An in depth guide that explains why Beefalo Taming can turn even the weakest characters into powerhouses. How to Tame a Beefalo: • How to Actually Tame a...
@@ramonhannemanwell, thats not so bad if you are playing something like Wolfgang or Wanda. Cuz it would be stupid to attack with beef when you can deal way more dmg on your own
Feeding beefalo spicy foods increases it’s damage, and even though beefalo can’t eat volt goat jelly it still benefits from the damage multiplier if you eat it then attack stuff with your beefalo. You can also give it 30% damage reduction with garlic-spiced food making that 1000 health shield way better.
@@jakobcoper6744 I found out For volt goat chaud-froid YOU eat the food and your attacks made on a beefalo gain the electric property and associated buffs. BUT For spices you have to feed it to the beef. I never tried feeding them to the beef lol I just thought they didn't work XD But now I've tested it. This is nice b/c beefs can't wear armor, so garlic spice damage reduction is pretty valuable going into a boss fight.
The more I read this,the more I found it funny cuz out of context,it sounds like you guys are arguing whether or not the player should eat the spices or literally a slab of meat.
With Maxwell's new rework, you can hold all ancient fuel weaver items while still being able to fight. Thats a lot of possible damage plus ease of control as well as negating the negative that is Maxwells low health
I always love taming up a Ornery Beefalo for Maxwell. I love setting up tree farms and get my shadows chopping trees while I fight off tree guards and shadow creatures.
@@Mr_Vol have you seen Bunnyman farm with Maxwell ? build like 20 Rabbit Houses, wall it. As Maxwell, carry a meat to atract them (they will be traped by wall) use Shadow Sneak to turn Bunnymen into Beardlords and start summoning Duelists (it's nice to equip itens that increase Duelist's damage like Magician's Top Hat), then use Shadow Prison to prevent the Bunnymen from running, re-summon Duelists that eventually dies. Because of Shadow Sneak, it will always drops Nightmare Fuel, this way you spend aprox 50% of Codex Umbra durability to get 20 Nightmare Fuel, 20 Monster Meat and 40 Beard Hair, the best thing is that Bunnymen respawn in 1 day. This farm makes Bunnymen OP again, since their drops allow to build tons of Meat Effigies, infinite fuel for fire, a lot of meat to do Pierogi, and Nightmare Fuel, a very demanded item.
I was just thinking about that. The only downside of Maxwell after the rework is his low hp which makes it a little harder for him to survive if you can’t kite. With the beefalo, he can literally do everything. Beefalo also makes it a lot easier to kite a lot of the bosses all without a walking cane and magi.
Re: beefalo meat shield - it's worth mentioning that electric attacks (charged volt goat hit) will still damage your character (even when the attacks are melee), will subtract durability from any armor you're wearing, and insulated clothing doesn't protect you from this on a beefalo. Beware of charged volt goats.
I tamed my first rider beefalo by accident while using it to transport antlion boulders from a cave entrance to my hound defence (which took about a whole season). I then realised just useful they are both on the surface and in the caves! not even the shadow monkey train can keep up with you!
I have to say this convinced me to try and tame beefalo, and I found it incredibly useful with maxwell, not only because of his low health, but also because he needs to fight a lot of nightmare creatures for the nightmare fuel, and the infinity durability/ health regen is extremely useful. I‘ve also found using mushroom planters for blue mushrooms makes for an abundance of healing for the beefalo!
Ever since the maxwell rework, the value of beefalo has only increased and the amount of players who benefit greatly from them is pretty high, but even since before the rework, beefalo taming was a really fun and good strat. Hoping this comment boosts the video in the algorithm, even a bit. Everyone needs to see this!
I do agree with you 100% but I also get it why some players dont tame it. The amount of beefalo I lost cuz I was on foot doing a single task and it got killed. And there goes nothing but a ton of twigs and effort down cuz stupid hounds/pinguins/rook/tentacle/merms/even once two bunnyman cuz my beef was in heat can outdamage it with ease. Just this month Im sure I lost around 5 beefalos for some stupid situation while in taming. It tilted me to death. Today Im in a Wx-78 run and I barely touched a beefalo cuz probably I will get the same speed and boy I need a break to try taming it, geez.
Penguins have got to be the worst. The little shits will pop up announced directly in your base, and since I and probably many others base near the ocean for fast kelp farming...
Another advantage is that you can use piggyback which is pretty useful especially in the early game. I love the idea of taming beefalo when playing coop. You don't need to compete for walking canes, armors, weapons, and Krampus sack when it drops since beefalo already gives you that.
The depth and speed of this video is great. I already use beefalo often but since I’m currently taking a break from the game this video is a solid refresher
You should also rush a Glossomer Saddle. You need to start punching butterflies as soon a you spawn in since day is longer in the beginning. You do need to scout out totally normal trees and spiders for the other materials during dusk and night. I have been consistently finishing a glossomer saddle by day 6-9. Of course I always build a normal saddle first to start the taming process early.
I think the part that I really don't like about tamming beefalo Its how I'm in constant fear of when the beefalo is going to kick me wether I'm in a danger zone or fighting a boss
Nice and well-thought out video, Lardee! you really explained everything I've always wanting to say to other players everytime they laugh at me riding a beefalo instead of just using Full Speed WX or wanda. But as a Professional Beefalo Rider myself, I think I should also give out a couple of things to note about Beefalo taming: - Be careful not to get too accustomed to Beefalo Riding. It is a very addictive activity to do and once you have gotten used to its amazing effects Beefalo riding became like a drug - Just walking is not enough anymore and you'd find it hard not to start taming a beefalo eventhough you are playing as Wanda/Wolfgang and doesn't really have a use for a Beefalo to fight. - As much Beefalo as quite strong, it has a couple of downsides that can be very annoying to take care of. Unlike fighting on foot, if you want to heal your beefalo, you need to drop down from your beefalo first to feed them their 4x effective healing food and that can take quite a lot of cooldown time to do, so fighting enemies that can deal continuous big damage or a huge single damage can be very dangerous to a Beefalo Rider (5 hits from the Twin Eyes can kill your Beefalo). - Maintaining your beefalo before it reached maturity can be a hassle as well- if you go with the 5 grass/lightbulb method, not only do you have to be careful when you could get bucked off, you also need to quickly feed them said item before they instantly drops your saddle and reduces their durability, and god forbid you use one of the more expensive saddles with this method. if you go with the method of feeding them until they are full, you'll always have to remember to collect at least a stack of twigs that you can cook into 10 Steamed Twigs which gave 100 hungers each and you can feed 3 of it at the start to get them to full before giving them grass/lightbulb to get their obedience to its maximum. then its just a matter of giving it 1 steamed twigs and any 2 random edibles everytime its asking for food. its way less of a hassle than before the invention of steamed hams but it will still take some time of whatever else you should be doing. - If you are a Warly main: Good news! You can actually buff your beefalo with seasonings and give them either extra damage or 33% defense on top of its massive hp pool. couple that with you eating volt goat jelly and you got a recipe for crazy damage. - Also: if you are a Walter main: TAME A BEEFALO AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. not only does it provide all the benefits mentioned above, it also negates your biggest weakness and buffs your sanity perks. don't listen to those idiots who asks you to give your beefalo to them to be killed by a random spider because "You have Woby, y u need Beef?" and laugh as you single-handedly kill every boss and minibosses without having to care about using a bee queen crown or sanity.
Reworked Maxwell with the beefalo is insanely good. Quick gathering, more damage than a Wolfgang (But you have to defeat AFW) and at the same time you can control mobs or bosses, but you will need lots of sanity food (Cactuses are free for a beefalo rider) or bone helmet.
Not to mention the wickbottom rework essentially allows Maxwell to take advantage of nearly all of Wickerbottom's powers if she only crafts some books for him once (the bookcase allows books to regain durability). This means that Maxwell can essentially use Wickerbottom as a swap character like Winona. Maxwell has lowkey become ridiculously versatile recently.
fax my brother! I recommend trying multiple runs on different worlds to get used to taking care of a beefalo and improving your strategy. I tried beef rushing earlier this month and now have gotten multiple orneries across many of my Wurt runs.
Don't forget that most non-player entities take extra damage from bosses, both deerclops and tree guards deal double the damage per hit, among many examples. Most of the time it's double damage so be careful.
If you tame an ornery, it also makes wendy and wes's damage modifier irrelevant. But it does the same for any character with a damage modifier. The reason i usually dont tame them is because im playing a character with speed or damage already, and dont wanna deal with getting bucked off for a whole season
@@hajimehinata5854 Ornery is definitely better, you can use a glossamer saddle to get both speed & damage, that's what I use because I can't stand the war saddle speed
Thanks for that man, I always avoided beefalos since it seems a lot of hassle but seeing now all the benefits im defs gonna implement them in my gameplay from now on!
When the player riding a beefalo eats spicy volt goat jelly the damage bonus carries over to the beefalo for crazy damage. i'm not sure if the garlic spice defense buff works though, i hope it does work.
Once you started taming beefalo you can't stop, you got addicted to such movespeed from the start of the game, in some cases its a little bit annoying but for the most part worth it.
I thought people knew this and just wasn't using it because it was tedious on speedruns or whatever. I've been using this method ever since the new bell thingy came into play. Now with the new food Steamed Sticks, it's easier to get Pudgy. So my Worthox can easily gain Sanity from it as well.
You didn't mention any downsides and any price you have to pay for beefalo taming, as if everything beefalo provides can be obtained fast, completely for free and takes no management of any kind. First, you really have to be commited to taming it. Not only does it take 20+ days of constant riding, but it also takes stacks upon stacks upon stacks of twigs or lightbulbs to keep its obedience up so you can ride it. And when it's fully tamed, it takes a LOT of placing and hammering of salt licks when the beefalo is not in use. Not even accounting for the boards and nitre. It also puts you at a risk of bucking you off in the middle of danger (or bucking you off in general, which slows you down, is annoying and especially annoying in spring). So being like "cane + road" isn't entirely true, because of the time you spend feeding for obedience and getting back on the beefalo (or manually dismounting when you feel like it's going to buck you off) If a beefalo gets aggroed onto anything while it's not ridden, you will not be able to ride it or tell it to stop attacking. If it gets swarmed by something like bees, it's gonna die 100% unless you by some miracle manage to get far enough away so that it teleports to you. You can't perform most actions while riding it. Can't use crock pots, can't access containers, can't chop/mine/hammer, can't harvest from bee boxes and drying racks, can't build structures(?). So you will have to dismount it A LOT and feed it several times again for obedience if you're still taming it or if it's tamed ornery. 1000 health is surprisingly not much at all when dealing with a hard-hitting multi-attack boss like celestial champion or twins of terror. And you can't even see the health unless it falls under 200. Beefalo also only gains x4 healing from food, but not from healing items, which means even more micro-management with bundle wraps, cause healing food spoils. And even healing beefalo during a boss fight is an ordeal in itself. Dismount, feed, wait for it to chew, feed, wait for it to chew, mount - all while a boss is neaby. And lastly, it leaves manure everywhere it goes. Hardly a downside for Wormwood because he can delete it instantly, but every other character has to put up with it and either waste an inventory slot or have the entire world dirty. I really tried to like beefalo taming. I've tamed several beefalos before, but with every new beefalo I tame everything it provides just doesn't feel like it's worth it anymore. And that's even with Wendy being my main character, who benefits from a beefalo more than average. "Infinite" armor? I have no problems farming nightmare fuel and going to the swamp for night armors. I tend to not even use football helmets much. "Infinite" weapon? Shield of terror. "Infinite" healing? Never an issue. Speed? Feels like it's even slower than walking because of all the mounting-feeding-remounting during the taming process. Beefalo's speed matters a lot more for carrying heavy objects.
Salt licks - this just isn't a thing anymore. You can take a beefalo onto a boat, down into the caves, and it will stay with its bell if you absolutely need to leave it behind. The only reason for salt licks is if you're leaving the beefalo behind for >20 days at a time, but why would you do that?
This is true but if you take the perspective of some chars, why would i tame a beefalo with wanda, wx, wig and wolf, its just not worth but beefalo best perk is to ignore some chars downsides
Rider Beefalo is definitely with it if you’re playing as Witford or Wolf. WX still benefits a lot from ornery. Late game Wanda probably is better without it.
All the beefalos I've tamed end up dying on me, so I had given up on taming beefs. But after watching this video and learning that the beefs give a 66% speed boost, I gave it a try to at least ride a beef for the first Autumn. The speed withdrawal is real! 😂 I have a few questions though: 1. How did you calculate the speed of the beefalo? The wiki just says speed tiers but I only know speed percantages, so figuring that out would be useful in determining what kind of beefalo I want. 2. My beefalo kept shaking its saddle off a lot (I ended up needing to make a 2nd one). I tried watching the other video you had but I think I'm missing something. Is it that you need to feed your beef 15 lightbulbs a day? 3. When would one prefer a rider beef over an ornery beefalo? I'm more than happy just zooming across the map but I'd like to know if there are any major gameplay benefit that a rider beef might provide that I'm simply not aware of. 4. How do you do that faster attack animation with the beef? I always trying canceling the animation like I've seen in videos but I always seem to fail for some reason. Nice video btw!
1. Speed was calculated by taking the Beefalo's speed from the wiki (7) divided by the player's default speed (6) = 1.167. Then multiplying this number by the speed boost of the regular saddle (1.4) = 1.633. 2. 15 lightbulbs a day is equal to the total amount of obedience it will lose over the course of a day if its hunger is kept at 0. However, you can't just feed it 15 lightbulbs all at one time per day because obedience maxes out at 100% and each lightbulb gives 10% obedience. Instead of focusing on 15 lightbulbs per day, I would ride it as much as possible and whenever you get off of it, either immediately try to ride it again, or if you're going to be off for a while, feed it at least 5 items. The beefalo will refuse to let you ride it if its obedience is below 50%, and it will shake its saddle off it it's below 40. By immediately trying to ride your beefalo again, you'll trigger its roar animation if its obedience is under 50. This tells you that you should feed it at least 5 times (since 50% + any number below 50 < 100, so you're not wasting food). In addition to this, the roar animation cancels the beefalo shaking off its saddle. So even if your Beefalo's obedience is well below 40%, you can just constantly make it roar by trying to mount it while you look through your inventory for beefalo food. So to summarize, ride it as much as possible, if it bucks you off, immediately try to hop on again because it'll either let you or it will roar and roaring will stop it from shaking off its saddle. If you're going to be off for a while, feed it at least 5 things before doing so. 3. As you probably know, I'm a Wendy main so I always go for Ornery. In my opinion, the only times I would go for Rider is if I'm using characters that have above average DPS such as Wigfrid, Wolfgang or Wanda or if I already have an Ornery Beefalo tamed. Even if normal characters can out damage the Beefalo with a Hambat or Dark Sword, the infinite tentacle spike with the normal saddle and potentially 66 damage if you get the War Saddle is just so convenient for all the day to day fights. Rider is faster and can reach speeds above 200% if you get glossomer's saddle, but in my opinion Ornery with a glossomer's saddle (181%) is more than fast enough. However, quite a few of my friends have said that they prefer rider over ornery because they don't have to feed their beefalo every time they want to ride it. 4. First thing to note is that it is HIGHLY dependent on your ping. If you've got bad ping, then you're not going to be able to do it, at least not with no lag compensation on. This is why whenever you see me play with friends, I'm not animation canceling because I don't think it's possible with the bad ping that I get when I'm not hosting. Second is that it does just take some practice. At first I was discouraged because I would miss a ton of attacks, but it really is something that you just have to get familiar with. Use mods like epic health bar to see which hits connect and which ones miss.
I wonder if it would be easier with Wortox, since the food you give to beefalo is better spent there anyway instead of him, and the healing allows you to kill more mobs, meaning more souls and therefore Wortox still can heal. Although it would render his teleport ability useless. Beefalos might be better with characters with 0 speed boosts.
Beefalo are amazing! Now blue mushrooms become even more OP since beefalo get 80 hp per shroom without downside as they don't have sanity. I'm still unsure of whether ornery beefalo is preferrable over default tendency (with war saddle), since in emergency situations, ornery needs to be fed to be ridden and escape/fight, which might kill you.
True, but the beefalo ride time is so long, that if you venture into the swamp or if you’re fighting a boss, you can dismount and re-mount to reset the timer
This is my first time taming a beefalo. Its kinda confusing for me, feels like im playing a new kind of dst. But its really worth it. Getting food is super easy. Learning to use maxwell. Seems pretty cool. I think taming beefalo will be a default gameplay for me from now on, bcs of how good and simple it is once u know what u are doing.
A beefalo’s hunger can be completely ignored, you just gotta keep riding it and feeding it if you can’t get on. Lardee has other videos showing how to tame a beef
@@pineapplepizza6949 Is that so? I do have a world in which I domesticated an ornary beefalo (which helped me kill ancient guardian for the first time), but I go really annoyed with it because I thought I had to keep it fed constantly or else it would become undomesticated. This was the first Lardee vid that I watched, so I think I shall watch some more of his beefalo content. Thank you for the information.
How can I get my tamed Beefalo underground? I am playing on DST. I cannot seem to get the Beefalo underground no matter what I do. Does this only work for DS singleplayer.
Taming beefalos is one of the best things to do as a experienced wendy player it's a really good idea although I suggest not taming during spring it's annoying characters can get a beefalo for different reasons as well example ornery beefalo for wormwood for safety or speed beefalo for Wolfgang sense he's already strong
Also keep in mind that being on beefalos doesn't mean your totally safe as ranged attacks still hit you and if you aren't wearing armor you'll likely die
What I find to be the no.1 reason why people are so hesitant to tame a Beefalo is security. If your Beefalo dies, that's it, there's no way to bring it back(except for rollback) and you've just lost around 20 days worth of effort. I don't bother taming beefalos all that much since I play on Public Servers and there people don't wanna rollback just cause a Beefalo died.
Beefalo taming is one of those things that'll be never nerfed because a certain youtuber ruined its image for generations to come + the average dst player starves from standing still next to a fire pit
Hello, please answer someone I tamed the buffalo, but when I get on it, it won't pick up things on the ground, I have to get off it. I rode it again, what should I do to fix it?
Great video, gonna do the same in my game. One question though. What do you do when beefalo has red ass, he's agressive to everything, so how to tame it during this period? Use beefalo hat?
Wendy with beefalo was always overpowered combo but even more so when you consider how easier beefalo taming has become now. I like to find Bee Queen since her surrounding is full of flowers, then grind butterflies for glossamer saddle and tame my beefalo to be rider. It may be time consuming but it is worth it in my opinion since glossamer saddle has more durability over normal one allowing for more mistakes for not managing your beefalo's obedience. Although I only messed up once so it wasn't big deal to me. But the fact that fully tame rider beefalo with glossamer saddle can outright outrun hounds just feels so good, I can lead them to danger and bail immediately.
Just an fyi, you can grind butterflies anywhere. The same amount spawn whether you have 1 flower or 100, the only thing that makes more butterflies appear is having more players nearby.
I recommend using the "Beefalo Buck Timer" mode. It shows you how long you can ride a beefalo at the current taming level. Since it's a client mode you can use it while playing on Klei's official servers.
attacking a big tentacle is a very fast way to get ornery, just make sure not to kill it and just stand in the baby tentacles till ur beefalo is at 300~ hp or for a safer method just hold F on a snurtle
I go everywhere with my beef! but when it comes to ornery, people who often get on and off like me, I think it can be annoying and dangerous to feed beef every time. How do ornery-tamers deal with this downside?
In caves I feed light bulbs/lesser glowberries/lichen early on, before eventually building roads lined with twiggy trees so that I can replenish twig supply while on the move. On the surface I don't strip the biomes clean - leave enough wild grass and saplings (~3 of each in one place) to provide some roughage every few screens around the roads/corridors I travel through. At sea - I try to stock up on twigs before going out, otherwise kelp can be used in a pinch. Don't go out to sea while still domesticating the beef, or remember to stock up in the waterlogged biome.
That's why i went with rider tendency this time! The ability to always hop on in emergency situations to avoid death without feeding is more than worth the lower damage (when playing as maxwell). Now I'm looking to get a default tendency beefalo to get 34 dmg instead of 25, while still keeping sufficient minimum obedience. Do you think it's worth the tradeoff with ornery?
Why would you need to fight bunnymen, spider warriors, depth worms and hounds? You can literally outrun them without a beefalo, I would only suggest fighting hounds and nightmare creatures as hounds can be annoying to deal with sometimes but if you have any other creatures around, just get them to attack anything other than you. I do agree with you that taming a beefalo is extremely useful, especially for characters that have 0.75 damage modifiers but as currently Wanda is the best character in the game because of teleportation, you don't need beefalo if you play her, I would suggest anyone not playing Wanda to learn beefalo taming.
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This has been a revelation to me of what non-beefalo players have to go through.
I'm even worse, I have a tamed beefalo and only use it to travel lol. Some things are going to change in my world :)
@@ramonhannemanwell, thats not so bad if you are playing something like Wolfgang or Wanda. Cuz it would be stupid to attack with beef when you can deal way more dmg on your own
So true
Feeding beefalo spicy foods increases it’s damage, and even though beefalo can’t eat volt goat jelly it still benefits from the damage multiplier if you eat it then attack stuff with your beefalo. You can also give it 30% damage reduction with garlic-spiced food making that 1000 health shield way better.
Does it benefit from garlic spice? Do you have to feed the beef or do you eat it?
Yeah, who has to eat the spiced food for beefalo to get it's effect, you or the beef itself?
@@jakobcoper6744 I found out
For volt goat chaud-froid YOU eat the food and your attacks made on a beefalo gain the electric property and associated buffs.
BUT
For spices you have to feed it to the beef. I never tried feeding them to the beef lol I just thought they didn't work XD But now I've tested it. This is nice b/c beefs can't wear armor, so garlic spice damage reduction is pretty valuable going into a boss fight.
@@jakobcoper6744 You have to eat volt goat jelly to turn your damage electric but spices need to be feed to the beefalo to get their effect.
The more I read this,the more I found it funny cuz out of context,it sounds like you guys are arguing whether or not the player should eat the spices or literally a slab of meat.
With Maxwell's new rework, you can hold all ancient fuel weaver items while still being able to fight. Thats a lot of possible damage plus ease of control as well as negating the negative that is Maxwells low health
I always love taming up a Ornery Beefalo for Maxwell. I love setting up tree farms and get my shadows chopping trees while I fight off tree guards and shadow creatures.
I love new maxwell and beefalo!
can you still attack with beefalo's base damage + infinite durability with the thurible?
@@Mr_Vol have you seen Bunnyman farm with Maxwell ? build like 20 Rabbit Houses, wall it. As Maxwell, carry a meat to atract them (they will be traped by wall) use Shadow Sneak to turn Bunnymen into Beardlords and start summoning Duelists (it's nice to equip itens that increase Duelist's damage like Magician's Top Hat), then use Shadow Prison to prevent the Bunnymen from running, re-summon Duelists that eventually dies. Because of Shadow Sneak, it will always drops Nightmare Fuel, this way you spend aprox 50% of Codex Umbra durability to get 20 Nightmare Fuel, 20 Monster Meat and 40 Beard Hair, the best thing is that Bunnymen respawn in 1 day.
This farm makes Bunnymen OP again, since their drops allow to build tons of Meat Effigies, infinite fuel for fire, a lot of meat to do Pierogi, and Nightmare Fuel, a very demanded item.
I was just thinking about that. The only downside of Maxwell after the rework is his low hp which makes it a little harder for him to survive if you can’t kite. With the beefalo, he can literally do everything. Beefalo also makes it a lot easier to kite a lot of the bosses all without a walking cane and magi.
Re: beefalo meat shield - it's worth mentioning that electric attacks (charged volt goat hit) will still damage your character (even when the attacks are melee), will subtract durability from any armor you're wearing, and insulated clothing doesn't protect you from this on a beefalo.
Beware of charged volt goats.
And bishops
He already mentions rare damage sources in the video
Yo youtube recommend this to don't starve together players. Please.
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@@zandbergx9747 i think it worked
I tamed my first rider beefalo by accident while using it to transport antlion boulders from a cave entrance to my hound defence (which took about a whole season). I then realised just useful they are both on the surface and in the caves! not even the shadow monkey train can keep up with you!
I have to say this convinced me to try and tame beefalo, and I found it incredibly useful with maxwell, not only because of his low health, but also because he needs to fight a lot of nightmare creatures for the nightmare fuel, and the infinity durability/ health regen is extremely useful.
I‘ve also found using mushroom planters for blue mushrooms makes for an abundance of healing for the beefalo!
Having a beefalo is also good as wx because it means I can try out other circuit combos that isn’t just 3 speed circuits
also makes pudgy beefalo obsolete with the music box circuit
Pudgy beefalo is rolling in its grave
@@walmartiancheese4922 pudgy 💀
Ever since the maxwell rework, the value of beefalo has only increased and the amount of players who benefit greatly from them is pretty high, but even since before the rework, beefalo taming was a really fun and good strat. Hoping this comment boosts the video in the algorithm, even a bit. Everyone needs to see this!
I'm a Wendy main, it suits my super safe play style.
I never bothered with taming beef, I will give this a try.
Also beef ignore your port damage without Abby and get a buff from Abby meaning you can get pretty insane dps
only downside you cant have beef in caves and ruins
@@wall-e5869 huh with beef bell i am pretty damn sure you can now brings beefs down cave already
@@wall-e5869Footage literally shows beefalo in caves and ruins.
I do agree with you 100% but I also get it why some players dont tame it. The amount of beefalo I lost cuz I was on foot doing a single task and it got killed. And there goes nothing but a ton of twigs and effort down cuz stupid hounds/pinguins/rook/tentacle/merms/even once two bunnyman cuz my beef was in heat can outdamage it with ease. Just this month Im sure I lost around 5 beefalos for some stupid situation while in taming. It tilted me to death.
Today Im in a Wx-78 run and I barely touched a beefalo cuz probably I will get the same speed and boy I need a break to try taming it, geez.
Penguins have got to be the worst. The little shits will pop up announced directly in your base, and since I and probably many others base near the ocean for fast kelp farming...
probably because most of the beefalo tutorial calling them tedius to tame, so most of the players just listen to those and never bother to try.
Another advantage is that you can use piggyback which is pretty useful especially in the early game. I love the idea of taming beefalo when playing coop. You don't need to compete for walking canes, armors, weapons, and Krampus sack when it drops since beefalo already gives you that.
The depth and speed of this video is great. I already use beefalo often but since I’m currently taking a break from the game this video is a solid refresher
You should also rush a Glossomer Saddle. You need to start punching butterflies as soon a you spawn in since day is longer in the beginning. You do need to scout out totally normal trees and spiders for the other materials during dusk and night. I have been consistently finishing a glossomer saddle by day 6-9. Of course I always build a normal saddle first to start the taming process early.
I think the part that I really don't like about tamming beefalo Its how I'm in constant fear of when the beefalo is going to kick me wether I'm in a danger zone or fighting a boss
whem you surpas the 50% of Taming, is more hard to the beefalo kick you.
@@manuelchalarca5350 and when is fully tamed it will almost never do that cuz you will dismount it before the timer runs out almost %100 of the time
A fully tamed one has a >10 min timer
Nice and well-thought out video, Lardee! you really explained everything I've always wanting to say to other players everytime they laugh at me riding a beefalo instead of just using Full Speed WX or wanda.
But as a Professional Beefalo Rider myself, I think I should also give out a couple of things to note about Beefalo taming:
- Be careful not to get too accustomed to Beefalo Riding. It is a very addictive activity to do and once you have gotten used to its amazing effects Beefalo riding became like a drug - Just walking is not enough anymore and you'd find it hard not to start taming a beefalo eventhough you are playing as Wanda/Wolfgang and doesn't really have a use for a Beefalo to fight.
- As much Beefalo as quite strong, it has a couple of downsides that can be very annoying to take care of. Unlike fighting on foot, if you want to heal your beefalo, you need to drop down from your beefalo first to feed them their 4x effective healing food and that can take quite a lot of cooldown time to do, so fighting enemies that can deal continuous big damage or a huge single damage can be very dangerous to a Beefalo Rider (5 hits from the Twin Eyes can kill your Beefalo).
- Maintaining your beefalo before it reached maturity can be a hassle as well- if you go with the 5 grass/lightbulb method, not only do you have to be careful when you could get bucked off, you also need to quickly feed them said item before they instantly drops your saddle and reduces their durability, and god forbid you use one of the more expensive saddles with this method.
if you go with the method of feeding them until they are full, you'll always have to remember to collect at least a stack of twigs that you can cook into 10 Steamed Twigs which gave 100 hungers each and you can feed 3 of it at the start to get them to full before giving them grass/lightbulb to get their obedience to its maximum. then its just a matter of giving it 1 steamed twigs and any 2 random edibles everytime its asking for food. its way less of a hassle than before the invention of steamed hams but it will still take some time of whatever else you should be doing.
- If you are a Warly main: Good news! You can actually buff your beefalo with seasonings and give them either extra damage or 33% defense on top of its massive hp pool. couple that with you eating volt goat jelly and you got a recipe for crazy damage.
- Also: if you are a Walter main: TAME A BEEFALO AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. not only does it provide all the benefits mentioned above, it also negates your biggest weakness and buffs your sanity perks. don't listen to those idiots who asks you to give your beefalo to them to be killed by a random spider because "You have Woby, y u need Beef?" and laugh as you single-handedly kill every boss and minibosses without having to care about using a bee queen crown or sanity.
Reworked Maxwell with the beefalo is insanely good.
Quick gathering, more damage than a Wolfgang (But you have to defeat AFW) and at the same time you can control mobs or bosses, but you will need lots of sanity food (Cactuses are free for a beefalo rider) or bone helmet.
Not to mention the wickbottom rework essentially allows Maxwell to take advantage of nearly all of Wickerbottom's powers if she only crafts some books for him once (the bookcase allows books to regain durability). This means that Maxwell can essentially use Wickerbottom as a swap character like Winona.
Maxwell has lowkey become ridiculously versatile recently.
fax my brother! I recommend trying multiple runs on different worlds to get used to taking care of a beefalo and improving your strategy. I tried beef rushing earlier this month and now have gotten multiple orneries across many of my Wurt runs.
Don't forget that most non-player entities take extra damage from bosses, both deerclops and tree guards deal double the damage per hit, among many examples. Most of the time it's double damage so be careful.
Thats true but that only applies if you arent riding the beefalo there is no damage multiplier when on top of the beef
Wendy mains assemble
My friend introduced me, a Maxwell player, to the speed of a Rider Beefallo.
I promptly farmed 68 butterfly wings asap after trying the normal saddle.
After this knowledge I sure hope start seeing Wendy speedruns. As you said you become Wolfgang+a gost
This is such a mind opener. Beefalo taming is available in DS and this is the first time I'd consider it
If you tame an ornery, it also makes wendy and wes's damage modifier irrelevant. But it does the same for any character with a damage modifier.
The reason i usually dont tame them is because im playing a character with speed or damage already, and dont wanna deal with getting bucked off for a whole season
What character is that?
Oh Wanda 🙄
Even playing as Wanda, I'm willing to try beefalo taming again. I think it would be nice for certain personal challenges.
Maxwell spells & duelists + Ornery beefalo is op asf, it melts most of the bosses with little to no preparation
Should I go rider or ornery, bc ornery seems to be better
@@hajimehinata5854 Ornery is definitely better, you can use a glossamer saddle to get both speed & damage, that's what I use because I can't stand the war saddle speed
@@wawisser3637 rider with glossamer seems to be ZOOM
Thanks for that man, I always avoided beefalos since it seems a lot of hassle but seeing now all the benefits im defs gonna implement them in my gameplay from now on!
When the player riding a beefalo eats spicy volt goat jelly the damage bonus carries over to the beefalo for crazy damage. i'm not sure if the garlic spice defense buff works though, i hope it does work.
Unlike with the Goat jelly, for the garlic spice buff to apply, you need to feed it to the beefalo itself.
nutty lardee video
In my 7 months/239 hours of DST, I never really considered beefalo taming. Now I'm interested.
I tried it once but it got h**** within a day and was quickly murdered by the pigs in my village
I'm just coming back to this game, and this wasn't even a thing back when i was last playing... or maybe i didn't know about it... thank you good sir!
Very well structured video! You need to get more credit for these videos! Simply amazing!
I'm so happy to see someone appreciating beefaloo as I do
Once you started taming beefalo you can't stop, you got addicted to such movespeed from the start of the game, in some cases its a little bit annoying but for the most part worth it.
Playing as Wes just highlights the advantage of beefalo riding and taming. Capital!
Now I must know everything about beefalos and beefalo taming.
Thank you!
I love beefs, healing for them is so easy if you have a blue mush forest you can visit before boss fights
great video! Everything is very well laid out and explained very clearly
I thought people knew this and just wasn't using it because it was tedious on speedruns or whatever. I've been using this method ever since the new bell thingy came into play. Now with the new food Steamed Sticks, it's easier to get Pudgy. So my Worthox can easily gain Sanity from it as well.
Excellent vid, I’m now reevaluating my entire gameplay style
You didn't mention any downsides and any price you have to pay for beefalo taming, as if everything beefalo provides can be obtained fast, completely for free and takes no management of any kind. First, you really have to be commited to taming it. Not only does it take 20+ days of constant riding, but it also takes stacks upon stacks upon stacks of twigs or lightbulbs to keep its obedience up so you can ride it. And when it's fully tamed, it takes a LOT of placing and hammering of salt licks when the beefalo is not in use. Not even accounting for the boards and nitre.
It also puts you at a risk of bucking you off in the middle of danger (or bucking you off in general, which slows you down, is annoying and especially annoying in spring). So being like "cane + road" isn't entirely true, because of the time you spend feeding for obedience and getting back on the beefalo (or manually dismounting when you feel like it's going to buck you off)
If a beefalo gets aggroed onto anything while it's not ridden, you will not be able to ride it or tell it to stop attacking. If it gets swarmed by something like bees, it's gonna die 100% unless you by some miracle manage to get far enough away so that it teleports to you.
You can't perform most actions while riding it. Can't use crock pots, can't access containers, can't chop/mine/hammer, can't harvest from bee boxes and drying racks, can't build structures(?). So you will have to dismount it A LOT and feed it several times again for obedience if you're still taming it or if it's tamed ornery.
1000 health is surprisingly not much at all when dealing with a hard-hitting multi-attack boss like celestial champion or twins of terror. And you can't even see the health unless it falls under 200. Beefalo also only gains x4 healing from food, but not from healing items, which means even more micro-management with bundle wraps, cause healing food spoils. And even healing beefalo during a boss fight is an ordeal in itself. Dismount, feed, wait for it to chew, feed, wait for it to chew, mount - all while a boss is neaby.
And lastly, it leaves manure everywhere it goes. Hardly a downside for Wormwood because he can delete it instantly, but every other character has to put up with it and either waste an inventory slot or have the entire world dirty.
I really tried to like beefalo taming. I've tamed several beefalos before, but with every new beefalo I tame everything it provides just doesn't feel like it's worth it anymore. And that's even with Wendy being my main character, who benefits from a beefalo more than average.
"Infinite" armor? I have no problems farming nightmare fuel and going to the swamp for night armors. I tend to not even use football helmets much.
"Infinite" weapon? Shield of terror.
"Infinite" healing? Never an issue.
Speed? Feels like it's even slower than walking because of all the mounting-feeding-remounting during the taming process. Beefalo's speed matters a lot more for carrying heavy objects.
Salt licks - this just isn't a thing anymore. You can take a beefalo onto a boat, down into the caves, and it will stay with its bell if you absolutely need to leave it behind. The only reason for salt licks is if you're leaving the beefalo behind for >20 days at a time, but why would you do that?
This is true but if you take the perspective of some chars, why would i tame a beefalo with wanda, wx, wig and wolf, its just not worth but beefalo best perk is to ignore some chars downsides
Rider Beefalo is definitely with it if you’re playing as Witford or Wolf. WX still benefits a lot from ornery.
Late game Wanda probably is better without it.
when i have a beefalo: setup some shroom planters
me when boss fight: haha 80hp heal food go brrr
Me, a WX main being told how important speed is while I'm using my 3 speed circuits, my walking cane, some cobblestone and a mag.
All the beefalos I've tamed end up dying on me, so I had given up on taming beefs.
But after watching this video and learning that the beefs give a 66% speed boost, I gave it a try to at least ride a beef for the first Autumn.
The speed withdrawal is real! 😂
I have a few questions though:
1. How did you calculate the speed of the beefalo? The wiki just says speed tiers but I only know speed percantages, so figuring that out would be useful in determining what kind of beefalo I want.
2. My beefalo kept shaking its saddle off a lot (I ended up needing to make a 2nd one). I tried watching the other video you had but I think I'm missing something. Is it that you need to feed your beef 15 lightbulbs a day?
3. When would one prefer a rider beef over an ornery beefalo? I'm more than happy just zooming across the map but I'd like to know if there are any major gameplay benefit that a rider beef might provide that I'm simply not aware of.
4. How do you do that faster attack animation with the beef? I always trying canceling the animation like I've seen in videos but I always seem to fail for some reason.
Nice video btw!
1. Speed was calculated by taking the Beefalo's speed from the wiki (7) divided by the player's default speed (6) = 1.167. Then multiplying this number by the speed boost of the regular saddle (1.4) = 1.633.
2. 15 lightbulbs a day is equal to the total amount of obedience it will lose over the course of a day if its hunger is kept at 0. However, you can't just feed it 15 lightbulbs all at one time per day because obedience maxes out at 100% and each lightbulb gives 10% obedience. Instead of focusing on 15 lightbulbs per day, I would ride it as much as possible and whenever you get off of it, either immediately try to ride it again, or if you're going to be off for a while, feed it at least 5 items. The beefalo will refuse to let you ride it if its obedience is below 50%, and it will shake its saddle off it it's below 40. By immediately trying to ride your beefalo again, you'll trigger its roar animation if its obedience is under 50. This tells you that you should feed it at least 5 times (since 50% + any number below 50 < 100, so you're not wasting food). In addition to this, the roar animation cancels the beefalo shaking off its saddle. So even if your Beefalo's obedience is well below 40%, you can just constantly make it roar by trying to mount it while you look through your inventory for beefalo food. So to summarize, ride it as much as possible, if it bucks you off, immediately try to hop on again because it'll either let you or it will roar and roaring will stop it from shaking off its saddle. If you're going to be off for a while, feed it at least 5 things before doing so.
3. As you probably know, I'm a Wendy main so I always go for Ornery. In my opinion, the only times I would go for Rider is if I'm using characters that have above average DPS such as Wigfrid, Wolfgang or Wanda or if I already have an Ornery Beefalo tamed. Even if normal characters can out damage the Beefalo with a Hambat or Dark Sword, the infinite tentacle spike with the normal saddle and potentially 66 damage if you get the War Saddle is just so convenient for all the day to day fights. Rider is faster and can reach speeds above 200% if you get glossomer's saddle, but in my opinion Ornery with a glossomer's saddle (181%) is more than fast enough. However, quite a few of my friends have said that they prefer rider over ornery because they don't have to feed their beefalo every time they want to ride it.
4. First thing to note is that it is HIGHLY dependent on your ping. If you've got bad ping, then you're not going to be able to do it, at least not with no lag compensation on. This is why whenever you see me play with friends, I'm not animation canceling because I don't think it's possible with the bad ping that I get when I'm not hosting. Second is that it does just take some practice. At first I was discouraged because I would miss a ton of attacks, but it really is something that you just have to get familiar with. Use mods like epic health bar to see which hits connect and which ones miss.
@@lardeeclips9520 Thanks for the response! I look forward to implementing beefalos into my gameplay!
Great video! Excellent work! 😁 The scale mail insight got me! 😉
I wonder if it would be easier with Wortox, since the food you give to beefalo is better spent there anyway instead of him, and the healing allows you to kill more mobs, meaning more souls and therefore Wortox still can heal. Although it would render his teleport ability useless. Beefalos might be better with characters with 0 speed boosts.
I believe Wortox' Teleport still works while mounted, although I didn't try yet. Have you tested it?
a snitch reported the armor effect passing to beefalo as a bug and klei fixed it 😭😭😭
Fuck!!!
I believe that reason why people dont tame more beef cuz they like a chore and no one like chore
Beefalo are amazing! Now blue mushrooms become even more OP since beefalo get 80 hp per shroom without downside as they don't have sanity. I'm still unsure of whether ornery beefalo is preferrable over default tendency (with war saddle), since in emergency situations, ornery needs to be fed to be ridden and escape/fight, which might kill you.
True, but the beefalo ride time is so long, that if you venture into the swamp or if you’re fighting a boss, you can dismount and re-mount to reset the timer
This is why I use the beefalo stats mod do I can see when my ornery beefalo's obedience meter dips below 50
I like taming beefalos because they become my bestest friend and give me hope when they are tamed.
Cavalry charge is always cool regardless of any mount you use.
Beef attack animation cancelling looks so goofy.
Video is awesome, I wish I had watched this sooner
I'm totally gonna try taming a beefalo today. Thank u for this great and inspiring vid 👍
Man this game got a lot of changes since i beta tested it a lifetime ago lol. Awesome.
This is my first time taming a beefalo. Its kinda confusing for me, feels like im playing a new kind of dst. But its really worth it. Getting food is super easy. Learning to use maxwell. Seems pretty cool. I think taming beefalo will be a default gameplay for me from now on, bcs of how good and simple it is once u know what u are doing.
Playing Maxwell now, and needed this video, thanks!
I didn't know they could be tamed... but I will be using this asset now!
i was accualy delaying befriending buffalo due to some thinks, but now it jumped to the top of priority
How do you effectively heal the beefalo during a fight? You need to dismount, feed it food and remount. That's a lot of seconds in most fights.
Of my usual gaming buddies, I'm usually the only one that tames a Beefalo. They don't know what they're missing!
during the mating season, a friendly buffalo is a problem
I’m was wondering how Abigail affects Wendy’s damage on a beefalo. Thank you!
In the thumbnail Wendy looks like she has a big mustache and asian eyes
the main reason i tend not to use beefalo is because of its hunger. i still don't really know how it works despite reading a lot of stuff about it
Lardee made a video about that
A beefalo’s hunger can be completely ignored, you just gotta keep riding it and feeding it if you can’t get on. Lardee has other videos showing how to tame a beef
@@pineapplepizza6949 Is that so? I do have a world in which I domesticated an ornary beefalo (which helped me kill ancient guardian for the first time), but I go really annoyed with it because I thought I had to keep it fed constantly or else it would become undomesticated. This was the first Lardee vid that I watched, so I think I shall watch some more of his beefalo content. Thank you for the information.
@@SirKibbles61904 salt licks prevent domestication decay
How can I get my tamed Beefalo underground? I am playing on DST. I cannot seem to get the Beefalo underground no matter what I do. Does this only work for DS singleplayer.
bond it to a beefalo bell
Alright, i'm starting new beefalo-taming server.
As a Wendy main this is very resourceful information
Taming beefalos is one of the best things to do as a experienced wendy player it's a really good idea although I suggest not taming during spring it's annoying characters can get a beefalo for different reasons as well example ornery beefalo for wormwood for safety or speed beefalo for Wolfgang sense he's already strong
Literally they also made it way more convenient to tame beefalos like the new beefalo feed that only cost 4 twigs in the crockpot
Also keep in mind that being on beefalos doesn't mean your totally safe as ranged attacks still hit you and if you aren't wearing armor you'll likely die
Cumi cumia
What I find to be the no.1 reason why people are so hesitant to tame a Beefalo is security. If your Beefalo dies, that's it, there's no way to bring it back(except for rollback) and you've just lost around 20 days worth of effort.
I don't bother taming beefalos all that much since I play on Public Servers and there people don't wanna rollback just cause a Beefalo died.
Fun fact: a dst beefalo has the same health as the quacken in shipwrecked
Didn't knew about that beefalo + Wendy
Fr that's op.
How. To. Tame.
What an enlightening video to watch.
The RUclips algorithm is on point today
Beefalo taming is one of those things that'll be never nerfed because a certain youtuber ruined its image for generations to come + the average dst player starves from standing still next to a fire pit
Who's the certain RUclipsr?
Hello, please answer someone
I tamed the buffalo, but when I get on it, it won't pick up things on the ground, I have to get off it.
I rode it again, what should I do to fix it?
I tame a beefalo for "only explore the caves", and now he is ALWAYS whit me...
Great video, gonna do the same in my game. One question though. What do you do when beefalo has red ass, he's agressive to everything, so how to tame it during this period? Use beefalo hat?
yep, beefalo hat is needed
As a solo ds player, I gotta say, beefalo taming is a nightmare 💀
you should try the integrated backpack option in settings, it's way better
When u fight the ancient guardian why are you constantly put up and take down your helmet? Is that some exploit or what?
Alright you sold me the build, I'm gonna do this now on my wendy runs
Wendy with beefalo was always overpowered combo but even more so when you consider how easier beefalo taming has become now.
I like to find Bee Queen since her surrounding is full of flowers, then grind butterflies for glossamer saddle and tame my beefalo to be rider. It may be time consuming but it is worth it in my opinion since glossamer saddle has more durability over normal one allowing for more mistakes for not managing your beefalo's obedience. Although I only messed up once so it wasn't big deal to me.
But the fact that fully tame rider beefalo with glossamer saddle can outright outrun hounds just feels so good, I can lead them to danger and bail immediately.
Just an fyi, you can grind butterflies anywhere. The same amount spawn whether you have 1 flower or 100, the only thing that makes more butterflies appear is having more players nearby.
@@TheActionAsk I know people tend to say that but from my experience having more flowers makes butterflies spawn rather frequently.
Taming a beefalo changed my life
Whats the best way to heal beefalos during boss fights?
bluecaps or beefalo treats
bluecaps or beefalo treats
I recommend using the "Beefalo Buck Timer" mode. It shows you how long you can ride a beefalo at the current taming level.
Since it's a client mode you can use it while playing on Klei's official servers.
Cool
any good client mod that can show beefalo health?
I will say though constantly getting off in the first half of domestication is annoying really fast.
Is fighting bees the most efficient way to get ornery?
Lure plant bulbs
attacking a big tentacle is a very fast way to get ornery, just make sure not to kill it and just stand in the baby tentacles till ur beefalo is at 300~ hp or for a safer method just hold F on a snurtle
thank you, now i am a beefalo enjoyer too
I like beefalo but that unequipping the helmet thing to animation cancel is going to give everyone RSI
Feed your beefalos. Give them some loving
I go everywhere with my beef! but when it comes to ornery, people who often get on and off like me, I think it can be annoying and dangerous to feed beef every time. How do ornery-tamers deal with this downside?
In caves I feed light bulbs/lesser glowberries/lichen early on, before eventually building roads lined with twiggy trees so that I can replenish twig supply while on the move.
On the surface I don't strip the biomes clean - leave enough wild grass and saplings (~3 of each in one place) to provide some roughage every few screens around the roads/corridors I travel through.
At sea - I try to stock up on twigs before going out, otherwise kelp can be used in a pinch. Don't go out to sea while still domesticating the beef, or remember to stock up in the waterlogged biome.
That's why i went with rider tendency this time! The ability to always hop on in emergency situations to avoid death without feeding is more than worth the lower damage (when playing as maxwell). Now I'm looking to get a default tendency beefalo to get 34 dmg instead of 25, while still keeping sufficient minimum obedience. Do you think it's worth the tradeoff with ornery?
tks for the video. very informative. I've been trying but I can't. I can't tame a beefalo... it's too hard. They don't like me.
yeah but i'd really like to see a guide for normal DS and its dlcs.
Why would you need to fight bunnymen, spider warriors, depth worms and hounds? You can literally outrun them without a beefalo, I would only suggest fighting hounds and nightmare creatures as hounds can be annoying to deal with sometimes but if you have any other creatures around, just get them to attack anything other than you.
I do agree with you that taming a beefalo is extremely useful, especially for characters that have 0.75 damage modifiers but as currently Wanda is the best character in the game because of teleportation, you don't need beefalo if you play her, I would suggest anyone not playing Wanda to learn beefalo taming.
Yeah that part of the video doesn’t make much sense except for maybe hounds and merms.
Cat out of the bag. I been doing this for loong time but didnt know sister ghost can multipile damage. Thx :) Hope they dont nerf this
small problem with vanilla you never know how your beefalo about food obedience hp very practical i must say
Great video, I just have one question: does the beefalo take extra damage from enemies that deal more damage to mobs?
Only when you are not riding the beefalo
You can outrun pretty much every enemy even with base moovement speed on foot
only if the only things you are running from are things like spiders or frogs
you can outrun every enemy in the game except some bosses@@DownloadADuck
2:07 Bro skipped the poor mandrake in the ground 😢
Honestly it’s not that i don’t think its worth it, it’s cause I completely forgot that you could even tame beefalo.
The reason why I don't tame beefalo is because I play Wanda...
But I do tame beefalo once every full moon.