Animals populate many regions in Hytale. They don’t just create a nice atmosphere — they’re also necessary for certain resources. Even though the system is still in its early stages with plenty of room for improvement, keeping animals is already a great idea! Once breeding is added, you’ll be able to expand your farm and gather far more resources. Let’s look at which animals are currently in the game and how to find, tame, and start using them.
Finding Hytale animals: zones and spawn locations
Hytale already offers a wide variety of animals you can find and bring to your farm. Not every animal has a specific use yet, but who knows what features will arrive in the future. If you’ve unlocked portals, you can even bring animals through them to deliver them straight into a fenced area at your base.
Each species also has young animals, which currently don’t have a direct purpose. They don’t grow and won’t provide resources. Since breeding isn’t in the game yet, you can safely ignore them — unless you don’t want to separate them from their parents, in which case feel free to bring them along!
Animals from Zone 1 (Emerald Wilds):
- Chicken
- Turkey
- Rabbit
- Horse
- Goat
- Mosshorn
- Sheep
- Cow
- Pig
- Feral pig
- Wild boar
Animals from Zone 2 (Howling Sands):
- Warthog
- Ram
- Camel
- Desert chicken
- Skrill
Animals from Zone 3 (Whisperfrost Frontiers):
- Rabbit
- Cow
- Wild boar
- Mouflon
- Bison
There are no animals you can tame directly in Zone 4. You’ll encounter undead cows and other animal-like creatures there, but you can’t lure them home — which is probably for the best.
Luring and taming animals: how to build your farm
While many animal-related systems are still missing, luring and taming already let you find a few furry (and feathery) friends and make use of their products. Taming removes their fear of you. You can also pet them, which is always a nice bonus! Tamed animals can provide resources or serve as mounts. There isn’t much more yet — but that will change.
Build pens: safe enclosures for animals
To keep your animals safe, build them an enclosure. Pens can still be a bit buggy right now, so play it safe! Animals can run off despite being tame, or get eaten by wolves — which you definitely don’t want.
We recommend building a pen with the following:
- At least two fences high so nothing can escape or break in.
- A floor made of solid material (wood or stone) where monsters can’t spawn.
- Use light sources to keep the area lit.
- Add a gate so you can enter and exit easily.
Farmer’s Workbench: essential tools for livestock
Be sure to check the Farmer’s Workbench to craft several important tools for working with animals. As you progress the workbench, you’ll also unlock more ways to get value from your livestock.
- Feed Bag: You can craft feed bags, but they don’t have a clear use yet. You can place them in a pen, but it’s unclear whether animals eat from them or if they have any effect.
- Wooden Bucket: Use it to milk cows to obtain milk.
- Shears: Use them to shear sheep.
- Chicken Coop: A small hut where chickens can lay eggs. You need to assign captured chickens to the coop using the Capture Crate.
- Capture Crate: Used to capture small animals and young animals.
- Fertilizer Bag: Crafted from livestock dung to speed up crop growth.
Feed list: which foods animals will follow
Various crops are essential for catching and taming animals because each species has its favorite treat. When you meet any of the animals listed above, press F to see which food it prefers. Then hold that item in your hand and feed it to the animal. Hearts will appear, and it will follow you as long as you’re holding the food. That’s how you safely guide it into its pen.
Vegetables and fruit for the right animals:
- Apple: Goats, mouflon, billy goats
- Eggplant: Feral pig
- Carrot: Rabbits, horses
- Cauliflower: Bison
- Chili: Skrill
- Corn: Chickens, turkeys
- Cotton: Desert chickens
- Lettuce: Cows, sheep
- Onion: Warthog
- Potato: Mosshorn
- Pumpkin: Wild boar
- Tomato: Camel
- Beet: Pig
Animal products in Hytale: collect and process
Once you’ve tamed animals, they can be useful. There are already several resources you can only get from them. You’ll mainly need these for crafting other items. Tamed horses, billy goats, and camels can also be ridden.
Currently obtainable:
- Dung: Dropped occasionally by almost every animal; used for fertilizer.
- Eggs: If you’ve assigned chickens to a Chicken Coop, you can collect one egg per day. Eggs are used for dough.
- Milk: Use the bucket on cows to get milk for cheese. You can also milk Mosshorns — but you probably shouldn’t drink the green milk.
- Wool scraps: Shear sheep to get wool scraps, then use the Furniture Workbench to process them into wool and then into cloth, which you can dye. Learn more in our article (Hytale Furniture & Builder's Workbench: Furniture, Blocks, Lighting) .
- Moss: Mosshorns can sometimes drop moss.
- White feathers: Shear chickens to get white feathers, currently only used for the Harvest Trophy.
- Red feathers: Shear Skrills for red feathers, which currently have no use.
There is no direct animal breeding yet (as of Update 4). The feature is planned, and when it arrives you’ll already have the key animals captured. A tameness/trust system is also planned, letting animals trust you more. Further details aren’t known yet.
Conclusion: keep animals for key resources in Hytale
There are already plenty of different animals to find in Hytale, and you can tame and capture them. Some even provide products used in recipes. More features are planned for the future, including breeding and other systems. But it’s already worth setting up a small farm and collecting as many animals as you can.
If you don’t want to miss any Hytale updates and want to jump in right away, rent one of our Hytale servers and play with friends. Once animals have more uses, you’ll be ready to go.
