Guide and Script: Animal Taming AFK Skill Gain in ClassicUO! (2024)

Aurorikin said:

I can't ever seem to be afk. I always get wrecked.. For an example Im at the Drake Whelps right now and usually a drake will attack and kill me. Even if the agro actually goes to my scarab, I cant generally keep it alive with the drake and whelp beating on it. Another problem is a whelp will often attack me first then my guy keeps wrestling it, so I cant tame it without tabbing.

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It's all about how you position yourself and your tank pet. You should be up in the corner of the drake nest, with your scarab between you and where the drakes spawn. If you're positioned correctly, you will never catch aggro, and the tankpet will always get attacked. Do you have 50+ veterinary? Are you using a Scarab?

Fensus said:

Whats the reason for the if/else taming >70? it doesn't seem to ever look for a pet if over 70 taming? am I crazy?

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Are you following the guide? If you are over 70 skill, you should now be taming Scarabs and the script will look for scarabs. You can't use the script as-is to continue taming Cave bears after you pass 70. And you shouldn't! It's much more efficient to move to the next pet type.

The script needs to know what type of animal to look for, otherwise, it wouldn't know what to target. So the code limits it to the recommended animals per level. If you want to do another plan, you'll have to adjust the script yourself

I'm not talking about the section at the top which sets the pet types.. I'm talking about this if/else https://github.com/tameoutlands/scripts/blob/main/Skill Training/AutoTame v1.2 by Zell#L135

Midaroh said:

I'm having issues too. It seems like the script pulls up to the transfer menu, then loops back around without taming the creature. I also don't get why 'Cancel current target' is called. Don't you want to target and transfer or use dagger to get the sysmsg?

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That's normal, it brings up the transfer menu as a means to detect if a pet is tamed or not. If it's not tamed then the option won't appear and a sys messafes isn't generated. The current target gets cancelled because you don't actually want it to transfer to anyone. Unfortunately there isn't a way to close the context menus so they stay open and clutter the screen a bit.

The dagger sys message isn't actually necessary for anything as far as I tested but not sure

If you do not have a dagger in your backpack the script will never see when the mob is nearby once you're over 70. I also assume this was used instead of typetarget because it searches too large of a radius or too small of a radius when using range check. Whereas using the dagger is a "just right" range. I assume anywho.

@Hannah Humble - I'm trying to edit the bandage section, do you know if it's possible to read the HP of the pet? So far trying ... if hits 'tank' > 200... is only reading my HP. (Also I'm the one that submitted the pull request for the peacekeeping bard fork)

Thanks all for the assistance to other users - each piece of the script is there for a reason, believe me

@mikensan Reach out to Zell#2131 on Discord. He's the script guru, I'm just the publicist!

Tussy_Pickler said:

Having problems with this script. After ending up dead a few times, I decided to watch it and see what was causing it.
It sends out tank to attack, but flags my char and my toon wont tab out of war mode and keeps attacking and then cant tame mobs because 'too angry' to continue taming.

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It shouldn't be sending your pet out to attack, sounds like you have a pet that's the same as what you're trying to tame. In example, if you're trying to tame a scarab, you can't also have a scarab.

mikensan said:

It shouldn't be sending your pet out to attack, sounds like you have a pet that's the same as what you're trying to tame. In example, if you're trying to tame a scarab, you can't also have a scarab.

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I had a rock guar and was taming colossal toads and cave bears

Tussy_Pickler said:

I had a rock guar and was taming colossal toads and cave bears

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Are you using the most up to date script from tameoutlands.com's github page? Zell updated the script to work better in shelter dungeon.