Beast Companions

Learn about taming beasts in Far Cry Primal, including the owl, dholes, wolves, and apex predators. Discover how to upgrade and utilize them.

The owl is the first beast you tame and is an essential tool throughout the campaign, featuring an extensive skill tree. You can designate targets for your beast, recall it, whistle for it if it strays, and revive it if wounded. Red leaves can resurrect a deceased animal, with the number required varying by the beast's stature. Meat from your pack or consumed corpses will restore a beast's health.

The skill Mammoth Rider allows you to ride a mammoth and is required for the mission Stomp Udam. The skill Beast Rider allows you to ride a sabretooth (including the Bloodfang) or brown bears, making travel safer and faster, and allowing you to use weapons while mounted.

The Owl

The owl is a living weapon and an awesome resource. After taming it early in the campaign, it acts as your eyes in the sky, locating and tagging enemies. When Tensay's skill tree is enabled by upgrading his hut, the owl can be upgraded to kill regular and then elite enemies. The owl can also be used to drop bombs. Its cooldown period can be greatly reduced by placing points in its cooldown matrix. Using the owl to eliminate Elite Slingers is game-changing, preventing reinforcements from being summoned, enhancing stealth, and improving the chance of gaining bonus XP while taking outposts, bonfires, or pursuing missions. The owl can also take down lower-level wildlife like deer, goats, boars, dholes, badgers, and their rare variations. The owl can be employed like a deadly accurate sniper rifle. It takes patience for its cooldown, but using it to set up and soften up enemies is invaluable. Upgrading the owl as early as possible is highly advised.

The Beasts

The White Wolf will be tamed early in the campaign and is a great addition to your arsenal. Taming is a relatively simple process: throw bait, approach the beast as it feeds, and then interact with it to tame it. This is best accomplished by dismissing your active beast so the taming sequence isn't interrupted.

Tame Wildcats can be acquired early on, and Tame Apex Predators can be acquired after taming five beasts. Taming five beasts is not a tall order, and the ability to tame an apex predator, like the sabretooth tiger and/or a brown bear, is game-changing. Having a sabretooth at your side will render other canines and wildcats obsolete. Only the Bloodfang Sabretooth and the less than stealthy Great Scar Bear are its better.

The skill Tame Cunning Beasts allows the taming of the badger and the cave bear. The cave bear is like a sledgehammer; it isn't good for stealth but has great strength and stamina. The badger can resurrect itself once and is a fierce little scrapper that most other beasts will shy away from. Unless you favor teaming with the badger, spending three skill points on this skill isn't recommended. Taming the Bloodfang or the Great Scar Bear does not require investing three skill points in Tame Cunning Beasts. In short, taming and using beasts like wolves and jaguars is a bridge to acquiring a sabretooth. Tame one as soon as possible; this can be accomplished quite early in the campaign. After acquiring a sabretooth tiger or a brown bear, prioritize the skill Beast Rider. You can then mount up and ride the beast rather than walk, and you can still gather resources, use Hunter's Vision, and use your weapons while aboard.

Dhole: These small canines have strength of 1, speed of 2, and stealth of 4. They require 1 red leaf for revival. They frequently travel in packs, making them more challenging to isolate for taming. After they make a kill, they can loot an animal corpse or search and loot a human corpse, adding resources to your pack. Numerous dhole skins are required for crafting. The initial quiver and Club Belt upgrades each require 3 dhole skins. Upgrade 2 of the Guts Bag requires 4 skins. The dhole hunt in the Help Wenja: Beast Kill section can yield 11 or more dhole skins, including the opportunity to harvest or tame 1 or more Rare Black Dholes.

Rare Black Dhole: This rare dhole has strength of 2, speed of 2, and stealth of 4. They also require 1 red leaf for revival. Like the regular dhole, they can loot an animal corpse or search and loot a human corpse, adding resources to your pack. If used for that purpose, the Rare Black Dhole's greater strength makes them a better option than the regular dhole for killing and searching "carriers" in Wenja Events. Building Dah's hut requires a Rare Black Dhole skin.

Wolf: Wolves have strength of 1, speed of 3, and stealth of 3. They require only 1 red leaf for revival. They will growl to warn of nearby threats and will reveal 350 feet of the terrain surrounding them. They normally travel in packs and are more active at night. Look for a wolf symbol on the map, wait until nightfall, and you're sure to encounter them. Numerous wolf hides are required for crafting. Building Karoosh's hut requires 4 wolf skins. The initial Spear Belt upgrade requires 3 skins, and the initial winter clothing requires 4 wolf skins.

Tips:

• Dismiss your active beast before attempting to tame a new one to avoid interruption.
• Prioritize the Beast Rider skill after acquiring a sabretooth or brown bear for faster travel and combat effectiveness.
• Upgrading the owl as early as possible is highly advised due to its combat and utility benefits.
• The Great Beast Hunts can yield the Bloodfang Sabretooth and the Great Scar Bear, which are considered the best companions.
• Taming wolves and jaguars serves as a stepping stone to acquiring a sabretooth.