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TamingSystem is a generic, data-driven taming component that attaches to any creature actor and drives the Wild → Suspicious → Tolerant → Bonded → Domesticated flow, then hands off to whatever manages owned/domesticated animals — for example the Husbandry System. The plugin is fully multiplayer and server authoritative, with a standalone save fallback that works with or without UMI (Ultimate Multiplayer Inventory).

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Key Features

  • Five-stage taming state machine (Wild, Suspicious, Tolerant, Bonded, Domesticated), always derived from a single CurrentProgress value
  • Six configurable taming methods as a Blueprint bitmask: Passive Feeding, Repeated Interaction, Immobilize And Calm, Raise From Young, Bonding Over Time, Item Assisted
  • Trust / Fear / Aggression vitals replicated as one unit
  • Approach reactions (Ignore → Alert → Threaten → Flee) scaled by trust, plus a separate “has noticed” observation radius for AI
  • Multi-player contribution tracking with configurable ownership resolution (highest contribution, final contributor, first contributor, or an external resolver interface)
  • Juvenile handling (RaiseFromYoung gating, bonus multiplier)
  • Damage interruption with trust penalties and possible regression
  • Calmed-state windows that gate ImmobilizeAndCalm and dampen aggression
  • Standalone save/load fallback that works without any other WarPath plugin installed
  • Optional soft dependency on UMI; no hard dependency on any inventory system

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Architecture

  • UTamingComponent — the only component in the plugin; owns all per-creature taming state. No client-callable UFUNCTIONs — ProcessInteraction is a plain, authority-checked method meant to be called from your own already-server-authoritative interaction code path, not exposed as an RPC itself
  • UTamingProfileDataAsset — per-species configuration: stage thresholds, allowed methods, ownership resolution mode
  • UTamingSaveHandler — subsystem-level save/load bridge
  • BTDecorator_TamingStageAtLeast / BTService_TamingStageMonitor — Behavior Tree nodes for gating and monitoring AI behavior by taming stage
  • Interfaces for integration: ITamingHandoffReceiver, ITamingOwnershipResolver, ITamingPlayerIdentityProvider, ITamingSkillModifierProvider

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Multiplayer

Fully server authoritative. ProcessInteraction independently validates range, line of sight, method eligibility, item tags, claim-lock, and cooldown regardless of caller — it never trusts the calling controller’s identity or a skill-modifier override to have been pre-validated.

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Integration

TamingSystem has no hard dependency on any inventory or ownership plugin:
  • Items: PresentedItemTags is asserted by the caller to represent items already verified and consumed by the caller’s own inventory system — TamingSystem only checks tag membership against the profile, never possession
  • Skill modifiers: resolved via ITamingSkillModifierProvider on the controller/pawn
  • Player identity: resolved via ITamingPlayerIdentityProvider, with a shared default fallback
  • Hand-off: on reaching Domesticated, hands off to HandoffTargetOverride (or the owning actor) via ITamingHandoffReceiver — the Husbandry System is the intended consumer of this hand-off, but any system can implement the interface