How to Tame Animals in Honeycomb: The World Beyond

Befriend, don’t cage

At Gamescom 2025 Frozen Way’s product owner put it plainly: you “try to befriend them, not tame them, not [put them in] cages, but just become friends with them by doing some stuff that they like to do.”

Step 1: find out what it likes

Point the wildlife cam at an animal. It analyses its behaviour for some time, then gives you a recipe for getting closer: “what kind of food they love or what kind of bonding rituals they do, what time”. Scanning with the Analyzer alone only gives the basics.

Step 2: do it

Copy it. In ProRogueBear’s first hour, the in-game hint for a Lucuma Camilla was that copying its behaviour “is the only thing that earns its attention at this stage”. It jumped, he jumped, and it let him pet it twice.
Feed it. Snacks were added in Hive Update #14, with a Zhalo being fed as the example.
Earn each animal separately. Trust does not transfer to the whole species; ProRogueBear had to win over each Camilla on its own.

Shy animals: Striders and snacks

The in-game guide tells you to put strider snacks on the ground and back away. The steps a player described:

Choose Hold on the snack so it is in your hand.
Press X to enter placement mode.
Drop it while the Striders can see you but are not attacking, then back away.

Several players could not get placement mode to work with the snack at launch. A developer replied that pressing X while holding should work and asked for screenshots or video in the Frozen Way Discord in case it is a bug. The snack decays while you try, so be quick.

Hostile animals

Scorchweavers, nesting Gum Nibis and Bronze Wox packs will attack. You cannot kill anything. Use the tranquiliser dart from the Field Sedation quest to put them to sleep, then scan or sample them. Losing all your health knocks you out rather than killing you (except in Space Hell mode).

Does befriending do anything?

A player asked whether animals help once befriended; nobody had a clear answer by 10 September 2026. What is confirmed: befriended and studied animals feed your database, their materials unlock recipes, and animals can be crossbred for new materials. One reviewer, 7.8 hours in, felt only one species could be befriended at that point.

The Canul

The Animal Whisperer achievement is for taming “the most ferocious creature of Thessalika”, the Canul (Steam ID TameCanul). Only 2.3% of players had it on 10 September 2026, and no official source describes the Canul yet.

Arachnophobia setting

If spiders bother you, the arachnophobia mode turns insects into white orbs, including the beetles near the start.

Every named animal, its zone and its drop is on the animals page.

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