Rune Factory 5: Monster Taming Guide
Taming monsters is one of the returning features in Rune Factory 5 from previous games in the series. The game encourages you to do this as tamed monsters can help out in fights, work on your farms, and even be ridden for extra movement speed.
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Some monsters can even produce various items, something that is incredibly helpful if you're trying to fill out your shipping log and cook up every tasty recipe in the game.
If you want to tame monsters, you will first need to construct a Monster Barn. In this installment of Rune Factory, Monster Barns can only be built on the backs of Farm Dragons, giant secondary farms that you'll unlock over the course of the game.
You will get five Farm Dragons throughout the game, and each Farm Dragon can have two Monster Barns built on it.
Once you have a Farm Dragon, you can build Monster Barns by heading to Studio Palmo and asking either Palmo or Ryker for a renovation - each barn will cost a certain amount of SEED Points and a significant amount of Lumber and Material Stone.
Once built, Monster Barns can be upgraded to hold more monsters by increasing the number of rooms within.
With five Farm Dragons and two Monster Barns per Farm Dragon, the total number of monsters you can tame in the game is 200.
Taming monsters is a relatively simple process. As long as you have room in one of your Monster Barns, you can tame a monster by gifting it an item in the same way that you'd gift an item to one of Rigbarth's residents. Just walk up to it with an item in your hands and give it to them.
A small heart will appear above the monster's head and start pulsing - this animation serves the same effect as the Pokeball's shaking in Pokemon, the longer the
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