Once Human Version 2.0 introduced a new class system into the game, one of those was the Beastmaster. As its name implies, choosing this class lets Meta-humans tame animals and make them their pets. But these pets are more than household companions, as they can also help in various tasks, including mining ore and defeating Deviants. So, keep reading to learn more about the Beastmaster class in Once Human.

Once Human Beastmaster Class Guide: Overview & Basics

Once Human players can choose their preferred classes after completing the tutorial. Alternatively, those with characters in various Once Human servers or scenarios can select classes upon starting the game after updating to Version 2.0. For the Beastmaster, it allows players to communicate with animals in more ways than one. With this class, wild animals don’t run when you get close to them in the wild. Additionally, you can see their thoughts, which can sometimes be quite comedic. Choosing the Beastmaster class also grants you two starting items: the Beast Whistle and a starting animal. Select the starting animal from your inventory to select from one of three pets: the Boar, bear, or Wolf. As with other tameable animals in the game, the starting pets have traits to differentiate them from the rest. Here’s a quick rundown of each starting animal:

• The Boar is excellent at gathering resources
• The Bear is a vanguard and a tank, luring enemies while absorbing damage
• The Wolf mainly supports in combat, delivering high melee damage and providing bonuses to stamina and weakspot damage

Choosing the best starting animal for the Beastmaster in Once Human generally falls under personal preference. However, more tameable animals are out and about on the map, and they also come with distinct traits. Nonetheless, you can also let your pets equip unique gear to enhance specific abilities and stats.

How to Tame Pets as a Beastmaster in Once Human

You’ll know if an animal is tamable by walking up to them and checking its details. Thankfully, the Beastmaster class in Once Human lets you be near animals without spooking them or making them hostile. Once you’ve chosen your preferred animal to become your pet, hit it until its health is critical. The animal may run away from you, but chasing it down shouldn’t be a significant issue. Then, attack the injured creature with a type of tranquilizer. If you’re using a crossbow, use a Tranquilizer Arrow, which you can craft using 20x Steel Ingot, 20x Engineering Plastic, 15x Rubber, 10x Log, and 25x Stardust Source. Alternatively, use Tranquilizer Throwing Needles, which use 3x Steel Ingot, 8x Engineering Plastic, 5x Rubber, and 3x Stardust Source. Both items can be crafted at an Immediate or Advanced Supplies Workbench.

Animal Rarity & Traits

As mentioned earlier, each tameable animal has a unique set of traits. It’s also important to mention that each animal has a rarity rating from S to C. S Tier animals have four traits, while C Tier variants only have one. Below is the list of possible animal traits in Once Human:

General Traits

• Ferocity: Attack +15% to 50%
• Resilience: When HP falls below 30%, gain Invincibility for 5 to 15 seconds. Cooldown: 180 seconds
• Stormchild: During rain and thunderstorms, DMG +10% to +15% and attacks inflict Power Surge
• True Grit: Recover 2% to 6% HP per second while in combat
• Acidic Meat: Obtain a small to large amount of bonus Acid after killing animals
• Dieting: Reduces Energy and Hydration loss rate by 20% to 50%
• Docile: Increases taming speed by 20% to 50%
• High Yield: Slightly to greatly increases byproduct yield
• Meaty: Slightly to greatly increases the base meat yield from killing animals
• Premium Output: Small to high chance that food byproducts obtained will be rare
• Quality Meat: Small to high chance that Meat obtained from killing animals will be rare
• Rapid Production: Reduces byproduct production interval by 15% to 50%
• Thick Hides: Slightly to greatly increase the base hide yield from killing animals
• Vigor: Slightly to greatly increases Max HP

Specific Traits

Bear

• Cave Seed: Slaughter yields small to large amounts of additional Cave Bear Skin
• Floating Ice Seed: Slaughter yields small to large amounts of additional Floating Ice Bear Skin
• Snowfield Seed: Slaughter yields small to large amounts of additional Snowfield Bear Skin

Buck/Doe

• Forest Seed: Slaughter yields small to large amounts of additional Forest Deer Hide
• Highland Seed: Slaughter yields small to large amounts of additional Highland Deer Hide
• Tundra Seed: Slaughter yields small to large amounts of additional Tundra Deer Hide

Crocodile

• Beach Seed: Slaughter yields small to large amounts of additional Beach Crocodile Skin
• Coastal Bay Seed: Slaughter yields small to large amounts of additional Coastal Bay Crocodile Skin

Fox

• Desert Seed: Slaughter yields small to large amounts of additional Desert Fox Skin

Goat

• Golden Sheep Bloodline: Slaughter and byproduct harvests yield small to large amounts of additional Golden Wool
• Mountain Seed: Slaughter or byproduct yields small to large amounts of additional Mountain Wool
• Rock Wall Seed: Slaughter or byproduct yields small to large amounts of additional Rock Wall Wool

Polar Fox

• Polar Seed: Slaughter yields small to large amounts of additional Polar Fox Skin

Rabbit

• Dreamy Seed: Slaughter yields small to large amounts of additional Dreamy Rabbit Fur
• Lucky Seed: Slaughter yields small to large amounts of additional Lucky Rabbit Fur

Wild Buffalo

• Mountain Range Seed: Slaughter yields small to large amounts of additional Mountain Cowhide
• Valley Seed: Slaughter yields small to large amounts of additional Valley Cowhide

Wolf

• Grassland Seed: Slaughter yields small to large amounts of additional Grassland Wolf Skin
• Jungle Seed: Slaughter yields small to large amounts of additional Jungle Wolf Skin
• Wasteland Seed: Slaughter yields small to large amounts of additional Wasteland Wolf Skin

Pet Tameness & Food Diets

Once an animal is tamed, a player can’t summon it anywhere but in a territory or base. Here, you must provide food and water to your pet to increase its Tameness level. Then, wait for its Tameness to reach at least 20% so you can issue commands. Thankfully, animals aren’t picky when it comes to choosing their water source. In particular, most, if not all, pets drink Dirty, Boiled, or Purified Water. However, things get a little more difficult when it comes to food. First, players must unlock the Animal Trough building schematics in the Animal Taming in Memetics. Next, build it using 50x Log, 12x Sintered Block, 15x Aluminum Ingot, and 15x Adhesive. With the Animal Trough placed, interact with it to supply food to your pet. Now, here’s a list of each animal’s preferred diet in Once Human:

• Bear: Fish, Fruits, and Vegetables
• Boar: Fish, Fruits, and Vegetables
• Capybara: Grains, Fodder, Vegetables, and Fruits
• Crocodile: All Meats
• Deer: Grains, Fodder, Fruits, and Vegetables
• Buck/Doe: Grains, Fodder, Fruits, and Vegetables
• Eclipse Wolf: All Meats
• Ewe: Grains and Fodder
• Flamingo: Fish, Shellfish, and Seaweed
• Fox: Meat and Fruit
• Leopard: All Meats
• Polar Bear: Fish, Fruits, and Vegetables
• Rabbit: Fodder, Fruits, and Vegetables
• Ram: Grains and Fodder
• Sea Turtle: Grains, Seaweed, and Fish Fillet
• Snapping Turtle: Grains, Seaweed, and Fish Fillet
• Snow Fox: Meat and Fruit
• Wild Buffalo: Grains and Fodder
• Wolf: All Meats

Additionally, each animal has a favorite type of food. For instance, the Bear prefers to eat fish over fruits and vegetables. An animal eating its favorite food incurs a bonus to their Tameness level, allowing a Beastmaster to issue commands to it sooner rather than later. Below is a quick rundown of the favorite foods of pets in Once Human:

• Bear: Fish
• Boar: Apple and Orange
• Capybara: Sage and Honeysuckle
• Crocodile: Meat and Fish
• Deer: Wheat and Corn
• Doe: Wheat and Corn
• Eclipse Wolf: Large chunks of Meat
• Ewe: Sage and Honeysuckle
• Flamingo: Hawthorn Berry and Tomato
• Fox: Small chunks of Meat
• Leopard: Large chunks of Meat
• Polar Bear: Fish
• Rabbit: Sage and Honeysuckle
• Ram: Sage and Honeysuckle
• Sea Turtle: Seaweed and Fish
• Snapping Turtle: Seaweed and Fish
• Snow Fox: Small types of Meat
• Wild Buffalo: Sage and Honeysuckle
• Wolf: Large types of Meat

Feeding pets their standard diet can help fill their hunger and Tameness meters. However, converting food products into feeds at an Electric Stove or Kitchen Set is a more efficient method for keeping your pets happy and satisfied:

• Meat Pellet Feed: 5x Rabbit Meat, 3x Deer Meat, 3x Beast Meat, 3x Pork, 3x Goat Meat, 3x Raw Meat, or 3x Bear Meat
• Grain Concentrate Feed: 10x Corn or 10x Wheat
• Herbal Green Feed: 10x Coneflower, 10x Sage, 10x Bellflower, 10x Honeysuckle, 10x Scarlet Calamus, or 10x Yellow Lotus

Summoning & Controlling Pets

Summoning pets as a Beastmaster in Once Human is like beckoning a vehicle in the game. Start by equipping a Beast Whistle into your hotbar. Next, press the key corresponding to the Beast Whistle, and a “blueprint” of your pet will appear. Last, select the area where the pet materializes. Use the Beast Whistle again while the pet is out to command it.

Best Pets for Beastmaster in Once Human

Although animal variety in Once Human is fairly large, a few stand out above the rest. For starters, the Boar makes farming resources more efficient and convenient. Players can find this animal and hopefully locate an S Tier variant south of the Winding Ridge Teleportation Tower. The Bear is also one of the best pets for a Beastmaster in Once Human, thanks to it being a living tank. However, the ideal location to find a pack of bears is to the far west, specifically in a cave in the mountain at northwest Chalk Peak. Fast travel to the Moonlake Teleportation Tower and travel west to find this Bear spawn location. Select the Wolf, if you haven’t already, for the goodest boy/girl that helps increase DPS. Fast travel to the Blackheart’s Bay Teleportation Tower and head south to find a small pack of wolves. Finally, there's the Leopard, which isn't one of the choices when selecting the Beastmaster class for the first time. Although slower than the Wolf, this “cat” has a large hitbox, allowing it to effectively hit some floating enemies like those pesky drones. Unfortunately, the Wish Land is the best region to find leopards, specifically between Wish Land – West and Wish Land – East. These areas are quite far, especially if choosing an initial spawn point like Deadsville.