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Tracking and Herding

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Find nearby creatures with Tracking or guide eligible wildlife with a shepherd’s crook.

Development source reviewed on 29 October 2026. In-game availability is unverified.

Tracking#

Use Tracking and choose animals, monsters, human NPCs or players. The source search range is 10 + floor(Tracking/10) ×10 tiles and returns up to 12 nearby qualifying targets. Select one to receive a direction arrow.

Player tracking has additional difficulty checks involving Tracking, Detect Hidden, Hiding and Stealth. A target being in range does not guarantee it appears. The skill has a 10-second reuse delay.

Herding#

Double-click a shepherd’s crook, target a creature, then choose where it should move. Ordinary tameable wildlife is eligible; already controlled creatures and paragons are refused. Some champion-spawn creatures have an explicit exception.

The check is based on the creature’s taming difficulty, from minimum tame skill−30 to minimum tame skill+30 plus a random adjustment. Herding gives a destination; it does not tame the creature or make it your pet.

Source notes

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These references identify the reviewed shard files. Source presence does not establish live availability.

  1. Projects/UOContent/Skills/Tracking/Tracking.cs:36
    Use and delay
  2. Projects/UOContent/Skills/Tracking/Tracking.cs:137
    12-target maximum
  3. Projects/UOContent/Skills/Tracking/Tracking.cs:166
    Range
  4. Projects/UOContent/Skills/Tracking/Tracking.cs:304
    Player difficulty
  5. Projects/UOContent/Items/Weapons/Staves/ShepherdsCrook.cs:34
    Herding interaction
  6. Projects/UOContent/Items/Weapons/Staves/ShepherdsCrook.cs:85
    Eligible creatures
  7. Projects/UOContent/Items/Weapons/Staves/ShepherdsCrook.cs:133
    Herding skill check

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