Getting Started with Doggy Talents

Getting a Doggy Talents dog starts with the vanilla taming process. Find a wild wolf and feed it bones by right-clicking until hearts appear and it gains a collar and sits — at that point it is a tamed vanilla wolf. To convert it into a Doggy Talents dog, feed it at least one Training Treat: the wolf briefly disappears and is replaced by a collarless Doggy Talents dog.

There is also a shortcut. If the starting-items configuration is enabled, you begin a new game with a Doggy Charm in your hotbar, which spawns an already-tamed, already-converted dog when used.

Once you have a dog, hold a stick in either hand and right-click the dog to open its information and talents menu. From here you can rename the dog, toggle its behavior, assign talents, and decide whether it will obey other players. The dog's basic level, dire level, and unspent points are shown beneath the name box, and they grow as you feed the dog treats.