How to Catch and Tame a Llama in My Time at Portia

In My Time at Portia, fast travel is made possible by riding a horse or the Dee-Dee Transport. But traveling by vehicle can limit your freedom to explore, and owning a horse can be expensive. A cheaper alternative would be to use Colorful Llama as a mount. This guide will teach you how to catch and saddle up these fluffy, bright-colored herbivores.

Colorful Llamas are wild creatures that get hunted for their Meat and Colorful Fur. You can always spot them with their herd on the grassy fields outside the town. They are difficult to kill not because they are tough and powerful but because they are passive and hardly a threat to anyone. Aside from being killed for their loot, Llamas can be kept in your stable and trained as a mount, but capturing and taming them can be pretty challenging.

Making a Trap Box

Constructing a Trap Box is the first step to catching Colorful Llamas. Random citizens often commission Trap Boxes. These tools are used to get loot from herbivores without harming them, and it is what you will need to trap a wandering Llama. Here are the things you need to do to craft and use a Trap Box:

1. First, you will need a Stable in your workshop. Go to A&G Construction, and access their catalog to construct a Stable. Building a Stable will cost you 5,000 Gols, twenty Iron Bars, and twenty Stone Bricks.
2. To make a Trap Box, prepare two Wooden Boards and a Spring, and assemble them on your Worktable. Make two Wooden Boards using the Civil Cutter, the Industrial Cutter, or the Comprehensive Cutter. Spring can be acquired by mining in the Abandoned Ruins # 2 and defeating Sentidogs and Masked Fiends in the Hazardous Ruins.
3. Bring three Lettuces and a Cumin to be used as bait along with the Trap Box. Set up the trap at the designated spot found behind your work yard.
4. Return to the Trap Box the next day, and you will see an agitated Llama trying to wriggle out of the cage.

Catching a Colorful Llama

If you successfully lure a Llama into the Trap Box, the next thing to do is to tame it. Using food as bait, you can tame and eventually gain control of it. Below are the steps to undertake to catch a Colorful Llama:

1. Feed the trapped Llama with Lettuce or Cumin. The icon above its head will prompt you with the food they want. You may notice an angry red face above the Llama’s head after it gets fed, indicating its mood. Feed it multiple times until you see the angry face change into a happy one. Making the Llama happy will make it easier for you to capture it later. Once the Colorful Llama’s mood improves, press “Tame” to play the mini-game.
2. You will enter a mini-game where you have to hit the same buttons or keys that appear on the screen. Mash the correct buttons or keys until the meter fills up before time runs out.
3. After you are done taming the Llama, you can finally hop into its back and ride it to your heart’s content!

The Cotton Llama

The Cotton Llama is the Elite and formidable version of the Colorful Llama. Elite creatures are rare and harder to kill, but it’s worth going after them because their drops are also valuable.

Cotton Llamas usually spawn once a day near the Central Gate after you defeat a bunch of Colorful Llamas. These white-furred animals are much faster than Colorful Llamas and a little more complicated to capture.

Making an Advanced Trap Box

Cotton Llamas is the Elite version of Colorful Llamas, so a basic Trap Box will not be enough to enclose them. You will be required to use an Advanced Trap Box to capture them instead, and this is what you need to do to craft and use one:

1. Ensure that you have a Stable and a Level 3 Worktable on your property before you proceed with catching a Cotton Llama.
2. Advanced Trap Boxes are made by assembling three Steel Plates, two Springs, and two Old Parts at the Worktable. You can make Steel Plates using the Industrial Cutter or the Comprehensive Cutter. Both Spring and Old Parts can be obtained by excavating the grounds of the Abandoned Ruins.
3. Bring two regular Apples, three Aroma Apples, and one Golden Ginseng to use as bait, and place the Box at the designated spot east of your workshop.
4. Check if you have caught a Cotton Llama with the Advanced Trap Box the next day. If you were unsuccessful in luring them into the Box, try placing some bait again and wait for the day to pass.

Catching a Cotton Llama

Cotton Llamas can be caught by feeding them with food and taming them like Colorful Llamas. But instead of using Lettuce and Cumin as bait, Cotton Llamas would rather have Apples, Aroma Apples, and Golden Ginseng. Feed them the food they prefer before taming them so you would not have a hard time winning the timed mini-game.

Once you finish capturing a Cotton Llama, you can mount it, ride it anywhere, or take it home to your stable.

Training your Llama

Since the wilderness is the Colorful Llama’s natural habitat, they are not used to being domesticated or kept as a mount. You will have to do your part in training your Llama to have better stats and efficiency.

Open the menu in your Stable to train your Colorful Llama and select which of their stat you would like to improve. You can train the Llamas to run quicker, jump better, and recover stamina faster. You can do whatever you want while they train because the stat meters will gradually increase. But you can not train and ride them simultaneously, or the session will end.

Cotton Llamas do not need to be primed because they are fully trained and have maximum stats, unlike the Colorful Llama.

Making your Llama Happy

Each type of Llama has its preference for food. Colorful Llama’s favorites are Lettuce and Cumin, while Cotton Llamas love Aroma Apples. Show your Llamas some love by petting them three times a day and ensuring they have food in their trough. Build up their loyalty and constantly take care of them. By doing so, they can perform well and take you to distant places faster.

You can also make money out of selling Llamas. Depending on its stats, a Colorful Llama can sell from 28 to 6,500 Gols. And Cotton Llamas can be sold for as high as 11,950 Gols.

To Hunt or Mount

Llamas may be one of those docile, gentle herbivores you see in the fields, but they are surprisingly handy. You can hunt them, use them as transportation, and make passive income by selling them. It shows that every little thing in this game, living or not, has some value and should not be easily underestimated and overlooked.