Summary
- Once Human is a survival game with eerie horror elements and challenging adversaries, offering impressive depth for a free-to-play title.
- Taming creatures requires unlocking memetics and crafting specific items, with different tactics needed for rabbits, deer, boars, goats, bears, crocodiles, and wolves.
- Approach each creature carefully - rabbits must be snuck up on, deer targeted when alone, boars singled out, goats stalked, bears tanked, crocodiles found near water, and wolves dealt with as a pack.
Once Human is fundamentally a survival game, despite its eerie, horror-infused narrative. The world is filled with terrifying adversaries, each possessing bizarre abilities, accompanied by unsettling soundscapes. For a free-to-play title, it offers impressive depth, especially within its intricate crafting system.
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There are 5 main bosses in Once Human, and each has a different combat mechanic the player needs to counter.
Taming creatures was added to Once Human in a patch some five weeks after the game's initial launch The player needs to unlock the taming memetics, and then craft both Tranquilizer Darts and an Animal Trough to begin their animal taming career. Once an animal has been tamed, the player can build a pen, place a trough in it, and then spawn the animal inside the pen. With all that said, some animals are harder to tame than others.
7 Rabbits
Sneak Up On Them
- Where To Find: Everywhere
- Taming Tip: Sneak up on them
Rabbits are found everywhere on the map in Once Human, so why did such a common creature make it onto this list? Well, rabbits scare very easily. In order to tame a rabbit, the player needs to get close to one, but this is easier said than done.
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There are some pretty useful recipes for food and drink in Once Human, and some of them require basic resources. Here's what's worth cooking.
Use crouch to approach a rabbit before taming it. If the rabbit gets spooked and runs away, don’t worry, stay crouched until it stops running and try again. Eventually, it should be possible to sneak close enough and start taming it. Once tamed and placed in a pen, the rabbit meat can be farmed to cook food.
6 Deer
They Tend To Run Away
- Where To Find: Every zone up to and including Chalk Peak
- Taming Tip: Look for the deer at the edge of a herd
Deer are another common creature in Once Human. They can be found in every zone from the starting area up to and including Chalk Peak. However, once the player moves into the desert zones, there are no deer at all.
Deer spook very easily, so expect to have to crouch and sneak up on them to tame them. A good trick is to look for a deer that has wandered away from the herd, and target that one, so that the rest of the herd will not spook and start the whole herd running away. Another option is to use a bow to thin the herd before trying to tame deer.
5 Boar
Come In Groups
- Where To Find: Every zone up to and including Chalk Peak
- Taming Tip: Look for a boar that has wandered from its friends
Boars are common creatures in all zones as far as Chalk Peak, but beyond this, they are non-existent. They generally spawn in groups of three, and being attacked by three high-level boars can be a dangerous proposition. This means that taming them can be a challenge.
The best idea is to look for a boar that has wandered away from its friends, and then approach it from a position opposite the others. The boar will very likely attack during the taming process, but it is much easier to tank one boar than a group of them.
4 Goats
Must Be Stalked
- Where To Find: Red Sands and all zones afterward
- Taming Tip: Try to find a smaller group
Goats come in a few shapes and sizes. There are rams, ewes, and kids. They can only be found in the desert regions, from Red Sands and beyond, where they replace deer as the most prolific indigenous animal in this horror game.
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Hunting animals is key to finding upgrade resources in Once Human, making these hunting locations ideal spots to revisit during a playthrough.
All goats spook very easily, and as they often spawn in larger groups, this can make them hard to tame, as once one member of the herd spooks and runs, so will the rest. A good tip here is to look for a smaller group of goats, and then look for a single goat that has wandered away from the herd. Trying to tame that one should keep the rest of the herd calm.
3 Bears
Can Be Dangerous
- Where To Find: Every zone up to and including Chalk Peak
- Taming Tip: Look for a lower-level bear
Bears are mostly found in the Chalk Peak zone, and the best place in this zone to find them is inside the hidden cave at the top of the peak. Bears can do a fair amount of melee damage, so expect to have to tank some incoming DPS while taming one.
Bears can spawn alone or in groups. The easiest way to tame a bear in Once Human is to find a solo spawn of a lower-level bear. However, players who are at max level with good gear should be fine taming any level of bear in this survival shooter.
2 Crocodiles
Found Near Water
- Where To Find: Every zone up to and including Chalk Peak
- Taming Tip: Find one that is in the water
Finding crocodiles in Once Human can be quite hard. They only spawn alone near water, and are short, flat animals that are not always visible in long grass. The best way to find one is to head to the Chalk Peak zone and follow the bank of one of the many rivers in this area until one is spotted.
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Progressing from map zone to map zone in the correct order, is the best way to gain access to needed resources in Once Human.
Expect to need to tank a significant level of incoming damage while taming a crocodile in Once Human, as they are very aggressive animals. Finding one that is lying in a river can make taming easier, as they seem to be less aggressive when in this state.
1 Wolves
Hunt In Packs
- Where To Find: Chalk Peak and all the zones afterward
- Taming Tip: Tank the pack
Wolves can be found in every zone from Chalk Peak onwards. They generally spawn as a pack of three wolves and are extremely aggressive. Players will likely not have to search for wolves, as even a short jaunt across the wilderness will likely result in a pack that begins to stalk the player.
Wolves attack together, and there is no way to isolate a single wolf from the pack before trying to tame it. Therefore, the player needs to either tank the entire pack (if they intend to tame them all), or kill all but one wolf before starting to tame it.
Once Human
- Released
- July 9, 2024
WHERE TO PLAY
- Developer(s)
- Starry Studio
- Genre(s)
- Survival, Shooter, Open-World
