HeyBooBoo

v1.2.0·Updated 2026-10-03

Tame wild bears like wolves, breed them, and raise tiny bear cubs that grow up before your eyes! With a rare chance for colored versions! Cinnamon, Black or White.

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About this mod Author’s original text

HeyBooBoo!

Tame wild bears like wolves — then breed

them for tiny cubs that grow up right before your eyes.

Features

  • Tame bears like wolves. Feed a wild bear raw meat (meat), keep your

distance while it tames, then claim it: pet it, give it a name, and command

Follow / Stay. It will defend you like any tamed wolf.

  • Bears can breed. Keep a fed, tamed pair together and they'll form a

loving bond — watch for the heart effects — and after a pregnancy of about a

day the mother gives birth in front of you.

  • Cubs are born small. Newborn bear cubs spawn at 30% size and grow to full

size over one in-game day. All completely configurable.

  • New! Rare cub colours. Every newborn cub has a small chance of being

Cinnamon, Black or White instead of the natural coat. The colour

is rolled once, at birth, and saved to that bear.

  • Stats like a wolf's. Bears use the wolf's diet, feeding behaviour and

breeding parameters, so everything works exactly like you'd expect from

taming a wolf — just bigger, and with cute cubs.

Install

Requires [BepInEx] and [Jotunn] for Valheim.

  • Extract the zip into BepInEx\plugins\ inside your Valheim install (the

plugins\HeyBooBoo\ folder merges straight in).

  • Start Valheim through your mod manager of choice.
  • Find a wild bear, drop raw meat near it, and stay back while it tames.

Config

BepInEx\config\wayfarers.tameablebears.cfg — all settings reload on next

start.

| Section | Setting | Default | What it does |

| --- | --- | --- | --- |

| Appearance | BabyScale | 0.3 | Newborn cub spawn scale (1.0 = adult) |

| Growth | GrowTime | 1800 | Seconds for a cub to grow to full size (1800 = 1 day) |

| Growth | DebugLog | false | Log baby-size decisions |

| Bear Colors | Enabled | true | Allow rare cub colours |

| Bear Colors | CinnamonChance | 0.05 | Chance a newborn cub is Cinnamon (reddish-brown) |

| Bear Colors | BlackChance | 0.05 | Chance a newborn cub is Black |

| Bear Colors | WhiteChance | 0.05 | Chance a newborn cub is White |

| Bear Colors | ForceVariant | (empty) | Testing only. Set to Cinnamon, Black or White to force every newborn cub to that colour instead of rolling. Clear it when you are done |

| Bear Colors | TintMode | Texture | Texture recolours the fur texture and is the only mode that can produce White. Flat just multiplies the material colour, which can only darken |

| Bear Colors | TintEyes | false | Also tint eyes, claws and teeth |

| Bear Colors | ResetColors | false | Forget every cub's saved colour and re-roll from the chances above. Turn on, load the world once, then turn back off |

| Bear Colors | DebugLog | false | Log the colour roll and which materials were recoloured |

| Breeding | Enabled | true | Master breeding switch |

| Breeding | FedDuration | 7200 | Seconds a bear stays fed after eating (breeding blocks while hungry) |

| Breeding | RequiredLovePoints | 5 | Love points needed to get pregnant |

| Breeding | PregnancyChance | 0.25 | Chance per check to gain a love point |

| Breeding | PregnancyDuration | 1800 | Seconds the pregnancy lasts before birth (1 day) |

| Breeding | UpdateInterval | 2 | Seconds between breeding checks |

| Breeding | MaxCreatures | 30 | Max bears within TotalCheckRange before breeding pauses |

| Breeding | TotalCheckRange | 20 | Radius for the total-bear count |

| Breeding | PartnerCheckRange | 30 | Radius a second tamed bear must be within |

| Breeding | DebugLog | true | Log one breeding status line per tamed bear every ~20 s |

Multiplayer & dedicated servers

Every client needs the mod. On a dedicated server, drop the same dll into the

server's BepInEx\plugins\ — breeding is server-authoritative, so the server

must run it too.

Credits

Built for the fun, with [Jotunn]. Inspiration from every cart roll that

nearly flattened a pet Bear.:)

Support

If HeyBooBoo saved your bear from a cart roll, a falling tree, or a bear

friend of your own, you can chip in towards keeping it (and my tools) going:

Donate via PayPal

Thank you!:bear:

[Bep

Install & use Install: BepInEx plugin

  1. The archive from playbuff is the mod itself — usually a BepInEx plugin (a .dll or a plugin folder once unzipped).
  2. Recommended: use a community mod manager (such as r2modman) — pick this game, import the mod, and the manager sets up BepInEx and its dependencies for you.
  3. Manual route: install the BepInEx loader in the game folder, then drop the unzipped .dll or plugin folder into BepInEx/plugins/.
  4. Launch the game — the BepInEx console logs every plugin it loads; seeing this mod in the log means it is installed.

Mods with listed dependencies need those installed too, or they will not load. Options are usually changed in-game or in the plugin's config file. In multiplayer, the host and every client need the same mods installed.

Dependencies

Install these first, or the mod will not work:

denikson-BepInExPack_ValheimValheimModding-Jotunn

File & checksum

Filename
HeyBooBoo-1.2.0.zip
File size
19.2 KiB