Whether you’re looking to grow your income or attack dungeons faster, monsters are your best friend (literally) in Rune Factory 5. Certain monsters can produce a specific item every day, which you can use for crafting and cooking. Others are useful as rides, making your dungeon excursions faster, while others make good battle partners.
Eventually, you’ll want to befriend most of them. But with limited space in your barns, you'll need to choose wisely. Below, we've listed the 11 most useful monsters to tame in no particular order.
Wooly/Fleecy
Use: Produces Fur for crafting and selling
Locations: Phoros Woodlands: Entrance, Kelve Volcanic Region: Forest Area, Gadeus Grasslands: Entrance
Favorite Item: Wooly Furball
*but they will respond to any repeat gift as they’re easy to tame
Cluckadoodle
Use: Produces Eggs for cooking
Best Location: Phoros Woodlands: Entrance
Favorite Items: Eggs, Bird’s Feather
*but they will respond to any repeat gift as they’re easy to tame
Buffamoo
Use: Produces Milk for cooking; you can ride this monster
Location: Phoros Woodlands: Entrance
Favorite Item: Milk
*but they will respond to any repeat gift as they’re easy to tame
Emperor Penguin
Use: Produces Bird’s Feather, which can be used to craft any item that needs a “Feather” material
Best Locations: Lake Yumina: Crystal Lake, Meline Crystal Caverns B1
Favorite Items: Pond Smelt, Bird’s Feather
*but they will respond to any repeat gift at a high enough level
Related: Rune Factory 5 Gift Guide
Silver Wolf
Use: Produces Wolf Fang, which can be used to craft any item that needs a “Claws and Fangs” material
Locations: Lake Yumina: Entrance, Gadeus Grasslands: Entrance
Favorite Items: Any type of fur, Wolf Fang, Crystal Fragment
*but they will respond to any repeat gift at a high enough level
Flower Lion
Use: Produces Plant Stem, which can be used to craft any item that needs a “Sticks and Stems” material
Location: Kelve Volcanic Region: Secluded Hot Spring Area
Favorite Items: Plant Stem, Root
*but they will respond to any repeat gift at a high enough level
Flower Crystal
Use: Produces Strong Vine, which can be used to craft any item that needs a “Strings” material
Location: Lake Yumina: Secluded Snowy Hot Spring Area, Meline Crystal Caverns: Depths
Favorite Items: Plant Stem, Root, Strong Vine, Stick
*but they will respond to any repeat gift at a high enough level
You can also tame the Spider early in the game. Located in the Kelve Volcanic Region: Entrance, it produces Spider’s Thread—a weaker version of Strong Vine.
Giant Bug
Use: Produces Pretty Carapace, which can be used to craft any item that needs a “Cloths and Skins” material
Location: Whispering Woods: Forest of No Return
Favorite Items: Fur, Pretty Carapace, Quality Insect Jaw
*but they will respond to any repeat gift at a high enough level
You can also tame the Insect early in the game. Easily found in the Phoros Woodlands: Central Area, it produces Insect Carapace—a weaker version of Pretty Carapace.
Ice Griffin and Flame Griffin
Use: A strong battle partner that can use magic; you can ride this monster
Location: Ice Griffin – Lake Yumina: Crystal Lake (South); Flame Griffin – Kelve Lava Caves: Depths
Favorite Items: Bird’s Feather, crystals and crystal fragments that match their element
*but they will respond to most repeat gifts if you’re at a high enough level
The Dragons
There are five dragons in Rune Factory 5:
- Black Drake
- Green Dragon
- Yellow Dragon
- Red Dragon
- Blue Dragon
Use: A devastating battle partner that will win you the Buddy Battle festival every year
Location: Rigbarth Maze
Favorite Items: Dragon Fang, Dragon Scales, Small Crystal, Crystal Fragments that match the color of their skin
Nine-Tailed Fox
Use: A great early-game battle partner that’s easy to tame; you can ride this monster
Location: Whispering Woods: Depths
Favorite Items: Nine-Tail Fox Bell (which it also drops—meaning you can try taming it as soon as you beat it), Starfall Strawberry, Tempura
How to increase your chances of taming a monster in Rune Factory 5
- Do not attack it. It resets the affection meter.
- Brush the monster until the music note icon stops appearing above its head. This will make it friendlier towards you and, thus, easier to capture.
- Level up. The wider (and higher!) your level gap, the higher its chances of being tamed.
For more help with Rune Factory 5, take a look at some of our other posts here at Pro Game Guides.
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11 Best monsters to tame in Rune Factory 5
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