Rune Factory How to Feed Monsters
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- How To Tame Monsters
- Taking Care Of Monsters
- What Monsters Can Do For You On The Farm
- What Monsters Can Do For You In Battle
- All Monster Produce
While the focus of Rune Factory 4 is undoubtedly the growing and harvesting of crops and flowers, it's also possible to turn your farm into a ranch by taming and recruiting monsters. These handy critters have a few uses - they can help out on the farm or even in the field.
With such a massive range of monsters in the game, it can be beneficial to pick out the best ones. While trial and error is one method you could use, it's far more efficient to know in advance what monsters are worth bringing to the farm.
How To Tame Monsters
To tame a monster, you must first meet two requirements:
- You must have a monster barn on your farm.
- You must have space for a monster in your monster barn.
You can build monster barns with orders in the castle's main room. At the beginning of the game, you can build a maximum of two monster barns and they will each hold four monsters. Eventually, you will unlock the option to expand your farm with an order that adds a new field - each new field can support two monster barns.
You can also expand monster barns themselves with orders.
Taming monsters is a relatively simple ordeal. When in the field, throw an item at them - they will get a speech bubble above their head with a heart inside it. It will gradually grow larger until it becomes a skull or a gigantic heart.
If the heart becomes a skull, you have failed and must try again. If it becomes a huge heart, on the other hand, you have successfully tamed the monster, and you will have to name it. They will be added to your party automatically, though you can talk to them to send them back to your farm.
Here are some monster taming tips:
- You can use the brush or a Love affinity weapon on a monster to increase the chances that a taming attempt will be successful. This is useful when your item reserves are low.
- While monsters all have some favorite items that you can use to increase your chance of success, you do not need to use them. You can use Medicinal Herbs or even Colored Grasses and still be successful.
- You can tame bosses upon rematch, but they require specific items. Check out our guide to taming bosses here.
- Your level matters when trying to tame monsters. The higher your level is, the better your chance at taming success - try leveling up if you keep failing.
Taking Care Of Monsters
To take care of your monsters, you will need to feed them and brush them every day. Brushing them is as simple as going up to them with the brush tool and pressing the action button on them - they'll get a bubble with a musical note or a heart in it to denote success.
There are two ways to feed your monsters. At first, you'll probably have to feed them all individually by gifting them food items. However, once you have a Fodder Bin placed on your farm, you can put Fodder Grass into the bin. The monsters will eat this automatically instead. You will need one fodder per barn and any monster you have put to work will require more.
You can buy Fodder Grass Seeds at the General Store.
What Monsters Can Do For You On The Farm
There are two things that monsters can do for you on the farm:
- Automate your farming.
- Produce items for you.
Once you have raised a monster's friendship level with you high enough, you can set them to work on your farm. Every field is split into three sections and each monster can take care of one section.
When working a field, monsters will water any tilled soil patches and crops, and they will harvest crops at the end of the day and put them in the Shipping Box.
Monsters who are put to work will require more fodder and will also gradually lose health. Monsters at low health will show you their status with a scribble speech mark and refuse to work for you - there are three methods to deal with this:
- Stop making them work until they recover their health.
- Heal them manually with items such as Recovery Potions.
- Heal them manually with healing spells. To do this, you will have to temporarily add the monster to your party and then use the spell.
Some monsters will also produce items for you, with the quality increasing as you increase your friendship with them. They will produce items once per day, even if they are currently set to working your fields. This is very useful for hoarding multiples of a certain item type, such as threads or furs.
A table of all possible monster produce is at the bottom of this article.
What Monsters Can Do For You In Battle
Monsters can be added to your party just like NPCs can, though you can only take two with you at a time. To do this, interact with your target monster and select the option to take them with you. Different monsters will have different behaviors in the field, with some being more aggressive and effective than others.
Monsters level up along with you as you gain experience beating foes.
- Monsters in your barns will earn 50 percent of your experience gains.
- Monsters in your party will earn 100 percent of your experience gains.
You can also increase your monsters' stats by gifting them items. Their favorite items will provide larger boosts, but any item will work as long as it does not have adverse effects, such as a Failed Dish.
Some monsters can be ridden - this will increase your speed and may unlock unique attacks. To ride a monster, interact with them in the field.
All Monster Produce
The table below will list all the items that monsters can produces. It will also list the item's classification and the monsters that produce it.
| Produce | Item Type | Monsters | Monster Locations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bird's Feather | Feathers | Weagle | Water Ruins |
| Black Bird Feather | Feathers | Blackbird | Maya Road, Rune Prana |
| Bull's Horn | Sticks and Stems | Buffaloo | Delirium Lava Ruins |
| Dangerous Scissors | Claws and Fangs | Heaven's Scissors | Rune Prana |
| Egg | Dairy | Cluckadoodle Mamadoodle | Selphia Plain, Cluck-Cluck Nest Cluck-Cluck Nest |
| Fairy Dust | Powders and Spores | Fairy | Selphia Plain |
| Fairy Elixir | Powders and Spores | Dark Fairy | Floating Empire |
| Fur | Furs | Chipsqueek | Selphia Plain |
| Fur (S) / (M) / (L)* | Furs | Shmooly Wooly | Sercerezo Hill Selphia Plain |
| Gold Wolf Fang | Claws and Fangs | Hunter Wolf | Sechs Territory |
| Honey | Dairy | Hornet Hornet Queen King Bee | Yokmir Cave Maya Road Rune Prana |
| Insect Carapace | Cloths and Skins | Ant | Yokmir Forest |
| Insect Horn | Sticks and Stems | Beetle | Yokmir Forest, Selphia Plain |
| Milk (S) / (M) / (L) ** | Dairy | Buffamoo | Selphia Plain |
| Plant Stem | Sticks and Stems | Flower Lion Leaf Ball | Delirium Lava Ruins Yokmir Cave |
| Poison Powder | Powders and Spores | Tricky Muck | Autumn Road |
| Pretty Carapace | Cloths and Skins | Killer Ant | Yokmir Cave |
| Pretty Thread | Strings | Hell Spider | Floating Empire |
| Quality Puffy Fur | Furs | Furpy | Autumn Road |
| Queen's Jaw | Claws and Fangs | Ant Queen | Rune Prana |
| Rigid Horn | Sticks and Stems | Heracles | Maya Road |
| Root | Powders and Spores | Flower Blossom Planchoa | Sercerezo Hill Maya Road |
| Scorpion Tail | Strings | Death Stalker Scorpion | Sercerezo Hill Delirium Lava Ruins |
| Spider's Thread | Strings | Spider | Obsidian Mansion |
| Spore | Powders and Spores | Big Muck | Selphia Plain |
| Strong Vine | Strings | Flower Crystal | Sechs Territory |
| Thunderbird Feather | Feathers | Thunderbird | Floating Empire |
| Vine | Strings | Flower Lily | Autumn Road |
| Wolf Fang | Claws and Fangs | Silver Wolf | Autumn Road |
* Woolies will produce different size Fur depending on their friendship level. At five hearts, they will start producing Medium Fur, and at eight hearts, they will start producing Large Fur. Shmoolies will always produce Medium Fur.
** Buffamoos will produce different size Milks depending on their friendship level. At five hearts they will start producing Medium Milk, and at eight hearts they will start producing Large Milk.
Source: https://www.thegamer.com/rune-factory-4-special-monster-farming-taming/