How to Actually Tame a Beefalo

Storyline / Context

• The video is framed as a Day 24 progress update: the creator completes a successful Ruins rush, builds a small base meant to last through winter, and—most importantly—fully tames an “ornery” beefalo.
• The main goal is to show that beefalo taming can be efficient without the usual expectation of “15-day hunger micromanagement.”

Core Gameplay Idea: How to Tame a Beefalo (Key Rules)

Common Belief Addressed

People often claim beefalo taming takes about 15 days if you:

• never let hunger drop below 0, and
• brush the beefalo daily.

Fastest Method Claim

The video’s fastest method still lands around ~15 days, using:

• keeping hunger above 0 (never letting it hit 0 or below), and
• brushing with a brush that becomes available around day 21 (unless you get extremely lucky).

Main Twist

The video argues you can largely avoid the “feed it 300 hunger/day” style requirement by focusing on obedience during taming.

Gameplay Mechanics & Highlights

1) Riding Requirements (Obedience Threshold)

To ride a beefalo:

• it must have a saddle, and
• obedience must be above 50%.

The beefalo will shake off the saddle if:

• obedience drops below 40%.

Feeding boosts obedience:

• Every time the beefalo is fed anything, obedience increases by +10%.
• This includes foods with no hunger value, such as petals, ferns, or light bulbs.

2) Hunger vs Taming Speed (What Actually Matters)

The creator emphasizes that while hunger affects taming speed:

• Even if hunger stays at 0, the beefalo can still tame at nearly the same pace as long as obedience stays high enough for riding.

Obedience drain rate:

• With hunger = 0: obedience decreases by about 1% every 3 seconds
• With hunger > 0: obedience decreases by about 1% every 9 seconds

Light bulb strategy:

• Light bulbs are abundant and can be picked up in batches (up to 3 at a time).
• The creator estimates that one trip’s worth of light bulbs supports near-constant riding for about ~7 days.

Strategies / Key Tips (Practical Plan)

A) Avoiding the “300 Hunger per Day” Burden

The video reframes the issue:

• The popular 300 hunger/day number is described as misleading.
• Instead of feeding every day, feed only during key moments to preserve:
  • ride access
  • taming continuity

B) When to Feed Your Beefalo (3 Situations)

1. When you’re first starting

Before you have a saddle (and/or need to shave wool later), you typically must:

• craft a saddle (requires beefalo wool), which often means waiting until night to shave.

To start taming sooner, the creator suggests:

• feeding beefalo twigs to begin taming,
• waiting for night to shave other beefalo(s),
• then using a beefalo bell to bind later.

2. When you must do actions you can’t do while riding

While mounted, you can’t do certain tasks (examples given):

• chopping trees
• mining rocks
• playing structures

So when you’re off the beefalo briefly:

• estimate time away
• feed enough to keep taming progressing

Example math from the creator:

• 1 twig ≈ 10 hunger
• beefalo loses 1 hunger every ~1.5 seconds
• feeding 4 twigs per minute keeps hunger high enough for taming continuity while not riding

3. Entering dangerous areas / survival-critical uptime

If obedience drops too low, you may not be able to remount after being bucked.

Dangerous zones mentioned:

• Ruins stalagmite biomes
• swamps
• boss fights

A stated consequence:

• If hunger stays at 0 and you get bucked off, you may need multiple feeds before you can mount again.

Obedience timing comparison:

• obedience can drop to mount-inaccessible in ~2.5 minutes if hunger is 0 the whole time, even if obedience was previously topped to 100.
• boosting hunger significantly (example: “to 300”) allows remounting for much longer—claimed as about an entire game day.

C) Riding Management Before Full Taming

Early riding is unstable:

• On the first rides (without prior taming), you may stay mounted only ~15 seconds.
• Then the beefalo bucks you off, you “face plant,” and remounting takes time.

Mitigation approach:

• do a self-timed “get off right before buck” cycle
• use the beefalo gallop sound as a timer:
  • gallops about 2 times per second
  • count time as “seconds per two gallops”

Progress estimates given:

• Day 1–2: ~15–16 seconds
• Around Day 5: ~1 minute
• By ~Day 10: ~2 minutes or more (over a quarter of a game day)
• By ~Day 10 onward: treat the beefalo as effectively mobile transportation/combat utility without frequent dismounts

D) Outcome Timing

• If you start taming early (around day 3–5), the creator expects full tame around day 25.
• By about day 10, the creator says differences between feeding strategies become less dramatic (smooth progression thereafter).

Key “Victory Moment” / End State

Upon full taming (around the later timing):

• the beefalo’s appearance changes,
• a “haunt-like / ghost-like” sound plays,
• and the beefalo is fully tamed.

Other Notable Notes

• Beefalo qualities matter:
  • the creator hopes for an ornery beefalo, but says ryder is also pretty good.
  • avoid “pudgy” beefalo (explicitly stated: “not how you tame a beefalo”).
• Beefalo bell importance:
  • craft the bell and bind the beefalo so it follows—even before you have a saddle—improving convenience for feeding and shaving planning.

Gamers / Sources Featured

• No external gamers, channels, or sources are named in the subtitles.
• Only the video creator is referenced (“i” / the speaker).