Some monsters will also produce items for you, with the quality increasing as you increase your friendship with them. To do this, you will have to temporarily add the monster to your party and then use the spell.

Heal them manually with healing spells.

Heal them manually with items such as Recovery Potions.

Stop making them work until they recover their health.

Monsters at low health will show you their status with a scribble speech mark and refuse to work for you – there are three methods to deal with this: Monsters who are put to work will require more fodder and will also gradually lose health. Brushing them is as simple as going up to them with the brush tool and pressing the action button on them – they'll get a bubble with a musical note or a heart in it to denote success. To take care of your monsters, you will need to feed them and brush them every day. The higher your level is, the better your chance at taming success – try leveling up if you keep failing.

Your level matters when trying to tame monsters.

Bosses can be tamed upon rematch, but they require specific items.

You can use Medicinal Herbs or even Colored Grasses and still be successful.

While monsters all have some favorite items that you can use to really increase your chance of success, you do not need to use them.

This is useful when your item reserves are low.

You can use the brush or a Love affinity weapon on a monster to increase the chances that a taming attempt will be successful.

They will be added to your party automatically, though you can talk to them to send them back to your farm. If it becomes a very large heart, on the other hand, you have successfully tamed the monster and will be prompted to name it. If the heart becomes a skull, you have failed and must try again. It will grow larger gradually until it either becomes a skull or a gigantic heart. When in the field, just throw an item at them – they will get a speech bubble above their head with a heart inside it.

Taming monsters is a relatively simple ordeal.

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