How to tame Pacu?

[Chetar Ruby]

First, I'm using Spaced Out DLC.  I have a breeder Pacu in a tank by itself, feeding it mealwood seeds... it never becomes tame.  It eats from the feeder, then floats around for a long time and regains most of the wildness before it eats again.  By the time it dies, it's wildness is typically around 10%

Am I doing something wrong?

 

ps: the 'fish release' is currently not counting Pacu in the room. 

[DolphinWing]

Using seeds is slower than algaes. Maybe you can tame them with algaes and later feed seeds with tamed ones.

[yoakenashi]

1 hour ago, DolphinWing said:

Using seeds is slower than algaes.

Very true.

I have tamed Pacu before using only seeds. I believe it takes more than one generation to tame Pacu using seeds. Just ensure the eggs stay in the same room so that the new baby Pacu can eat from the feeder too.

[SackMaggie]

This is the problem I found when playing a new base.

• 0.33kg seed give pacu something like 300(?) calories, So they eat once every 2 cycles or so.
• 30kg algae give pacu about 10 calories, They eat all your algae you find.
• fish feeder have capacity of 200 kg, Once it dispense it food(30kg algae) dupe constantly refilling.

I hope one day Klei will make change to it.

• I want "eat from feeder" buff to last corresponding to calories it eat.
• increase the calories from algae to at least 30kg = 1 cycle.
• refill when drop below 50% should be enough.

To tame a new pacu you will have to feed it with 1 kg algae a few times every cycle for 6.67 cycles, After that feed it with seed.

Imagine just bought the game then playing SO for the first time and trying to tame pacu in SO map where algae doesn't exist in first map. This is a bug if I was that guy.

[WhiteWind36]

1 hour ago, yoakenashi said:

Very true.

I have tamed Pacu before using only seeds. I believe it takes more than one generation to tame Pacu using seeds. Just ensure the eggs stay in the same room so that the new baby Pacu can eat from the feeder too.

I was observing same behaviour of pacu, but did not understand that it is because I am feeding seeds instead of algae it took few generations of pacu to make it tame. Also you can speed up things a lot if using incubator for eggs... Does the incubator hatched critters not count as tame from the moment they born?

[SackMaggie]

21 minutes ago, WhiteWind36 said:

Does the incubator hatched critters not count as tame from the moment they born?

It did count as tame if the parent was tame.

[Chetar Ruby]

Thanks for replies everyone.  Yep, y'all are right.  Switching to algae is getting breeder Pacu to go tame before dying off.

I did want to mention, the multi-generation thing seems silly.  You don't get tame Pacu out of eggs, unless the layer of the egg was tame, too, as far as I know.  All my eggs were hatching 100% wild, regardless of wildness of the layer of the egg.  Until it's tame, its 100% wild eggs.

I'm guessing, due to how my Pacu ranch is designed, I'll have to be sure there's no wild Pacu left before switching back to seeds for feeding the breeder, because there's no way to know if the egg that gets put into incubator is from the wild Pacu I still have, or the tame ones.

[WhiteWind36]

9 minutes ago, Chetar Ruby said:

I'm guessing, due to how my Pacu ranch is designed, I'll have to be sure there's no wild Pacu left before switching back to seeds for feeding the breeder, because there's no way to know if the egg that gets put into incubator is from the wild Pacu I still have, or the tame ones.

Or you can just separately feed one pacu and later on grow on numbers from that single one tamed pacu... It is way easier than to wait for several pacu becoming tame, and that you don't have eggs that was laid by wild pacu...