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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.

How To Build Monster Barns

Rune Factory 5 Flower Lion on a farm dragon

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.

  • Every room in a Monster Barn can hold four monsters.
  • Every Monster Barn starts with one room.
  • Every Monster Barn can have four rooms added to it, for a total monster capacity of 20.

With five Farm Dragons and two Monster Barns per Farm Dragon, the total number of monsters you can tame in the game is 200.

How To Tame Monsters

Rune Factory 5 Naming an Orc

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 heart pulses the more likely the taming attempt has been successful.

  • If the heart grows huge, you've successfully tamed the monster and will be prompted to name it.
  • If the heart turns into a skull, you have not successfully tamed the monster.

If the icon above the monster's head turns into a skull immediately, the taming attempt has automatically failed. This means one of five things:

  1. You do not have enough room in your Monster Barns to accommodate this new monster.
  2. You are not a high enough level to tame the monster - level up a bit and come back.
  3. You are trying to tame the monster with an item that harms it, such as Withered Grass or a Failed Dish.
  4. You are trying to tame a boss monster with an item that it does not like.
  5. The monster is not tameable. Some monsters such as King Wooly cannot ever be tamed.

While monsters have favorite items that significantly increase the success rate of taming attempts with them, these are rarely necessary. Brute-forcing the ordeal with cheap items will work eventually unless the monster is a boss. Recommended items are the colored grasses you can find anywhere or Turnip Seeds since they only cost 10G a pop.

To increase your chances of taming a monster, there are two things you can do before giving it items that will boost your success rate:

  • Pet it with the Brush that you can buy at the General Store. You can do this up to 15 times per monster.
  • Attack it with a weapon that has the Love element. This is effective up to four times per monster.
    • To turn any weapon into a Love weapon, upgrade it with a Love Crystal. These can be farmed from Pixies in Everlasting Darkness.

Tameable Monster Locations

Rune Factory 5 Spider

The table below lists every tameable monster from the various areas and dungeons in the game. Tameable bosses are included in bold at the end of lists.

This list is currently incomplete and will be updated as we gather more information!

Location

Monsters

Phoros Woodlands

Big Muck, Buffaloo, Buffamoo, Chipsqueek, Cluckadoodle, Elefun, Fairy, Fake Turnip, Firefly Bee, Fleecy, Flower Blossom, Goblin, Goblin Archer, High Orc, Hornet, Insect, Mamadoodle, Orc, Orc Archer, Orc Hunter, Ribbitee, Wooly

Kelve Volcanic Region

Fire Slime, Flower Lion, Ghost, Ignis, Monster Box, Red, Ripper, Shadow Panther, Slime, Spider, Spirit

Lake Yumina

Amphibitee, Chippersqueek, Chipsqueek, Duck, Emperor Penguin, Flower Crystal, Griffon, Palm Cat, Rockhopper Penguin Silver Wolf, Siren, Sky Fish, Tundra

Whispering Woods

Goblin, Insect, Orc, Orc Archer, Ribbitee, Nine-Tailed Fox

Whispering Woods Depths

Big Muck, Death Fungus, Fake Onion, Giant Bug, Gobble Box, Little Bug, Queen Bee, Ribbitee Hunter, Tricky Muck, Deader Tree

Belpha Ruins

Fake Green Pepper, Ghost, Goblin, Goblin Archer, Insect, Sky Fish, Cerberus

Belpha Ruins Depths

Goblin Sniper, Hobgoblin, Moleguin, Necro, Tricky Muck

Kelva Lava Caves

Fire Slime, Flower Lion, Goblin, Hornet, Ignis, Little Bug, Shadow Panther, Spider, Hecatonchire

Kelve Lava Caves Depths

Buffamore, Croakitee, Elefun, Flame Griffin, Flower Lily, Gobble Box, High Sorcerer, Muchsqueek, Shmooly, Yellow

Meline Crystal Caverns

Amphibitee, Emperor Penguin, Fake Green Pepper, Flower Crystal, Flower Lily, Furpy, Growler, Palm Cat, Rockhopper Penguin, Tundra

Meline Crystal Cavern Depths

Armored Fish, Gaias, High Sorcerer, Ice Griffin, Mammoth, Murder Troll, Sneaksqueek, Witch

Atohl's End

Dark Sorcerer, Elementalist, Ghost, Goblin King, Goblin Pirate, Growler, Ignis, Magician, Orc King, Ripper, Silent Baku, Snatcher

Everlasting Darkness

Carbuncle, Dark Sorcerer, Hell Ghost, Necro, Pixie, Ripper, Silent Baku

Gadeus Grasslands

Buffaloo, Chippersqueek, Dark Orc, Fake Tomato, Fleecy, Duck, Furpy, Goblin King, Hippogriff, Meowly, Queen Bee, Red, Ribitee Hunter, Rockhopper Penguin, Silver Wolf, Timidee, Tricky Muck, Wooly, Needle Beast

Bandit King's Old Base

Buffahorn, Buffaloo, Furpy, Goblin Pirate, Kaiser Troll, Monster Box, Palm Cat, Troll, Geyser Bear, Mysterious Lizard, Dragon Golem

Basara's Hideaway

Airror, Dark Orc, Dark Slime, Gaias, Hammer Troll, Mini Golem, Ribitee Hunter, Green Kaiser, Dark Lizard, Volcanic Dragon

Thundering Wastes

Boltguin, Fake Plant, High Sorcerer, Hutner Wolf, Lightning Goblin, Orc Viking, Surprise Box, Titan, Yellow, Medusa

Monster Production

Rune Factory 5 Cluckadoodle in a monster barn

The table below lists every item that can be produced by monsters in the game. Note that some monsters will not produce an item items every single day, and that monsters will stop producing items if they are not fed - you'll need to keep your fodder bins stocked, especially if they are being put to work.

Items produced by monsters will be left on the floor of their respective Monster Barns and must be picked up manually.

When it comes to Eggs, Milk, and Fur produced by the sheep-like Wooly monsters, the size/quality of the item you get will depend on how close you are to the monster. The more hearts you have with them, the better the item will be. Pet them and give them a gift every day to speed up your friendship. You can check your friendship with monsters on the menu.

Fur produced by Chipsqueeks will always be (S) quality.

Item

Category

Monsters That Produce It

Bird's Feather

Feathers

Emperor Penguin

Bull's Horn

Sticks and Stems

Buffaloo

Dangerous Scissors

Claws and Fangs

Diamond Bee

Eggs (S), (M), (L)

Dairy

Cluckadoodle, Mamadoodle

Fairy Dust

Powders and Spores

Fairy

Fairy Elixir

Powders and Spores

High Pixie

Fur (S)

Furs

Chipsqueek

Fur (S), (M), (L)

Furs

Wooly, Fleecy, Shmooly

Gold Wolf Fang

Claws and Fangs

Hunter Wolf

Honey

Dairy

Hornet, Queen Bee, King Bee

Insect Carapace

Cloths and Skins

Insect

Insect Horn

Sticks and Stems

Firefly Bee

Lotus Leaf

Sticks and Stems

Timidee

Milk (S), (M), (L)

Dairy

Buffamoo

Plant Stem

Sticks and Stems

Flower Lion

Poison Powder

Powders and Spores

Tricky Muck

Pretty Carapace

Cloths and Skins

Giant Bug

Pretty Thread

Strings

Hell Spider

Quality Fur

Furs

Wild Cat

Root

Powders and Spores

Flower Blossom

Spider's Jaw

Calws and Fangs

Master Spider

Spider's Thread

Strings

Spider

Spore

Powders and Spores

Big Muck

Strong Vine

Strings

Flower Crystal

Thunderbird Feather

Feathers

Boltguin

Vine

Strings

Flower Lily

Viscous Liquid

Liquids

Ribbitee

Wolf Fang

Claws and Fangs

Silver Wolf

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