BDO Horse Taming: How to Capture a Wild Stallion

Ready to brave the forests and tame your very first wild horse? Be careful though! Those horses are mean and down right hangery and.. mean!!

Better bring some sugar to sweeten them up!

And you best not enter unprepared!

But don’t worry, this horse taming guide will help you, by showing you the ropes. 🙂 *tongue in cheek* Get it? …ropes.

Horse Taming Requirements

2 items used in horse capturing:

• Capturing Rope: You need more than 1 in case you miss.
• Lump of Raw Sugar: (Need 1 per horse.)

Purchase Capturing Ropes for 1.5k each at any <Stable Keeper>, inside their shop.

Every horse taming attempt will consume 1 Capturing Rope (regardless of if you succeed or fail).

Stable Keepers & Stable Slots

Every stable keeper has a base of 3 stable slots. Extra stable slots can be gained by renting Horse Ranch houses in major cities like Heidel. You can also purchase more stable slots at the Pearl Shop with real money. Secret Book of the Old Moon, another Pearl Shop item, temporarily adds 1 stable slot to all regions for 15 days.

Every tamed horse needs to be registered at a Stable Keeper (or wagon) to gain Training EXP or it will follow you around forever. That means, each tamed horse needs an available stable slot at the Stable Keeper.

Until you sell a horse, it will OWN a stable slot at the stable it was registered at OR the last stable it was checked in to – even if the horse is checked out and in use by another character, registered at the Horse/Breeding markets, or dead! *gasp*

In the picture, the Stable Status shows 5/15 . This means that 5 out of 15 total stable slots are currently owned by horses, though only 4 are showing. That is because a different character’s mount last checked in to this stable!

Please keep stable space in mind when planning mass horse taming excursions.

Horse Roping Mini-game

1. Drag and drop the Capturing Ropes and Lumps of Raw Sugar onto your hotkey bar.
2. Approach the horse, but don’t get too close.
   • If you get too close it will run away.
   • With practice, you will learn the correct distance.
3. Press the hotkey for your Capturing Rope to equip it.
   • Wait to equip the rope until you are close because it slows your movement speed
4. Wait for the horse to stop wandering then line up your cross hairs with the horse until it turns red.
5. Press [LMB] to toss the Capturing Rope at the horse. If you fail the rope toss, the horse will run away. Wait a few seconds and try again.
6. If you are successful at the rope toss, the first minigame will appear. Press [SPACE] over the blue portion of the gauge to win the mini-game. (Very similar to the fishing mini-game)
7. Press [W] to slowly approach the horse until you see the horse rear up, which starts the second mini-game.

Horse Rearing Mini-game

After winning the horse roping mini-game, the horse rearing mini-game can proc 0-3 times.

1. When the horse rears up on its hind legs as you advance, the second mini-game begins.
2. Keep the red gauge above the 50% mark by repeatedly pressing [SPACE].
3. If you are successful, press [W] to advance again.
4. A Mount/Use UI will appear once you are close enough to the horse. The horse will also send out little hearts from its head, indicating its okay to proceed with the Lump of Raw Sugar. Feed the horse 1 sugar lump from your hotkey bar.
5. After the feeding animation ends, the horse will signal again with hearts and a random message that it’s okay to proceed with mounting it. Press [R] to mount the horse.
6. The horse is now tamed! Grats!! You may now dismount the tamed horse and hop on a faster mount if you wish.

Do not log out before registering your tamed horse at a stable or wagon. When you log back in, you’ll find the tamed horse has fled. Out of sight, out of mind!

Registering Your Tamed Horse

After a successful taming, the horse will follow you everywhere until you register it at the stable keeper. Training EXP is given after registration.

1. Take the horse to a <Stable Keeper> to register it.
   • TIP: you don’t have to ride the newly tamed horse to the <Stable Keeper>. You can use a faster mount for traveling while the tamed mount follows.
   • Don’t worry if the tamed horse seems to disappear or lags behind. The tamed horse will meet you at the Stable Keeper for registration.
   • Alternatively, register the tamed horse at a wagon you brought with you. See directions below.
2. Name the horse. First letter must be capitalized, one word.

Equip a Capturing Rope and get close to the horse, but not so close that it runs away from you.

Red crosshairs will appear over the horse when your distance and aim are good.

TIP: Slowly sneak up on the horse and wait a few seconds for the horse to stop wandering before tossing the rope [LMB] .

With the red cross hairs aimed at the horse, press [LMB] to throw the rope and begin the roping mini-game.

Press [SPACE] when the yellow bar reaches the blue zone.

After successfully roping the horse, advance towards it using [W] key.

If you need to side step a rock or tree, press [A] or [D] while advancing [W] or [SPACE] to climb.

Stop moving forward when you see the horse rear up, and a big yellow SPACE button blinks. Press [SPACE] bar before the horse’s hooves touch back down or the taming will fail.

Press [SPACE] bar repeatedly, keeping the red bar above the 50% mark at all times, or the taming will fail.

After winning the mini-game, keep advancing [W].

In my experience, horse rearing mini-game can repeat up to 3 times on the same horse.

When you’re close enough to the horse, the Mount/Use UI pops up. The horse will indicate it’s okay to proceed with floating hearts above its head. Feed him 1 Lump of Raw Sugar by pressing the hotkey you assigned to it earlier or the [F5] to use item.

Look for a message similar to, “The horse sniffs you to remember your scent.” Sometimes he eyes you with suspicion or some other message, but it doesn’t mean he wants more sugar.

After the message and more floating hearts, it’s safe to press [R] key to mount him and take him to the nearest Stable Keeper.

OR you can dismount him and take your own horse for a faster ride. The tamed horse will follow.

The tamed horse must be registered at a Stable Keeper or at a wagon, or it will disappear if you log out or disconnect. Registering is when you get the bulk of your Training EXP.

Using a Wagon for Horse Taming

Found a lot of wild horses in one spot? Hate running back and forth to the Stable Keeper? Try using a wagon for a more relaxed and leisurely pace.

With a 4 horse wagon (like a Merchant Wagon), you can tame up to 5 horses before heading to the Stable Keeper for registration – 4 harnessed to the wagon and 1 extra following you.

A Merchant or Noble wagon can be crafted at a Wagon Workshop in town or purchased at the Marketplace. House Altinova 5-8 has a Wagon Workshop that crafts both the Merchant and Noble wagons. Lower tier wagons (like Flimsy or Trade) have only 1 or 2 horse slots.

Harnessing Wild Horses to Wagon

After taming a wild horse, approach your wagon until the circular UI pops up. Press [F8]. After naming the horse, it will harness to the wagon. Proceed with taming as many horses as you have wagon slots and stable slots to hold.

Training EXP is gained after naming your horse and harnessing it to the wagon instead of at the stable. The horse is also “registered” at the same stable your wagon last checked in to. If that stable is too full, you may encounter an error when trying to harness another horse – telling you there is not enough stable room.

Stabling Harnessed Horses.

With a wagon load of tamed horses, it’s time to ride the wagon back to town. And NO, your wagon will not follow you like a tamed horse!! hahaha

You can, however, Remote Collect your wagon and harnessed horses at the Stable Keeper if you feel like running back to town (or dieing and rezzing in town) is faster than riding the wagon back.

Check in your wagon at the Stable Keeper. You should see your wagon and all the horses you tamed filling up the stable.

You can unharness each horse singly or select your Wagon → Harness Wagon → Unharness All to unharness all your horses at once.

Now What?

So many horses, so little time. Am I right?

Now that you have a stable or 3, or 6 or 10 full of horses, what do you do with them all?

If you want to use the same stable and repeat the above, you’ll need to empty your stable by sellling the horses or transporting them to other stables.

Horses level 1-14 can be sold directly at the stable keeper via the [Sell Mount] button. Horses level 15+ can be sold using [Imperial Horse Delivery] button. Notice the extra goodies for Imperial Delivery.

Though selling horses at the Horse Market could net you more silver, it will not immediately free up stable slots. The stable slot opens when the horse sells to another player. Registering a horse for the Breeding Market will not free up a slot either.

Straight From the Horse’s Mouth

A few extra notes on taming for the curious and/or morbid.

Horse spawns do not reset unless they are tamed or killed. The respawn timer is about 45 minutes.

Tamed horses disappear when you log out unless they are harnessed to a wagon or at a stable keeper.

Killing a horse decreases Karma by 500 points. Killing horses on a PVP server does not decrease Karma.

Tamed horses do not take damage, including fall damage, but you and your current mount do!

Even if you die, your tamed mount will follow you to the afterlife and back again, resurrecting in town with you.

If your wagon full of tamed horses dies, it will go to the nearest stable. Don’t worry, the horses are fine. Just repair the wagon, then unharness them like usual.

Horse Taming Gear

A TET Loggia Accessory set and 2x Trainer’s Clothes will provide the following:

• Horse Capture Rate +30%
• Training EXP +41%
• Training Mastery +208 (will add an additional 2.56% more Horse Taming Success)

Trainer’s Clothes can be purchased at a Luxury Vendor for 1.5 million silver. One of the Trainer’s Clothes would have to be converted into a Costume, so that it can be worn in the Appearance slot. (Equipment Tailoring Coupon)

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You could do the Geranoa or Manos Life Mastery accessories, but that would be very expensive!