boars.
@@akashdsouza7759 it can be tricky but what I did was make a extra floor so I can stand behind a bit and threw the food at the middle wall, so it directly land next to it
This man has the potential to be the ianxofour of Valheim. Ian's farms on Minecraft are top notch in simplicity and wildly efficient, especially for the amount of work put in. Well done.
@@DanniMSC Hey! I have not had that problem with this design; it’s been running solid since my initial comment. That said, I’m only playing on my local machine. I’ve seen some people talking about how things load on some servers, and if that server loads the boars in before it loads the structure they are standing on, they will fall through.
Great design, excellent video, and fun build. I encountered three problems that were easily solved. 1. Regardless of the height, my pigs would run off the side of the ramp and plummet back into the pen. I added some side walls on my ramp. 2. One of my pigs wouldn't go up the ramp. He could push me and I couldn't push him anywhere. Turns out he was the original pig I tamed and they are apparently glitchy. I grabbed another pig and it was pretty easy to push him up to the top. 3. The pigs wouldn't eat through the wall piece even if the food was close enough. I replaced the full wall piece with a half wall. I left a gap at the bottom near the food and covered the top half of that space with the half wall to keep the pig in. Both pigs started eating immediately.
@@kifter4254 Instead of a full wall piece right in front of the animal, I did a half wall piece in its place. The half wall is even with the animals head and leaves a space by the animals feet.
i just tried this and theyre still not eating. dont knw why. theyre heads are sticking througn the half wall gap at the bottom andthere turnips close by. i tried re dropping . still says hungry
@@kifter4254 Glad you got them eating. I usually have to throw the food a few times to get it to land right under the animal's head so it will eat. We learned that the animals will eat whether a player is close or far away. However, a player has to be close for babies to be born. Our farm is in the Meadows, so I usually go AFK on the top platform and let it run overnight.
For the ramp, I use stairs bordered with simple 26' wood beams. It simple and effective, but also gives snap points to put a half-wall on the stairs to keep boars from walking down while you take a breather.
This idea works amazing. I have made some adjustmesnt and have four animals up top 2 boars 2 wolves... concrete 4x4 at the bottom but the solid walls werent working for me since the animals would not eat unless i threw the food directly at them. my setup their eating comfortably for me so far the last 6 hours i have been watching it afk. Not sure if it will hold up but seems to be solid so thank you for the great idea.
If i could post a picture I would but im using half walls and wooden beams instead of full walls.. i tried fences but that did not work well either. basically a half wall at the top where the top of the full wall should be... then a flush wooden beam(not the core wood one but that might work didnt try) then i shift placed another sections of wooden beams under the correctly placed ones as accurately as i could... seems to be working great as i said.. just posting in case anyone else is having issues.
Though mine had a wierd thing happen when I used wolves where a grayling got to close to the pen, the wolf aggro'd and broke its enclosure and fell. So do watch out for that
I watched several videos about this and this is not the only one that worked easily but, by far, the best explaination. Specially the butcher's knife's tip.
Worked great. I can expand the upper platform in front of the pigs as much as I want so long as i don't put anything to the side. I even took out the middle separator and pushed them closer together so I don't have to drop multiple food sources.
@@oab hello, i made it, it worked well until i ripped the piggies and it stopped producing i don't know why. and question: is there a low limit for the platform ?
I use the door as the last piece of enclosure. Heads clip just like through the wall but it's easier to close them instead of aiming at snapping points while being pushed. Also, you can open them and throw food inside if they have trouble pathfinding to it.
Just realized I fucking built the old one and then stumbled across this one trying to watch the old tutorial again to continue building. Please edit your TITLE eof the old video to *OUTDATED*
I made it, works wonderfully. I just needed to change the thick walls to fences because the boars weren't breeding properly or I just didn't wait enough I don't know. It all works well now! Thank you for the tutorial.
Boars and wolves still working like a charm - thanks for the video! I also got this to work with chickens by adding a couple vertical 1x1s on either side of both pen areas along with a couple slanted 1x1 horizontals to give the hens a 'seat' to stand over while still allowing the eggs to fall through. Now my only problem is getting the eggs to warm up - campfires, bonfires and hearths don't seem to do the job.
Also might be good to put cover for the workbench so funny rain doesn't break it. Made this and the wolf cubs dont fall off into the pen below, they grow up and glitch onto the walls
I bought this game when it came out, never got out of the bronze age until i eventually moved on. I thought id go back but never have. This video has inspired me though, so thank you.
PSA: THIS DOES NOT WORK!!! PLEASE DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME BUILDING THIS! THE DEVS PATCHED BOARS TO MAKE THEM ONLY BREED WHEN BOARS ARE TOUCHING THE GROUND!!! No hate to content creator... just psa.
Works bro, I am doing it now and willing to share pics if needed, you have to build it exactly how he shows you. I am also not using any mods or cheating
Just made my setup today. Put wolves and boars up in the same tower. I'm having the hardest time tossing the food close enough to the walls for them to get though. if theres a way to just place food items where you want. vs. throw, that'd be much more helpful. But thanks for the tutorial regardless!
2 questions: 1-a boar spawned on the top platform...does that prevent more spawns? why did it spawn there? (happened during "a foul smell from the swamp) 2-how much space is it needed between this farm and another one??
How does feeding a boar work? Will it work if we leave tons of carrot laying around or should we return to it every now and then to drop new carrots? Also, do they consume food one by one when dropped in stacks or should we drop them as singular items?
A full stack of 50 carrots will take them a while to go through since its only one boar per stack eating them, but yes you eventually will need to replenish the food. No need to throw one by one though, the animals are polite and only select one item to eat at a time. Wolves will need to be fed more often since most meat only stacks to 20.
very nice, though I also add two doors on each side to push the food against the wall for them :) could actually just be one door in the middle that goes each side to save on wood.
Thank you very much for this video! Very resource friendly. I put 2 of these back-to-back and it produces ~50 babies per hour! That's too OP lol, so I'll repurpose 1 of them for wolves
5:00 pushing up babies (piggys or wolf cubs) is way easier than the adult animals. although with wolves they will just follow you. you just fill in the floor area where the piggys would drop out with 1x1 tiles and remove them when they are fully grown.
can you do the same thing, but dig a big pit to put the pole in? so you don't need a ramp as much? (and then just put walls around it to keep the breed pair safe?)
@@Martyn_Lawson if the distance from the bottom of the hole to the top of the pole was the same as it would be if it was built as in the video, would it still not work?
@@no_i_dont_want_no_slugs yeah it should. I haven't tested it myself, but I've read others have dug a big hole to have the breeders ground level. that seems to work, but again, I haven't tested that myself.
heya, the last few times ive tried to do something like this the boars basically refuse to eat and breed. I read elswhere that they tried to fix the boar farms by making it so the boar needs to be effectively touching the ground. ive made it work using the same method but having the boars on the edge of a raised ground pillar with no issues. im impressed you managed to get it to work without them touching the ground
Now this isn't usefully but is was fun anyway. I had finished building the earthen siege walls all around my base. I noticed that 2 doe and 1 buck were trapped inside. So by using walls to make the area smaller and smaller and hearding them in, I created a a deer park with a couple trees in it for them to run around in. So far they haven't despawned. If they eventually do, oh well, it was fun anyway.
@@maruzzeI think it checks for 5+ animals of the same species within 10m but 2 core wood poles is only 8m. Not sure if 2 core wood + a 2m wood one would work due to stability (plus I’m not sure if it counts from the ground the boar is on or from the top of its head because I think they are 1m tall)
Confirmed this still works 3/6/2023, if the animals won't eat, use a 2 meter horizontal wood beam instead of a wall. I've heard they only breed while the player is nearby, but this isn't a big deal because you should have a ton of stuff to do near base making your carrot farm, wallls, buildings, tending your smelters and kilns, etc. In just a few hours, I had more all the leather and pig meat that I'll need for a very long time
Hello, so I finally found 2 boars and managed to catch both of them. At first, they didn't want to eat but then they began to feel like home and they started to eat as well. After some time we became friends and I was able to name them Bob and Greg (yes they were both male but they managed to make little boarlets, don't ask me how) after their 3rd kid something unexpected happened, it broke my heart.. All the way from the mountains, Drakes raided my village. I thought that it's over, I thought 'I am gonna die' but luckily I fought them off and lived to see another day. I was so happy, but then, I saw it.. I looked up at the pole to check on Bob and Greg but they were gone, thier poor little bodies eaten, the only thing that was left were 2 little boar meats and a few carrots they didn't have time eat.. I hope they are happy in boar heaven. If anyone knows how to protect the boars from drakes, please let me know, I dont think I can live through loss like this again. Thanks
Mine isn't working at all. :( My pigs made one piggy, that grew up in the pen and got stuck up there. Now they won't eat or do anything, and I have no idea why.
So I just made one of these in survival, with scaffold and everything, no cheats, was working really well, so I dismantled the ramp and repurposed the wood as a spiral staircase up to the platform, looks great but not good for pushing pigs up. Was in the middle of "bat proofing" the top just in case, but had to go chop more wood... Cauldron event happened as I got back and bats killed everything, including the two guys up top! :( So... we need a bat proof version of this. Not sure how, since a hole in the floor is kinda needed for the piggies to drop through, and bats will fit through it.
Made this build with 2 star wolves. Left the wolves breeding while visiting family and had around 60 adult wolves with a whole bunch of cubs. Took 25 to yagluth and he was dead in about 20 seconds. He does blow up after he dies and killed all of them with AOE, but I have so many back at base it was not much of a loss and used the meat for skewers.
Fun fact u can use the thing that u pull the animals with trident or stuff like that BUT for tamed animals u need to turn on PVP so u can latch on to them to pull them, have fun fellow vikings!
Quick tip: If your boars are not eating, 1.Turn off auto pickup 2.Build a chest very close to the wall 3.Store your carrots and break the chest 4.Wait for the boar to eat 5.Repeat if your boar doesn't eat
A easier method that i found you can try. The front half wall where their head sticks out from (facing the portal) remove that and replace it with a '1m Wood pole' place it in the center to prevent the boar leaving (The head will also clip through), it even makes it easier for the boar to eat so you don't have to throw food multiple times.
For all you that say it isnt working, you have to be around the pigs for them to spawn, you can't leave. Yes this sucks but doesnt take long to get a bunch. You can also plant a garden down below to make up waiting there that is what my friend and I are doing. I built a berm around my garden/pig farm so nothing could get in or shoot arrows or anything to risk the pigs getting killed. I am also building a stone tower around it with iron to support the stone, sucks but I dont want nothing to kill my piggie farm. I am also going to build another tower for wolves to see if I can get that to work. If you want a screen shot I can send it to you to show it works.
Great method, and I like that while it's exploiting the game mechanics a bit, it's not using any glitches. It's not even necessary for head to clip through the wall - you can make a ½ wall 1m off the ground so the boars peek through. It's technically still the same, you still need to be accurate with the food positioning but looks less glitchy. Also the advice on how to 'load' the boars because I had issues with them running before I can place the wall: just put a door at the front of the pen(s) and leave it open. Once the boar is in position just close the door - way quicker than building the wall. Then you can build the ½ wall over the door and destroy the door. Other variant could be to put 2 shutters at 1 height, and just close them an leave as it is. I'd also suggest building 1m walls on the sides of the platform to avoid accidentally pushing the boar off of it, or worse, falling to your death :) In my case I made a 10x10m stone tower around it. Now it both produces endless pigs and looks cool. I don't even have to pull in the boar** from the other side of the map (and I've had several failed attempts), but works well with my boar* which is the max I could find near the base.
still works in the ashlands play test
thx for confirming!
cant get mine to eat. any tips?
@@izayoo2062 try getting the food the closest to the wall possible
Got this to work by replacing the front wall where the boar's head is at with roundpole fences
@@izayoo2062 Can confirm this was also a fix for me, and fit my build better at the same time :D
For anyone wondering, this still works for Mistlands PTS. Built one myself and still working perfectly with boars. Have not tried with wolves yet, will edit when I get there.
EDIT: Yup, still works with wolves too. Absolutely no problems with either. Happy breeding!
EDIT#2: Back for another playthrough and this absolutely still works wonderfully in the Ashlands update. :)
Thanks, awesome.
Thank you very much
THANK YOU SO MUCH, just built the version that stopped working and was so frustrated that all the work had gone to waste. Now I'm adapting to this new design.
Came here to mention this. I had issues feeding them through the walls, but once they got the food in the pens, the baby making works
Thank you!
He's returned to us when the world needed him the most
i tell him on discord
Optional (only if you have visited the frostcaves): I would enclose the top platform protecting the piggies, as you now will get the "you stirred the cauldron" event. You dont want to get that event while feeding the pigs, or when pushing them up the ramp. Had the event at my base the other day. The bats killed almost all of my piggies as i was around the boarpenn when they showed up. They also killed three 2 star wolves, so yeah.. the bats are dealing lots of damage..
You do want a roof on top of all your breeders, cause there's the frost drake event as well...
I learned that the hard way. My first try at taming piggies ended with one escaping and jumping into a ditch. The second one got deytroyed by a troll event. The third one finally worked.... Till a cold wind from the north blew over abd the drake sorta homed in on the open pig shed....
Has anyone else had a piggy grow up with out falling I now have a 3 boar breaded and I suppose it could be a 4 boar.
Just now tried to move my one star boars into their new home when the cauldron event occurred. I was half way up the ramp. Now I have to search for new boars. This sucks!
@@kentlbader i lost my first one star that way still havent goten one back yet
PSA to all those who it is not working for:
I just did this but I had to replace the Wood wall with the round pole fence. The boars were not eating/reproducing with the wood wall but I lined up the round pole fences a close as possible. Once I destroyed the wood walls they were eating and I got the reproduction heart animation.
TLDR: replace full sized wood wall with round pole fence
Thanks I used a half wall instead of the full one to get them to eat. My question is do I have to keep feeding them stacks of carrots, raspberries etc to get them to reproduce?
@@77Musicnut once you capture them you have to tame them before they will breed. You can do this by feeding them mushrooms, blueberries, raspberries, and carrots.
Once they are tame you can pet them and also see if they are happy or hungry. If they are hungry, feed them carrots to make them happy. Two happy pigs will breed once near one another.
I read/heard somewhere that tame pigs can only be fed carrots. I’m not sure if this is true but I have a carrot farm so that’s what I feed them.
@@sleekblackninja1714 they can be fed anything, even tame ones. Im feeding my tame boars raspberries and making them happy
@@77Musicnut I don't think they answered your question: yes you have to keep feeding them every so often for them to reproduce once they're up there. I drop a full stack every time I feed them. That's why you want a portal to them.
This worked perfectly thank you!
This is a great boar farm and a nice easy step by step video. It seems some changes in the recent patch make it not work properly as is. Boars don't eat through walls or breed through walls now? I think. I made some slight changes to this design and got it working again. remove the pen divider so the pen is a wide "U" shape, instead on an "M" shape. make the back wall, and side walls twice as high. Place a 26degree roof over the boars heads, opening forward. Run a 1m beam from left to right walls up high, so that when you throw food INTO the pen, it hits the beam and then falls at the boars feet. Hope this helps. Edit: Oh, I forgot to mention - change the front wall to a half wall - so you can throw food in.
If people are having issues with their boars and breeding. Try putting a fence instead of the full wall. It seem to work for me when my boars weren't fully pushing their heads into the wall.
thanks! ima try it out cause they wernt eating
My boars won't eat unless the berries are almost clipping into the wall. Hopefully this fixes my problem.
@@CharlesChristena The trick is to throw the food perfectly against the wall (as close to the boars as possible). I found a way to do this consistently: stand behind a wood wall half exactly 4 meters away from the target and throw it. It's the perfect amount of space to get the perfect throw every time. Hope this helps!
@@johnpratt6578 thanks, that's great! just tried it out and is far easier than what I was doing, just kind of random tries til I hit the right spot.
Wasted 5 hours trying to feed those fuckers
2 almost 3 years later, and I did it yesterday using 26° steps instead of roofs. The animals won't walk off steps. Was really easy. I'm surprised this still works! Cheers.
I found it easiest to push the boars up while blocking with a shield. Doesn't require any stamina.
If they started walking in the opposite direction down the ramp, just hold your ground (stop pushing) while blocking with your shield until they stop walking or turn around.
still works as of 3rd October 2023 :D
keep in mind the food needs to be jolly close to the boars, so make sure you hold block to square yourself up to throw
does it have to be that high though? id prefer if I could add something that acts similarly but as ugly tbh.
@@Xeadriel no, itt doesn't need to be that high but there's a few reasons for it. The first and most important is that the boars are out of most mobs' aggro range and therefore less likely to make you do all this again.
The second is that it's a function of how much ramp one needs to get the hogs up there. Hope this helps
@@Jimmo-hl1vyfuck i should read this comment a few hours ago. I just finished building it but lower. Pretty sure its in aggro range
@@Jimmo-hl1vy im asking because I already have a barn and I was wondering whether I could just put it just below the ceiling. like how does the game register the amount of "nearby" boars? by boar 2 boar range?
For some strange reason my boars were not reproducing when there was just two of them in a giant playground sized space, thanks to this build now they are multiplying rapidly, best thing about this build is that it isn't complex and didn't take much time.
They were probably too far away. A tamed boar needs another tamed boar within 3 meters of it. There are a handful of factors, and builds like this are all about looking at the numbers, and making sure that the breeding boars are always meeting the right conditions. The only thing the breeders can't design a way around is making sure that the boars stay "active" in the game. So you do need to bein the same general zone.
@@thomasjenkins5727 What do you mean by staying active?
@@thewyj If you're not within 64m of the area, it becomes "inactive". Many things require the area to be "active" (a player within 64m) for them to happen. In concern to breeding: Animals will NOT breed if they are not active (no player within 64m). HOWEVER. Young will become full adults while inactive. So if you want to slaughter everything in your pen without worrying about wasting resources by killing the young; Just stay far enough away from the breeding structures until all young have grown up. Then you can quickly slaughter them all for easy gains without killing the young on accident.
This was the second video I watched about an unlimited boar farm... the first one took me about an hour and a half to build and didn't work. This one took me about 10 minutes to build and works like a charm. Thank you!
I Just bought this game about a week ago and am trying this, DID THEY NERF IT!? my piggies dnt eat the mushrooms or berries when up there :( If They did Nerf this strategy how many pigs can i breed in a particular area? Like how do i make more pigs?
Same he should really take the other video down no reason to leave it up
@@CrusaderLarry Yep, or edit it to say it doesn't work now and put the link to this one in the description. No need to remove it when it's interesting and attracting views to THIS one! :)
This method still works so anyone who cant get it working is probably not getting the food centered enough on the boars head or put too much space for the boar to not glitch its head into the wall.
@@TheSpaniard96 Yep this is the one that works, we're talking about the previous video of a method that no longer works, that brought us to this one because it's mentioned in the comments :) We watched the other one and only by checking the comments did we realise it wouldn't work and to check this updated one instead...if we hadn't checked the comments we'd have been trying a method that's been patched :)
I’ve been waiting for this sooo long cuz the other hearth and home unlimited boar farms require so much space and resources. Amazing video and very good instructions!
For any one wondering, yes it still works for both boarr and wolf :)
Even with the new version?
@@luisdimensity yes
It seems to work great for boar, but my wolf cubs keep spawning up top in the cage where the adult wolf is. have you had that issue?
@@GXMXMAGI didnt make a wolf one so dk
My hero. Exactly what I needed to hear
I managed to squeeze in 2 boars on each side and boosted the production, after doing everything as in the video just add 2x wood floor 1x1 behind each boar and wait for the piggys, after some time piggys will move from the back of the big boar to the side, then just destroy 2 pices of 1x1 wood floor behind boar and wait till piggy grows, if they dont move to the side on their own try to jump on them and push them a bit, also putting a roundpole fence infront instead of half wall is much easier for them to eat, 2 boars on same side can eat from one stack of food if placed correctly, this allso works with wolves
This works really well with a multi level watershed type farm. If you build a long stretch down a hill of crop farms and terraform a cliff, you can grow the carrots right next to the boars to keep feeding them. If you're able to get the cliff to be tall enough, no need for log beams or a ramp. You can also go fishing or make a fish farm on the shore at the bottom, so crazy amounts of food. I haven't gotten to the plains yet, but if you spawn proof it, you could probably do the same and grow those crops too.
Harpoons can also be used to move boars around. Just enable pvp and the harpoon will hook them. I’ve only tried it with 2 stars and the harpoon never did enough damage to kill them.
Harpoon also works for no star boars.
It only does 10 damage, so that shouldn't matter.
February 7 2024 The farm works, tested on wild boars, most likely on wolves too. If the animal does not eat food, then instead of a half-wall, install 2 vertical 1 meter beams so that the animal’s face sticks out
You will have to throw food so that it is between these 1 meter beams
Just finished building this. Two things I would like to add that maybe obvious to others but weren't to me. First when placing the 1st roof, make sure to attach it to the back of the 1m beam. When I placed it, I attached it to the front of the beam and it took me a while to figure out what I did wrong. Second, I didn't notice that you had flipped the portal around. I place the portal when I still had the ramp in place so my portal was facing the wrong way. Good thing I tested it before removing the ramp, otherwise when I entered the portal, it would have launched me into the air and to my death.
I will say, I watched some of your old tutorials or at least videos *I can't remember if they were tutorials or just your "lets play" of valheim where you showcased different farms* but your overall tutorial presentation and walkthrough is very professional and well done. Good job!
Problem with getting boars to eat solved:
The trick is to throw the food perfectly against the wall (as close to the boars as possible). I found a way to do this consistently: stand behind a wood wall half exactly 4 meters away from the target and throw it. It's the perfect amount of space to get the perfect throw every time.
I just finished building this today, and it works! The production is insane. You don't even need a 1 or 2 star boar, because of the insane production.
I just started playing again like a week ago and thought to my self i need to make a automatic boar farm. And then you post this. What a coincidence. Brw love your vids man keep it up😁
Thanks so much for this! I love it! Just wanted to add an accidental discovery... you can actually fit a total of four boars in here. Not sure how it happened, but through some odd turning or something I had 2 that grew but the rest were falling out correctly. Double output!
I do not play valheim, i never played valheim, but i love the way you explain things so here i go looking at your tutorials again
Great video. I have a tip for anyone having problem with getting animals up the ramp. Use a newborn boar or wolf they're a lot easier to maneuver and use less stamina going up the ramp.
Won't the newborn boars or wolves just fall out of the pen when you reach the top?
@@bakeakate4498 not unless you push them out. Let them grow into an adult before you push them into their stall. Using the newborn is just to get up the roof ramp
dem piglets rainin like little turds and surfing on the backs of other boars until they fall off the other side of the fence and be free - something poetic about all of this
This is still the best boar/wolf farm I have found. Still works today in Ashlands. Just started a new seed and got lucky on a 2 star wolf before I killed the 1st boss. My farms are producing and it is so easy. I do modify the top with another 2 pieces of floor for the portal. I find it easier for me to throw the food. Just add another 3 beams of core wood where the 1st support is for the ramp. Thank you Broadbent as this is such a time saver.
We might have to try this ,but would have to do another thing to your pin on the top. Need to have them in closed due to other mobs like bats or Drakes killing any thing that moves.
Amazing build! I have a drake issue, so have had to enclose everything. The boar farm worked perfectly, but one of my wolves turned and wouldn't stick his head back through the wall. I tried resetting him and he ate the other wolf's food when he was out and they finally bred. Back in the pod, he still refused to turn and stick his head through the wall. I tried moving the food so many times it's ridiculous. After a couple hours, I finally gave up and replaced him! Now the farm is working fine. I used a covered pit for the offspring and completely enclosed the structure. The only difference was having to use 45% angle roofs over the wolves as they block the 26.5% roofs.
If anyone is having problems with the boars eating, and the wall nor the fence works, I found a way that will always work, your gonna wanna use the Wood Door instead, the door is tinner and their head comes thru alot more.
Thanks, either this or pole fence works.
Glad to have you back! Loved your Valheim series, and would be ecstatic to have a continuation or reboot!
Anyone who routinely comes back to this, you can just make the Abyssal Harpoon and drag them up instead of dealing with the AI and pushing them up. Thank me later!
I just built the boar farm and can confirm it works, I hadn't even finished and they already spawned a baby. I can't confirm that it will keep working yet, but I will try to remember to edit this and update it after a few in game days.
Update 1: I haven't finished taking the ramp down and there are 3 babies, I have not fed the boars or built the portal yet.
Update 2: I can't seem to get the boars to eat through the wall.
Update 3: I have finally gotten both boars to eat through the wall. Throwing the food is definitely the hardest part of this build.
Update 4: Several in game days, 8 boar offspring. I demolished the ramp and replaced support pillar nearest to the raised platform with stone and core wood, then I built an extension of four wide by six long for more walking space. The sweet spot for getting the food where the boars could eat was the second core wood/stone platform where the core wood support snapped into the floor.
As of Oct 30, 2023, this still works on vanilla! Props to you for this vid
Instead of taming the boars on the ground, then taking them up the ramp, let them chase you up the ramp. Double fence the platform initially, and put a door at the top (and bottom) of the ramp. The boar will run up the ramp, then you can tame them up there. They don't seem to tame well in the final small pen, so I used the whole platform. Tame before you put the portal in as the portal's "fire" will frighten the boars.
Thats what I did lol
Still worked as of 1 jan 2024 for wolf and boar
How did you solve food issue?
@@akashdsouza7759 it can be tricky but what I did was make a extra floor so I can stand behind a bit and threw the food at the middle wall, so it directly land next to it
got it. I got it working too
This man has the potential to be the ianxofour of Valheim. Ian's farms on Minecraft are top notch in simplicity and wildly efficient, especially for the amount of work put in. Well done.
This design is great! I found it incredibly easy to incorporate into my already existing boar pen. Thanks so much!
Have you had issues with the boars falling into the lower pen? I think it's a server issue but I'd like to ask :)
@@DanniMSC Hey! I have not had that problem with this design; it’s been running solid since my initial comment. That said, I’m only playing on my local machine.
I’ve seen some people talking about how things load on some servers, and if that server loads the boars in before it loads the structure they are standing on, they will fall through.
@@rossf.4323 since then I built the floors out of stone and doubled up the walls and its been solid on a server :)
Great design, excellent video, and fun build. I encountered three problems that were easily solved.
1. Regardless of the height, my pigs would run off the side of the ramp and plummet back into the pen. I added some side walls on my ramp.
2. One of my pigs wouldn't go up the ramp. He could push me and I couldn't push him anywhere. Turns out he was the original pig I tamed and they are apparently glitchy. I grabbed another pig and it was pretty easy to push him up to the top.
3. The pigs wouldn't eat through the wall piece even if the food was close enough. I replaced the full wall piece with a half wall. I left a gap at the bottom near the food and covered the top half of that space with the half wall to keep the pig in. Both pigs started eating immediately.
hey wdym u left a gap on #3? Like u put the half wall so that the bottom is completely exposed and they could eat the food?
@@kifter4254 Instead of a full wall piece right in front of the animal, I did a half wall piece in its place. The half wall is even with the animals head and leaves a space by the animals feet.
i just tried this and theyre still not eating. dont knw why. theyre heads are sticking througn the half wall gap at the bottom andthere turnips close by. i tried re dropping . still says hungry
i put the food into their pen and they ate but no offspring yet. pink hearts on both as well
@@kifter4254 Glad you got them eating. I usually have to throw the food a few times to get it to land right under the animal's head so it will eat. We learned that the animals will eat whether a player is close or far away. However, a player has to be close for babies to be born. Our farm is in the Meadows, so I usually go AFK on the top platform and let it run overnight.
For the ramp, I use stairs bordered with simple 26' wood beams.
It simple and effective, but also gives snap points to put a half-wall on the stairs to keep boars from walking down while you take a breather.
This idea works amazing. I have made some adjustmesnt and have four animals up top 2 boars 2 wolves... concrete 4x4 at the bottom but the solid walls werent working for me since the animals would not eat unless i threw the food directly at them. my setup their eating comfortably for me so far the last 6 hours i have been watching it afk. Not sure if it will hold up but seems to be solid so thank you for the great idea.
If i could post a picture I would but im using half walls and wooden beams instead of full walls.. i tried fences but that did not work well either. basically a half wall at the top where the top of the full wall should be... then a flush wooden beam(not the core wood one but that might work didnt try) then i shift placed another sections of wooden beams under the correctly placed ones as accurately as i could... seems to be working great as i said.. just posting in case anyone else is having issues.
Update: My adjustments definitely holding up solid
I Can confirm it is working still in mistlands update. dec 2022
Still works as of Bog Witch
Thank you!
Appreciated
Though mine had a wierd thing happen when I used wolves where a grayling got to close to the pen, the wolf aggro'd and broke its enclosure and fell. So do watch out for that
I watched several videos about this and this is not the only one that worked easily but, by far, the best explaination. Specially the butcher's knife's tip.
Have you tried it yourself? Does it work for the latest npc request update?
Have you tried it yourself? Does it work for the latest npc request update?
Great guide, only issue I had with the boars not eating, someone suggested using doors instead of wall and that worked, no issues with wolfs.
Worked great. I can expand the upper platform in front of the pigs as much as I want so long as i don't put anything to the side. I even took out the middle separator and pushed them closer together so I don't have to drop multiple food sources.
I thought the sky-cages were nerfed with hearth and home. I'm glad to see them back. I haven't played much but I look forward to coming back.
Unlimited jerky awaits you!
When did the un nerf the sky cages?
They didn't. They just didn't fully patch them
@@oab hello, i made it, it worked well until i ripped the piggies and it stopped producing i don't know why.
and question: is there a low limit for the platform ?
I use the door as the last piece of enclosure. Heads clip just like through the wall but it's easier to close them instead of aiming at snapping points while being pushed. Also, you can open them and throw food inside if they have trouble pathfinding to it.
Just realized I fucking built the old one and then stumbled across this one trying to watch the old tutorial again to continue building. Please edit your TITLE eof the old video to *OUTDATED*
I made it, works wonderfully. I just needed to change the thick walls to fences because the boars weren't breeding properly or I just didn't wait enough I don't know. It all works well now!
Thank you for the tutorial.
If the Boars does not eat with Wood Wall try Roundpole fence instead, worked for me.
thank you:) worked for me also
Boars and wolves still working like a charm - thanks for the video! I also got this to work with chickens by adding a couple vertical 1x1s on either side of both pen areas along with a couple slanted 1x1 horizontals to give the hens a 'seat' to stand over while still allowing the eggs to fall through. Now my only problem is getting the eggs to warm up - campfires, bonfires and hearths don't seem to do the job.
im having trouble geetting the wolves to eat. boars work fine tho
At 1:30 you missed the materials for the 2 portals
That's an additional:
4 Surtling Cores
40 Fine wood
20 Greydwarf Eyes
Cheers
Still works, just a few tweaks here and there but pretty easy and has room for adjustments as needed
Still works for anyone wondering.
tysm lmfao
* i literally just built this in my world haha
@@devil0448 building it rn
If you guys are struggling with getting the tamed boars in place. You can actually use the harpoon with PVP on to move them.
still working as of 1/9/23
Also might be good to put cover for the workbench so funny rain doesn't break it.
Made this and the wolf cubs dont fall off into the pen below, they grow up and glitch onto the walls
Boars will not eat
I bought this game when it came out, never got out of the bronze age until i eventually moved on. I thought id go back but never have. This video has inspired me though, so thank you.
PSA: THIS DOES NOT WORK!!! PLEASE DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME BUILDING THIS! THE DEVS PATCHED BOARS TO MAKE THEM ONLY BREED WHEN BOARS ARE TOUCHING THE GROUND!!!
No hate to content creator... just psa.
Works bro, I am doing it now and willing to share pics if needed, you have to build it exactly how he shows you. I am also not using any mods or cheating
You're wrong lmao it still works
Works for us and works great for wolves too. Just gotta make sure you are putting the food in the right spot.
Just made my setup today. Put wolves and boars up in the same tower. I'm having the hardest time tossing the food close enough to the walls for them to get though. if theres a way to just place food items where you want. vs. throw, that'd be much more helpful. But thanks for the tutorial regardless!
2 questions:
1-a boar spawned on the top platform...does that prevent more spawns? why did it spawn there? (happened during "a foul smell from the swamp)
2-how much space is it needed between this farm and another one??
Would this work for Lox as well, maybe just a little bigger to acomodate thier larger size?
How does feeding a boar work? Will it work if we leave tons of carrot laying around or should we return to it every now and then to drop new carrots? Also, do they consume food one by one when dropped in stacks or should we drop them as singular items?
A full stack of 50 carrots will take them a while to go through since its only one boar per stack eating them, but yes you eventually will need to replenish the food. No need to throw one by one though, the animals are polite and only select one item to eat at a time. Wolves will need to be fed more often since most meat only stacks to 20.
very nice, though I also add two doors on each side to push the food against the wall for them :) could actually just be one door in the middle that goes each side to save on wood.
This comment saved my sanity! Thank you!
This is crazy good, the hardest part was moving my piggies from 1 house to this place, simply because i couldent stop laughing xD Nice vid
Thank you very much for this video! Very resource friendly. I put 2 of these back-to-back and it produces ~50 babies per hour! That's too OP lol, so I'll repurpose 1 of them for wolves
5:00 pushing up babies (piggys or wolf cubs) is way easier than the adult animals. although with wolves they will just follow you. you just fill in the floor area where the piggys would drop out with 1x1 tiles and remove them when they are fully grown.
how do you keep the babies from falling through the hole? you know, like they're supposed to?
can you do the same thing, but dig a big pit to put the pole in? so you don't need a ramp as much? (and then just put walls around it to keep the breed pair safe?)
I don't think so, you need the distance so the game only thinks there are 2 boars, so they breed constantly.
@@Martyn_Lawson if the distance from the bottom of the hole to the top of the pole was the same as it would be if it was built as in the video, would it still not work?
@@no_i_dont_want_no_slugs yeah it should. I haven't tested it myself, but I've read others have dug a big hole to have the breeders ground level. that seems to work, but again, I haven't tested that myself.
If you know what to do then this *should* work
heya, the last few times ive tried to do something like this the boars basically refuse to eat and breed. I read elswhere that they tried to fix the boar farms by making it so the boar needs to be effectively touching the ground. ive made it work using the same method but having the boars on the edge of a raised ground pillar with no issues. im impressed you managed to get it to work without them touching the ground
Im the same I cant get them to eat
ive tried throwing the carrots in the enclosure too but to no avail
Yeah they don't need to touch the ground. They just need more of a platform and more individual space 🙂
Join my discord and send me some screenshots. I'll be able to help you easily there. Discord.gg/Broadbent
November 2023- Working like a charm. Thanks yo!
Now this isn't usefully but is was fun anyway. I had finished building the earthen siege walls all around my base. I noticed that 2 doe and 1 buck were trapped inside. So by using walls to make the area smaller and smaller and hearding them in, I created a a deer park with a couple trees in it for them to run around in. So far they haven't despawned. If they eventually do, oh well, it was fun anyway.
I like that and hope your deer park is still intact! :)
Do I need to definitely build with 3 core wood pillars? Can building up with 2 work? For the boat pen at the top? Is that high enough?
I would like to know the answer to this as well.... why is it so high?
@@maruzzeI think it checks for 5+ animals of the same species within 10m but 2 core wood poles is only 8m. Not sure if 2 core wood + a 2m wood one would work due to stability (plus I’m not sure if it counts from the ground the boar is on or from the top of its head because I think they are 1m tall)
My first boar just decided to sprint the whole way up once I opened his pen on the ground. Hopefully the second boar is as compliant
do you have to build it up so high? can you build a pit and then put this at the same "height" but from bedrock?
idk what your doin Broadbent but your videos are on the next level bro good luck man
Happy to see you uploading again. 😀
Confirmed this still works 3/6/2023, if the animals won't eat, use a 2 meter horizontal wood beam instead of a wall. I've heard they only breed while the player is nearby, but this isn't a big deal because you should have a ton of stuff to do near base making your carrot farm, wallls, buildings, tending your smelters and kilns, etc. In just a few hours, I had more all the leather and pig meat that I'll need for a very long time
thanks for it worked
Good to hear you again mate ;)
Doors. Doors is the final answer to the animals being a pain and not eating lol
For the people having problems getting piggies up the ramp. You can just turn on friendly fire, and use the harpoon.
Hello, so I finally found 2 boars and managed to catch both of them. At first, they didn't want to eat but then they began to feel like home and they started to eat as well. After some time we became friends and I was able to name them Bob and Greg (yes they were both male but they managed to make little boarlets, don't ask me how) after their 3rd kid something unexpected happened, it broke my heart.. All the way from the mountains, Drakes raided my village. I thought that it's over, I thought 'I am gonna die' but luckily I fought them off and lived to see another day. I was so happy, but then, I saw it.. I looked up at the pole to check on Bob and Greg but they were gone, thier poor little bodies eaten, the only thing that was left were 2 little boar meats and a few carrots they didn't have time eat.. I hope they are happy in boar heaven. If anyone knows how to protect the boars from drakes, please let me know, I dont think I can live through loss like this again. Thanks
Seems really simple to build, pretty awesome. Wolf Army incoming
One thing I noticed is that they made wolves no longer howl when tamed which is nice... However, tamed cubs DEFINITELY howl hahaha
@@oab I actually tamed a couple wolves previously to the hearth and home update and they still howl
Mine isn't working at all. :( My pigs made one piggy, that grew up in the pen and got stuck up there. Now they won't eat or do anything, and I have no idea why.
Could be several reasons. Send me some screenshots on discord.com/Broadbent so I can help you fix it 🙂
As of May 2023 still works like a charm. Thanks!
So I just made one of these in survival, with scaffold and everything, no cheats, was working really well, so I dismantled the ramp and repurposed the wood as a spiral staircase up to the platform, looks great but not good for pushing pigs up. Was in the middle of "bat proofing" the top just in case, but had to go chop more wood... Cauldron event happened as I got back and bats killed everything, including the two guys up top! :(
So... we need a bat proof version of this. Not sure how, since a hole in the floor is kinda needed for the piggies to drop through, and bats will fit through it.
Made this build with 2 star wolves. Left the wolves breeding while visiting family and had around 60 adult wolves with a whole bunch of cubs. Took 25 to yagluth and he was dead in about 20 seconds. He does blow up after he dies and killed all of them with AOE, but I have so many back at base it was not much of a loss and used the meat for skewers.
worked perfectly with one star boar for me. For normal wolf, i used round fence instead of half walls. Haven't found any starred wolfs yet
Fun fact u can use the thing that u pull the animals with trident or stuff like that BUT for tamed animals u need to turn on PVP so u can latch on to them to pull them, have fun fellow vikings!
Amazing, this is working so perfectly for me. Thank you for the quick, easy to understand explanation!
Quick tip: If your boars are not eating,
1.Turn off auto pickup
2.Build a chest very close to the wall
3.Store your carrots and break the chest
4.Wait for the boar to eat
5.Repeat if your boar doesn't eat
Thanks for the tip, this solved my very frustrating problem
A easier method that i found you can try. The front half wall where their head sticks out from (facing the portal) remove that and replace it with a '1m Wood pole' place it in the center to prevent the boar leaving (The head will also clip through), it even makes it easier for the boar to eat so you don't have to throw food multiple times.
Do you need to keep it open or can you build a structure around and cover it up
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For all you that say it isnt working, you have to be around the pigs for them to spawn, you can't leave. Yes this sucks but doesnt take long to get a bunch. You can also plant a garden down below to make up waiting there that is what my friend and I are doing. I built a berm around my garden/pig farm so nothing could get in or shoot arrows or anything to risk the pigs getting killed. I am also building a stone tower around it with iron to support the stone, sucks but I dont want nothing to kill my piggie farm. I am also going to build another tower for wolves to see if I can get that to work. If you want a screen shot I can send it to you to show it works.
Is it essential the boars be 2 star boars?
still works thank you for the vid!
Great method, and I like that while it's exploiting the game mechanics a bit, it's not using any glitches. It's not even necessary for head to clip through the wall - you can make a ½ wall 1m off the ground so the boars peek through. It's technically still the same, you still need to be accurate with the food positioning but looks less glitchy. Also the advice on how to 'load' the boars because I had issues with them running before I can place the wall: just put a door at the front of the pen(s) and leave it open. Once the boar is in position just close the door - way quicker than building the wall. Then you can build the ½ wall over the door and destroy the door. Other variant could be to put 2 shutters at 1 height, and just close them an leave as it is. I'd also suggest building 1m walls on the sides of the platform to avoid accidentally pushing the boar off of it, or worse, falling to your death :) In my case I made a 10x10m stone tower around it. Now it both produces endless pigs and looks cool. I don't even have to pull in the boar** from the other side of the map (and I've had several failed attempts), but works well with my boar* which is the max I could find near the base.
Great video & explanation. So easy to follow
Do you have to frequently repair or is it going to be good for a while and if one thing breaks it’s a pain to re do in a normal game